Sunday, July 29, 2007

Technow on NBC: Bangalore edition

Late last night (early this morning) I watched a show on NBC about how the reverse migration from US (or European countries) to India is happening. It very well described how NRIs will or do feel about it and those who have already migrated, how they feel. Bangalore has been a dream place for lot of people and although I haven't been there, it seems like a lucrative place to stay and work from IT perspective. I think the show was targeted at the Bay Area population to compare and contract the development in IT sector, especially in Bangalore. The Infosys campus was amazing and I kept looking at it's architecture and those gardens and what not. It was totally a place to work ;) The interesting thing was they showed Infosys employees providing computer training to US and European employees. Apparently Infosys has a campus in Fremont, CA and for all you know they may be hiring a lot of people here for they Bangalore office.

They showed an NRI park called Palm Meadows (about 10 minutes from Bangalore airport), which looked fantastic but may be too pricey. The sad part and which turned me down was they showed that as soon as you get out of the NRI park and go to the city, you can still see lot of undeveloped areas. People who moved to B'lore from US and Europe (not the NRIs mind you), are afraid to take their children out of the NRI park because of unhygienic conditions. I hope that changes soon for B'lore and also for the rest of India. Our economy is growing a lot, and so should our infrastructure and culture. Why is it only restricted to high-tech and not to every part of professional and social life. I believe with so many people in the country (with a big chunk under the age of 25), it is a mixed blessing. We have one of the biggest work force in the world, but we probably also have a huge population management problem as I would like to call it. We need to develop our mindsets along with the technology we are developing.

If you missed it (I know it was past bedtime for most of us), this show is also available as a podcast from NBC website.

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