Outsourcing expert Ron Hira says that there are huge misconceptions about how the US worker visa programme operates.
'Outsourcing and offshoring are realities. The clock cannot be turned back. The train has left the station and it will not be going back,' says Dilip R Vellodi, founder, Sutherland Global Services.
To secure a work visa in the US, students have to find an employer who can sponsor it.
According to experts, while allegations against Indian IT firms of visa misuse are nothing new, this time the scrutiny could be much greater.
A 25-year quest by nearly 1,000 scholars to document and present one of the world's oldest living traditions came to fruition when the 'Encyclopedia of Hinduism' was unveiled in Columbia.
'How can Hindus protest efforts to ban an edition of the Gita in parts of Russia, and force a publisher to withdraw an academic critique of Hinduism, all in the same breath? It makes the Hindu community seem petty, self-serving, and hypocritical. Episodes like this allow Hinduism to be "owned" by the most conservative, intolerant, extremist voices. These people do not speak for me, and they certainly don't represent the form of Hinduism I practice and love," Princeton University's Hindu chaplain Vineet Chander tells Rediff.com's Arthur J Pais.
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