Talent's Treasure Trove

INDIAN TALENT: this was one of the many interpretive expansions of IT in the days when the outstanding success of India’s information technology industry was being newly celebrated.

- KIRAN KARNIK

Indiais Technology and India’s Tomorrow were amongst the others. Indian Talent, though, makes it more all-encompassing and of relevance to other sectors too. In fact, thanks to high visibility and positivity around it, in the popular mind, the acronym IT means information technology or the alternatives mentioned, rather than the classical “Income Tax”!

Today, with technology dominating the global scene – in the economy, trade, consumer apps, education, health, and many other fields – its widespread impact and importance are resulting in geo-strategic consequences. The vital force behind technology, its driver and multiplier, is talent. India has long been a great source for human resources. British colonialists used it as cogs in the bureaucratic machine that ran India, and also as indentured labour to grow sugarcane in places as distant and as far apart as Fiji, Mauritius, and Guyana.