Countries in Europe have taken swift action on the perceived brain drain from the US. Emmanuel Macron extended an open invitation to the best brains to relocate to France.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
If India can attract actual liberal-secular scholars it will be good – people who actually believe in free markets and the freedom of speech and thought unconstrained by the politics of the left or the right.
While we know the big names that left Germany in the 1930s, we don’t know if the profile of people unwelcome in the US will be anything similar. India can do without a few hundred “scholars” of gender studies etc or people for whom scholarship lies in raking up division instead of ending them. India already has too many such people dotted all over the political spectrum from the deep left to the far right.
Further, many of the scholars such as Theodore Adorno who went to the US from Europe in the 1930 have proved to be not much of a blessing.
I’m not convinced it’s a good idea to invite big names from US academia to join Indian institutions. Those who truly understand the current challenges within our academic system may never agree to come. And if a few do come out of love for India, many will struggle to survive in this broken system.
Instead, why not support the brilliant minds who have already returned—those who genuinely care for the country and are committed to building its future? Unfortunately, we often devalue them once they are back.
Investing in the talent we already have, and empowering those who have chosen India despite the odds, will be far more beneficial than chasing temporary prestige by bringing in global names who may eventually return to their home countries—leaving us exactly where we started.
India wants the vest brains too – only in the STEM disciplines. We must not get the social sciences and humanities “intellectuals” from the West. This virus has destroyed many US universities and thanks to President Trump a major corrective operation is under way now. We do not wish for this liberal-secular activist virus to spread in India. The government must take care to not allow these parasites into Indian institutions.
Also, the social sciences and humanities departments at all IITs/IIMs/IISc/NITs must be disbanded. The nation simply cannot afford to allow the liberal-secular virus to contaminate these institutions of national importance.
If India can attract actual liberal-secular scholars it will be good – people who actually believe in free markets and the freedom of speech and thought unconstrained by the politics of the left or the right.
While we know the big names that left Germany in the 1930s, we don’t know if the profile of people unwelcome in the US will be anything similar. India can do without a few hundred “scholars” of gender studies etc or people for whom scholarship lies in raking up division instead of ending them. India already has too many such people dotted all over the political spectrum from the deep left to the far right.
Further, many of the scholars such as Theodore Adorno who went to the US from Europe in the 1930 have proved to be not much of a blessing.
I’m not convinced it’s a good idea to invite big names from US academia to join Indian institutions. Those who truly understand the current challenges within our academic system may never agree to come. And if a few do come out of love for India, many will struggle to survive in this broken system.
Instead, why not support the brilliant minds who have already returned—those who genuinely care for the country and are committed to building its future? Unfortunately, we often devalue them once they are back.
Investing in the talent we already have, and empowering those who have chosen India despite the odds, will be far more beneficial than chasing temporary prestige by bringing in global names who may eventually return to their home countries—leaving us exactly where we started.
India wants the vest brains too – only in the STEM disciplines. We must not get the social sciences and humanities “intellectuals” from the West. This virus has destroyed many US universities and thanks to President Trump a major corrective operation is under way now. We do not wish for this liberal-secular activist virus to spread in India. The government must take care to not allow these parasites into Indian institutions.
Also, the social sciences and humanities departments at all IITs/IIMs/IISc/NITs must be disbanded. The nation simply cannot afford to allow the liberal-secular virus to contaminate these institutions of national importance.