Point to ponder ...
One of the best write up of recent times:
British ruled us over couple of centuries and made many of Indians "Gumastas" (Clerks) and we were content with that - rather - we were proud to work as Clerks in British Government Jobs. Our parents' parents and grand parents had considered these jobs as their kids' great achievement and they were proud to share with the others that their kids are Clerk, Writer, Accountant etc. in British Government Offices.
But British never preferred us to become Engineers and Doctors and all these jobs were only with Britons. There were many educational institutions started by British - but only to teach us English, Accounts and Book Keeping. Never started Engineering or Medical Colleges for Indians to learn except few which were meant for British Migrants' Kids.
Cotton was exported to Britain and converted as clothes to get them imported back into India at high cost and import duties. They never wanted us to become Textile Engineer and they only wanted us to work in the field to pluck cottons and pack them for export. Steel Ore was exported to get them imported back as Steel Bars and Sheets. They never taught us how make steel from steel ore. Britons wanted most of the Indians to become only Clerks to keep us where we were by teaching us English, Accounts and Book Keeping or they wanted us to remain Tea Estate Workers cotton pluckers.
It is all we learnt on our own and few leaders like Tatas started high end Engineering Industries.
Here comes the Analogy of similar condition existing for past 3 decades since 1990s as compared to centuries under British rule.
It was then English, Accounts and Book Keeping & now IT and Computer Science.
British wanted us to do the job of "Coolies" and "Clerks" & Americans wants us to do the job of "Coding Coolies" (So called Developers) and "Glorified Clerks" (Testers) writing codes and Testing for Accounting Software, Ticket Reservation Software, Banking Softwares. These Americans converted most of our Engineering Graduates into such "Glorified Clerks" irrespective of whether we come out as IT Engineers or Mechanical or Electrical or Electronics Engineers. USA exported only these kind of "Donkey Work" Software writing jobs to India and converted all our Engineering Graduates into "Coding Coolies".
These developed countries retained within them all of the Core Software Development work such as
OS (Operating System)
VLSI
Embedded
CAD OS
CAM Graphical Engine
Fuzzy Logics
Robotics
Digital Manufacturing
Medical Equipment
Image Processing
Artifical Intelligence
Expert Systems
Or any other Core Compilers and Operating Systems
But what India knows in IT is only to write codes and test for Insurance, Ticketing and Banking.
However we have pseudo-proud to share with others in each and every socializing occasions that my son is in Wipro, in TCS, my Daugher got placement in Infosys, CTS etc. without knowing what is their nature of work and responsibilities.
Great Pity here in India is that most of these young graduates enter into these IT Companies without even knowing which domain or Application they are going to work. Most of them even don't know whether they are picked up in placement for development or testing. But they are content if they have got an annual CTC package of 3 to 6 lakhs. Never bothered to enquire the nature of work or don't have such right to enquire.
An Apartment on EMI and a Car in hand would suffice to keep us sedated in the "Maya of IT" without knowing what is going to be our future.
An Electrical or Electronics or Mechanical or Civil or Chemical or Textile Engineer, after working for a decade in their industry can switch over to another industry with relative ease - but an Engineer (irrespective of his branch of Engineering) cannot switch over to any other Industry after working for even as little as 5 years in IT industry as developer, since he knows only that particular coding syntax in that particular language and platform. He had lost that flexibility and adaptability on the day he entered into IT.
Now the IT industry in its current form of business model started collapsing. It is high time to rethink what as country as a whole we need. Let us shed our sheep mentality and end this current IT Craze and step into core R&D and manufacturing of Intelligent Products in other fields and even in IT such as Embedded Softwares.
Let us focus on distributed and included development. There are lot to do in many other fields and even in IT. Indians are capable to do.
Just see where we are now in our R&D efforts and see the number of patents in India Vs. China in 2013 in the graph given below :
In With regard to research in India, just compare the International patent applications from India with the BRICS nations and the USA. India is far behind China both in terms of patent applications & grants. China filed 70 times more patent applications than India and was also granted 70 times more patents than India in 2013 which improved to 35 times in 2015.
We need more and more Engineers to work in our R&Ds. We require more and more entrepreneurs to create, design, develop and manufacture many other products, even in IT Industry to develop many core IT Softwares and shouldn't be content with being "Coding Coolies".
Shubhratri !!
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