Monday, June 20, 2005
What a Shame!!!!! - Dual Citizenship
There is some good news for all those Desis, wanting to avail dual citizenships for emotional, sentimental, political and economic reasons. You can now be a dual citizen!!!!
BUT
25 million Indians in the diaspora and only 2000 applications!!!!I don't blame the diaspora for this. Who would want to be Indian, when the only meaning of offering dual citizenshsip by the Government of India is for investment reasons.
Foreign Investment is not a reason enough to hold a "Blue Indian passport". What about the history, the culture that binds us.We need the NRI expertise, the skill, a reversal of the brain-drain so that India develops. In this context being "Indian" matters the most.
BUT
The Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs Jagdish Tytler on April 28, told the Rajya Sabha, that the Ministry of Home Affairs had received nearly 2,000 applications from Indian diplomatic offices for overseas Indian citizenship.
25 million Indians in the diaspora and only 2000 applications!!!!I don't blame the diaspora for this. Who would want to be Indian, when the only meaning of offering dual citizenshsip by the Government of India is for investment reasons.
Foreign Investment is not a reason enough to hold a "Blue Indian passport". What about the history, the culture that binds us.We need the NRI expertise, the skill, a reversal of the brain-drain so that India develops. In this context being "Indian" matters the most.
Comments
this is funny- the last time the indian governemnt made this offer - and restricted it to only a few nations (which they thought were high potential investor material), there was a hue and cry all over the world - and now there are only 2000 applications?!
but tell me, isn't "being Indian" very hard to define? what exactly is being Indian?
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