New Delhi, April 27 (IANS). Zoho chief scientist and co-founder Sridhar Vembu on Monday appealed to Indians living in the US to return to India. He said that they should come back and contribute to enhancing India’s technological capability and the development of the country.
He said that the respect Indians get around the world, as well as the country’s prosperity and security, will all depend on India’s technological capability.
Vembu posted an open letter on X, addressed to “brothers and sisters of India”. In it he recalled his experience of moving to America 37 years ago, when he had no money but had a good education and cultural heritage from India.
He said, “You have achieved huge success. America has been good to us. We should always be grateful for this, it is our Indian way to show gratitude.”
However, he further said that currently many Americans believe that Indians “take away” American people’s jobs and the success of Indians in America is viewed incorrectly.
Vembu said that the number of people holding such views in America may not be in majority, but it is not very less either.
He said that Indians are just spectators in American politics. He further said that he only has the option to choose between the “radical right” and the “conscious left”. He also warned that none of these parties guarantee the respect of Indians abroad.
He wrote, “You may think the next election will fix this problem, but your choice will be between people who hate our Indian civilization and people who hate civilization itself. This is the battle of the ‘radical right’ versus the ‘conscious left’.”
He urged the people who have achieved success in America to return to India and help in building the country with their technical skills. He wrote, “As we develop this efficiency in India, our civilizational power will establish itself.”
The post said, “If India remains poor, the ‘Woke Left’ will moralize us with compassion and the ‘Hard Right’ will moralize differently with contempt. We should treat neither of these with respect.”
He said, “Although this may be difficult for many of you to contemplate, please return home. Mother India needs your talents. Our huge youth population needs the technical leadership that you have achieved over the years, to lead them on the path to prosperity. Let us together do this with a missionary zeal.”
Sridhar Vembu’s post came at a time when the H-1B visa program, which US technology companies use to hire foreign workers, was facing new pressure from the US administration.
A group of Republican lawmakers have proposed a law that calls for suspending the H-1B program for three years. They say that this program is being misused to replace American workers with low-wage foreign workers.
–IANS
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