Brain Drain vs Sania Mirza being 'drained' to Pakistan.

I agree that her look has contributed to the fame factor. I was taking the hard work part only to compare with others whose success story depends much on govt's initiatives. I agree that foreign countries offer a much more comfortable life than India. But is not that the reason why we should stay back? To work for the poor and the hungry. We study not just only for myself and my family. We study even for others too. So there has to be this universal factor for the reason for our pursuit of education. Even in India life can be okay for those who are hardworking. So I guess if we are unhappy with Sania we should be all the more be unhappy with those who've migrated abroad after having earned educational qualification with our taxes.

I’m sure you know the cost of higher education in India these days! Even for one child, if we want to make him/her study further with medical / engg / IT / MBA / or any other worthwhile degree, the parents from middle-class families have no other option but to take hefty bank loans or to invest their life’s income…all for working for the poor! Do you mean to say that middle-class parents are working their butt off for their children's future only for charity while the politicians and govt bureaucrats in their tinted AC cars and free everything, siphon off all our tax money for their own future generations! Today if I gamble with all my savings for my son’s future and if he makes it good, I’d be the first person to support if he doesn’t want to return and work in India…you may think of my as anti-national but I’m being brutally honest here. How many of our kids are brilliant enough for subsidized scholarships? The rest just have to dole out huge amounts to make a worthwhile career…this is not USA where any job is good enough and will pay for the family’s food…this is India where one has to have a respectable career and also earn good money if we are to have a decent life. Quality of life is not cheap here unlike the west…its deteriorating further with constant devaluation of money.

I agree that life is expensive even to have a decent average standard. But do you think these guys who go abroad will not be able to make money sufficient to pay back their loan and also live a decent average life for few years by working in India? I think they can. Pardon me for digressing to make my point, but I know so many Christians who got very very good education and yet go to some village as 'missionary' or join NGO to help the poor and serve them by starting schools and health care centre etc. Many times they are thrashed for alleged work of conversion, without bothering to think twice how much hardship they have to endure for having to work in such remote places in spite of such good educational background. The point I want to drive home is that people with good educational background are working to serve forsaking lavish lifestyle. I am not arguing that all of us should become like that. If some can go to the village to serve, I would say great, even if they do conversion activities. But many of us can remain in cities, get decent salary and live average Indian life. If one is from IIT/MBA kind of background the package received will eventually propel one to a different lifestyle after some years. It's just one has to struggle some bit in the beginning little bit. I don't consider your viewpoint as anti-national. I think it's very realistic and very normal. I guess most Indians do that. But for me I want to argue that we struggle for few years as we pay back our loan and so on by working in India. That way our contribution will be great for India. At least for me and my wife, that's the stand we've taken! Thanks for being honest. Regards, Headhunter525

Or what about Mohammad Kaif! He is not bad looking either. I think there might be some Khans in Bollywood too.

Yes Kaif too, and he is good in running between wickets as well (hope he is not good in running between wives the way Shoaib Malik is ). Presently which Khan in Bollywood would catch your attention? I think Javed Akhtar's son seems intelligent, and then Aamir Khan's nephew. Sania sure needs to see eye specialist at the earliest.

Brainoutstitutes may be? Personally, Irfan Pathan is a whole lot better looking and much better behaved boy than Shoiab. He also has better English accent. Agreed he might be slightly younger, so what? :) I would have tried that match. :)

Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts. I think many Indians are upset because the guy is from Pakistan. Had it been from Philippines or Russia or some other country people would not be so upset. India thinks that Pakistan keeps manufacturing terrorist to destroy India and take Muslim dominated India's Kashmir. But as you rightly think I guess we should be more upset about losing brain power than an individual.

Yes, India is politically and economically more stable. Pakistan seems to be a good breeding ground for terrorists. And that is not good for Pakistan and also for the world. After marriage Sania may quit tennis as she may need to bear kids for Shoaib. Why for Shaoib? Because Muslim society has more of patriachy!

i think sania may be not interest to bear kids after her marry......

What about those who have migrated abroad after having educated themselves with your and my share of money? Don't you think they are less patriotic Sania? Don't you think they are more selfish; and love their mother land less than Sania? I think they deserve stronger criticism than Sania.

I agree that she is overrated. May be the facts that she does not look that bad and also the fact that our female players are few contributed to her apparent fame. It's unusual to find IITians who stayed back in India to work for the people. You are a rare person. I hope the trend continues as this is a more serious case than one Sania migrating to Pakistan.

Yes, there are people who are returning. But still I would say the rate of leaving is higher than the rate of returning. I quite agree that we need to give back to society. I also studied in one of the best colleges in India, and I position myself in a sector where I can help maximum number of people instead of going for money. I know I am paid sufficiently for my living and so I chose to work where I can help. Same thing with my wife who graduated from a very fine medical college as a pediatrician and now working with 20% of what she could have got if she works in a private hospital who will then be catering only to the rich, and leaving out the poor.

Well, the trend has begun, and I personally know two or three people who have come back. The other very good trend that has begun is that senior people in their middle or late fifties from IIT's and IIM's are quitting their high paying jobs and getting into charity work, working with NGO's, etc. I think that educated people like us, not just IITians, but people with a good school and college education, decent jobs, are the highly privileged 1% of Indian society. We need to give back to our country. I work as CEO of a charitable eye care hospital for a salary that is 20% of what I would make in industry. However, the satisfaction is immense! Everyone can do his bit, some more, some less, but it all adds up. We all have a duty to do whatever we can, we can't just leave it to the Government to fix everything.

But the money sent back by skilled labourer is just a tiny fraction of their income. Whereas the unskilled labourer really send back their hard earned money and so they helped their families. We have shortage of skilled labourers in India. It's the unskilled ones we have so many. And these skilled people earned their degree at the expense of the taxpayers' money. Anyway, thanks for writing.