India is emerging as a big time winner in almost everything.
There is hardly any list or award where India has missed the mark and even if
it does, someone with Indian origin comes up to save the day. I mean we are
everywhere from Nobel to Oscars ,Times to
Forbes, Politics to Medicine and Research , Sports to Entertainment and so on.
Every now and then there is a news that someone of Indian origin has won this
or that or become a CEO of a big firm or something like that. Do I feel proud ? yes, definitely but one thing comes to
my mind every time.
Why do they have to leave India to reach that potential ? or in
other words ,
Why India failed to keep the potential winners and achievers here ? and
why do they keep drifting away?
Another question arises that Why the Indians themselves can’t
achieve the same? so that the origin tag
can be done away with. I have been thinking
and I could think of two reasons only :
One is that we are one of the oldest civilizations,
leading in population and have NRI’s all
over the world or at least their origin can be traced back to India. So the probability
of any achiever being an Indian increases many folds. And not just achievers
but some of the victims of international crimes/disasters happen to be Indian. Remember the oil tanker hijack , Russian submarine
that sank or any other such event that made it to the news. In fact I read an article long time back which stated
that there are only three countries in the world that do not have any NRI i.e. Vatican city (the smallest country
with least population) and our neighbors Bhutan(mostly dependent on India and
no job opportunities) and Pakistan (All
Pakistanis are NRI’s in a way).
The other reason is what made me write this article. It is
clear that the Indians have got potential but the Government has not made enough attempts to
tap this potential or has failed
completely . And this cannot be blamed
on the NRI’s because they are doing what
is best for them and for their dreams and
It is a shame that the opportunities in India cannot match the people of such caliber.
I think they are the real treasure being kept in other countries and the
government should make efforts to bring them back or at least start working in
the direction of preventing this brain
drain. Such minds would help India grow in a much better way than the black
money being cried about.
We should be proud that people of Indian origin are emerging
as winners globally but I would be much more happy and proud when we as Indians
can do it ourselves, like the Mangalyaan by ISRO.... hats off to them.
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