"Which job sites in india are you using?"

I've never needed to use job sites to get a job, touch wood. I am not using any. My point was that job sites are deluged by enterprise sw jobs.

Note that the job post under discussion wasn't put up on Monster.com. How then is your experience equivalent?

"Recently I put a cutting-edge, hardcore (low-level, C, cpu architecture, smp, concurrency type job) startup job post to Naukri and I only seem to get mediocre responses."

Naukri sucks. And advertising on Naukri rarely works unless you are some kind of bodyshopper like TCS or Wipro. No self respecting hacker looks ofr a job on Naukri (or any job borad for that matter).

" there aren't that many talented people"

yeah sure! Indian developers are untalented because they choose t live in India ;-)

" those that are talented have already moved to western countries."

partially but not completely true. Many ultra talented devs don't want to immigrate. Just shows you are fairly unplugged from the local hacker scene.

"I really really would like to find talented people from India but it doesn't seem that easy."

Well it is not as easy as putting up a job posting on a sucky site(naukri) and sitting back and waiting, which is what you seem to have done (I am extrapolating from your posting here, I could be wrong).

More constructively, do you have a website for your company? Are you funded? Do you have a blog? Who are you ? What exactly are you doing? Are you plugged in to the local hacker networks? Are you hacker yourself? Do you have any open source contributions we can judge you by?

If you can provide a link to your job post I may be able to give better feedback. My email is in my profile as well.