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Siddhartha moved from India to Australia with his family in the 1980s. He graduated from one of the IITs and ended up working for a major software company as a senior executive after a stint in a government science and technology organization in India. He speaks effusively about his time there, his past corporate goals, and his obvious respect for its founders and his colleagues. He keeps in touch with these peers in India, many of whom are now senior directors, and through these networks he has contact with their networks in the Australian subsidiary of the company. Mobility to Australia has had a profound effect on his career and ambitions. Rather than joining the overseas wing of the company in Australia, or a similar overseas branch of another Indian company, he has pursued a number of entrepreneurial ICT ventures on his own, as well as serving as a part-time academic at the same time, mentoring many Indian international students.

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Birtchnell, T. (2013). Close-Knit Communities. In: Indovation. Critical Studies of the Asia Pacific Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137027412_7

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