As we help ourselves to the starters -- some steamed dumplings, one lot with vegetables and coriander, the other with mushrooms -- he talks of how the migration of business to smaller towns is starting to happen and will gather pace.
To keep up the momentum, TCS itself is toying with the idea of moving out to smaller towns, a Bhubaneswar or a Coimbatore, where there is some amount of infrastructure, real estate costs are more reasonable and there are enough people who can be trained.
I remark that TCS's ability to sustain such a high pace of growth on such a high base has surprised everybody. In fact, at one time not so long ago, there were those who believed Infosys might actually overtake the number one player.
Ramadorai won't be drawn into comparisons: his response is that the approach to speed or agility can't change simply because a company has grown bigger, it has to be the same as it was when the firm was small. If TCS hasn't scaled up fast enough in the BPO space, it's because of the shift from voice to transactions, he says, adding that with a couple of acquisitions, there's better traction now.
Image: Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Group. | Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
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