From India Calling by Anand Giridharadas ( via 'Teeming Multitudes'):
"Countries like India once fretted about a “brain drain.” We are learning now that “brain circulation,” as some call it, may be more apt.
India did not export brains; it invested them. It sent millions away. In the freedom of new soil, they flowered. They seeded a new generation that, having blossomed, did what humans have always done: chase the frontier of the future.
Which just happened, for many of us, to be the frontier of our own pasts."
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I think this article makes a lot of sense. India has such poor educational infrastructure at the moment that we should be celebrating the so-called brain drain. As people who go away are either those who can afford it or those who get scholarships offered by the universities. These people might do big things abroad but there is no guarantee that they could have achieved a fraction of that success if they had stayed back.
Also their going away makes some seats available to other people and India certainly does not have any lack of competition for post-graduate seats.
I too think that the article makes a lot of sense. I used to think that my early years in rural Andhra were a strong influence and were drawing me to Telugu and India. But by children grew up in USA and Australia, they do not know any Indian language, we do not keep any Indian symbols at home and did not meet many Indians until a few years ago. But they too seem to be drawn to India to various extents.
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