India Built the World's Back Office. AI Just Fired It.
The Tables Have Turned. Are You Ready? For years, Indian coders were the world’s back office. Now AI is doing the same to them that they did to Western workers — and the biggest consulting firms in the world are quietly cashing in. BY THE NUMBERS 20,000+ TCS jobs cut in 2025 · 586 tech workers laid off globally every single day · 64% of Indian IT firms now using generative AI tools · ₹2.4 crore charged by Deloitte for a report that was mostly fake PART 1 The Mirror Moment India Didn’t Expect Remember the anger in America and Europe when Indian software companies “stole” their jobs? H-1B visas, outsourcing, off-shoring — these were dirty words in the West for two decades. The argument was simple: why pay a US developer $120 an hour when you could get an equally smart engineer in Bengaluru for a fraction of that? Now the tables have turned — and the new low-cost replacement isn’t a person in another country. I...
