A really inter­est­ing two-part arti­cle, by Basab Prad­han, Sr. Vice Pres­i­dent at Infosys Tech­nolo­gies, on why off­shore out­sourc­ing is good for the US and how Indian com­pa­nies should respond to the backlash.

Prad­han writes that the time has come for the gov­ern­ment of India to step into the fra­cas: “Glob­al­iza­tion is a two-way street. There is enough here to make a per­sua­sive pitch. I don’t know if any­one is mak­ing that pitch today. It is up to our gov­ern­ment to open offi­cial chan­nels of com­mu­ni­ca­tion between the two gov­ern­ments. For the US, this is not yet a big issue say com­pared to China man­u­fac­tur­ing. Ser­vices exports from India at roughly $12 bil­lion are less than a tenth of Chi­nese man­u­fac­tur­ing exports to the US.

But by not open­ing a dia­logue on this, we are allow­ing the back­lash to form opin­ion in Wash­ing­ton, uncon­tested by our point of view. The need for dia­logue through offi­cial chan­nels has never been greater. This is not just about pro­tect­ing our indus­try from detri­men­tal leg­is­la­tion. We should edu­cate the US pol­i­cy­mak­ers on the needs of our indus­try and influ­ence changes to make it eas­ier for off­shore out­sourc­ing to thrive.”

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