INDIAN students have been going to the US, in particular, for over seven decades to get higher education from some of the best universities in the world. The opportunity to work and settle down, to become American citizens and share in the American dream was deeply attractive. The US had projected itself as a melting pot, a welcoming land for immigrants and of opportunity. This was ‘the pull factor’ that initially triggered the outmigration of Indian students to distant lands, including the UK.
The Government of India myopically criticized this exodus as brain drain and as a loss in. . .