I feel both good and bad :)
Good as@Ganesh_Gaitonde has argued. Though I do not know much about Sunak, the number of people we export is tremendous!
Bad because of the brain drain. I see most of my peers who are going to pursue master's or Ph.D. in STEM are in the US. No one wants to pursue higher studies in India mainly because of poor quality and resources. A few years down the line they might be like Pichai or Nadella or Sunak with American or British citizenship and we'll be proud! And guess what after 2-3 generations they won't be even sending remittances which we promptly write in our answers. The Indian taste and connection will also be lost so the economic benefits
We might as well formally rollout Pradhan Mantri Talent Export Yojana. #5Trillion
mightyraju,
@Neyawn remove the personality/president lens of Bush vs Obama & put on the Republican/Conservative/Realist/Huntington-Mearsheimer lens vs. Democrat/Liberal/Liberal/Fukuyama lens. From the PSIR notes gyaan, personalities of Leaders do not matter so much as the institutions/think tanks driving the Foreign Policy.
Completely agree to this, if not agreed earlier. That is not Gyan, that is the truth.
mightyraju,ryzenausterWho is sunak supporting today? @T20worldcupI will give that an LOL.
Btw Sunak has not shied from showing his Hindu identity. Critics already call him the "appointed Prime Minister" and not the popular one. Anyone has an idea on the religion wise distribution of population in UK.
As far as I know of UK and USA politics, Identity politics is as entrenched as is the case in South Asia. There are some areas like Leicester(recent riots one) which have sizeable Hindus. But, they wield sizeable influence, all thanks to overtly rich Gujaratis, who foster favourable leaders like Bob Blackman.
Neyawn,ryzenausterI have heard about rich Gujaratis in Shah Rukh khan movies on NRIs. Did not feel such wealth in Ahmedabad though. I briefly stayed in the iim a hostel for a few weeks with my sister ( decade back ) and travelled the city.
They have lost and deservedly so.
I happened to read an article sometime back that stated that around half of Hotel businesses in USA are owned by Gujaratis.Also,they fund local leaders via organisations like OFBJP. Tulsi Gabbard was heavily funded and so was Raja Krishamoorthy.
I had a few Gujarati friends and one thing I liked about them was that they didn't exude that toxic version of sub nationalism, that generally other progressive parts of India showcase to other regions.
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