Mao Keji | मुखर्जी

@kejimao · Twitter · 2026-06-01 05:02 UTC

Indian talents face systematic "cherry-picking" by the West at virtually every single level. From the very beginning, India’s brightest professionals head to top universities and major companies in the US and Europe. The very best of them go on to become CEOs and senior technical or managerial executives at companies like Microsoft, Google, and Adobe. Those who are well-educated and possess solid innovation capabilities — the mid-level talent — are frequently recruited by Google, Intel, and other multinationals into their high-end R&D campuses in Noida and Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi. The massive salary disparity means India’s most talented individuals rarely stay in the country, let alone in Indian companies, making it extremely difficult to develop a network for indigenous innovation and industrial progress. It is in this way that the West has been siphoning and harvesting talents from India, causing a permanent brain drain for a country that is so desperate for human capital.