My Daddy went to IIT

Date: Sunday, May 22, 2005 2:40 PM

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

by Rob Sanchez
May 22, 2005 No. 1263

The India Institute of Technology is staging a conference this weekend
near Washington D.C. According to Sudhakar Shenoy, a CEO at an Indian
bodyshop:

"There's going to be a lot of talk about how can we in
the United States work closely with our brethren in
India. How can we bring everyone closer together,
Americans and Indians."

Shenoy probably knows Hindi but instead chose a language called
Corporatese. Let me provide a translation of his statement into a more
understandable form of English:

There's going to be lots of wining and dining and
and schmoozing with rich coporate robber barons. We
will talk about how we can conspire with our brethren
CEOs' in India to get even richer.
We want to be buddies with "everyone" in America and
India. By "everyone" we of course are talking about
rich CEOs and powerful politicians,
not exploited wage-slaves in the U.S. and India.

This conference is being held to promote Indian IT workers and
engineers and to pressure Congress to lift restrictions for the flow of
Indian workers into the U.S. A similar 2003 carouse was held in Silicon
Valley to celebrate the 50th anniversary of IIT. At that conference
Bill Gates was the keynote speaker. Surprisingly there was only a
miniscule of protest from Californian IT workers while this hype-fest
was going on. A few activists whined about the proceedings and called
for mass protests, but despite the howls nobody in the Bay Area seemed
willing to lift a finger to organize. Most endangered Californian IT
workers decided to stay home so that they could sit back in their
Lazyboys to watch their big screen TVs. They were treated to a "60
Minutes" show with Lesley Stahl dressed in a short red leather
mini-skirt while she interviewed young Indian guys from an IIT frat
house. Her hot panting and flirtatious gestures towards those Indian
guys were a spectacle to behold, and something that should not be seen
by children! Letters of protests were directed towards "60 Minutes" but
instead of apologizing they rebroadcast the show.

Nothing has changed since then. American high-tech workers are still
just as apathetic and unorganized. I'm not aware of even a minimal
attempt by workers to protest this Washington D.C. love-feast with IIT.
Hopefully "60 Minutes" will spare us another Lesley Stahl interview
with those Indians because I'm worried she will lose control this time.

Speakers at the conference include three of the most notorious
promoters of outsourcing and H-1B. Here are their top 3 speakers:

http://www.iit2005.org/speakers/speakers.shtm

Thomas L Friedman - Author and Columnist, New York Times
Larry Summers - President of Harvard University
Jack Welch - Former CEO, GE

These conferences are thinly veiled public relations campaigns to
promote more outsourcing to India, and of course to allow more Indians
to work in the U.S. with H-1B visas. Their theme is that the United
States cannot do without the highly educated geniuses from IIT. Truth
to be told, IIT is nothing more than an over-glorified DeVry Institute,
but that doesn't stop them from their chest-thumping.

I don't find this Indian joke very amusing, but it does illustrate the
lengths they will go to assert their perceived superiority:

********** Indian joke **********

With IIT grads in top ranks of Fortune 500 companies, alumni say
American friends are starting to rank the institution with Harvard and
MIT.

"When I came in 1972, they did not think of India for being the

citadel for higher education," said Suresh Shenoy, a senior vice
president at IMC and the younger brother of its chief executive.

Shenoy related that when his son, a Massachusetts Institute of

Technology student, was asked by a professor where his parents went to
college, he replied: "My dad went to IIT and my mom went to MIT."

In turn, his son's MIT professor said, " 'Your dad went to IIT?' "

Suresh Shenoy recounted, mimicking an incredulous yet impressed
inflection.

"My wife hates it," Shenoy said.

********** end of joke **********

To read about IIT's 50th Anniversary, go to the archive and check these
out:

2003 03-01 60 Minutes IIT Infomercial Shows Again
2003 01-15 Reaction to 60 Minutes Show
2003 01-15 Big guns come together to promote brand IIT
2003 03-17 CBS 60 Minutes Hangs Tough On
2003 01-20 Leslie Stahl Shills for Foreign Nurses
2003 01-12 60 Minutes transcript
2003 01-08 Silicon Valley to Celebrate Bombay University
2003 06-23 60 Minutes IIT Infomercial Shows Again

Be sure to read this:
http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/hangs_tough.htm
CBS 60 Minutes Hangs Tough On Dispossessing Americans

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/19/AR2005051901663.html

Indian University Alumni Share a Global Success

May 20, 2005
By S. Mitra Kalita

Foreign ministers, corporate recruiters, venture capitalists and

former General Electric Co. chief executive Jack Welch plan to attend a
college reunion in Bethesda this weekend -- and it's not even their
own.

That's just the kind of lure thousands of alumni from the highly

selective Indian Institutes of Technology can have. And that they will
gather nearly 7,500 miles away from the nearest campus in New Delhi
underscores the weekend's theme: technology without borders.

"We are in a unique time in history," said Sudhakar Shenoy, the chief

executive of Reston-based Information Management Consultants Inc. and
co-chair of the weekend's event. "There's going to be a lot of talk
about how can we in the United States work closely with our brethren in
India. How can we bring everyone closer together, Americans and
Indians."

IIT is a consortium of seven schools located in India that were

founded after the country's 1947 independence from Britain. The schools
pride themselves on an admissions system that features a rigorous
screening test taken by as many as 180,000 people a year. Those who
pass the initial test must then take a six-hour exam in math, physics
and chemistry. Interviews winnow down the final list to 2,500 -- an
acceptance rate of less than 2 percent. By comparison, Harvard
University accepted a record low 9.1 percent for its class of 2009.

After graduating, "IITians," tend to have their pick of jobs, often in

the United States and Europe. Corporate recruiters cram campus job
fairs, trying to line up interviews as early as possible so they can
preempt competing offers.

IIT alumni have made their way to the executive suites of major

corporations. Vinod Khosla was founding chief executive of Sun
Microsystems Inc., and Rajat Gupta served as managing director of
McKinsey & Co.

Not so long ago, graduates who left India faced criticism for

perpetuating a brain drain from developing countries. But in a
globalized world, it has become possible -- even cost-conscious -- to
straddle business interests, not to mention personal lives, on multiple
shores.

"I am in California, Fairfax and India," said Arjun Malhotra, chairman

and chief executive of Headstrong Inc., a global consulting firm. "All
these people who went abroad. . . are now going back. It's now seen as
a brain gain."

Malhotra said recent graduates seem harder to lure to the United

States because they see the prospect of prosperity in India, where
software and related services have grown into a $12.8 billion industry.
His company has hired 60 graduates of this year's class, known as
"freshers." Most of the new hires will stay in India but train in the
United States and make frequent client visits.

The surge of interest in giving back to both India and IIT is not

coincidental, alumni say. In 1965, a change in U.S. immigration law
allowed highly educated Indians to make the United States their home.
Many IIT graduates took advantage of the policy change because
opportunities in India were limited.

"So if you look back, the influx in the mid-'60s is when the IIT

graduates started coming in," said Anil Bhandari, IIT Class of '69 and
a senior vice president at Smith Barney. "Now they are getting to a
point when they want to give back to society. With the multinationals
going into India, there are a lot of opportunities within India."

This weekend's event, part-reunion, part-technology conference, will

bring in alumni from around the world. It will feature panel
discussions, networking sessions and a speech by Welch. In between
workshops on pharmaceuticals, defense and government research, alumni
will break out by campus and class for cocktail parties, picnics and
informal dinners.

Like alumni at any university, IIT graduates fiercely debate the

future of their alma mater. Should the institutes focus on
nanotechnology and genetics? Or should they focus on spreading recent
prosperity into villages and transform farming techniques?

Recognizing that the Next Big Idea might lurk among these

entrepreneurs, outside interests will be on hand, vying for their
attention. Fairfax County is hosting a breakfast to announce a
collaboration between IIT-Kharagpur and Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology to coordinate research and faculty exchanges.

"This was a great opportunity to firmly implant the name 'Fairfax

County' in their minds when they do expand into U.S. markets," said
Gerald L. Gordon, president of Fairfax County Economic Development
Authority, which has offices in Tel Aviv and Bangalore.

With IIT grads in top ranks of Fortune 500 companies, alumni say

American friends are starting to rank the institution with Harvard and
MIT.