Thursday, April 3, 2014

Outsourcing: An Indian Perspective

Apurva Bose, a published architect, explores the rise and popularity of outsourcing in Indian, focusing on the outsourcing of architectural jobs from western countries to India in Outsourcing: An Indian Perspective.  She aims to inform and display the advantages and disadvantages obtained by both India and "the West" from the "outsourcing bandwagon".  She explores the degree of labor work produced by Indians as well as the degree to which they are losing their "creativity".  By building her ethos and using effective and rhythmic parallel structure, Bose creates a strong argument to simply illustrate the outcomes of western countries shipping off their projects and designs to poor countries such as India.

Bose integrates her back story on life after graduation to increase her authority on the subject of the architecture industry in India.  She even goes on to saying that she was invited into the world of outsourcing when she was "offered a position by a leading outsourcing architectural firm in Noida, India."  But introducing herself right from the start, she has already won our trust as a credible writer and encourages us to read further.  Further on, she explains why she declined her job, describing her fear of losing her "creativity in drafting plans, making 3D models".  She uses powerful diction when saying it was "killing the innovation" that she "could only give birth to".  Her honesty on the thought of working for an outsourcing firm proves her credibility even more and the confidence in her position exhibits her authority on the subject.

While keeping an unbiased perspective on outsourcing in India, Bose makes many small, explicit claims on how each individual aspect of outsourcing affects both the West (specified as US and Europe) and India.  Her overall point is that outsourcing had grown impressively as the times change in India.  She describes its immense popularity, especially among fresh graduates, such as herself.  To elaborate on the growth of outsourcing, Bose further explains the benefit it has on the West and their need to balance labor work with the actual "conceptual designing".  By shipping off the jobs related to drafting, modeling, and constructing to India, they have more room and time to develop stronger designs and ideas for future projects in their firm.  Later on, however, she mentions the limitations of creativity, once again, that are experienced by Indian workers and the "alienation" of their own identity in their home country when working for foreign corporations.  Despite mentioning their deprivation of creativity, Bose explains that Indians are ready to take on the outsourcing industry.  They are excited to be trained in fields that they are not quite experienced with and it is a learning experience for them.  By exploring the different dimensions of the growth of outsourcing, she effectively gives the essay an unbiased perspective.  Her counterarguments pertaining to how Indians feel about outsourcing despite the limit on creativity and her own personal view of outsourcing gains her more credibility thus, indirectly building her ethos through her claims.

Towards the end of the essay, when Bose concludes her thoughts on architectural outsourcing between the West and India, parallel structure is used to emphasize the importance of outsourcing and inevitability of the position it holds in the future of both economies.  By expressing that "outsourcing is here to stay, to grow, and to flourish", not only does it effectively summarize the prevalence of outsourcing in India, but she also implies that despite the disadvantages it may carry, outsourcing with always remain a part of our economies as long as we ask others to fulfill duties of our own corporations.

Bose's expansive perspective on the effects of outsourcing on Indian economy successfully states how India can gain skills and experience from the jobs shipped  to them from the US and Europe as well as how outsourcing is hindering their growth as talented architects with the capability of designing great structures.