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Attracting diaspora to address India’s higher education faculty gap

By on September 15, 2011 in R2I (Decisions)

[Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on my other blog (TechSangam) - republishing here since it's clearly relevant to the Return to India meme. Earlier this year, academic collaborators from Rutgers University, Penn State University and Tata Institute of Social Sciences published an insightful study that quantified the severe gap in higher education faculty [...]

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East or West, Is Home Really the Best?

By on February 24, 2011 in R2I (Decisions), R2I (Voices)

[Editor's Note: For the 5th voice in this series, I bring you a guest post from Roona Ballachanda who describes herself on her India Repat blog as thus: "After seven years in the United States, I returned home to India in 2010, only to feel myself a stranger in my own country. Living an expat [...]

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Our Return Ticket 16 Years Later

By on February 21, 2011 in R2I (Decisions), R2I (Voices)

[Editor's Note: After an extended silence in the R2IProfiles category, I bring you an interview with a recently returned (to India) fellow blogger, Vasantha Gullapalli. Most of the answers below are partial or full extracts from her blog (which you should frequent, especially if you are contemplating a move to Hyderabad). She and her husband [...]

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Vizag Boy Returns Home After 15 Years in Northern Virginia/DC Area

By on August 28, 2010 in R2I (Decisions), R2I (Voices)

For Part 3 in this series, I bring to you an interview with Srinivas Savaram. Srinivas is my friend from Rejuvenate India Movement volunteering days (circa 1999) – I later learned that he was my senior in Timpany School, Vizag too. He returned to India in 2004. Q: How long & where did you live [...]

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Freedom from Inertia

By on August 15, 2010 in R2I (Decisions), R2I (Staying Put)

As a sovereign republic, India turned 63 today. Today also marks our second anniversary in India – after 16 years in America. To mark this occasion, I tweeted the following: 2 years in India. The second year whizzed by even faster than the first. Me thinks we’ll stop counting now. My biwi, who’s not active [...]

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India Calling US – Job Fairs in New Jersey and Santa Clara

By on August 6, 2010 in R2I (Decisions)

Two years ago, at the early stage of my India job hunt, I was talking to an executive at a large technology firm. I had just finished telling him about my two prior attempts to move to Bangalore (in 2004 and 2006)  and that I was hoping for third-time-lucky in 2008. Clearly the number of [...]

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The journey from one home to another (guest post)

By on August 4, 2010 in R2I (Decisions), R2I (Voices), Schools & EDU

[Editor's Note: The 2nd post in the R2IProfiles category comes from my blogger friend and fellow Bangalore denizen "Divs". She blogs with gusto at Baby Love...and looottts of it] I went to the US in Dec.1999 and celebrated the millennium New Year ’s Eve with my cousin sis and her family whom I had not [...]

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Bengali Mumbaikar takes the long way home

By on July 29, 2010 in R2I (Decisions), R2I (Voices)

Soumya Banerjee (my friend from University of Houston days) returned from Boston to India 10 years ago – a period which we can term the “first wave” of reverse brain drain. Very few of my Indian-American friends returned that early so he stands out. It’s thus fitting that he’s the first profile being published in [...]

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One billion people can’t be wrong…

By on July 20, 2010 in Photos-Videos, R2I (Decisions)

I’ve always been a fan of Tantra T-shirts and this one’s particularly appropriate for the blog. The talented Mr. Rochit was sporting this shirt during a weekend visit with his family. If you have any smart-alecy comments, don’t be silent…

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R2I Profiles – Launching a New Category

By on July 12, 2010 in R2I (Decisions), R2I (Voices)

My WordPress dashboard stats tell me that a lot of organic traffic comes from folks searching for “nris returning to india” or “indians returning to bangalore”. When I started this blog in 2008, this was the primary target group I had in mind. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, then you know [...]

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