The Indian outsourcing Industry has already become a hot subject of debate in the American presidential elections. Obama keeps screaming that the Indians are taking away jobs from Americans and US companies are getting tax breaks for shipping "jobs" overseas. I do not know whether there is truth in this argument but I do know that the Indian "soft ware" industry is becoming too intense a space for some of the young people from backward social and economic classes to handle. Let me explain. Companies like the famous INFOSYS, Cognizant, TCS among others are all doing bit jobs for the US service sector; and of course it earns India nearly 169 billion US dollars every year. Young Indians straight out of college, most of them first generation educated from small towns study courses tailor msde for this sector: in Indian Universities we offer courses like MCA (Masters in Computer Applications) MS in Information Technology and B Tech Electrical and Electronic Engineering. All these courses are all body shop courses tailor made to qualify young Indians to work in the only growth sector in the Indian economy viz. the service sector more specifically the soft ware sector. The young men and women who enter the job market find themselves in secure jobs and they earn by Indian standards lots of money:cars, fast track life, pubs, night life are all part and parcel of the social life of a young Indian. In conservative India where marriages are still "arranged" with parents consent, the soft ware professionals are pioneers in "living together" and recently the Domestic Violence Bill was amended by the Indian parliament to ensure a semblance of legality to such live in relationships should they fracture and end in domestic abuse and violence. I am saying all this to drive home the argument that the ready and steady cash together with the target oriented stressed filled lives has resulted in "soft ware' professionals both men and women taking drugs and alcohol as stress busters. Add to this is the attraction of foreign travel and assignments. In my younger days we could dream of seeing the USA only if we went there for the Ph D program as I did. Nowadays "software" professionals travel quite easily to several locations during the course of the year. Stressed work atmosphere, fairly comfortable disposable income, limited education (by education I do not mean a degree from self financing institutions) and first generation up ward mobility particularly from the SC segment of the Indian population and the Backward sections has resulted in creating a personality which is driven vy violence. Software professionals kill in the most brutal and calculated manner. An employee of INFOSYS killed his wife when she was expecting their first child, another killed his wife and hid her body in a freezer for nearly 7 months another drove his car to the outskirts of Mysore and tried to burn his wifes body in the car itself. Such examples can be multiplied. Young semi-literate Indian men possessing MCA and such technical qualifications fill the high tech cubicles of the soft ware segment. From this benighted class we have one particular individual: Pawan Kumar Anjaiah an employee of Cognizant one of the several body shops of the Indian software industry. He was sent to New Jersey in March 2012 from Bangalore, Karnataka. Yes the very place that gave a new verb to American English "banglored" meaning losing the job because of out sourcing. This young man seems to have come from the typical lower middle class which is upwardly mobile has the right caste credentials to get Education loans, bank guarantees and socially engineered admission to Engineering Colleges. This man men a young American woman Danielle Melhalm who was a teacher in a school and the mother of a 4 year old boy. Apparently he was either infatuated with her or caught the wrong signals from this man. Pawan Kumar took her to a motel in Delaware and killed her in the most brutal manner. Her body bearing more than 30 stab injuries. This man bought s large meat cleaver from the local department store in the morning which clearly proves his intention to kill. He took her to the motel killed her and fled. The CCTV both in the Motel and in the Department Store caught his picture and soon the US law enforcement was on his trail. In India he would have called up a politically powerful MP from his OBC caste and the police would just ignore the crime. Probably he was used to this tradition of law enforcement. In any case when he heard from the local Television channel that the police had tracked him down he killed himself by consuming sleeping pills. This is the real story. The Indian media, as usual tried to black out the fact that Pawn was a criminal who had killed a woman. The media tried to make it appear as if an innocent Indian who had met an unfortunate death in the USA was being hounded by the authorities even after death. I am writing this blog to educate all my readers about the truth. My suggestions: US Embassy must do the background check on soft ware professionals. This particular boy has had a reputation of violence even in his college days. Companies sending their employees overseas must teach them the fundamentals of US culture. Americans interact in a different manner and semi-literate Indians might get the wrong cues.
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Optimus Prime has left a new comment on your post "Techie Killer from Cognizant; The Delaware murder ...":
Found your thoughts to be very primitive. I would request you to kindly do your research before you right such crap. There are number of inconsistencies in your writeup that it will take me days to address them all. But let me take up a few.
1) The Title itself is so crass. 'Techie Killer'.. Only B-Grade film directors come up with titles in India. And also some start-up newspapers who do this to sensationalize.
2) You say "Software industry is becoming too intense.. for some ppl to handle".. Are you kidding.. In india, Children are used to such pressure from Kindergarten itself. Where they have to compete against other equally good kids. By the time these Kids graduate, they have battle ready. Thanks to the X board, PUC board and then Technical universities.
It appears that you are here in USA. And you very well know the standards to US schools and Colleges. See if you can compare any universities with IITs.
3) For the nth time, you have mentioned about indians who come from OBC and other low socio sections.. Are you cadre of "Ranvir Sena" ? Maybe Kids from OBCs get extra benefits and reservation from the Indian Govt, So what ? Atleast they are using it. Mind that there is cut-throat competition here too. Not like in the US, where even with Govt grants and access to Public schools, That Kids still dont like to study and waste their years doping or in gangs.
4) You talk of the standards of Indian degrees and term them as Tailor made. I think you would done as BA or MA in Arts (Since you call yourself a Historian). All Technical university degrees issued in India are recognised the world over. Engineers from india have no problems when they come to US for their Post graduation. I would say they shouldnt have been able to make it, if at all their education standards were such low. So seriously grow up dude.
5) The most ridiculous and Pedestrian logic written by you is concluding all Techies has Criminals, by outlining some misdeeds of few. So thinking by this logic, The president of america is a doper/gangster/loser. As some black Americans are such.
I can go on but i dont have the patience or time. I dare you to approve this comment and let it come under your blog. And lets wait for other netizens to either endore me or criticize. This is a challenge to you.
I found the comment in my mail box and decided to publish it because it was a dare.I think the individual concerned is obviously from the :software" sector to which the CCognizant killer Pawan Kumar belonged and Indian newspapers are full of news items about the crimes in which this set of "cod coolies" of INFOSYS and other such body shops for which India is becoming infamous.
I do agree with this individual one one point"Barack Obama is a criminal and deserves the same fate as Col Gaddaffi and others.
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