MALLASAMUDRAM, India ? The fact that a 23-year-old Indian engineering graduate is tutoring American high school students in math over the Internet is hardly unusual anymore.
But Pradeepa Mallur is not based in Bangalore, the capital of the Indian outsourcing industry, or another big city. Instead, she still lives with her parents in a small village in southern India and works in an air-conditioned office on a college campus in a village nearby.
After two decades of furious growth, Bangalore is showing signs of strain, and not just in terms of ever-worsening traffic congestion and occasional social unrest, but also in a shortage of skilled workers that is pushing up wages and leading to high employee attrition rates.
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