I came across this link on Forbes.com by Sramana Mitra. She is some kind of a VC from Silicon Valley. She wrote about the imminent death of the IT outsourcing.
I have highlighted the article here not because it is a crap piece written by someone who can’t string a few sensible words but because of the inherent truth in her assertions. She has found an unlikely ally in me because I feel that the outsourcing dream is a myth and much of the easy money in the services sector is fuelling the inflation; making lives miserable for all of us. Barring a few exceptions, the Indian mind has not innovated in India despite all the obvious cost advantages that we seek to leverage.
With pathetic broadband access, the true potential of the populace cannot be reached. Ideas would remain trapped forever in wilderness. The sparks of innovation would extinguish themselves because we cannot afford to give a medium of access for better opportunities. The whole system of governance sucks because it doesn’t enable. It refuses to evolve; having been stuck in the Gandhian rate of growth.
Mitra needs a reality check; I believe that she enjoys a lot of attention on her blog. This is typical of the Silicon Valley’s rats who infest the media and prey on them like leeches. People seem to hail the “next world messiah” for their “ideas”; most of them if written on a paper would not even qualify for wiping off one’s backside.
Life can be unfair.
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