the outcaste elite

Yesterday I was on Radio-Canada’s “Dispatches” to talk about outsourcing to India. Below is the description and a link to the segment. (Last radio plug I promise!)

India’s out-caste achievers take your calls

Outsourcing call centres and tech support shops to India has created an affluent new generation of young Indians.  But other disturbing truths are beginning to emerge.

And they’re in a new book: Dead Ringers: How Outsourcing Is Changing The Way Indians Understand Themselves (Princeton University Press).

The author is sociologist Shehzad Nadeem, an American, from City University of New York

Shehzad spoke with Rick from New York

For the full program: http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=1846190801