When I was young I use to rue 'brain drain', and think that India lost people of deep potential.
Well into middle age I realise that those who quit the shores of this land for greener pastures are the losers. India is too vast and rich and ancient to depend on them who wish to leave. Those who wish to serve, get enriched beyond all dreams. Those who quit get impoverished.
No, I am not talking of money, but of a far greater richness.
Rohit Shetti Agree Aparna Krishnan Thank god for all the 'brain drain' .. else we might have become 'smart' much earlier
Well into middle age I realise that those who quit the shores of this land for greener pastures are the losers. India is too vast and rich and ancient to depend on them who wish to leave. Those who wish to serve, get enriched beyond all dreams. Those who quit get impoverished.
No, I am not talking of money, but of a far greater richness.
Rohit Shetti Agree Aparna Krishnan Thank god for all the 'brain drain' .. else we might have become 'smart' much earlier
Aparna Krishnan yes,
those educated in modernity, unless they have the sense to question it,
can only spread more of it and the consequent damage. I agree totally.
Prakhar Prakash Therefore
the term 'brain drain' is wrong. If we could return the money invested
in us by GOI for our education (say 100,000 dollars) in some form to
India, it should be enough. India does not need my 'smart' brain :)
Aparna Krishnan far
far more needs to be 'returned'. because what was given for your
education was at the cost of hopes of farmers and others. and trill GoI
creates the trust, return via every other channel - ther are many.
Kiran Bindu Look
at this from the angle of foreign inward remittance n country brand
building . India sends the largest number of scientists n engineers to
USA . Their positive contribution earns not only money but also respect .
Over a period of last 40 years many have become pillars in their
community n do charity back home also . Many have come back to set up
trusts n lend service post retirement .
Aparna Krishnan If
Gandhiji had settled abroad and sent remittences and trusts where would
we be ? In far smaller ways, because we are far smaller people, the
same logic holds.
Kiran Bindu Ur right . Most who go abroad are not 1/1000th of Gandhi so we might as well keep the inward remittance !
Aparna Krishnan let
the contributions grow more substantial. Let them give 1/2 or 1/4 of
their earnings. but primarily let them return and serve. hands and
hearts are needed more than money.
Rajiv Ramnath Not
true for me. If I had stayed in India I would have been completely
stifled. Sometimes children have to leave their parents in order to
thrive.
Aparna Krishnan Rajiv,
I am not talking of parents ! And I am not talking of you of I feeling
stifled either. That is irrelevent. We both grew up here and the toil of
farmers and labourers fed us. You also studied inIIT which was subsidised by a poor country which diverted
its very limited resources there. The subsidy was not just of money
which you micght have returned, but of dreams and hopes. That debt imo
comes first. Even if we were to feel suffocated. Our sense of
suffocation is less of an issue than that Varalu's being unable to feed
her three small children in every village.
Rajiv Ramnath I was speaking metaphorically :-).
Parents == India, children == me. To directly respond to the main
point, and speaking just for myself, I didn't lose out by leaving India
and coming to the US. I gained a lot, and I don't mean in terms of
wealth - but in terms of having the freedom that living in the US gave
me to discover and build confidence in myself, and in generally becoming
a better person.
Aparna Krishnan Rajiv
! I am simply not interested in you (or me). You (and I) have drawn in
excess from a poor country, and our only answerability is to the poor of
this country who fed us with their sweat and dreams and hopes. It has
an archaic word, still commonly in use in villages. Dharmam.
Rajiv Ramnath BTW,
"Varalu's being unable to feed her three small children in every
village". She has three children in every village? Raam, raam! India
bilkul badal gaya ...! :-)
Aparna Krishnan Just
come to my village ya. Many things need a different senseing than is
possible with words and ideas. Bring Armaan also. I feel really sorry
for Indian kids who grow up abroad and lose their deepest inheritence. I
realise we may differ there also :).
Rajiv Ramnath BTW,
if one (i.e. you) simply stated, "we are answerable to the poor", my
answer is YES, ABSOLUTELY! It is a disgrace that there are so many poor
in the world, and in India. It is a disgrace that we are essentially
trashing the world with our waste. But no blaming IITs and emigres :-)
Aparna Krishnan Fine ! We are all tarred by the same brush, and we each need to look deeper and act deeper.
Aparna Krishnan Aapke IIT ko haath nahin lagaayenge baba !!
Rajiv Ramnath Re:
"I feel really sorry for Indian kids who grow up abroad and lose their
deepest inheritance". Why not think of Arman and others like him as
children of the world? The world is their inheritance - a way heavier
inheritance to be responsible for!
Rajiv Ramnath And yes, we have to come live in your village.
Aparna Krishnan Rajiv Ramnath because of my 7th standard hindi textbook poem - 'paida kar is desh jaathi ne tujhko paala posa
kiya hua nij hith kaa usne tujh par badaa bharosaa
urrin hona hi paratham sat kartavya tumhaara
uske baad de sakthe ho vasudha ko, sheesh svajeevan saara'
kiya hua nij hith kaa usne tujh par badaa bharosaa
urrin hona hi paratham sat kartavya tumhaara
uske baad de sakthe ho vasudha ko, sheesh svajeevan saara'
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