NRI

Published on 3rd November, 2016, in DNA In the 1970s and ‘80s, school children were often asked to write essays on ‘brain drain,’ mournfully referring to people who secured degrees in India, and then migrated to foreign lands to reap the benefits of their education, without any payback to the nation that invested in them. Many of these migrant Indians still retain their Indian passport, which legally connects them to their homeland. We call them Non Resident Indians (NRI). Others gave up their Indian passport, cutting the umbilical cord, choosing to be American citizens, for example, taking the US Oath of Allegiance that demands they ..