Mahatma Gandhi
(1869-1948):
Gandhi was once asked what he thought about Western Civilization. His
response was: "I think it would be a good idea.”
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals
are treated.“
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the
“The only devils in this world are those running around inside our own hearts, and
that is where all our battles should be fought.”
“If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.”
“Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she
does not realize what tremendous advantage she has over man.”
“Indians, will stagger humanity without shedding a drop of blood.”
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
William H. Gates, Chairman and Chief
Software Architect Microsoft
Corporation
(b-1955):
“…after the Chinese, South Indians are the smartest people in
the world.”
India: BPO
The domestic BPO sector is projected to increase to $4 billion in 2004 and reach
$65 billion by 2010. (McKinsey & Co.).
The outsourcing includes a wide range of services including design, architecture,
management, legal services, accounting and drug development and the Indian
BPOs are moving up in the value chain.
There are about 200 call centers in India with a turnover of $2 billion and a
workforce of 150,000.
100 of the Fortune 500 are now present in India compared to 33 in China.
Cummins of USA uses its R&D Centre in Pune to develop the sophisticated
computer models needed to design upgrades and prototypes electronically and
introduce 5 or 6 new engine models a year.
Business Week of 8th December 2003 has said "Quietly but with breathtaking speed,
India and its millions of world-class engineering, business and medical graduates are becoming
enmeshed in America's New Economy in ways most of us barely imagine".
Indians abroad
A snapshot of Indians at the helm of leading Global businesses
The Co-founder of Sun Microsystems (Vinod Khosla),
Creator of Pentium Chip (Vinod Dahm),
Founder and creator of Hotmail (Sabeer Bhatia),
Chief Executive of McKinsey & Co. (Rajat Gupta)
President and CFO of Pepsi Cola (Indra Nooyi)
President of United Airlines (Rono Dutta)
GM of Hewlett Packard (Rajiv Gupta)
President and CEO of US Airways (Rakesh Gangwal)
Chief Executive of CitiBank (Victor Menezes),
Chief Executives of Standard Chartered Bank (Rana Talwar)
Chief Executive officer of Vodafone (Arun Sarin)
President of AT & T-Bell Labs (Arun Netravali)
Vice-Chairman and founder of Juniper Networks (Pradeep Sindhu)
Founder of Bose Audio (Amar Bose)
Founder, chip designer Cirrus Logic (Suhas Patil )
Chairman and CEO of Computer Associates (Sanjay Kumar)
Head of (HPC WorldWide) of Unilever Plc. (Keki Dadiseth)
Chief Executive Officer of HSBC (Aman Mehta)
Director and member of Executive Board of Goldman Sachs (Girish Reddy)
Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (Raghuram Rajan)
Former CTO of Novell Networks (Kanwal Rekhi)
Indians in the USA.
Statistics that show:
38% of doctors in the USA,
12% of scientists in the USA,
36% of NASA scientists,
34% of Microsoft employees,
28% of IBM employees,
17% of INTEL scientists,
13% of XEROX employees,
… are Indians.
Of the 1.5M Indians living in the USA, 1/5th of them live in the Silicon Valley.
35% of Silicon Valley start-ups are by Indians.
Indian students are the largest in number among foreign students in USA.
1. India
US H1-B Visa
44%
applicants country
2. China
of
9% origin
3. Britain
5%
4. Philippines
3%
5. Canada
3%
6. Taiwan
2%
7. Japan
2%
8. Germany
No comments:
Post a Comment