Dedications

I am an IT marketer, and by the grace of God a modestly successful one, and did hope to have the stamp of Infosys one day on my CV. The desire to have Infosys as a part of my credentials was not because of the Billion Dollar Empire you have made but the quality of human being I mistook you to be. The lofty ideals of values, social responsibility, grooming of the next level of leaders, etc, is something that every other successful business man preaches.

The problem in India is anyone who is successful, everything about the person gets glorified, and magnified. To the extent their past which could be as boring or exciting as any other ordinary human being gets to be made to feel as if it is great material for a Hollywood script. The point is yes they have made money, built a great business, but that does not qualify for every aspect of their life being made some great shake. Your wife will pompously glorify how in the courting years she used to spend on you, and you were always broke, so? What’s the big deal, there are still loads of women who spent on their men, and just that their men could not make it later life to be billionaires, does not make their past less colorful. Maybe many may have ended with someone good looking if not rich.

You land in a jail in some foreign country and that is made out like you were some freedom fighter for India caught in some foreign land. Why this entire glorification? A recent article have commenting of how Indians should not look at IT as a profession to migrate to the US. How freaking double standard could you get? Makes your millions from the US and you have a problem with Indians who go to US and pursue their dreams. Quote Unquote "Somehow our youngsters have all assumed the idea of joining this industry is to go to US, get there, get an H1B, convert it into green card and settle down there. I think it is a wrong solution, a wrong strategy," If US decides to stop outsourcing it is protectionist business practice, if they decide to hike up visa fees it is bad, and if an Indian wants to go to US to make his fortune is also wrong. It is wrong because it affects your business.

Mr. Murthy if your kids have been sent to US for their education, it is good, but how is it bad when an Indian goes there to work. Does India not have quality institutes of education? Had it not been your millions do you really feel your son would have been even considered by the millionaire’s daughter he is engaged too? If your son spends hours in a forging factory in some island in the Americas to make a ring for his engagement, that is great news. Don’t we have good jewellery forging here in India? Mr. Murthy many have a desire to have their daughters when they reache a marriageable age, to get her married into a good and financially well off family, and for that they may have to go to US or Timbaktoo to make their fortune, and that is definitely not possible with an employment in Infoshit………….sorry typo error I mean Infosys.

One of your remarks goes “There was no need to increase their salaries by 50 times to ensure this. But their lives could be made easier by providing schools, making sure that power condition and commuting is reasonably all right, this is being done by many countries in the world. This is nothing new. This is not rocket science," How freaking selfish Mr. Murthy? Do you reduce your billing on business? No way? The aim is to get the maximum dollar, but if an Indian wants to earn more dollars he is preached on how to stay back in India as it offers larger growth than anywhere in the world. How come Mr. Murthy then all mega bucks is from the US and not from India. I guess that is pocket science, pocket the maximum. If you were so keen to help in building India’s infrastructure how come you walked away from the Bangalore Airport Development Planning. It is because it involved the dirty, murky, and the filth of corrupt politicians. Why did you not stay back and fight and help in Infrastructure building? Same too applies to the millions who go to America to realise their dreams, that they cannot fight or improve the system in India.

When asked how it would be if you were proposed for the President’s post, your response was "In a parliamentary democracy like India, President is a ceremonial post. That is the reality." So too Mr. Murthy all your ideals preached to youngsters are ceremonial paraphernalia of verbosity and in reality they find it to be a whole load of bull.

Regards,
Sunny Fernandes