Who Thinks of NE?
IT eludes Seven Sisters: The 1980s belonged to Japan, when the world experienced an electronic revolution and the 1990s to India when it underwent a software revolution. North-eastern India has, so far, not been part of the revolution. India excels in the filed of information technology and there are obvious reasons for it. Indians’ proficiency in English has helped them communicate well with the rest of the world, without any additional effort of learning English. This has been a significant advantage since such countries as China do not have this advantage. The “British Influence” in India has, for obvious reasons, had a positive impact. Software programming is closely associated with logic and mathematics and India has been in the forefront in the latter, from the Vedic era. The strong base has helped Indians analyse and model problems and consequently provide effective solutions. The cost factor has had a huge impact on the Western world’s decision to delegate software development ...