Last week I mentioned a coworker telling me that the talent pool in India is not as deep as many people think it is. Then a few days later I spotted this article in the New York Times:

As its technology companies soar to the outsourcing skies, India is bumping up against an improbable challenge. In a country once regarded as a bottomless well of low-cost, ready-to-work, English-speaking engineers, a shortage looms.

India still produces plenty of engineers, nearly 400,000 a year at last count. But their competence has become the issue.

Which, really, is too bad since if we could get a quarter billion brilliant scientists out of India for cheap wages the benefits would be massive.