How should Indian industry combat the proposed anti-outsourcing bills?
Whoever is behind these movements, it’s only because the US is truly a great and free country. The system allows you to do this. But they cannot succeed in passing these Bills. But Indians have to figure out what they got to do and keep building a sharper profile. Unless we do that and make Americans see the enormous benefits that they are going to derive in the longer run in doing business with India, people will try to do these sorts of things. The whole idea is that everyone in this world needs to be competitive enough. It does not matter if you are American, Chinese, Korean, Latin American, African or Indian. Either you compete or go away. What about NRIs [non-resident Indians]? Why don’t they share some of the responsibility? In my opinion we Indians, I mean NRIs, are at fault for this. We are not united. With a presence of 2 million Indians in the US, we are a microcosm of India and have 5,000 associations. We do not have adequate political representation. During a recent visit b
