I do not neccarily agree with the views of the author here. I am graduate student in the US and I left India 5 years ago. I would defenitely want to come back to India, but unfortunately for me to do so means giving up what I am trained to do which is research in a fundamental area such as Physics. While India is flourishing in the software sector, unfortunately no development has taken place in other fundamental areas of science. And this means there is no end to the US's world domination in the near future. Its amazing the amount of money the govenment funds reseach and development in the US. The attitude towards research and higher education, sadly does not even exist in India. For a population of a billion 5 IITS ans 1 IISc and few other scattered research inistitutes around the nation is not enough. Even in these prestigious insitututions (barring IISc) there is hardly anybody doing a PhD, meaning hardly any research done at all!! How can a nation claim to be a superpower or even think of becomming one when we live on borrowed ideas?? When there are no jobs for such skilled people in India, how can there be a reduction in the percentage of brain drain?
