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...glance at the travel itinerary of Natarajan Chandrasekaran will tell you just how dramatically the postrecession economy is changing. Since October, when he became CEO of Indian IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Chandrasekaran has retraced the business trips his predecessors have been making for years to New York City and London, the home cities of big banks and other companies that have traditionally outsourced computer programming and other work to Indian firms. But jaunts to the industrialized world may no longer be sufficient to keep his Mumbai-based firm growing at top speed. So Chandrasekaran is also venturing...
...sources of rapid growth, the country's outsourcing giants are aggressively expanding beyond their usual stomping grounds into the developing world, setting up programming centers, chasing new clients and hiring local talent from Santiago in Chile to China's far-west metropolis of Chengdu. Through geographic diversification, Indian companies hope to regain some momentum after a dismal year, at the same time becoming even tougher competitors to IBM, Accenture and other industry leaders. India's companies "clearly realize that if we want to be global players, we need a presence in emerging markets," says Sangeeta Gupta, vice president of India...
...predictability: from being denied service in a bar or being unable to lease an apartment of one's choice and means. Hong Kong police practice racial profiling, routinely checking IDs of South Asians and sometimes frisking them, even when they are simply walking in the street. (This writer, an Indian, has been subject to such searches on numerous occasions.) Read "Australia: Attacks on Indian Students Raise Racism Cries...
...Wong admits that she herself has had to learn much over the years - in the beginning she could only tell Nepalis apart from other South Asians because they were "Tibetan-looking." Now, she relishes South Asian cooking, swathes herself in flashy Indian scarves and is sought after by the elders of a host of ethnic-minority associations. Wong runs clinics with poor South Asian households, instructing them on everything from how to fill out official forms to how to stand up to bullying police officers ("Speak in a British accent," she advises). She has lectured at police academies "that...
Author: Philosopher/scholar Mallanga Vatsyayana, aka some Indian dude of antiquity