“Infosys is synonymous with creating India’s Silicon Plateau,” said Sonia Gandhi on the occasion of the inauguration of Infosys Technologies’ second Global Education Centre at the Mysore Campus founded by Narayana Murthy. It is a convincing demonstration of what Indian talent can accomplish in the modern world, not only in the modern world but in creating the modern world itself. Apart from commerce and economics and wealth-generation, the significant achievement is to be measured in terms of the subtle changes that are coming in the social organizations themselves. Such a transformational process is slow but also has the strength of impacting the very future of the country, and possibly to some extent the wide world around. It is rightly said that Infosys, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services and many IT companies have changed the lives of millions of Indians and propelled the Indian economy to record-breaking growth. But this might also give rise to introspective questions, as to why this has happened only in the field of Information Technology and not in other industries which have in fact decades of standing, and will this leadership be sustained in the future that could be harsh and competitive. The rest of the world is not going to sleep, and it would definitely strive to snatch away this IT-pot from our hands. Is it also not true that IT success is quite dependent mainly upon the American markets that it is at present catering to? There is therefore present the politico-economic vulnerability factor too.

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