Colonization of Brain

No matter what the success stories may reveal, I would always up the ante against the colonization of our brains, known in popular parlance as ‘Brain Drain’. Doesn’t it represent the height of selfishness? Never knew that leaving behind one’s roots is so damn easy.

Don’t have to look far from my own family peers to see the social effect of dissolving national boundaries with respect to educational/job markets. Some of them graduates from India’s best Engineering and Medical colleges while one each from CMU (Carnegie Mellon University), Wharton Business School, Boston; FRCS (from London); are now well settled in (let’s see if I can cover all the places) – Toronto, Zurich, New York, Hobart and Coventry (England). As another one immigrates to the cold country next month, I seek solace in the fact that at least she will be able to retain her Indian citizenship as well (don’t know if she wants to though).

I don’t why but it almost saddens me to speak of their “success”. I know that it all comes down to each and everyone’s own priority scale but I implore all to spare a thought for their respective families of orientation (the family one is born into comprising of parents as opposed to the family of procreation which is formed when one gets married and well, procreates; the two terms were coined by Louis Warner). I am of the opinion that the offsprings would be deprived of one of the most unselfish loves there ever was, that of grandparents because believe you me at least the older generation in my family has got its priorities straight (please ignore the implicit judgment).

Guess have to make peace with this new phenomenon that has made a niche for itself in ever increasing number of Indian households amid a lingering fear that I might one day join the bandwagon too!