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No Brain Drain - Many Indian “brains” are retuning

Acharya Freelance Journalist ‘11

(Keya, April 15, Global Issues “India: Somem Brains Drain Back” http://www.globalissues.org/news/2011/04/15/9289 7/10/11 BLG)



They were the face of India’s 'brain drain' - the best and the brightest government-educated scholars who eventually left for foreign shores. Now, they have opted to give back as a gesture of thanks for the top-notch education they received.

They are alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology, the country’s premier academic institute which the Times Higher Education Supplement has ranked the world’s third best technology institution, after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California at Berkeley.

Set up by the government for post-war and post-independence industrial development, IIT started in Kharagpur in West Bengal in 1950. It now has 15 campuses all over India, its graduates considered among the country’s academic and professional elite, many of them successful industrialists, entrepreneurs, businessmen and achievers.

Their education was heavily subsidised by the government, and they were at one point criticised for taking taxpayers’ money only to leave the country, mainly for the United States.

'An awareness has now started that you must give back to society,' said Collur Dhananjay, an electronics alumnus of the IIT in Kharagpur and secretary of the Bangalore chapter of the IIT Alumni Association of Kharagpur.

'This present generation of ‘IIT-ians’ are now seeing real wealth and want to do more,' Dhananjay added.



India – Space key to Military


India’s development of the supersonic missile gave it first strike capability

The Hindu 9

(India’s National Newspaper, The Hindu, “India, a global player in space technology”, 4/5/11, http://www.hindu.com/2009/04/05/stories/2009040556100800.htm, accessed 7/5/11 BLG)



Achieving self-reliance in science and technology was the key for the country to emerge as a developed nation, observed A. Sivathanu Pillai, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, BrahMos Aerospace. Emphasising the need for reversing brain drain and the resource drain through import of technology, Dr. Pillai pointed out that the country in the past had to face technology denials and was being dumped with low technology. But the country was making rapid progress in various fields and has emerged a global player in space and missile technology. The world has come a long way from human centric to platform centric warfare. Future wars would be network centric. The development of the supersonic missile was a huge step forward as they were vital as first strike weapons, he said at an interactive meeting on ‘Commemorative Stamps on BrahMos Missile,’ hosted by the Tiruchi Philatelists Association here on Saturday. Dr. Pillai dwelt at length on the history of the development of weapons system, especially rocket technology, in India. He expressed gratitude to the Department of Posts for recognising the DRDO’s efforts by bringing out stamps on the BrahMos missile. “Stamps were historical records and we are much obliged to the Department,” he said.

India – economic decline bad


Economic decline leads to poverty and civil war

Mumbai Space 9(Indian search engine, Mumbaispace.com, “Economic Collapse”, 9/23/9, http://www.mumbaispace.com/economic-crisis/economic-collapse.htm, accessed 7/11/11, CW)

Economic collapse is the ultimate disaster from the point of view of an economy. It’s a stage where production is totally stagnated and depression is largely prevalent. Most often, economic collapse is also followed by civil unrest, large scale poverty, economic isolation etc. However, current economic scenario in world can be not be termed as economic collapse.

Indeed, either many countries are firmly in the grip of recession are on the verge of it but economic collapse is far from sight. When one talks about economic collapse, there are few particular examples of complete collapse.



India - AT: No Nuclear War


India Pakistan War would trigger nuclear war
Nabi, 3 (Dr. Ghulam, India-Pakistan Summit and the Issue of Kashmir, July 13, 2003, p. http://www.pakistanlink.com/Letters/2001/July/13/05.html)

The most dangerous place on the planet is Kashmir, a disputed territory convulsed and illegally occupied for more than 53 years and sandwiched between nuclear-capable India and Pakistan. It has ignited two wars between the estranged South Asian rivals in 1948 and 1965, and a third could trigger nuclear volleys and a nuclear winter threatening the entire globe. The United States would enjoy no sanctuary. This apocalyptic vision is no idiosyncratic view. The Director of Central Intelligence, the Department of Defense, and world experts generally place Kashmir at the peak of their nuclear worries. Both India and Pakistan are racing like thoroughbreds to bolster their nuclear arsenals and advanced delivery vehicles. Their defense budgets are climbing despite widespread misery amongst their populations. Neither country has initialed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, or indicated an inclination to ratify an impending Fissile Material/Cut-off Convention.

India - AT: No Extinction


India Pakistan war leads to extinction
Nabi 1, Executive Director, Kashmiri American Council, (Ghulam, WASHINGTON TIMES, September 8, 2001, p. 1)

The foreign policy of the United States in South Asia should move from the lackadaisical and distant (with India crowned with a unilateral veto power) to aggressive involvement at the vortex. The most dangerous place on the planet is Kashmir, a disputed territory convulsed and illegally occupied for more than 53 years and sandwiched between nuclear-capable India and Pakistan. It has ignited two wars between the estranged South Asian rivals in 1948 and 1965, and a third could trigger nuclear volleys and a nuclear winter threatening the entire globe. The United States would enjoy no sanctuary.


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