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New Delhi, 8 December 2008: Just before 9 o’clock on a Monday morning we arrive at the campus of IIT Delhi. Lots of young people are heading towards their lectures and meetings. The quality of the
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Vignesh Ilavarasan
Sociologist and Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan is presently Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Delhi.
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Where the image of core programmer in the western world is that of a solitary alienated figure to the world, in the Indian context the building of software is a highly witnessed activity within the
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In the IT industry in India one can distinguish between three kind of companies that work internationally: large domestic export software services firms (WIPRO, INFOSYS), captive centres of
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When becoming part of the IT industry one has to adapt to the way the business is designed. Most of the Indian programmers come from middle class in the sense that they have not been in 3 or 5 star
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Being part of the IT industry or other professional environments, one is very aware of the image one projects in the professional and virtual world, Ilavarasan argues. Therefore one uses specific
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At first, when coming out of college where the processes are not automated at all, the automated environments of the IT industry seem very attractive. All is taken care of and one does not have to
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Another contradiction that workers have to deal with, according to Ilavarasan, is the gap between the rationality of the work environment and the personal religious domain at home. At work one finds
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The reason why western companies like Indian workers is that there is no concept of time. Especially with a laptop and mobile phone at home, Indian workers will take calls from clients till late at
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Full transcript including film fragments you find at: http://www.systemsdesign.tbm.tudelft.nl/witness
Hereunder the transcript in text.
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