i just read one more article about brain drain..littlebit intresting

http://o3.indiatimes.com/indianimmigration/

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Looking to Settle Abroad? Rethink!
To meet young, relatively affluent, persons about to pass out of schools, or almost anybody passing out of professional colleges is a very revealing, and disturbing experience. A very large number of them are aspiring to emigrate. I passed out of a premier engineering institute and now work for a software company, and most of my batch-mates’ and colleagues only aspiration in life appears to be to settle abroad. Those looking for the education route for escape, the choice of programme and school is quite secondary. Those who are looking for the employment route do not care about the kind of work they end up doing. In fact, I know of a retired Wing Commander of IAF who emigrated to Florida to a job of a security detail at a grocery store!

In recent years the craze to settle abroad has crossed all highs partly due to easily available opportunities (thanks to the overcapacity of their educational institution in light of shrinking population of school-going age, and the boom in software industry), and mostly due to the heavenly image of the western world. To top it, a certain section of the media never tires from painting a rosy picture of the foreign story.

I have no doubt that a stint in a foreign land is essential to expand one’s horizons. One should always look for an opportunity to travel and to spend some time outside of one’s own culture. But what after that? Most of us put this thought aside for later. Many of us who are fresh from college have a dilated-eyed vision and cannot focus our sights properly. What we want to achieve in life is a question one should ask oneself.

Rethink about settling abroad if your aim is any one of these: earn money and live a life of leisure; gain respect/awe or inflate your egos in front of your relatives, peers and friends; distinguish yourselves from others or make yourselves a part of an open culture.

In the changed context of the booming Indian economy these as reasons for emigration are baseless. You can easily live a life of leisure here in India; only the rules in which you achieve it are different than in the US or UK. For example, as an average software programmer, you can easily buy a car and apartment after 2 or 3 years of service in India, given the easy availability of loans. In the US you can probably buy a car a little earlier, but for buying a house you would need at least four to five years. You will be able to afford a much larger size of the house/apartment in India compared to that in the US or UK. To top that you can hire domestic help, drivers and cooks easily in India who will relieve you from your personal responsibilities such as ironing of clothes, which I find an exhausting job on my visits abroad. All other things of convenience such as modern appliances are easily affordable in India.

As for the other reasons, the fact that there are lots of people from middle-class Indian families settled abroad, the snob value of a foreign address no longer exists. The Indian metros boast of an open (modern) culture at par with the western world. With so many shopping malls, pubs, dance bars, coffee shops, multi screen cinemas opening up and the many-fold rise in women employment, the Indian cities are getting more and more modern in their cultural ambience.

Ramifications of settling abroad are serious. For the first couple of years, emigration affects you in a pleasant way. Stay longer than that, and you get cut-off from friends, family and other people you care (or maybe wish to distinguish yourselves from). They no longer care for your position, status, and number of cars you own and the size of the house you live in. You just generate some excitement on your annual trips to home and then forgotten. Back in your chosen country of emigration, you can’t distinguish yourselves unless you become a Sabeer Bhatia or Vinod Dham. You are part of the omni-present middle class, which has all the facilities and luxuries you are still vying for. Almost all your friends in the Indian community are at the same level as you; with advantage attributed to early settlers, in the form of better luxuries that you will eventually get.

The natives look down upon you no matter how challenging a job you do or how highly you earn. Firstly, they tch tch you as ‘the poor people who couldn’t find opportunities in their poor country, and so they have fled here”. They might recognize your individual talents but it’s your Indian origin that makes them feel otherwise. Only escape from this tag is to do a Michael Jackson on you. Secondly, the general public will always put you in the same category of taxi drivers and other labourers from India that have flocked there in large numbers. Finally, and becoming more prominent, the jobs you are taking away from the natives.

Is the cost of facing humiliation just to earn a few more dollars or pounds worth it? When India needs people like you who can create, innovate and manage. It will pay you sufficiently, respect you as a person and recognize your contribution. With the GDP growth rate poised at 7-8% annually, India has become a land of opportunities. Earn abroad; spend at home. Take a leaf from the books of British. You have to bring back the Kohinoor, in the form of knowledge.

It’s time when Indian skilled workers shouldn’t let themselves be treated as immigrants who have come for better opportunities. They should like to be treated as Europeans who have travel to get a wider perspective, broadening of their experience or just for fun. To change this we have to build an India such that it compares with the best of the world. It will eventually happen as the process has already begun.

Entrepreneurs in you can enter in innovative fields. You’d generate employment and contribute to the Indian economy. You can start up a venture with only a few thousands dollars that you might have saved. To cite an example, you can hire a worker like a driver, a tailor, an embroiderer, or a carpenter for a month for the amount of taxi fare for home-airport transfer abroad. Just imagine the relief and satisfaction you’ll get when you know that your taxi fare is supporting a whole family.

My recipe on emigration: only labourers and workers who can’t find better opportunities here should migrate. Other skilled workers such as software engineers, doctors and other professionals should travel for short periods of time. Depending upon your appetite, it should range from few months to a few years. The advantage is three folds for the nation: First, your acquired knowledge, skills and money can be utilized here for innovative ventures; Second, your juniors get a chance to a foreign exposure earlier in their careers by filling the vacancy created by your return, starting a cycle that creates a pool of extremely aware and multifaceted people; Third, with your improved knowledge, more up-market and technically superior work comes to India leveraging us in the value chain. Instead, if you choose to stay in the foreign land, only the country you serve will benefit. Its your call now, have a slightly better life but with little respect or serve the nation and lead a life of respect and satisfaction.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMVuD_in67M

E mere vatan ke logo.............

If you want to do something for our country, just dont support corruption or be part of it

Having elaborated in such detail may I ask you one question.

Where are you now. In India or Canada?

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It's an article bud , he's just quoting it.

Ooops... my mistake .

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