Half this book writes itself

I'm working on a new novel about an American woman who goes to Bangalore to open an offshore call center for the California bank she works for. I've never been to Bangalore but fortunately there are scads of articles in the papers about the whole issue of offshoring, the cultural changes in India, and the unintended consequences of globalization. Take this Daily Mail article about backpacking Britons getting work in Indian call centers so they can earn some coin and continue their wanderyahr, or "gap year" as the British paper has it. (That article courtesy BoingBoing. And here's an earlier Times of India article.)

Stuff like this is great -- I never would have thought to introduce the idea of westerners clamoring for jobs at Indian call centers.