A bigger sin, in Ravichandar’s view, was the new work culture that the information technology business introduced, to the discomfiture of the city. ‘The way IT developed,’ he said, ‘it brought with it migration and a parasitic work style under which expats would come in from all corners of the world, plug in their computers, complete a specific assignment on hand, then plug out and fly away. IT people represented a kind of fashionable rootlessness. And the way the rootless changed the behaviour patterns of Bangalore created in turn identity problems among the locals.
