How would you react to this bit of news? The number of techies returning to India will increase by 50 per cent over the next three years; the number going abroad will fall by a third. Well, if you were a pessimist—the kind that abounds in these days of the tech gloom—you would moan about a smaller pie for more software coolies. But if you were an optimist, you’d say, ‘Bring them home!’ There comes a time in an industry—and a nation—when it’s essential to do the vision thing. There isn’t a better time for the tech industry in India to look ahead and think hard of what might be. Lets not dwell too much on the fact that we still get most of our IT revenues from the same old coding that brought us to world

How would you react to this bit of news? The number of techies returning to India will increase by 50 per cent over the next three years; the number going abroad will fall by a third. Well, if you were a pessimist—the kind that abounds in these days of the tech gloom—you would moan about a smaller pie for more software coolies. But if you were an optimist, you’d say, ‘Bring them home!’ There comes a time in an industry—and a nation—when it’s essential to do the vision thing. There isn’t a better time for the tech industry in India to look ahead and think hard of what might be. Lets not dwell too much on the fact that we still get most of our IT revenues from the same old coding that brought us to world