Behind the screen oflnformation Technology

The last decade has seen young Indian professionals making a beeline to work in the Indian IT and ITES sector. And why not? Information Technology services' companies and BPOs nave the plushest offices, enviable salaries, employees are wooed like never before and provide the ulti­ mate status symbols for Indians- an opportunity to travel and work in the first world (remember the aura attached to 'phoren' returnees and NRis?!!). People are recruited in herds these days with advertisements in local FM stations!!