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A survey published last week showed that graduates from India’s most prestigious universities, the Indian Institutes of Technology (known as IITs), increasingly see India as the best place in the world to base themselves. Until about five years ago large numbers of these elite graduates would abandon home at the first opportunity to take up well-paid jobs or to continue their education in the US and Europe.
The Indian government does not compile figures of the numbers of people emigrating or returning, but Alok Aggarwal, chairman of Evalueserve, who wrote the report, said the trend of returning Indians ‘seemed to be very strong’. The pull of the West remained powerful for many Indians, he said, ‘but at the very top level of graduates, the smart choice now is to stay’. The flow of reverse migration has been particularly striking in the southern Indian IT city of Bangalore, where research published last year estimated that more than 40,000 Indian technology professionals had arrived back from the US and the UK to take up work.
The next question, of course, is will India accept out-of-work American IT graduates as migrant labor?
Apparently the turnover of the push-starts and pull-starts in India has become a problem. These future 7-11 managers job hop for another dollar an hour. There is no continuity in software development and timelines are never met. They will start off shoring back to the U.S. to get real work done.
They brainwash these people to think they are the smartest people on the planet. Personally when I see them at the malls selling weird shit like incense I just want to run up to them and say, “trick or treat.”
Borat – I agree with everything you said. I dated young India girl for a few nights and her vagine hang like a Wizards sleeve.
Hey if that country can pick itself up and grow then why not?