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A recent report in News Week says that in American colleges students of Asian origin out perform not only the minority group students but the majority whites as well. Many of these students must be of Indian origin, and their achievement is something we can be proud of. It is unlikely that these talented young people will come back to India, and that is the familiar brain drain problem. However, recent statements made by the nations policy-makers indicate that the perception of this issue is changing. ‘Brain bank’ and not ‘brain drain’ is the more appropriate idea; it suggests that the expertise of Indians is only deposited in other places and not lost.

This may be so, but this brain bank, like most other banks, is one that primarily serves customers in its neighbourhood. They will mainly help the U.S.A. No matter how significant what non-resident Indians do for India and what their counterparts do for other Asian lands is only a by-product.

But it is also necessary to ask why we go to developed countries for higher study. The Asians whose accomplishments News Week records would have probably had a very different tale if they had studied in India. In America they found elbow-room, books and facilities not likely to be available here. The need to prove themselves in their new country and the competition of an international standard they faced there must have cured physical and mental laziness. But other things helping them in America can be obtained here, if we achieve a change in social attitudes, especially towards youth.

We need to learn to value individuals and their unique qualities more than conformity and respectability. We need to learn the language of encouragement to add to our skill in flattery. We might also learn to be less liberal with blame and less tight-fisted with appreciation, especially.