I have defended him on the Wired blog, but it really is a no-win situation for a recently named Forbes billionaire who also happens to be the CEO of the second largest Indian services firm to be talking to the media about outsourcing. Tom Friedman of NY Times was nice to Infosys in his book "The World is Flat". But not every NY Times reporter and certainly few outside are going to throw him softballs.
But instead of some bland comments, it is odd he chose to say only 5% of job losses come from outsourcing, the rest are due to tech automation. And it is even odder that he says post-primaries, the outsourcing issue will die in the US. In a recession, with the Democrats bent on making domestic economics the focus of the campaign?
Update: Bit more balanced coverage on the WSJ blog
