Indian economic boom attracts US graduates

[OhioChick]

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , MYSORE, INDIA
Wednesday, Oct 18, 2006, Page 10

Where once the brains of India left for more lucrative pastures in the US, today a handful of fresh US college graduates are sampling the fruits of the Indian economic boom.

The recruits from the US and elsewhere are not expected to fill the looming labor pinch. But they do illustrate the efforts by Indian companies to extend their global reach and recognition.

David Craig, 23, is one of the new US imports. He had never left home in Tucson, Arizona, when the Indian outsourcing giant Infosys Technologies came calling at a job fair earlier this year at the University of Arizona, where he was majoring in engineering management.

Encouragement came from his career adviser, who, as it turned out, had just bought Infosys stock. Stinging reproach came from his uncle: Why, he wanted to know, would Craig want to work for an Indian company that might take jobs away from other Americans?

~snip~ Only a small handful of Americans and others have been wooed by Indian companies so far.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2006/10/18/2003332292

[fasttense]

1. Ah, the great American brain drain. Coming to a city near you.

Considering how our government suppresses science and our corporations move decent research and development jobs to other countries, the smartest and the brightest Americans will soon be leaving the US.

[sadiesworld]

3. Doubtful...

just a few tokens for PR purposes.

[OhioChick]

4. Notice how

"Only a small handful of Americans and others have been wooed by Indian companies so far."

[tom_paine]

2. If it wasn't so tragic it would be hilarious

Imperial Amerika, is in SO MANY ways, coming to resemble the rest of the Third World of which it is now a part.

Just another sample of what is undoubtedly the genesis of an increasing trend. Perhaps exponentially increasing, depending on India's need for Amerikan brainpower.