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...first graduating class at Dale Carnegie Training, which has just set up shop in the IT mecca of Bangalore, has lapped up its lessons in the art of winning friends and influencing people in transnational corporate culture. Among the Indian techies and management graduates who flocked to this Silicon Valley-in-training opportunity is 28-year-old IT professional Pallavi Deshpande. "I was overwhelmed when I moved to Bangalore last year. I saw all these IT people who looked so smart and spoke perfect English," she says, "And I realized that my MCA [master's degree in Computer Applications...
...huge number of Indian expats staffing the tech firms of Silicon Valley, and the outsourcing of much of America's after-hours tech support to India, has led many in the West see this country as a nation of 1.2 billion software engineers. The Indian Institute of Technology brand owes much to Asok, the super-geek of the popular comic strip Dilbert, who claims to be "mentally superior to most people on earth," is trained to sleep only on national holidays, and can reincarnate from his own DNA. But studies point out that while India's pool of 14 million...
...skills they need to be good at their job as well as feel at home." Among the toughest parts is remedying wrong English. "When you have institutes claiming 'We teaches English,' you know the quality of students they produce," says Gopalakrishna, "We don't think we need to correct Indian-isms, but graduates must at least know proper business English...
...Little wonder then, that when Tata Motors, one of India's biggest car companies, agreed to buy prestige British brands Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford three weeks ago, there were cheers in both India and Britain. Indian newspapers reveled in the fact that a company from the former empire had brought two icons of the British automotive industry, while Jaguar execs privately told at least one industry insider that they preferred Tata over rival bids from private equity firms because Tata understands the heritage of Jag and the motoring culture that produced it. "Buying this kind of thing builds...
...That doesn't mean, however, that the shared passions and pastimes, drinks and diversions of Britain and India are irrelevant. Far from it. Indian companies have been on a buying spree over the past few years, snapping up companies across the globe. Some of the biggest and most high-profile have involved British firms (Tata Motors' parent company, alone, has bought tea makers Tetley and steel giant Corus) and that's likely to continue, not only because Britain is a vibrant, open economy but because the shared history does count for something. "More than 200 years we were together," says...