ABSTRACT
The low hum of office work is punctuated by the occasional ringing of a phone as I sit waiting to speak with Mohandas Pai, the CFO of Infosys. I am eleven kilometers from central Bangalore and only a few hundred meters from Hosur Road, the main road leading south from the city, but both seem a world away. Here, in the sprawling campuses at Electronics City straddling Hosur Road, the city’s image as “The Silicon Valley of India” is made manifest. Described by one observer as “an assemblage of gleaming marble and glass buildings where Indian tech companies have taken root” (www.gazette.com 2004) this is the image epicenter of Bangalore. Home to Infosys and Wipro, two of India’s largest ICT companies, as well as a number of multinationals and smaller ICT companies, Electronics City’s physical landscape is composed largely of the same corporate campuses found in office parks the world over.
