EXECUTIVES RETURN BACK TO HOMELAND
THE ASIAN AGE (May 2004)
By Skimmy Gupta
The boom time for Indian professionals and techies in Silicon Valley and foreign countries seem to be fading a bit. The craze for working abroad to earn in dollars is soon decreasing amongst young city executives. Most of them do not mind settling back in India,Emotional ties are one of the strongest reasons for executives to come back and settle in their homeland. Married couples settled abroad also find it difficult to rear their children amidst fast paced life of the west. They also feel that lack of ethic values, rich India culture and traditions in foreign society often forces them to return to India. Although they miss the fancied salary packet and clean environment common in abroad and find it trifle tough to settle back in the city.
The executives who have decided to settle back in India feel that the family support system in form of relatives and friends in the city helps them overcome adjusting to the desi environment. They strongly believe that Home, they say is where the heart is, simply follow your heart.
Virender Virdi returned to Mumbai with his wife and eight year old kid after staying for 5 years in the Middle East. Virdi working as a senior engineer in a suburban five star hotel states “There is a lack of professionalism to start own business or work for a company in India .The desi work culture is too different for me from the work culture abroad. Also there is so much of office politics, back biting and cribbing .We had minimal social life abroad and used to get demotivated in life on many occasions. I am having a tough time settling back in Mumbai again. But my social circle of relatives and friends gives me motivation to keep going. I think I might never go to abroad.”
Rajitha B. made the tough decision of returning from Canada to her matrimonial home in Mumbai with her husband and two grown up sons. Vaishali, working in a multinational bank says “We had to make an important decision to return to India after staying for seven years in US. My kids born in America just did not feel at home with the Indian system of education out there. Also they could not adjust to the fast life and pop culture. Things have changed now and there are plenty of International schools in Mumbai having the same infrastructure and teaching methods as in the US. The longer your children are in a foreign country, the more difficult it is for them to adjust to Indian customs back home”.
Chandana Kapoor fashion designer repents coming back and settling in Mumbai. Kapoor in her emotional love for family members and relatives in Mumbai quit her job in Dubai boutique. She feels “The lack of basic facilities like electricity, water, decent roads, fresh air and pollution were major deterrents preventing me to return home to India. I always was questioning myself ‘What’s the point, if you can't breathe fresh air, don't have clean water to drink, why should I return to India’?’. Anyway there are lot of job opportunities in the city and I am learning to cope up with Mumbai life.”
Suhail Singh pursing his career in law in London was stunned by prevailing political instability on his recent vacation trip to Mumbai.He says, “There is so much political uncertainty and increasing violence in the country putting a big question mark on the safety and future of an Indian citizen. I think I made the right choice few years ago to study my postgraduate course in London. Things are much better there than prevailing infrastructure in India.”
By Skimmy Gupta
The boom time for Indian professionals and techies in Silicon Valley and foreign countries seem to be fading a bit. The craze for working abroad to earn in dollars is soon decreasing amongst young city executives. Most of them do not mind settling back in India,Emotional ties are one of the strongest reasons for executives to come back and settle in their homeland. Married couples settled abroad also find it difficult to rear their children amidst fast paced life of the west. They also feel that lack of ethic values, rich India culture and traditions in foreign society often forces them to return to India. Although they miss the fancied salary packet and clean environment common in abroad and find it trifle tough to settle back in the city.
The executives who have decided to settle back in India feel that the family support system in form of relatives and friends in the city helps them overcome adjusting to the desi environment. They strongly believe that Home, they say is where the heart is, simply follow your heart.
Virender Virdi returned to Mumbai with his wife and eight year old kid after staying for 5 years in the Middle East. Virdi working as a senior engineer in a suburban five star hotel states “There is a lack of professionalism to start own business or work for a company in India .The desi work culture is too different for me from the work culture abroad. Also there is so much of office politics, back biting and cribbing .We had minimal social life abroad and used to get demotivated in life on many occasions. I am having a tough time settling back in Mumbai again. But my social circle of relatives and friends gives me motivation to keep going. I think I might never go to abroad.”
Rajitha B. made the tough decision of returning from Canada to her matrimonial home in Mumbai with her husband and two grown up sons. Vaishali, working in a multinational bank says “We had to make an important decision to return to India after staying for seven years in US. My kids born in America just did not feel at home with the Indian system of education out there. Also they could not adjust to the fast life and pop culture. Things have changed now and there are plenty of International schools in Mumbai having the same infrastructure and teaching methods as in the US. The longer your children are in a foreign country, the more difficult it is for them to adjust to Indian customs back home”.
Chandana Kapoor fashion designer repents coming back and settling in Mumbai. Kapoor in her emotional love for family members and relatives in Mumbai quit her job in Dubai boutique. She feels “The lack of basic facilities like electricity, water, decent roads, fresh air and pollution were major deterrents preventing me to return home to India. I always was questioning myself ‘What’s the point, if you can't breathe fresh air, don't have clean water to drink, why should I return to India’?’. Anyway there are lot of job opportunities in the city and I am learning to cope up with Mumbai life.”
Suhail Singh pursing his career in law in London was stunned by prevailing political instability on his recent vacation trip to Mumbai.He says, “There is so much political uncertainty and increasing violence in the country putting a big question mark on the safety and future of an Indian citizen. I think I made the right choice few years ago to study my postgraduate course in London. Things are much better there than prevailing infrastructure in India.”
Labels: Men's Club
posted by Skimmy @ June 07, 2008
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