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You aren’t keeping up then. Remittances is a much smaller % of economy these days.

Remittanced only contribute to 15% of GDSP. 65% is from tertiary sectors of IT, Healthcare and Tourism. Kerala gets substantial investments from private companies instead as oppose…

Crime statistics are because Kerala Police isn’t as corrupt and registers more crimes compared to rest of India. It’s a good thing as most crimes goes unreported in India as police…

Yes. Travancore Cochin remained a princely state and escaped East India company looting. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2015/11/13/a-one-tril...

Literacy mostly means Reading skills. Goes a long way in a poor country with an abysmal record for primary education. Kerala also has a Higher % of school graduation compared to re…

It’s really simple test. Dig into unemployment numbers for skill shortages. If your industry only has an acceptable level of unemployment filings, then it qualifies as an industry …

There are two issues here. American companies need workers with multiple skillsets. Your one app startup that thrives on user unwittingly selecting location on might need a highly …

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/former-cji-ranjan-gog...

Most high skilled jobs in the world like your neurosurgeon or the engineers at your local nuclear power station assume your skillset based on educational qualifications. Only IT co…

Agree. H1B goes to some sketchy companies and for jobs that replace Americans. The lottery is the culprit here. Companies that face skills shortage don't get enough H1Bs. Many H1Bs…

I'm from South India and I know two people in my family with severe Vitamin D deficiency. Sunlight-> Vitamin D won't happen for most people with a white collar job even if you are …

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I would wonder what limitations UBI would require. What if people get UBI in US and move to a low cost Asian or African country to live princely lives with their UBI while American…

There's a pent up demand in India for cheap iPhones. Most of the phones manufactured would be for domestic market. Local manufacturing would provide better pricing to compete with …

India and China recently ended up at war. 20 Indian soldiers died and an undisclosed number of Chinese soldiers died during a primitive battle with Kung Fu sticks and stones. There…

Parliamentary republic with brute majority would feel like a dictatorship. There's no real seperation of legislative and executive branches. Judiciary largely plays to win post ret…

I have misgivings with the ruling party at center. But to claim that India isn't Democratic is like saying US is autocratic because of Trump. It's true, India needs to go back to i…

They do teach mathematics in India well though. Indian expat population is a small percentage of what's back home. India has close to 1.4 billion population. Indian diaspora in oth…

Police killing black men is no longer racist propaganda. It's a reality of life for black people.

If you worked in Microsoft, you would know the H1B employees never came cheap. If you were dreaming of reaching Wall Street salaries in Redmond, then that's a mismatch in expectati…

It might be your personal anecdote. I know many H1B employees who are well paid and not fearful or obedient. Different cultures have different ways of being courteous and showing r…

I agree it's shitty culture to color code employee badges and subject a set of people to humiliation. I've worked as an employee and a contractor. We all will at some point in our …

Keeping up with the mood of the country (US) I want to call these comments out as racist propaganda. The casual reference to H1B workers(90% Indians) as root cause of problems in A…

Living in New Jersey, gives me a front row view of crumbling America. I grew up in India and have no illusions of American infrastructure being third world standards. I'm taking ab…

Why target Google? GSuite is a far cry from Microsoft Office. Checkout office.com