We wasted an entire generation believing they were changemakers. While they did the heavy lifting, the IP remained with their white masters, paving the way for post-dot-com bubble giants like Google, Salesforce, etc. During this period, Indian IT companies billed clients $10 per hour, but their employees received only one-tenth of that, and not all ended up in the US with multi-million-dollar portfolios.
In this offshore talent outsourcing (body shopping) game, our tech majors deliberately missed the bus on innovating next-gen products for global audiences to avoid angering their white clients who paid hourly in dollars.
Footage from Infosys canteen, Bangalore in 1990s. Almost everyone in this is probably a multi-millionaire and settled abroad today.