Why not India?

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Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

-Martin Yan

India  is one of the most populated places in the world, there are also great minds in India who can be productive and make India a better place to stay and change that status of  developing country to developed country, but still we have  not reached there why? Let us discuss some reasons.

There is always a strong motive for many Indians that settling abroad is an accomplishment or attaining highest self-satisfaction. What makes them  think like that? In some families when a baby is born, the first thing that baby will be imparted is “you have to move out of this country and settle in the US or UK”. We have become so much addictive towards the whims and fancies that those countries have got to offer. We are not against anybody or any country, we have to know the whole world and we have to travel extensively to improve ourselves. Flying abroad for a higher education is also fine. This will give us more opportunities to explore strengths within us and gives us good exposure. 

India is changing. Things are not same as they were 50 years back. Many quality institutions are coming up in India. But still we are lacking some opportunities

. India is said to be the lowest paid country in Asia. This could be the prime reason why people tend to fly abroad. 

It is said that as many as 12% scientists and 38% doctors in the US are Indians, and in NASA, 36% or almost 4 out of 10 scientists are Indians (TOI 2008).

Even though we say India is not the same and it has changed from what it was 50 years back, we still see some short comings that people consider as not favourable to be here in terms of getting the degrees and also a potential place to work.

The reasons are  clear when you see USA or any other country in the world which is famous for its universities they have a welcoming attitude towards new thought and seriously even a senior professor in Berkeley is ready to learn from a new student who has just finished his/her induction, there are only few people in India who have this attitude that is what makes the difference we in India are still following the old methods of teaching and also our resistance to change and bureaucracy at our Government institutions and colleges are the most demotivating factors we could think of.

The Loss.

Do we lose anything at all if this continues of course, we lose a big deal our brainy Indians just put in their efforts in Silicon valley tycoons like Google, Facebook, cisco and in research organizations like NASA.So our country loses them who have invested their intellect to build beautiful products.We are not possessive here if a person has a great intellect it is very important he should help the world with his talent, but we see an imbalance where India is losing its brainy people, due to its own mistakes.

We congratulate the team of scientists who worked for the Mangalyan team which is seen as one of the greatest milestones in the field of Indian astronomy, that was possible only because this group of smart individuals dedicated to do it for our country.

We appeal to our government and also the people to take wise decisions and please think about the cognitive impact on the nation and then take a decision.

 Let us hope for a better India with brainy people around, who will help India deal with her problems and get the best solution for the same.

Living with hope

Tejus R.S and Harish Murthy.