Chanting and indoctrination

India is slowly turning into an IT melting pot. Not content with outsourcing contracts coming out of its ears - so much so that’s it’s actually started outsourcing back to the UK - it now seems to have taken on the role of a IT training boot camp, with Infosys opening up the world’s largest corporate training centre.

Now, I’m not overly surprised that Infosys has chosen India to house its IT super school, but what does amuse me is the Mysore area it’s picked for it.

Now maybe my technological, professional side is being slightly mixed in with my personal life here, but Mysore is an area intrinsically linked to yoga. As everybody knows, yoga is a relaxing and deeply meditative practice, steeped in history and tradition.

Now is it just me or does this seem slightly ironic that Infosys will be putting its trainees through, as The Times so eloquently put it ‘four months of indoctrination to its data processing systems software applications and company policy’, in a place historically couldn’t be further away from the blue-chip training style and ethos Infosys is championing?

Technology and yoga… A pretty tenuous connection I’m sure you’ll agree, but one that none the less raised my eyebrow while perusing the papers this morning.

From the self-practice style of Mysore to the relentless pressure of the Infosys centre…Technology seems to be doing more than fuelling the Indian economy, it’s changing the landscape forever.

Comments

[gana]

Mysore is not only famour for Yoga , it is also famour for being the cultural capital of the state , for being the intellectual capital of the state and for being one of the nicest cities in country.