New Delhi, April 6 -- COVER STORY | TALENT & INNOVATION

Bengaluru and Hyderabad built the first chapter of India's GCC story. The next chapter is being written in cities; most global enterprises are only now beginning to take seriously. The talent is already there. The question is whether companies are paying attention.

India now hosts over 1,800 Global Capability Centres, nearly half of the world's total, and the ecosystem is projected to cross 2,200 centres by 2030 contributing more than $100 billion to the global economy. Most of that headline gets attached to Bengaluru, which holds somewhere between 35 and 40 percent of all GCC activity in the country, or to Hyderabad, Pune, and the NCR corridor. These cities-built India's reputatio...