Essay on “Non-Resident Indians” Complete Essay for Class 10, Class 12 and Graduation and other classes.

Non-Resident Indians

Essay No. 01

Non-Resident Indians are those Indians, as is obvious by the name who are Indians by birth but, they have taken residence in a foreign country ~ and settled outside India.

This group of Indians is a very great asset to their own country, in spite of residing out of it. It is this large section of the Indian people who earn crores and crores of foreign exchange for the country. With their earnings in foreign lands, India can very coolly boast of a swelling treasury a treasury full of foreign currencies. Besides this financial aspect of the NRIs’ contributions in normal times, we find this community of affluent Indians very magnanimous in times of emergency back home in India. For instance, whenever a natural calamity strikes India this group of loyal Indians come to our financial aid. They contribute huge sums in reconstructing destroyed areas a new.

The financial aspect is of course rather rosy but, that is not all they present to India. Wherever they go, in whatever capacity they go out of India almost all of them bring name to the Indian brain. They do well in whatever field they , catch on to and bring laurels to India, so much so that today, the Indian brain is supposed to be one of the best brains of the world. In this aspect of their contribution to India there is another way of looking at it. Some people argue that, when Indians can be so very brilliant why don’t they work for India, and use their brain power to enhance the fortunes of their motherland? It is argued that, if these best brains of the country work for India as well as they work for foreign lands, India would progress more and faster. This sounds quite reasonable and sound that, the brain drain from India drains all the good brains out of India, leaving the mediocre to work for India. Yes it sounds quite correct but when that brain sends back home to his country his earnings it is all for the country’s development. This would mean that, indirectly though, he is serving his own country. The brain drain is duly compensated by his financial back up support to India.

Let us analyse how and why this community of NRls has grown? The youth of the country naturally look for greener pastures after their studies are over and so, as soon as they can fly off to these places beyond home they go away. Once an individual goes out and settles abroad his entire circle of relations and friends tend to join him. This is how the numbers outside the country keep increasing. The next question that now arises in our minds is that, why do people prefer to go out rather than be at home? The reasons are not far to seek. In India for one, there is no work culture and so, those who genuinely want to do some real work and do something substantial, find it impossible to grow here in India. For this one single but very important reason, the cream of the youth of the country find place for themselves in any foreign land. In those lands, work is a pleasure and for those who like to work, those outside places are natural havens. Besides the pleasure, outside India work is also extremely rewarding both financially and morally. A good job done will always be appreciated so, natural as it is, we love to work there. With these points in mind, most of our brilliant Indian youth prefer to go out of India and this is how this community of NRls has grown to a huge size. If we genuinely wish to stop this exodus from the country, we have to mend our ways to say the least. We have to create a working environment that is wholesome and then also pay them as well as they are paid outside India. If we do this we may be able to hold on to our brilliant and promising young.

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Essay No. 02

Non Resident Indian

A Non Resident Indian (NRI) is a citizen of India who has migrated to another country. Non – Resident Indian also refers to a person of Indian origin who resides out of India. Aperson of Indian origin who is born outside India is also called a non – resident Indian. Since time immemorial India has been a part of the world, with its people interacting with the rest of the world. History tells us how India was once the Mecca for trade, tourism and philosophy. People from all over the world flocked to India. In time Indians have travelled to other parts of the world in search of better education and better job opportunities. Today, nonresident Indians that inhabit almost all the different countries of the world amount toa staggering figure of 24 million; a drop in the ocean for a country that boasts of a population of 1.136 billion people.

Most Indians immigrate to foreign countries because they are disappointed with the way things are back home. The corruption, the lack of opportunities, the limited resources, and the lack of facilities are some of the reasons that Indians leave Indian shores to go abroad. Many NRI entrepreneurs settled abroad have had legendary success. Be it the Silicon Valley or the food business, the Forbes list of wealthiest people or NASA, almost in every field there be an Indian who has survived and overcome the odds to ascertain himself through expertise, commitment, and hard work.

Non- resident Indians do not have it easy in the lands they travel to. Coming from the world’s biggest democracy which embraces people from all castes and creeds with equal fervor makes it very difficult for NRIs to adjust to the racial prejudices that are prevalent abroad. They have to deal with people calling them “brownie” because of their skin colour and they even get paid lesser for their services simply because they are expatriates. Nonresident Indians face a lot of challenges abroad. Being brought up on eastern morals, there is always a fear that their children will be affected by the racy Western culture. This results in children growing up confused. The children of NRIs who are NRIs themselves constantly battle with the disparity they see in their homes and in their environment.

Despite adopting a foreign country NRIs are hesitant to adopt its foreign culture. When it comes to values most Indians would opt for Indian values. In fact the distance makes them more attached to the motherland. They still practice the same rituals they practice back home, probably with more fervour. They might not visit on account of varied reasons but their heart continues to beat for the motherland. When they come home on vacations they may curse the traffic, the infrastructure, the maddening crowds, the lack of sanitation but they will still revel in eating in the same unhygienic eateries on the roadside. It is comical to see them down the food made on the road side with bottled water. At the end ofthe day it boils down to the fact that in India a non resident Indian can still walk with his head held high. He may be a non -resident Indian but he is an Indian nevertheless and will be treated as such. They may adopt foreign countries as their own but neither the passage of time nor the distances between their ancestral land and their new homes is capable of severing the umbilical cord shared by mother India and her prodigal children.

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