Re: above comment "... plus it has delivered". Hell right.
No million mutinies. The mutineers are working at the call center
making real money.
Qualified, graduate city slickers are making more at the BPO's.
These are the urban, educated and frustrated 'Arab St.' youth. Pakistan is seething with the hopelessness of it's urban, educated youth's anguish. Recessionary times in the Americas, EU and specially the Gulf Nitakat locals first drive has hit Pakistan's youth very hard. The young in India protested with Anna Hazare for constitutional change, protested the rape cases in chilling winter and used the mobile Internet and social justice sensibilites and their youthfull energy to come up with an all new AAP party, campaign successfully and sweep the polls and overthrow the govt. in Delhi, all within a year. Civil, effective, far more path breaking yet far less murderous then Tahrir Square, Egypt. Wow!
And the richie-rich, uber-educated Globe trotting IT folks are in on the AAP Party. Incredible India!
I run into a lot of young Indian and Pakistani engineers. What a difference.
Indians come across as disheveled, easygoing and carry this lightness-of-being. Their clothing is slightly better then pyjamas and night-suits, but totally clued -out with current dress sense, their labels are unknown. And look like bad or wrong counterfeit jobs. They are confident with their whatever English. When stressed, Indian engineers act and behave kooky and typically nerdy. One feels they'll break out into a yoga posture any minute. Instead, they smoke!
Pakistanis look and dress better in their slightly off-center brandname clothing (British or British knock-off brands maybe?) but come across as nervous. Un-sure. Dodgy and shifty even. And the behavior is a mis-match with the swagger and style. By the looks of it, one expects a young engineer to head off to a bar and drink himself silly, shoot some $hit with fellow revellers and make some friends to bust the stress. Not.
^^^
There is demand for 10 times as much office space above.
The spillover is across the highway with TCS and other's over there.
The 1'st cut is only to 'bait & switch' tenants. Once established, the idea is to go to the 2'nd cut, which is to amplify and intesify. Is it possible to re-zone the above? Take the park out and put up 40-50 story offcie towers.
Also redevelop the low rise ones. This is normal all over the world.
BKC, Mumbai