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Yeah. plant hat a hat made of real plant I don't think so oh can we smoke that hat sure sweet we are bollywood but liquors so we just have to do it yep if there's drugs it's bollywood anyways the great thing about bollywood is not only other drugs but everyone's doing it with their family sounds like he's doing a line no he's potty training is he yeah oh nice his did what he did he just suddenly decided he wanted to or okay no he's we actually did that he was a weirdo we've put him on the potty many times yeah he knows to go right but we're now putting him in underwear got it taking him like every 20 to 30 minutes to the potty yes so he gets the idea that yeah that's where you got to go so yeah that's going well he's doing so far he's had a few accidents but well it should help that dad's doing that at the same time he is so I'm sure it's very inspiring for him to know that together you're both learning how to use the toilet I guess yeah today we got a video this is called the you we saw her she did the you remember oh I loved her issue with the returning best stolen goods yes this is the great Indian brain drain this is about town I guess skill or talent from India going elsewhere got it I mean it's one of those things so you know you know why it's going elsewhere particularly to America money do you know what the mmm you know what the average IQ of Americans is seven you're not far off you were emotional damage that's why I mean it's doesn't take a bunch of a rocket scientists recognize that Americans are stupid but we can prove it with the level of IQ in this country not kidding you did elect a racist hence I saw a study on the average IQ in each of the states it's terrifying and it doesn't surprise me because I consistently will talk about how we're just surrounded with doorknobs it's it's terrifying how low the IQ is of every pretty much average American I agree yeah weeks back an Indian born techie replaced yeah he sure did Twitter around the same time an Indian born economist was promoted as a first deputy managing director of the did not know that they've both added their names to a growing list of Indians serving at the very top of prominent make an edit button on Twitter many Indians celebrated their achievements many others debated them how does the success show minds me of Christian almond boards build brand India or do they represent lost Indian talent let me show you some figures since 2016 six lakh Indians have given up their citizenship since 2014 23,000 millionaires have left India in fact India ranks number one when it comes to the migration of the rich and the educated it accounts for a cosmic 65% of the global share way ahead of China and the Philippines for the second most populous country in the world exporting talent something that it has in abundance should not really be such a big deal after all was there couldn't become the world is one family has been an ancient tenet of Indian philosophy and yet we must ask is this limiting the innovative capacity of India is it hurting our economic growth hello and welcome to gravitas plus and palakisha maupadi in the 1970s long before globalization became common currency brain drain used to be the buzzword in India what is brain drain a loss of human capital an expression that refers to the flight of skilled labor from developing countries to the developed world why this happened mostly due to conflict political instability lack of opportunity or health concerns the Congress is called brain gain which simply means large scale immigration of skilled labor for decades the West has benefited from brain gain during the 1970s many young Indians graduated from elite and subsidized public institutions only to find that jobs in India were not really financially attractive so they started leaving the country to make the most of their degrees and skills to get better rewards for their effort and talent and unlike short-term contract workers to gulf nations most of these Indians never returned they ended up as prominent bankers entrepreneurs innovators and scholars abroad this was at a time when India needed such professionals the most it was still a poor post colonial country and the exodus of its best and brightest is said to have diminished India's growth prospects the economic liberalization of 1991 changed things higher education institutions cropped up as did several multinational companies foreign investments began flowing in as did long departed Indians some even say that the economic bonanza of the 1990s was largely due to this return of the Indian diaspora Indians who had left India came back along with capital information ideas and networks and all this power the economic boom but the trend lasted only for a few years the figures telling the story in 1997 million Indians were living and working outside India as of 2017 the figure has risen to 17 million what does this tell you that India's problem of brain drain still persists according to one estimate more than half of the first rankers in class 10th and 12th board exams between 1996 and 2015 migrated abroad they're still employed overseas mostly in the United States the best and the brightest of Indian minds living in and working for another country this is brain drain 2.0 what explains this an easy answer could be money they say brains go where the money is others say brains go where brains are brains go where they're valued and that is not to say that money does not play a role it does look at wages in the context of purchasing power parity compare the average wage in America versus that in India and academics you want six times in America compared to what you earn in India in the IT sector more than double in management more than three times so clearly money is a factor then you have education quality of life social security gender equality health benefits a whole lot of things if you talk about education India has come a long way it has ensured that almost every child goes to primary school and that's no mean feat but higher education is still a challenge we have some stellar institutions like the IITs and the IMS but none of them appear in the list of top global universities a lot of good colleges in India also have skyrocketing cutoffs so students lead to study abroad to land better paying jobs and these are expensive degrees but they attract hundreds of thousands of Indian students then we have social security and quality of life better roads hospitals schools take Canada for instance in 2016 the number of permanent residents of Canada was 39,000 in 2019 that figure jumped you know that was a thousand that's an increase of more than 105 percent next comes gender equality yes a neglected dimension of brain drain in 2021 the gender gap in India widened to 62.5 percent there aren't enough women in technical and leadership roles and this stems from gender disparities in education labour force participation and income levels the entire system you could say and this makes a lot of highly skilled women shift abroad with no intention to return a lot of young people also go because they want to experience life outside India they want to see the world many of them get used to what they see an experience and don't return many others return because they don't feel at home or just the bother of tracking changing visa rules is too much for them a lot of people the tag of being an NRI is a badge of honour call it a colonial hangover call it the gift of Bollywood and their portrayal of NRIs for many Indians the idea of living abroad is glamorous so there is no one thing for leaving or for leaving and return I can see that yeah right and you may disagree with many of these reasons for leaving India but that will not change the fact that people are leaving and at what cost we end up contributing more to our host country than to our home country a lot of skilled Indian immigrants got subsidised education they went to schools and colleges with more than 90% subsidy who benefits from this subsidy other countries not India according to the associated chambers of commerce and industry Indian students studying abroad cost India as much as 17 billion dollars a year in lost revenues when they leave India they're in the most productive phase of their lives by the time they return that is assuming that they do return they're often a spent force with ideas and skills that are no longer required now this apparently leads to reduced economic growth limited innovative capacities of the nation and lack of skills so me how do we fix it I have some more figures to show you according to the US National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI India is the world's biggest exporter of doctors and this is a disturbing statistic there is one Indian doctor in the US for every 1,325 Americans wow Indian doctor in India for more than 2400 Indians doctors engineers and entrepreneurs to other countries it's losing much of its skilled human capital to other countries there is an urgent need to understand what is driving this trend and reverse it why is it that rich families with roaring businesses want to acquire investor green cards why does an IT employee pray night and day to earn that H1B visa why does an Indian student want to go abroad directly after school why do Indian born innovators disassociate themselves from their birthplace these are uncomfortable yet important questions questions that we need to address as a country questions that we need to answer on all levels if you want to end the great Indian brain drain if you want to stop non-residential Indians from becoming non-returning Indians the report she's so good or her and or her team take a package and kind of put all the pieces together in terms of absolutely that representation and obviously her research and what she prepared that could have been an NBC or ABC nightly news segment she's a she's a really good 60 minute segment that was such an interesting dilemma they have because obviously America doesn't have that issue no in terms of export like having our town and I think some of that has to do with being obviously an economic powerhouse and obviously a capitalistic powerhouse where obviously we celebrate and promote our rich people are 1% people and want them to stay here and that's that's our own problem and kind of ignore the middle class in the lower class you know but obviously the opportunities you have opportunity is absolutely because economically higher of the amount of money we have here yeah even that though even that the opportunities there are so many more roadblocks to opportunity in India than there are in America in terms of social strata economic restraints gender differentiation political problems that are some of the contributing factors and for sure I mean when you look at comparatively consistently the value of the dollar to the rupee it's the same thing with the dollar to the peso and it's why so many people from Mexico come here because there's so much more opportunity and they can send this money that they make here back home and they get more bang for their buck definitively something she didn't get into that I I know as a contributing factor from stupid babies who've been talking to me about life for the past three years and because of the fact that they've tracked with Indrani and I and her journey to come here which has solely been because of our relationship wanting to be together and her connectivity in her heart mind and soul with all things in American culture particularly dance music and movies one thing that wasn't brought up in the social security aspect was that the the freedoms that are felt here versus in India as a democracy versus many stupid babies of messaging and has messaged me and said we call ourselves a democracy but we don't function as a democracy and many of them leave because they're extraordinarily disheartened and unhopeful that anything is going to change that in fact it's going to get worse and one of the contributing factors to coming here isn't just the dollars and all those other things she listed but the sense of the whether you agree with that or not it might piss you off that I'm even mentioning that I'm just telling you what I've been told that's not my opinion that's what I've been told and I wonder how much of that is also part of the social security part that she mentioned this was this was huge and my brother my brother in law who is a he's a doctor I can't tell you what kind of doctor he looks he looks at scans it's whole body scans I don't know what the f**k it is but I asked him I was like I'm guessing there's a you work with a bunch of Indian people and he's like yeah you know how in certain workforces in America that there's underrepresented minorities right Indians are not one of them right and doctors says they are the majority yeah I mean since one of his best friends name is armor I got to meet with them and talk to them about his family's love for for shovel cotton yeah and they came over for Thanksgiving and interesting things she brought up and she kind of just went by it in passing but I think it's a statistically I wonder what the contribution is but a huge contributor to the idea that America is the place to go has been embedded into the hearts and minds of Indians through Bollywood it's very popular which he said but though how many films that have been popular and made popular are either taking place in America or about coming to America and the influence that cinema has on the minds of people especially young people who want to be like the stars that they see on screen I think that's a huge huge factor among all those other ones yeah yeah but I want interesting questions the thing I was you know that's the problem so we've recognized the sickness it's not an easy answer how do you solve it not an easy answer there's probably 10,000 different things that go into it that that you have to that you have to compete with well not only money and but you obviously have to change certain social structures and I think one of the main things that and that's not saying it's the toot our own horn in any way shape or form really not but the thought comes to my mind of I I think just celebrating the greatness of the things because like we've been introduced to stuff that we had no idea about yeah and I've received again messages and I know you have from Indians who said thank you so much for what you do because whether they live in India or they don't it's reconnected them and make them proud of their country again and I think that in and of itself to see the global community appreciate India for India could cause a lot of people to say you know what I'm I am glad that I'm here but that's an oversimplification of those other complex there's a lot of things that need to be addressed yeah yeah unfortunately yeah but yeah no let us know what you thought about the video and any other 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