Can India bring back the billions of dollars our students spend abroad?
Getting beaten up in the poor neighbourhoods of a foreign city is only the known problem. The unknown one: Indian students spend billions of dollars each year in pursuing studies abroad, thus robbing our poor government and poorer people of all that wealth.
The question, therefore, is can at least a part of the money be brought back to create economic activity and jobs here?
(This story appears in the 17 July, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)