[EliRivers]

most indian developers are self-taught geeks who pick stuff up easily.

I believe that to be just plain wrong. I suspect you're taking a small sample of people and extrapolating that. India contains a great many universities and technical colleges teaching people programming. These places charge money.

I see this blindness a lot here on HN; HN is a small group of motivated technologists. The majority of the world's programmers don't read HN. They don't read programming books. They don't think about other programming languages. They don't learn new things by themselves.

C++ is the mother of all modern languages and I suspect job specification that mention "C++" is an indication of that.

This also is simply incorrect. I see a vast number of job specs without C++ on them. If C++ is being put on job specs just because it's "the mother of all modern languages", whatever that means (and how exactly is C++ the mother of modern C, Objective-C, Ruby, PHP, Perl and a whope bunch of other languages?), do the job specs without C++ on them come from some other universe where C++ doesn't exist? No. They come from jobs where C++ isn't required.