Over 100 MNCs have set up R&D facilities in India in the past five years. These include GE, Bell Labs, Du Pont, Daimler Chrysler, Eli Lilly, Intel, Monsanto, Texas Instruments, Caterpillar, Cummins, GM, Microsoft and IBM. India’s telecom infrastructure between Chennai, Mumbai and Singapore, provides the largest bandwidth capacity in the world, with well over 8.5 Terabits (8.5Tbs) per second.With more than 250 universities, 1,500 research institutions and 10,428 higher-education institutes, India produces 200,000 engineering graduates and another 300,000 technically trained graduates every year.
- Besides, another 2 million other graduates qualify out in India annually.
- The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is among the top three universities from which McKinsey & Company, the world’s biggest consulting firm, hires most.
- 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) - 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.
- Indians abroad
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Yes indeed.Its technology that drives world today.
Hi,
I like Indians however I feel they tend to talk a bit too much.I mean China exports much more than India yet they both get the same press and brickbats from poiliticians in the US.This is an election year so please talk less.
BTW I am not taking anything away but you aren’t the only ones with brains.
You cant compare an IIT(top0.0001%) to the US average and say you are smarter.In anycase the english speaking pop is ~10% of India NOT the average.
You have a long long long way to go before you can call yourself a tech superpower that award goes only to 3 countries
1.US 2.Germany 3.Japan
BTW please don’t boast what Indians do in the US,the Gerries practically built NASA after WW 2 Werner von braun and gang but they never boast about that.
My advice keep up the good work and work hard and we’ll see you at the top table in 50 years or so.Good luck!
I’d have to partially agree with Mike, no matter how much I hate to admit it.
We as a country have failed miserably in projecting ourselves with the deeds rather than rants.
Unfortunately, irrespective of the number of Indians – contributing/ who have contributed – to the various fields of CS and other fileds, there isn’t enough quality stuff coming out of India. Majority of the times we keep patting on our own backs for the achievements of the naturalized Indians in the US.
Research output from the universities (including IITs, IISc, Central Universities, FRI etc.) is not upto the global count.
However, all said, this doesn’t give anyone the right to look down upon an ‘average’ Indian in any which way.
The so-called top 0.0001% folks come through the gruelling exams and competition, and that’s what makes them “SMARTER.” Do you have doubt’s? sure you have, I invite you to solve the entrance papers of these universities and clear them first and then start blabbering about the standards that may be. In India, calculus of variations, and Complex analysis is taught to the highschool kids even in the most backward of the states… English, well, fortunately, or unfortunately, not.
English language per se, is a compulsion, and not a choice for any nation to be heard and make a mark in the world where almost everything/everyone ‘modern’ is guaged by the proficiency and compatibility in/of the language.
Having said that, I do welcome your remarks, as this certainly gives us introspecting Indians a moment of truth and thought…
50 years, naah! come on, it’s too long a duration for any nation to evolve and emerge in applied sciences. Talk about basic sciences, philosophy, music, arts, mathematics… yes, we’ll definitely talk to the people who matter; and that too within the next 20 years, people like you would be all but an active participants on that bloody table.
As for further rants from Mike et al, well, I couldn’t care less now… Tech superpower, or NO tech superpower.
To life!
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I wd have to agree with Mike, though it hurts. India can be one of the most prosperous nations, but it cannot overtake the superpowers.
Our economic strength is largely based on America, we do their bitch work.
For any country to succeed, it has to innovate. Unfortunately, India has no big innovation in its name. All the best brains are already in US and no longer interested in coming back, coz research scene here is disappointing.
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