"Brain drain" is often cited as the problem. I doubt it has as big an impact as people claim it to have.

Even though a fraction of the top talent leaves, there are a lot of very intelligent and talented people in India who don't leave the country.

The biggest thing that's holding back development in India is the one thing which Indians are very proud of: culture. In a country where you have to respect people purely based on age and status, bad ideas will continue to win.

Exactly! Most people forgets that india has more population than USA and Europe combined!

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+population+%2B+europ...

They don't lack people who can make a difference, they lack the proper environment to make a difference. You can take all the best and the brightest of the world to india and it would not make _much_ difference unless the government initiates the right environment for change.

Great use of WA. Slightly easier to parse: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=indian+population+/+(us...

The graph is especially interesting.

Yours is definitely better. I was just trying to do something quickly on the run to make point. Its really amazing how much population India has and Indian politicians cry foul about getting all the successful Indian people from developed nation hoping to make a change.

The change has to come within.