Wild Wild East: Exiled Americans, Enslaved Indians and the Systemic Abuse of the H-1B Visa Programme By Tanul Thakur

AN EXPLOSIVE INVESTIGATION INTO THE SYSTEMIC ABUSE OF THE H-1B VISA PROGRAMME.

What happens when a programme designed for "high-skilled" migration transforms into a vast, institutionalized scam? In Wild Wild East, award-winning journalist and former H-1B worker Tanul Thakur pulls back the curtain on a decade-long saga of corporate fraud, human trafficking, and wage exploitation that has impacted millions of lives across India and the United States.

Through the harrowing stories of three men—Kumar Pandruvada, Virgil Bierschwale, and Manu Mitra—Thakur documents a sprawling network of visa mills, outsourcing giants, and federal negligence. Shunning the simplistic "migrant vs. domestic worker" narrative, Wild Wild East is a forensic deep-dive into the "body shop" culture and the systemic greed that has allowed massive wage theft to persist for decades. With the investigative rigor of a muckraker and the narrative pacing of a novel, this book dismantles the myths surrounding the Indian IT boom and the H-1B system itself.

Why this book is a must-read for the conscious reader:

• Investigative Mastery: An eight-year labor of research, parsing through court records, data, and federal history to expose a hidden industrial scandal.

• A Human-Centric Exposé: Moves beyond cold statistics to tell the deeply personal stories of those caught in the web of the H-1B programme.

• Systemic Critique: Examines the complicity of Big Tech, politicians, and accrediting bodies in a global industry defined by human exploitation.

• A Trailblazing Work: A bold, necessary, and critically acclaimed look at the reality behind high-skilled immigration policies.

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