India, Sept. 11 -- Rising remittances cannot mask the cost of brain drain, as more Indian students spend abroad than they send back. With visa curbs, high living costs, and underpaid jobs overseas, India faces both challenges and opportunities to retain its talent

Limited seats in prestigious universities in their home country has for decades been pushing Indian students to pursue higher education abroad, resulting in what is called an intellectual brain drain. Rather than staying back and contributing to their home country, a plethora of privileged students are choosing to go abroad for college. There has been, in recent years, a large section of academics who argue that this is in fact a good thing. 'Remittances are rising rapidly', th...