This is really important. From personal experience, there's a lot of bias. Some racism, but a lot of people having bad experiences with "Indians", due to shitty outsourcing. It must suck to get written off because of this superficial bias. I'm guessing more money goes to contractors that happen to be in India vs Indian contractors. (I've lived in a country with a bad rep for a long time, and I make sure I'm not introduced as Michael from <place> - a lot of people are attracted to mentioning it if you're not local, it seems.)