Saritha Rai is a contributing editor based in Bangalore. She was formerly the business writer in India for The New York Times, and before that the tech writer in South Asia for TIME Asia. She is currently a contributing editor at Forbes Asia, writes an India blog on Forbes.com, a monthly column for CBS Interactive on India’s tech industry, and a column on social change in India for NYTimes.com. Rai has a degree in journalism from Bangalore University and was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University.
Nandini Devi,21,is an oddity in the spit-and-polish world of Indias outsourcing firms where posh accents,a Western orientation and superior technical skills are the standard.
An outfit called the Sri Ram Sene first pulled the caveman act on young women in a pub in Mangalore dragging them by the hair,slapping and pushing them around.
Poovaiah Mandanna and Charles Arvind are typical Bangalore residents. Mandanna,23,and Arvind,25,work for the offshore unit of computer maker Dell Inc...
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