Two States Hired and Owned by the World: Reversing the Trend and A Case for Telugu Ownership Economy
Every June, a familiar ritual plays out across Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Guntur and Warangal. Lakhs of families celebrate an engineering seat, a campus placement at an American company, or the crown jewel — an I-20 form for a US university. We call it success. Looked at coldly, through data, it is something else too: the world's most efficient talent export pipeline, run by two states that produce brilliance in bulk and own almost none of what that brilliance builds. The ledger, in numbers Start with the flagship sector. Hyderabad employs roughly 9.4 lakh IT professionals generating over ₹2.7 lakh crore in annual IT exports — numbers any state would envy. But look at the nameplates: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Accenture, Deloitte, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and the Bengaluru- and Mumbai-headquartered giants TCS, Infosys and Wipro. Hyderabad hosts one of the world's largest concentrations of Global Capability Centres — the polite term for offshore back-offices of foreign corp...