Confessions of a Techno coolie

I am not individually famous, nor ever will be; but as a collective group we have captured the imagination of the world – a class of software engineers working out of shiny offices in Bangalore – the mainstay of middle class, urban India. IIT and IIM graduates; Regional engineering college students; Chotu Ram college science graduates from Sangle to Delhi – all of us form part of an industry poised to become the largest contributor to the GDP of the country. This story traces the journey of Hari Prasad, how “Hari” becomes “Harry”; It’s a story about me, my friends, my neighbors, my maternal uncle’s son, my paternal aunt’s daughter – someone, somewhere called us techno-coolies for the Western world. The story starts with Hari’s final year of college as an electrical engineer, and moves from his job interview on campus to joining an IT company in India, getting an ‘onsite’ assignment within a year, landing in the U.S., working with a client, arranged marriage meetings in India etc. – the whole five-meter sari. This is a story of the software industry seen through the eyes of the guy on the frontline – the engineering recruit. It is a thesis on the industry – in comedy fiction, of course!