According to Google Analytics, about 36% of you understand the title of this post. For the rest of you, it is Hindi for “We welcome our Indian friends”.

Over the past 18 months, there we have had almost as many Indian visitors as US visitors. Considering this is a US site written in English, it amazes me that 7500 people in India have visited us and read 25,000 articles (or at least looked at them). I had heard that there is a lot of software development and testing happening in India, but seeing this many Indian visitors makes it real to me. Also making it real to me are daily phone calls and IMs with three coworkers in Bangalore: Ashok, Sridhar and Shiva. They make up 3/5 of our test automation team.

The top six cities that The Software Inquisition receives visitors from are in India: Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi and Pune. The first US city on the list is New York at number 7.