India is a sinking ship, jump out NOW
It is with great sadness that I write this - advocating brain drain for India. Well, the practicalities of this, I recognize, are futile, but the idea holds water and even gains strength from the ongoing madness of Manmohan Singh’s government.
The largest democracy is ruled by a Prime Minister without a backbone. All that Manmohan Singh knows is about money, and nothing else - how he got to the highest throne in India without ever winning a popular election is not only ironical but also despicable for a country that prides itself on democracy! It is not surprising that the Congress party that has been servile to the British for a while, then the Communist Soviet Union is now bending twice before an Italian lady - and has proposed to divide India and her people under Sonia Gandhi’s guidance.
India faced and still faces a huge problem of brain drain - most of the brightest minds of India escaped its red tape, reservations and mediocrity by fleeing to greener pastures and remaining there. But this trend has recently reversed, albeit slightly, so that India now retains its intellectuals in the IITs, IIMs, AIIMS etc. and even many of those that fled earlier are returning to work in the the mushrooming technological sector.
At such a crucial point in India’s history, it is indeed very disappointing that Arjun Singh wants us to return to the Stone Age by increasing the already existing quotas for the so-called “lower” castes. Will this not encourage a second wave of draining brains? Won’t the top cream that will now be unable to get into the Central universities now go to the Ivy League or Oxbridge? So is India going to lose its best citizens at a time when it needs them most?
Worse still, there is talk of introducing mandatory reservations in the private sector. Although the compulsion-talk has died down, the Congress party is pressurizing the Industry to take up reservations voluntarily. So now, all the companies that moved to India from USA, Europe and other places and all the startups that have burgeoned here recently face the threat of forcibly hiring low-quality workers.
It is highly probable that these companies will quit India no sooner than they came and that even the Indian entrepreneurs will shift their base to nations where they are not forced into mediocrity. The bullish run on the Indian stock exchange that keeps breaking records every week may burst and disappear. Although many important companies have rejected the proposals for caste-based reservation, they have overtly exhibited their fears over it. The future of a stronger India with such regressive thinkers at her helm.
It is pathetic that a country that has scaled such great heights should be stunted into mediocrity by the same politicians that were elected into power with hopes of developing India!
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Hi sooraj
thanks for the link. http://www.merinews.com is working in internet explorer but i faced some prob in firefox. take a look its interesting. u can even post ur articles. even i have posted one.
the link is
http://www.merinews.com/newsPortal/JSP/catFull.jsp?articleID=93&catID=2&category=Nation
Hi Sooraj,
I just reached your blog by chance and i think you write great. The other surprise for me was your discussion with Nikunj. I never knew merinews is being followed by many people. I myself have posted some articles there. Wow…its great to know that people are getting to know about merinews.
They are really following the reservation issue closely and let everyone express their views freely.
But I dont know why you cant open the site. It works fine on my machine.
the cream had long been out of India. Most of the intellects in Nasa or other reasearch institutes are from India. Atleast at the end, the transfer of technology formulated by these intellects was possible with investment in pvt sector in India was good. But the way Arjun singh and Meira kumar are planning reservation and quotas in pvt sector, even this technology transfer also will fall out.
Every country has a “affirmative action” program, and the results are good, in the long term. American companies are quite used to hiring minorities. They are rich enough to be able to afford to do so. A workplace with more diversity is more *fun* than a workplace with only white people in it.
The “cream” of India, i.e. the white minority on top, should leave the country and never return, because that will rid the country of the oppressive ruling class and give the coloured people (degraded as being “lower caste” (as if caste systems have any basis in biology!!!)) a chance to show their true potential. If they are mediocre than so what, better mediocre and free than an educated and talented slave.
hi sooraj
there is a lot of practicality in what you have written. i have been reading a lot on the reservation issue but nobody picked this point. this is definite that the cream will start looking for the higher studies abroad.
this will stop the reverse brain drain going on these days.
i came across a special coverage on the reservations issue on http://www.merinews.com
take a look and share your views on it.