India's high-tech jobs are disappearing

New Delhi

THEY were going to be India's gilded generation.

When PR Sujoy became a software engineer, he thought his life was made. It was a job his father, a former government employee who prized stability above all, could brag about to nosy relatives. It came with a highflying salary, enough for a mortgage and to start a family. So when his company suddenly asked him to resign, Mr Sujoy refused. "I'm an IT guy. That's all I do," he said.