Zoo Station

Rajesh Jain writes an excellent series of articles titled "Dear NRI" at his blog, which calls on non-resident Indians to change the way they view India and to perhaps return home and invest in the country's future. I have maintained that if India could attract at least 10% of the non-resident talent to either return home or to invest in India, a big difference could be made, similar to when the Taiwanese returned home to start up the semi-conductor industry or the Chinese returned to the mainland. The problem in India though was the attitude of the government which treated NRI's as pariahs and worse for having "abandoned" the country. Clearly, the government has decided to be more pragmatic with the granting of dual citizenship and so on, even if they have managed to bungle up that process by making it selective on very arbitrary grounds. I, for one, could argue that there's more money pouring into India in remittances from the Persian Gulf than from the United States. If thats the case, why aren't they eligible for dual citizenship? Hopefully, this is a temporary hiccup and like everything else in India, corrective measures will be applied at some point.