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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