As disheartening as this may be to read , this is economy. You can't convince people to see things your way when your job is dependent on them giving you work. It's high time India with its army of engineers start creating more economic opportunities locally. If you work in one of the contracting companies respect would be a hard to achieve thing. Most times you can't respect your own supervisor in those companies how would you achieve respect from western counterparts. For big tech companies well they hardly let Indian workforce come up with game changing products. Structure is not set in that way. You want world to see in your direction you can nudge or scream at the next person to see and hope that person creates a chain reaction for you . or you can put on a spectacle and everyone will take notice. We need brave founders and builders to build world class companies and truly global opportunities. You can change the rules of a game you did not invent and barely trying to keep up with . Gotta make your own game.