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Outsourcing to software centers in Bangalore or call centers in Chennai are passe.
So 20th centuryish.
The latest frontier in outsourcing to India is womb rentals for foreigners who require a surrogate, according to an Associated Press story by Sam Dolnick in USA Today.
A team of maids, cooks and doctors looks after the women, whose pregnancies would be unusual anywhere else but are common here. The young mothers of Anand, a place famous for its milk, are pregnant with the children of infertile couples from around the world.
The small clinic at Kaival Hospital matches infertile couples with local women, cares for the women during pregnancy and delivery, and counsels them afterward. Anand’s surrogate mothers, pioneers in the growing field of outsourced pregnancies, have given birth to roughly 40 babies.
More than 50 women in this city are now pregnant with the children of couples from the United States, Taiwan, Britain and beyond. The women earn more than many would make in 15 years.
While the critics may carp, we consider womb rental a trickle down benefit to the masses of outsourcing, which has mostly benefitted urban educated youth in India so far.
The beneficiaries in this round of outsourcing need have no fancy computer science degree or learn to speak with an American accent and call themselves Susan and Tom.
They can remain Lila behn or Mira behn. All the women Continue reading »
God save India.
But which God?
We have the Sun God, Monkey God, Elephant God, Snake God and now it seems India has a Visa God too, going by a story in today’s Wall Street Journal.
The Chilkur Balaji temple near the South Indian city of Hyderabad has established a reputation among believers of Lord Balaji that their application for a Visa to the U.S. and other western countries will be successful if they pray at this temple.
Apparently, news of the Visa God’s prowess has spread and the temple now attracts 100,000 visitors a week.
As Vauhini Vara writes in the WSJ (subscription required) piece:
Mohanty Dolagobinda is one of the Visa God’s believers. Three years ago, a U.S. consulting company applied for a visa on his behalf. It was rejected. When the company tried again the following year, Mr. Dolagobinda’s friends told him to visit the Chilkur Balaji temple ahead of his interview at the U.S. consulate. Weeks later, he sailed through the interview. “I’ve never heard of anyone who’s gone to the temple whose visa got rejected,” says Mr. Dolagobinda.
Strange though it may seem, the Visa God is not Continue reading »
Based on the number of filthy comments we received for our unbiased Billa Review, we feel there is a big pack of Sori Nayis among Tamil actor wannabe Ajith’s fans.
While this is admittedly an unscientific study and the sample size perhaps not large enough, the vulgarity, fury and malevolence in the harsh reaction among Ajith’s fans to our unbiased review of that horror show Billa suggests the possibility of widespread prevalence of rabies among Ajith’s fan-base.
When we criticized Azhagiya Tamil Magan, we encountered a few mild protests from Vijay’s fans.
But when we criticized Ajith’s Billa, we encountered an online lynch mob.
Some of the comment posters to our Billa Review threatened to chop off our fingers while others wanted us to die.
Indeed some of the vulgar comment posters claimed to be personal friends of Ajith and categorically stated that we should take the Continue reading »
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