In God we trust!!!

There was a dictum I heard long long ago...

In God we trust, everything else we test!!!

It seemed hilarious at the time. Not so anymore... The news of the multi-million scam in Satyam has left a bad taste in the mouth. Blue Chip company. A star on the Indian IT horizon. Fudging the books, showing assets and deposits where there were none?

I always wondered what would have happened to the lakhs and tonnes of engineers churned out by the Indian education system were it not for the IT companies. No reservations, no quotas, no recommendations, just merit. Indian IT has brought such a major change in the lives of so many people. In my IT career spanning over 6 years, I have seen numerous such examples. "Son of a temple priest is a PM and the whole family now lives in pucca ghar for first time in decades.", "Only son to a widow gets his sister married in aplomb, builds a formidable asset bulk for the mother" etc etc

My naivety - I thought the sector that has done such good for the general aam junta is beyond such dark activities. Bribes, corruption etc was not for IT sector...

One incident and the whole perception crashed. I just wonder what this means to the image of "IT from India" per se!!! As it is, the whole world is moving in to the darkness of economic recession the likes of which have not been seen since the days of "The Great Recession"... For many of us, this is the first financial crunch we would be living through. Things were gray enough without skeletons from the Satyam closet tumbling out...

Who can say what is to come over the next few days!!! Wait and watch and PRAY people!!!