Hindustan Times – Delhi edition. Friday, September 21, 2007

Is India’s IT revolution just about cheap labor and repetitive coding? Is there a need for innovation and business orientation?

I love oxymorons, – and they have nothing to do with airy idiots – retrofuturism, hitech fashion, mass customisation, happily married … the list goes on. I’ve just added Information Technology.

Before jumping to the conclusion that this article is a proclamation of accession or another attempt at sensationalisation, I provoke you to disagree vehemently. How can IT be dead? Surely not Indian IT! The revolution has just about begun. If this were a multiple-choice question, I would answer ‘All of the above’.

While on exams, remember when we used to poke fun at a teacher who had the reputation of awarding marks by the number of extra sheets you took? How we could make the clever guys look stupid! I’m thinking that this is exactly what we’ve gone and done to Indian IT today.

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