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Exodus: High-tech Indian Immigrants Returning Home:
By Mira Kamdar: Sri Renganathan had made it in America
- she owned a lovely home and had a good job with
Intel. But three years ago, she and her husband
decided to move back to India. They headed to Bangalore,
her hometown, where she was able to keep her job
with Intel, before moving on to a better position
with another high-tech company. Her husband, who'd
been laid off in the wake of the tech-bubble bust
of 2001, started his own biotech consulting business.
"Ours was a one-way move," says Renganathan
of her family's return to India. "We sold the
house and packed up and came." Renganathan
and her husband are among the tens of thousands
of Indians who, despite having more than achieved
the American dream, are voting with their feet to
return home. This is not the mythic immigrant saga
most Americans imagine. India's economic boom is
now offering returning Indians things that simply
didn't exist there when they left: U.S.-level salaries
and an American lifestyle, including gated communities
with manicured lawns and swimming pools, shopping
malls filled with familiar brands, and international
schools for their children. - San Jose Mercury News
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Indian
entrepreneurs increasingly go home to join tech-industry
explosion
:Indian entrepreneurs increasingly go home to join
tech-industry explosion Vani Kola, founder of two
successful U.S. tech companies, is on the phone
from Bangalore. She's looking outside at the night
rain and wondering aloud how to explain how she
ended up returning to the country of her birth.
Indians are going back. Many are younger folks who
see an opportunity to become India's version of
a Khosla or Deshpande.
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Returnee-speak:
Mohan Babu [Silicon India]
: After spending nearly six years
in the U.S. , most of it in pristine Colorado ,
I recently packed my bags and decided to head back
to Bangalore . As is to be expected, the move was
wrought with trepidation and involved some bit of
soul-searching. I was giving up a “nice” job with
Compuware, a mid-sized S&P 500 company, where
I had spent over five years working with some great
people, and was heading back to Bangalore where
I had begun my whirlwind career in IT nearly a decade
ago.
- Need
No "Reasons" To Return To India
by
Avijit Goswami : I nurtured a hidden - almost secret
- desire to be able to return one day. This was kept
close to my heart but whenever I disclosed this to
others I ended up getting really confused. What is
the rationale behind this, some would ask. Is it to
renew family ties or bring up children in an Indian
culture? Is it some vague longing for a past that
was left long behind? Or worse, is it some far fetched
ambition to serve your country and make a positive
change? The very idea was often ridiculed. Some of
them planned to work for a few more years and then
decide - maybe after completing a new degree; maybe
after saving a few more dollars; maybe after having
kids. It was popularly known as the'X+1 syndrome'.
It was so confusing that I would keep debating with
myself but rarely bring it up with others.
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High-tech
talent flows back to India:
Those
who helped fuel US boom may spur brain drain...
An Indian-born software developer, Pavan Tadepalli,
wanted to work in a high-tech hub with opportunity
for career growth. So it was an easy decision when
he was offered a permanent job in the Boston area,
after a three-month assignment here ended this spring.
Tadepalli turned it down, and chose to return to
India. ''There are more opportunities in India now,"
he said. ''What I can do in Boston, I am confident
I can do the same thing in Hyderabad." - Boston
Globe
- A
Reversal of the Tide in India
: These return migrations have become increasingly
common; Indian expatriates such as the Kalluris are
finding that, at times, the best way to move up is
to move back.
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Software
Jobs Await Returning Indian Expats
[by
Scott Thurm, Wall Street Journal Online]
As companies increasingly move service-sector positions
abroad, some professionals who effectively wind
up competing against themselves in the global labor
market decide to return home instead. A year ago,
Gaurav Maheshwari was living the dream of a generation
of Indian engineers. The 30-year-old software programmer
was earning more than $100,000 a year at a Silicon
Valley start-up, living in a luxury San Jose, Calif.,
apartment complex with a swimming pool, and driving
a Nissan Maxima with a souped-up sound system.
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Reversal of the Tide in India (Washington Post) : In
1997, Dutt Kalluri left India to work for a Canadian
software company, hoping the overseas experience would
do his résumé good. A year later, he
was promoted to head U.S. operations from Rockville.
But as he returned to India for business and to visit
his elderly mother, he marveled at the changes sweeping
his homeland: new stores, more cars, enthusiasm for
technology.
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Indian students return home from US: "In
a recent, informal study carried out amongst 79 students
of Indian origin studying at the University of Chicago,
Graduate School of Business (GSB), more than 84% of
the Indian students surveyed were keen to return to
India in the near future... Students are not looking
at India for only career opportunities though. Of
those surveyed, family was reported as the most important
reason to return to India, followed by career opportunity
and a sense of belonging." -Economic Times
- Reversal
of the Tide in India (Washington Post) : In
1997, Dutt Kalluri left India to work for a Canadian
software company, hoping the overseas experience would
do his résumé good. A year later, he
was promoted to head U.S. operations from Rockville.
But as he returned to India for business and to visit
his elderly mother, he marveled at the changes sweeping
his homeland: new stores, more cars, enthusiasm for
technology
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India beckons [From ExpressComputers]
: While it is not easy to adjust
to a new professional and social environment back
home, returnees are rediscovering their roots and
want to be a part of the country’s booming IT sector,
says Vinutha V ...For most Indian IT professionals,
the US has always been the destination. Students
who left the country and never came back cited a
lack of opportunities in India. This is no longer
true. With global companies zeroing in on India
as a destination for low-cost, high quality work,
the scenario has changed. Professionals, who had
gone to the US for better opportunities and lifestyle,
are packing their bags to head home. Coming back,
however, does not guarantee that their expectations
will be met, but opportunities and the sense of
belonging nullify the problems of adjustment.
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Life is beautiful outside the
US as well! :
Satya Gottumukkala, like many other
software professionals was bitten by the "US
bug" in the late Nineties. He shares his experience
of working in the US and tells India Syndicate why
he eventually decided to return and be a part of the
booming IT industry in India.
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Rooster's Call: Intersting
Article on NRIs coming back home :
For reasons ranging from bad (the
dotcom fallout and the still-hurting knock-on effects)
to good (the engineer/mba path is still a safe career
bet, and if you're into anything radical, India's
never been a better place to set up shop), NRIs
have been returning to India in huge numbers. In
Bangalore alone, something like 35,000 ex-NRIs have
'returned' over the past five years. This may dwarf
the number in other metros, but the total for India
over this period is at least 50,000.
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NRI techies head back home:
: It’s boom
time for techies all over again. And this time,
it’s the young NRI’s who are reaping the benefits,
as they take this opportunity to return to their
roots, while the companies get to pick from the
cream of Indian IT talent abroad. And in Hyderabad,
the new IT hub the trend is more than obvious.
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Homeward Bound [Khabar, Indo-American
Journal in Atlanta] :
The story of how India is luring back some of her
expatriates. By VINITA NAYAR Call it a new trend,
call it a dramatic U-turn, call it anything you
will, but it’s a phenomenon that has everyone in
the Diaspora sitting up and taking notice. We are
talking about the reverse migration of globally
settled Indians to their native land. Considering
that the allure of “phoren” shores was one of the
defining characteristics of middle class Indians
in a post-Independence era, few would have guessed
that settling back in India after having lived elsewhere
would become a viable, and even desirable, option.
After all India, until recently, was stuck in the
rut of the License Raj; bureaucracy and red-tapism
ruled the roost, sub-standard products and limited
choices were the norm, ‘enterprise’ and ‘wealth’
were dirty words.
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CII Hopes to Create the Swades
Effect: CII-Indian
American Council will assist NRIs wanting to help
their home towns
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IT professionals return to
India (BBC) : : India's
brain drain is coming full circle after more than
1,000 people turned out for a recruitment drive.
It is believed to be India's first ever campaign
to lure Indian ex-pats away from high-tech industries
in Silicon Valley.
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Outsourcing: Dual advantage
for NRI techies [Express Computers]
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Do NRI techies need motivation
to return home? [Express Computers]
- India
calling: NRIs, come home for the monsoon:
Instead of sending their children to Summer Camps
and adventure holidays, some brave NRIs come to India
for their summer vacations to discover their 'roots'.
The India trip can become a non-stop sauna and a washout
since India is scorched with unrelenting sun and deluged
with the monsoon from May to August.
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The X = X + 1 Syndrome
: When an Indian professional becomes
a 'Non-Resident Indian' in the United States, he soon
starts suffering from a strange disease. The symptoms
are a fixture of restlessness, anxiety, hope and nostalgia.
The virus is a deep inner need to get back home. Like
Shakespeare said, "The spirit is willing but
the flesh is weak." The medical world has not
coined a word for this malady. Strange as it is, it
could go by a stranger name, the "X + 1"
syndrome. [re: x=x+1}
- Returning
to India -
A woman's perspective : As a second generation NRI
(my parents were born in India and came to Singapore
in the late 1950's/early 60's), it was heartening
to read a refreshing point of view on living in India,
and very close to my own heart. I have lived all over
the world-mainly the West and Singapore-from childhood
to adulthood , and can fully identify with the stages
of emotion/states of mind the author went through
about living in India before and after the move.
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