The trouble with @svembu's appeal to NRIs is that it continues to demand more sacrifices from Indians while demanding no change from India's governments. Resident Indians have more than enough talent in every domain but they are already choked. He makes no attempt to demand removal of existing bottlenecks. It's not TALENT that India is starved of, it is ACCOUNTABILITY. Some reform ideas which I'd like to see implemented in India: - (0) Improve nutrition and environmental safety. Safe air, water and food is the bare minimum expectation. - (1) Encourage skin-in-the-game for political and administrative leaders (for eg: require an exit tax for them and their kids). - (2) Radical transparency in govt systems. Anonymized files should be digital and public by default, unless marked confidential for valid reasons. - (3) Increase actual Ease of Doing Business (eg: improve contract enforcement). - (4) Discourage young talented people from wasting away their most precious years into civil services exam prep, or pseudo-scientific professions like degrees in AYUSH. - (5) Do not allow the world to dump inferior hardware and software products on Indians. Insist on interoperability, technology transfer and repairability by third-parties. - (6) Prepare the workforce for the future: For eg: Decrease the number of specializations by bundling subjects in Engg, achieving a better balance of employability and national interest. - (7) Reduce the need for affirmative action in later years by improving access in earlier years. - (8) Create conditions for healthy competition among states so that we can have more experiments in governance.