Brain-Drain has to be stopped

In my opinion, every answer and suggestions given above is correct in or other way. This topic is debatable as there are different views for or against the topic from different people. At last, I would like to say that it is better to give your view rather read others view. If you agree with me give a like.

What do you mean by doing for the country? No one in the country has ever helped anyone other than themselves and perhaps their close family. Every person is responsible for their own life, and have the fundamental right to live the life they want within the law. You want to target a group of people who've worked incredibly hard in their lives and make them sacrifice for others. Most of those others living in the country don't want to work anywhere as hard and want to forever stay mired in traditions, backward/unscientific thinking, and caste, color, gender and religion based divisions. They treat many of their fellow citizens (such as women and minorities) as second class citizens, harasses them everyday, subject them to rape and acid attacks. Asking super hardworking successful people to sacrifice their lives for such people is absolutely no different from **stealing** and **manslaughter**.

Grow up, take charge of your life. If you want to understand why India is not developing, read some history and economics on why nations don't develop. It is never due to brain drain (take Russia and China in the past for example), but bad government regulations and corruption, and a society that doesn't allow scientific and technological progress to take place.

If it is possible to exercise highly scientific and technological talent in India, several talented people would've stayed back. It would've been only easier for them due to less competition compared to abroad. The truth is India absolutely lacks the ecosystem to foster any kind of hi-tech businesses, leave alone even mundane businesses. The root problem is government regulations and corruption which hinder any kind of economic growth. Reduce government control, and you'll have lots of prosperity.

To those people wanting to forcibly retain top talent: I think you should just eliminate the hordes of people in the country who hamper progress in the name of caste, religion, gender and community, people who've slacked in their life and expect someone else to take care of them, anyone who is corrupt and has earned money through fraud. With all those people gone, country will progress automatically, and all the top talent will return to the country.

If you cannot do the above, stop complaining about brain drain. The country's education system is broken and society is super backward. Top talent have educated themselves and gone abroad through hard work against all the difficulties that the country threw in their way. Still, those people have strong feelings for the country and help it out in innumerable ways through investments and charity.

People living abroad have done great things for the country and humanity. If they've earned money, it's because of their hard work and integrity, and they deserve a great life. It is many people living in India that are ruining the country - earning money through fraud, or sitting idly and passing comments on others.

India is a free country, and Indian citizens are not bonded labor that they have to do something for the country. No country expects this of their citizens, countries are just an agreement of people to get collective defense and police protection using tax payer money everyone contributes. All other transactions within the country are done by people working and exchanging goods and services. And people will do as they wish as long as it's not illegal.

In a country where rape and harassment are pervasive, half the population (women) would love to move abroad. Most of them cannot because they don't have the opportunities. Basic law and order is missing from the country, something which should've been fixed by government decades back. All the developed countries have great law enforcement, because the governments there did an excellent job, and because the people voted for such governments. India has been messed up mostly by Indians living in it so far. It's those people who have to fix it. Good people will work hard to find better opportunities.

Many people on this thread are writing purely based on emotions and jealousy, not facts. The fact is that migration of human beings to places of greatest opportunity is the ONLY reason why human race has survived and thrived. Without migration, we would never have any of the innovations, which we take for granted, that have improved our lives unimaginably. In fact, if your ancestors did not migrate, there would just be a couple thousand human beings on the whole planet, all living in some African jungle. Migration NEVER hampers progress. Governments do. People's **narrow mindsets** that don't take into account facts or science do.

A country like India where majority people vote based on caste, religion and populist schemes, where people SUPPRESS their own children in the name of tradition, treat women as animals, try to live off of parents' earnings, progress is not going to happen. **Any country where majority people, instead of taking responsibility for their own lives, always try to tell others what others should be doing is going to doom. And those who don't want their lives to be ruined by such culture will move elsewhere. Developed countries became developed because most people there never tried to suppress their fellow human beings from achieving their full potential. **.

Country is just the people living in it. If you want development, majority of people should make yourselves worthy of it. China has a lot of brain drain too. But has done WAY better than India. Look at manufacturing, for example. Those highly talented people that migrate to places of greatest innovation are never required for economic development.

Technological innovation always happens in a very limited number of places like the US. That's because you need a very special ecosystem that most other places just CANNOT provide. High-tech talent has to live in such places, otherwise, the whole humanity will die as a result of new diseases, biological warfare or space attacks. But economic development doesn't need a lot of high-tech talent. Singapore is a great example that has a lot of brain drain too but is a very developed country. You need less government interference and a free society for progress to happen, both of which India lacks. Brain drain is the great thing for India and the whole humanity, and it's just not impacting the country's development. Anyone who disagrees should first research facts and historical data on what impacts a country's development.

A lot of people here talk about "SERVING MOTHERLAND". Others say that citizens need to clean up the country and make it developed. You're forgetting that India is the second most populous country in the whole world. If citizens could develop a country just by *living there*, India should have become the second cleanest and most developed country in the world decades ago! Truth is that even the most powerful people in the world can do nothing to change a country where it's government, policies and legal system are, and when majority of its people think in a regressive manner. Take Singapore for example. It is a super tiny country compared to India, but is way more developed. Why? Because of the great policies of its government, not whether most citizens live in that country or not.

You talk about serving your motherland. So many freedom fighters and social workers have sacrificed and died for this country, how many Indians actually know any of their names? In fact, under the current PM, someone like Mahatma Gandhi is also being relegated and maligned. Do you know whose technological innovations (in the areas of agriculture, manufacturing or consumer electronics) have most significantly improved the lives of everyone in the country? You DON'T.

You are treating your fellow citizens as if they are *slaves and bonded labor* who are required to *serve* their master. This is exactly the kind of backward mindset that has stifled India's progress and innovation. Countries develop by treating every citizen as free people who are entitled to live their own lives. Hey, Indians that go abroad have done so purely on the basis of their hardwork. If anyone else wants better lives, then they better work hard too. You are asking people who've earned their worth through immense hardwork, integrity and discipline to sacrifice for a set of people most of whom have done not even 1% of that hard work. If you want to attract talent and industry and innovation, then make yourselves worthy of it. Things will come to India naturally.