ESSAY Explaining IT
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چکیده
In April of 2001, I sat on the roof of an office building in Bangalore listening to Metallica covers sung by a band made up of IT (Information Technology) professionals in their twenties. My new friends regaled me with stories of their success, boasting of their enormous salaries and summer homes under construction in the countryside. To them, this rooftop party represented the end of a long Indian transformation: the rise of IT as the most prestigious of young mens’ callings, the end of the need to emigrate to the US or elsewhere for work, and India’s emergence from 50 years of import substitution and socialism into the light of global economic equality. India appeared like it was finally in a position to make its own economy a destination.
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