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IT pros pursue dreams in India
By Prerna K. Mishra, HT Correspondent,
October 05, 2004
India beckons and Indian professionals living abroad
are returning the call like never before. The promise
of a good job and a good life that the west once held
out is beginning to dissipate.
Sample this: In July last, 1,000 professionals of
Indian origin attended a job fair held in Santa Clara
by a magazine and offered their resumes to companies
planning to begin operations in India. A job fair
organised by Wipro Technologies in the same city
witnessed similar enthusiasm. In fact, Bangalore alone
has seen over 35,000 nonresident Indians return so
far.
But what is making the flock fly back to their nest?
Booming economy, a stress-free lifestyle, good
salaries to buy comfort, job challenges somewhat
similar to what America offered 20 years ago - the
reasons are varied. Ask Ittiam chairman & CEO Srini
Rajam who left Texas Instruments with six of his
colleagues to form Ittiam Systems in Bangalore in
2001. "My decision to leave TI was driven by the
passion to build a world class technology company from
India."
Rajam's conviction that India having done
exceptionally well as a leading software services
country can achieve a world class reputation for
technology and products drove him to form a product
company focused on Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
Systems. Today the company is already profitable, has
18 patents filed, and has Sony, TI, ST
Microelectronics on its client list.
In some cases, it was also the fire to rewrite
personal aspirations that goaded professionals to take
up unprecedented challenges back home. Says Avtar
Saini, who left Intel as director-South Asia to join
Topspin Communications - a US-based technology startup
- to set up its research and development centre in
Bangalore. "It's all part of growing up and living a
full life. Intel provided challenge, exciting
projects, fame and financial freedom. Topspin is
providing a new leaf of excitement, opportunity to
implement ideas and management beliefs which were yet
unfulfilled."
Most of these professionals returning to the roots are
leaving behind a legacy of excellence. Meet Sanjay
Sarma, whose role at MIT's Auto-ID Centre in Boston
has earned him the title of father of RFID. He has
worked with early RFID adopters such as Wal-Mart,
Gillette and US Department of Defence. But he gave it
all up to join Bangalore-based Oat Systems as chief
technology officer. He is assisted by a team of
ex-IITians who have globe-trotted for the better parts
of their lives to build radio-frequency
identification-related software.
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