A recent conversation with a friend popped this issue up for discussion….He was going to America and was really excited…and he was recounting a story we all have been fed through and through…He was going to study there and after a few years of working he’ll be back here…
Whoa what BS…I mean do these people really consider us to be idiots just because we didn’t get a score of 1500/1600 in GRE by telling whether or not ¾ is greater than 4/5?
How many people those have gone there for years and years have returned to India?? Forget this how many of them are even Indians?? A lot of the second generation west-Indians consider themselves to be citizens of their adopted country and rightly so. But why do they call themselves Indians?? Just as watching a few American films and listening to a few english songs doesn’t make us American similarly how can these people who are so far away from their culture and who celebrate Indianess on a few days of the year be Indians?
They studied here, they were raised here, they had fun here and yet when the time of giving back came they swiftly flew away under the xcuse that they wanted better prospects and would return with knowledge to improve our nation?
We all now how many satellites did we launch with the help of the NASA returned scientists or how brilliantly we managed to create newer and better IT products with the help of the MITians!
And the biggest culprits of them all are the IIT and IiM graduates…it is like they see no other way other than that of the west.. For most IIT grads America is the only destination. I don’t know what was going on in Pandit Nehrus mind when he dreamed of setting these institutes but if anything these institutes have proven to be a drain on the society. We invest and pay so much just so that America can utilise our graduates…that just gave a whole new meaning to brain farming!!
If these people would have stayed and worked in India then they would help in the social development as well. For each educated person influences a family as a whole and each family in turn influences other families and all these families would pass on their influence to the lower working class the maid/the driver/the sweeper among others. No instead we have an Indian family in America which prides itself in Indian values..ho ho!!
If the situation in our country would have been as hopeless as in some Balkan countries I would have still understood. These people will sit there and say god man India has so many problems…they don’t have work ethos and are so inefficient yet not one of them will return here and try and change that!!
Every one is so happy that Kalpana Chawla flew in space yet no one wonders why couldn’t we do anything about it? Why wasn’t the take off in an Indian ship from Indian soil.
The few like Mr.tharoor who do return to India are always ready to give comments on how and what democracy is all about but when their party does ridiculously idiotic stuff like asking officers to escort ministers to their cars they will keep their mouth shut and do nothing about it!
It’s actually fault of people like us who view the NRI’s as crown jewels….if only a few of us realise they are only shining stars who represent our utter failure to provide our countrymen with the resources to build a great nation..the picture today would be so different…
Oh and another favourite topic with the NRI gang is that Indians are not united…wohaa this coming from a bunch of people who never stand united!! So one week we have the andhra community protesting followed by the punjabi community followed by the bengalis….nd the trail continues until the Indian government is asked to step in and protect the interests of the Indians who are nowhere in India!!
This will not change until we those who stay here do something for our nation….for the root cause of the problem probably aren’t the NRI’s but those of us who choose not to play our part in building this great nation…
