Just as the Gulf has its crude oil and South Africa has diamonds, India’s natural resource in today’s knowledge economy is its abundant technically skilled manpower.

 In 1998-99, more than 203 out of the Fortune 1000, that’s nearly one in five, outsourced their software requirements to India – Nasscom (National association of software Statistics -

India is world’s largest democracy and home to nearly one billion people. India has the second largest assembly of english-speaking scientific professionals in the world today, second only to the US. It also has a growing bank of 4.1 million technical workers, supplied by, among others, over 1,832 educational institutions and polytechnics, which train more than 70,000 computer software professionals every year. This includes the graduates passing out of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), whose alumunus are growing into business leaders across the US, from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.

  A short list of these professionals says it all – Sabeer Bhatia, Kanwal Rekhi, Gururaj Deshpande, K. B. Chandrasekhar, Vinod Dham, Vinod Khosla, Dr. Suhas Patil, Pavan Nigam, B.V. Jagadeesh, Ajay Shah, Deepak Raghavan, Jayshree Ullal to name the few.  The factor behind India producing such genius could be India’s mathematical tradition inculcated in its people. But the business class points to cost, speed, delivery and strong ehics in the Indian software professionals.  

“It’s safe to say that without Indian immigrants the valley wouldn’t what it is today”

Fortune (Vol. 141, No. 10May 15, 2000)