constdragon

Most people in India don't seem to be bothered by a brain drain and don't treat it as a problem as such.

You have to remember that India has more than a billion people and struggles to find work for all of them.

I was surprised to see (in contrast to other countries trying to stem brain drain) that its a stated goal by the Indian prime minister that they want to see some 50 million (more than the population of many countries?!?) workers sent abroad in the coming decade. Whether it eases their unemployment issues or if they see it as a genuinely beneficial strategy is not clear to me. A bit of both I guess.

This plays into another very interesting phenomenon. Indians tend to look up to the western world a lot and I think it shows in their approach to tech.

For example, if you ask most Indians who the top tech people in their country are they'd probably mention Indian CEOs of western tech companies in the US. This is in very stark contrast to say, China, where their own entrepreneurs such as Jack Ma are most influential.

That is to say, rather than build their own ecosystem or companies most Indians aspire to work for Western firms and deeply synthesize their economy to them.