At Kochi’s Infopark, it takes less than 10 minutes to walk from one model of the IT industry to another.

Start from the campuses of IT-services giants Infosys and Wipro, which comprise sprawling delivery centres. Here, large teams of engineers keep enterprise software humming for global clients. Think things like migrating old systems to the cloud, debugging applications, and making sure legacy platforms don’t break down.

Just 500m away, that set-up changes. Technology company IBM’s Kochi operations sit inside the World Trade Center........

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