Attracting Global Talent and Retaining Home Grown Talent in India for Sustainable Growth
While India produces world-class STEM talent, we face an unprecedented challenge: our brightest minds are increasingly choosing opportunities abroad, and global innovators bypass India for other emerging markets. The implications of failing to address these challenges extend far beyond individual career trajectories. We risk a cascading series of economic and strategic setbacks that will compromise India's position in the global knowledge economy. The issue of brain drain or attracting talent cannot be seen in isolation from other issues. Any country can attract talent if and only if it gets its fundamentals right and there are no shortcuts. If Indian political establishment truly believes that it values talent and want India to be a global talent hub, it needs to build the first world rule of law and financial and education systems to achieve that organically and even take political risks on the way there. This is going to be a long journey. But a good starting point may be to a...