What’s common between being selected as one of the most intelligent men of the 21st century, and the scientist who won accolades for his studies on atomic movements in glass?

Who is the Small Business Person of the Year, and the entrepreneur who set up a state-of-the art paperless medical centre, both in the US?
 
Fighting all odds in a foreign land, they are the non resident Indians who have done India proud. Whether it is Sabeer Bhatia who invented Hotmail and sold it to Microsoft for USD 400 million or Sagnik Roy, who put up a USD 600 million industrial empire in China in just 16 years, Indians have proved their mettle in all spheres, under all circumstances.

Placating millions of souls through his motivational speeches and best-selling books is Deepak Chopra, while Zubin Mehta chooses to mesmerize audiences through his music. Nobel Laureate Dr, Amartya Sen, economist, philosopher and social thinker added a compassionate facet to economic development with his work on welfare economics. Upholding India’s heritage abroad, NRIs like Rajan Zed made history by delivering the first opening prayer in the US Senate on 12th July this year.

The achievements of Lakshmi Mittal are legendary, and with Lord Swaraj Paul and the Hinduja Brothers, count amongst Britain’s richest. Or for that matter, the Indian techies who lead innovation in global IT giants like Microsoft, Motorola and IBM, earning a string of patents in their name.

While NRIs have excelled in their fields and done well for themselves, they have touched the lives of the underprivileged with their humanitarian work in remote, inhospitable corners of the world. Take, for example, the efforts of Rajendra Shende a scientist working with UNEP who put in his might to develop refrigeration facilities powered by solar energy to store vaccines and Dr. Ashok Gadgil, who invented an ingenious wood-fired stove for displaced Darfur refugees after three years of research.

And does the love for their motherland tug at the heartstrings? It does…amply proven by the 81-year old Dr. Kumar Bahuleyan who not only set up a charitable clinic, the Indo-American hospital, and health resorts in his home state of Kerala, but also donated USD 20 million to his village. And the noble efforts of 13 year old California based Sricharan Gopikumar who used his vacation in Chennai to work with Aid India, writing and editing books for affected children.

After a successful career in the US, technocrat Sam Pitroda, returned in 1984 to start the telecom revolution in India. Sabeer Bhatia’s ambitious Nano City in Haryana is under way, while Jasvir Gill who similarly sold his very successful Virsa system to SAP, is setting up a branch in Chandigarh which he is promoting as the next “Silicon Valley” And as Sagnik Roy invests in a computer hardware project in Kolkata, NRI Ravi Verma, CEO of California based Telecommand Software and Services is out to prove that Bihar has an IT future too.

And how do these achievers feel about India? Star conductor Zubin Mehta sums it up beautifully when he says: "I am so proud of my country," referring to India's rapid economic growth. "There is scarcely a day when I do not read in a German or English newspaper what a great future India has."

Thank you friends, keep the tricolor flying high!

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