In the 13 years that Sean Narayanan lived in the US, he earned a masters degree from Oklahoma University, worked with a top consulting firm and served at senior positions in technology companies.
Three years ago, he sold off his 3,800 sq ft plush house in Virginia and returned to India.
"India today offers the best of both worlds," Mr Narayanan says. "Global experience seems essential in the infotech industry and there's no better place than India to get it."
He now works as a major division head at Cognizant, a Nasdaq-listed infotech services provider.
Santanu Paul is another Indian who spent 13 years in the US, obtaining a doctorate in computer science from Michigan University, working with IBM in New York and leading two technology start-up companies.
In 2003, he decided to return to India to become the general manager at a Hyderabad-based software services firm. "Right now, India feels like an exciting start-up company, while the West feels like a plodding large company," says Dr Paul.
Less than a decade ago, people like Mr Narayanan and Dr Paul would have been rare exceptions in a generation that fancied the West as the land of opportunity.
Today, they are among the over 25,000 expatriate Indian infotech professionals estimated to have returned home in the last four years. That figure comes from the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), the premier trade body of India's booming infotech industry.
Around 40% of these professionals are believed to have returned last year alone.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4447833.stm
Three years ago, he sold off his 3,800 sq ft plush house in Virginia and returned to India.
"India today offers the best of both worlds," Mr Narayanan says. "Global experience seems essential in the infotech industry and there's no better place than India to get it."
He now works as a major division head at Cognizant, a Nasdaq-listed infotech services provider.
Santanu Paul is another Indian who spent 13 years in the US, obtaining a doctorate in computer science from Michigan University, working with IBM in New York and leading two technology start-up companies.
In 2003, he decided to return to India to become the general manager at a Hyderabad-based software services firm. "Right now, India feels like an exciting start-up company, while the West feels like a plodding large company," says Dr Paul.
Less than a decade ago, people like Mr Narayanan and Dr Paul would have been rare exceptions in a generation that fancied the West as the land of opportunity.
Today, they are among the over 25,000 expatriate Indian infotech professionals estimated to have returned home in the last four years. That figure comes from the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), the premier trade body of India's booming infotech industry.
Around 40% of these professionals are believed to have returned last year alone.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4447833.stm
