Nope, it is not hatred. I have graduates from IITs working with me and also reporting to me. Some of them are extremely smart and hard-working -- a terrific combination, if you ask me. However, I have no doubt that if they had stayed behind in their parent institutions they too would have become fat-assed bureaucrats, just like the big boffins who rule the roost in India. It is only because America provided them the opportunity that they could shape their lives differently. I have absolutely no doubts about that.
I also think Indians will have to give up thinking that they are indispensable and that the US cannot do without them. That kind of arrogance will prove counterproductive. Keep in mind that there are a whole bunch of talented people from Eastern Europe -- Rumania, Bulgaria, and former Soviet republics like Ukraine and a lot of other countries in that region. So even if India were to actually prevent its people from leaving the country (very unlikely, because it is the elite in India that makes the rules, and they would not allow the emigration rules to be changed), or if a sizable number of Indians in the US were to leave (very, very, very unlikely, considering how Indians here clamor to get their green cards), the US would continue to chug merrily along. Indians always have to keep that in mind.
And btw, I am fairly knowledgeable about India because I used to visit it frequently and even lived there for a while when my father was working there. However, in recent years, I haven't had the chance to go there but keep myself up-to-date on the goings on over there. |
