India inks tech pact with EU – only the US has the same deal India's government and the European Union have signed up to create a "Trade and Technology Council" – an entity the EU has previously only created to enhance its relationship with the United States. Details of the Council's scope of operations have not been revealed, but the EU/US version of the entity works on standards for …
This post has been deleted by its author
Another elitist cabal? India's modernization has only really benefited the top 10% of the population, their elites, the Sharma's, Patels i.e.. the high castes...There is rampant discrimination in the workplace against lower castes and other minorities even within the modern IT workforce.
The west is blind to this as white people don't recognize how brown people can be discriminatory towards each other. As a country and current regime the reality is india is a hybrid of china and russia without any of the successes. The west partners with india at its own risk and to our own values.
India's caste system is well known. It is arguably also why outsourcing to India is so favourable; for the bottom rungs of society earn comparatively little for their efforts.
I remember watching an documentary (maybe a Keith Floyd thing) on Indian agriculture and spice trading. Producers on the ground, split and many in number; negotiating blindly with middlemen via hand signals passed to each, deliberately other out-of-sight.
No doubt attempting to break the handhold of the middleman and bypassing them will result in "consequences" to the lesser producing family.
And so the cycle of poverty goes on while a few cream off the top. Corruption might be bad here at home but it's bleedin' awful elsewhere.
Another example is the Indian military, where very large proportions of it's officer core come are from Sikhs. I am not informed enough to know if this is a discriminatory recruitment policy that leads to this situation, or a cultural thing of those who are in a place to get an education are placed to take on such professional careers. Possibly elements of both.
If nobody has worked it out yet, the entire world is built upon crapping on your neighbours to get some advantage at the expense of someone else. We might have Art, Mathematics and Science, but we are also a hopelessly selfish species at our core (and only unlimited supply will undo that).
"The west is blind to this as white people don't recognize how brown people can be discriminatory towards each other"
Oh they do, but western culture is at a stage where a white person fears to say as much without risk of censure and in some cases being cancelled or even arrested (in the Canada & the UK particularly). It's a kind of racism which is (rightly) not acceptable when applied to any other ethnicity.
As for the caste system: I had heard that was still embedded in Indian society which is a very regrettable thing indeed. It's up to India to fix that and no one else, although we can choose who we deal with and that will send how we feel about it. But before we do that the west needs to sort itself out.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2025
