India Outsources Tech Jobs to US!

Looks like Indian tech company Wipro is outsourcing…to Atlanta, Georgia in the good old United States!

According to its website, Wipro is “the world’s largest independent R&D Services Provider.” And according to InformationWeek.com, Wipro is anticipating a worldwide shortage of good tech talent and is looking to various U.S. cities for affordable, trained young people who may in fact be more affordable than a good deal of the highly-skilled pricey tech talent pool now in India.

What I Learned Today About India’s History

I’m not much of a history buff, but sometimes the things I learn about history go off in my head like a bolt of lightening. Today I was reading a review in The New Yorker about a book dealing with the partition of the British Indian Empire in 1947 that created the separate countries of Pakistan and India.

While reading some background material in the article, I just learned that in 1877 Queen Victoria of England became the Empress of India at a time when a famine in the south killed five million people. That’s FIVE MIILLION! Yet it seems the Queen’s viceroy was adamantly opposed to any famine relief, calling it a “misguided policy”.

In general, British policy toward India had been based on the economic theory of the “invisible hand that supposedly regulated markets” resulting in conditions that strongly favored the British overlords but did little to help the starving masses in India.