India’s “Third Wise Man” – Professional, Pi or AI?
Narendra Modi, save the Professional, Pi or AI?
Dare to see the Tiger up close…
Or, feed the beast and leave challenge to chance and trust?
You smile like a re-embodied laughing hyena with tail between its legs.
Look up, as China takes form of dragon, serpent, horse…
Or, Seek Deep!
As I point out Primum Movens: World Merchant Supplying and Controlling the Chains
“In response, the path and direction chosen by nation leaders will determine the fate of their people. Whether you stand with a Socialist, Communist or Capitalist, you will do well not to cross each other’s paths. Leave that to the prime mover, the World Merchant.”
India, in the West ‘certainty’ you will not find.
Yet history will find you.
As did “the East India Company’s military leader in Bengal, Robert Clive, had struck a backroom deal with Indian bankers…” and liken to U.S. leader, “Clive’s victory gave the East India Company broad taxation powers in Bengal…”
Sir Keir Starmer, appears a written or ‘verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.’ Especially a blank one!
Walk or crawl away, changing of the Guard matters not. A Fool has always been placed for a King or Queen, as it did four hundred years ago.
Dave Roos tell us in How the East India Company Became the World’s Most Powerful Monopoly: “The massive British corporation was founded under Queen Elizabeth I and rose to exploit overseas trade and become a dominating global player.”
Now the Brits offer “opportunities” for Indian businesses “to take advantage”- cars & whisky in return for textiles & jewellery.
Didn’t the Americans just make a deal exporting whisky to the Scots in return for scotch? Right, the Yanks have seven times the population of the Brits. Yet, India has nearly 1.5 billion!
As the Chinese traded Tea for Opium, will US trade its chips for China’s TCMs to qualm the West’s addiction to AI and lead to US downfall as the ‘Opium Wars and the End of the East India Company’?
Drug trade and war are interlinked. Recall Peter Navarro notes, ‘The 21st Century Opium Wars’ that “Israel and Russian mafia operate much of the global supply chain and distribution channels for all four of the world’s major hard drugs.”
Modi, best you examine well U.S. trade deal before its dirty fixings trek your floor. Sure, you made nuke deals with UK, Canada, France, and Russia. But your agreement with US can just as easily be torn up as Iran’s. Who will China back, you or Pakistan?
India, you may have a ‘third eye’ but do you have access to the ‘Five Eyes’?
Fortresses to the North, West and East too have their eye on you. India, forget not where you lie, nuzzled between all three Pakistan, Kashmir and China.
But, how is Trump’s trade deal different from Hindenburg’s ‘Adani Report’? Recall the film ‘Slum Dog Millionaire’?
Adani, AI chips for a Data Center in 2035? Unlike US slimy IRISH fish selling his Data Center, there are no Millionaires in the slums of India. But not hard to find a sleazy slimeball in Washington DC.
US has learned the hard way that the true “special relationship” is that of India with China, Russia, UK, France and Canada – Economy, Technology and Energy.
I pointed out in 2019: “Strategic India-China bilateral trade has prompted India to revisit its past mantra of ‘mutual accommodation and mutual benefit’ vis-à-vis Chinese investments in ‘e-commerce…transportation and fintech.’”
Of course China’s ‘mutual benefit’ also extends to the West. Investments with many good returns! J
Outsourcing the Professional Can Be Deadly
Infosys, outsourcing Professionals is out of fashion. Yesterday’s BPOs are today’s AI IPOs.
Indian workers were replacing Western jobs decades ago. From Corp Offices to Call Centers. Now trained AI Agents are replacing Indian workers.
Still, centers in Indo Pacific, Africa, and South America are happy to receive calls or monitor a meta of social media, right Mark? But did you pay them millions as you did your dozen or so ‘geniuses’?
Speaking of dangers of ‘garbage technology’, driverless cars have not only led to deaths but US trucking industry is seeing the “End of the Road’: Inside the War on Truckers,” the title of a book by Gord Magill.
Magill warns of the dangers of trucking companies not hiring trained professionals and instead contracting untrained workers from India, Siberia, Ukraine, Russia… who resort to language apps and GPS to read road signs or directions.
India’s society has learned to live with wildlife amongst humans. I hear you have ‘hotspots’ and reading reports by PETA of freight company JKL leaving ‘monkeys to bake on the tarmac’ may not sit well in your ‘protected habitats.’
Speaking of freight companies and logistics, an important case being heard by the US Supreme Court, Montgomery v C.H. Robinson Worldwidewill be decided by end of June 2026.
Baltimore, wonder how a big vessel could crash into a bridge? Question is, will AI lead to more deaths because of “Treacherous Railroad Monopolies: All Deaths and Derailments Lead to U.S. Presidents and Congress”? Ask CEO of Norfolk Southern.
Brokers are taking advantage of loopholes and crisis of shortage of US applicants in ‘blue collar’ jobs. Of course, large foreign businesses facilitate it leveraging transportation industry.
Brits, learning to drive on your roads is not a piece of cake. How’s it for ‘new’ truckers?
Modi, is this what Sir Keir meant when he said he wanted ‘top talent’ minus visas?
Think you and Keir had had a tough election year’? Try a decade of your own ‘brain drain’ to China, UK, EU, US… But it’s nothing compared to your own Indian Corporations dumping toxic waste and young professionals into the same streets.
AI and Outsourcing became money making dirty words. But such a “dirty” scheme wouldn’t ride with chips’ OSAT.
Reliance, how reliant are Nvidia’s Blackwell chips for your data centre in Jamnagar?
Gotta keep it clean, no matter what US President says.
According to Milind Kumar Sharma, who teaches in the Department of Production and Industrial Engineering, MBM University, Jodhpur, “Despite several claims of India being a strong candidate for fabless design market, several supply-side constraints such as inadequate availability of ultra-pure and clean water and clean sand used for growing wafers…”
But now you need that ‘pure’ water for DCs. Hmm, no water, no chips, no chips, no DCs.
However, Sharma notes the “approval of the Production Linked Incentive scheme.” But could it do for the US what it can do for India? “The PLI for this sector will reduce global dependence and leverage India’s skilled IT workforce.”
Self-reliance and jobs. Sounds good. So what’s the problem?
“Interestingly semiconductor assembly and testing is a high volume and labour intensive business, though less attractive in terms of profitability.” Professionals = No ROI
Looks like Mr. Robot will be in charge of where the chips fall. Professor Raghuram Rajan may agree. As he says, gotta ‘pick your battles.’ Or, pick sides – Professionals or AI.
Modi, Prof. Rajan words are of a wise man. Focus on ‘enabling not disabling sectors.’
Pi and the Professional would agree with Professor on “Investing in people.”
Be wise. Otherwise you or your hot data centers will be standing in a Picine of piss!
‘Pi’ and Four Asian Tigers
Modi, hard to track an allusive Tiger? Hunt another Tiger. Just don’t mistake it for ‘Pete Puma’.
Ask Sentient Technologies’ Antoine Blondeau and Babak Hodjat.
Says Blondeau of Alpha Intelligence Capital, “India’s largest outsourcing firms—Wipro, Infosys, HCLTech, and Tata Consultancy Services—have all been investing in AI solutions, such as chatbots designed to replace call centers.”
I hear Top AI executives have set their eyes on Japan, South Korea, and Singapore as headquarters.
Hmm, but are ALL Four Asian Tigers? -Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore.
In the chips lead are Taiwan and South Korea. Hong Kong? Ask China.
India, so where did your Business Process Outsourcing go?
“Singapore can attract a hefty dose of mainland Chinese talent, Indian talent, it can attract talent from pretty much everywhere,” says Blondeau.
New Zealand? Unlike the West and East, the Zealand has had a “brain gain” since turn of the century. Nice to hook up with a member of the ‘five eyes’ right Peter Thiel?
Besides, ‘talent’ does not come in ‘hefty’ doses. Unless by talent you mean trained bots or sex workers. May be more than one Maxwell whore in this World.
Antoine, you see, some ‘professionals’ don’t come cheap. And while ‘no man is an island’ an island can be a pricey haven for men. If Epstein could talk…
Of course, Singapore having a small population can serve as a test model for an ‘AI experiment.’
Algorithms can ‘train’ systems in basic infrastructure: Governance, Health, Education, Finance, Communication, and Transportation… And come up with a formula quick + dirty + cheap = efficient.
Ask Reliance or The BharatGPT Group. They know something about LLMs and generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) technology.
Blondeau, but why have children raised in public infrastructure when one’s got private doctors, tutors, wealth advisors, security…?
Easy, Western countries large service sector is complimented with a large Sick Care employer for their peasants on or off the streets. By contrast, a developing country with a larger population needs to be Electronically ‘Healthed’ to Death or wasted away in slums.
AI & ‘India-UK Tech Pact’
While US-Britain have a “special relationship,” the Brits and India are said to have a ‘tech pact.’
Keir Starmer, still dropping ‘blank’ deals? You say “Every woman has opportunity that they deserve.” Really?
So what’s this gibberish about women denied ‘opportunity’ to have an elected procedure? Or do they not ‘deserve’ to have control over their body?
And I remind the UK Minister for AI and Online Safety Kanishka Narayan, Bihar or Cardiff are not the Waterfront.
Narayan, no surprise you jumped from “private secretary to Steve Reed, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs” in 2024 to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AI and Online Safety in 2025.
Brit environment is bad. India is worse. Outsourcing TOXIC dump yard of the West, you are now second to China. Right, Modi’s and India’s problem. You’re a Brit, Kanishka Narayan.
Sure, India’s starving children, pollution and gender inequality may not be your problem, but the failure of UKs Technology Security Initiative (TSI) delivering in biotechnology and health technology is. It has failed in “fem tech – improving health outcomes for -women.”
According to ctvnews, “A British woman, Leah Spasova, a psychologist from Oxfordshirem has won her case with the country’s health ombudsman after a 10-year battle.”
Narayan, that’s almost as long as you living in Bihar, India before you moved to Cardiff. Ultimately, it was “determined that the ICB did not routinely fund female sterilization” as opposed to male seeking vasectomies.
Minister, it seems what you call a ‘secure supply chain’ does not apply to Women’s open access and delivery of health care. Right again old boy, you’re NOT Minister of Health.
Stop convoluting Technology and Biotechnology with HEALTH care.
The Future of the “Professional”?
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mohandas Gandhi
If you think back to the electronic Automated Teller Machine (ATM, not all tellers were replaced.
Yet, Outsourcing replaced Western jobs in Health, Finance, Investment Banking, etc.
Radiologist assessing your MRI for you Doctor could easily have been Outsourced. Now it’s AI.
In the Bond Market, a US employee would be sent from their headquarters office in the West to an office in Asia to ‘train’ a new employee, Agent. Now it’s AI.
Pricey Brit or American has been replaced by an ‘Agent’ trained by YOU and your ‘know how.’
In my May 3, 2019 paper, “India and Mohandas K. Gandhi – The Third Wise Man” I point to the beginning and end of the ‘startup’ and ‘professional’:
From its “corporate corridors,” India’s innovative “world tech lab” has reaped the seeds of its ventures at home as in the U.S. where venture capitalists provided business incubators for “gurus” or entrepreneurs developing startup networks.
Dr. Subhash Sharma attributed India’s successes to “convergence of three … “NPK” factors.” And this may have been the case.
Still, for all of India’s “nose for business”, it may likely be challenged by what I see as EPT factors: economic crises, population demographics, and the implications of emerging technologies like A.I.
The professionals “engineers, medical doctors and MBAs etc.” though still existent, may not be in high demand, at least not in the traditional sense. Most sectors continue to be revamped and the “new business opportunities” Dr. Sharma spoke of a decade ago are being discovered elsewhere. Ironically, the “techies” have outnumbered and outworked its fellow professionals.
I agree with Gandhi’s quote above. Still, when the world is being disrupted by swift forces and shaking you, it may be best to grab ahold of something solid, gain your bearings, and build your strength before you start to walk again. Then consider the “three wise men” and watch which side of the “corporate corridors” you’re walking on and who to follow: bottom line, equity, or focus on means.
I met Dr. Subhash Sharma, the keynote speaker at a Commerce & Trade conference in 2007. Dr. Sharma gifted me a copy of his 2007 book, New Mantras in Corporate Corridors. A passage reads:
“Metaphor of three wise men walking in corporate corridors. Wiseman walking in the corridor on its right side is Adam Smith emphasizing the importance of efficiency, bottom line. Wiseman walking on the left side is Karl Marx, emphasizing the importance of the equity. These two wise men are following the third wise man viz, Gandhi who is emphasizing importance of ethics with focus on means.”
It’s now 2026. These two ‘wise’ men walked away.
Yet, the third wise man walks not alone.
Gandhi was born four years after U.S. Civil War and died three years after World War II.
Yet, like many of us, we fight our own wars in our own time.
Past has a strange way of catching up to your future.
Narendra Modi, can you feel it tapping your shoulder?
Modi, you say “A new chapter has been added to Bengal’s destiny.”
If so, it is a chapter with laughing Hyenas instead of a Tigers.
One without a thriving youth. Instead of holding their future in their hands, they’re left out on the streets holding a past university pact, a useless piece of paper with no meaning, might as well be blank.
“An equation for me has no meaning, unless it expresses a thought of God.” – Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar
Modi, does this ‘equation’ have meaning for you?
AI + 0 workers = AI
Prepare for the Beginning of a FINAL CHAPTER.