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A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.
On a warm night last May, Nikhil Somwanshi sent his roommate a WhatsApp message asking him to tell his family that what was about to happen next was an accident.
The message triggered a frantic search for the 24-year-old machine-learning engineer in southeast Bengaluru, the city of 13 million known as India’s Silicon Valley.
Somwanshi was a star student from a small village in the farm-dotted countryside. Nine months prior, he’d landed a coveted job at OlaiOlaOla is a transportation company, founded in 2010 by Bhavish Agarwal, which offers ride-hailing services and sells electric scooters.READ MORE Krutrim, an artificial intelligence startup worth $1 billion. He was among the ranks of India’s globally renowned tech industry, which is estimated to be worth around $280 billion and employs more than 5 million people. The industry runs the spectrum from top-end firms like Krutrim to massive consulting and outsourcing companies.
