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From brain drain to ‘brain gain’: India eyes domestic talent boost amid H-1B visa crunch
American Bazaar ^ | 10/14/2025 | Shubhangi Chowdhury

Posted on 10/14/2025 10:50:06 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Amid the U.S. H-1B visa crunch, India sees an unexpected upside. Nara Lokesh, Andhra Pradesh’s IT minister, told Moneycontrol, “This is an opportunity for India for brain gain,” highlighting the potential for the country to attract skilled professionals who might otherwise head to the United States.

The minister emphasized that India’s appeal goes beyond cheap labor. “If you look at Global Capability Centers in India, the product they’re offering, it’s for the globe,” he added.

His remarks come against the backdrop of turbulence in the H-1B visa program under the Trump administration. The visa, long criticized for drawing skilled Indians to the U.S. in pursuit of higher living standards, has become a flashpoint in debates over talent migration.

Global Capability Centers (GCCs) are offshore units established by multinational companies to manage critical business functions, technology development, and innovation from cost-effective locations such as India. Once primarily focused on back-office or support tasks, these centers have now transformed into strategic hubs, leading initiatives in digital transformation, analytics, artificial intelligence, product design, and research for their parent firms.

According to a Moneycontrol, India hosts around 1,700 Global Capability Centers, accounting for more than half of the world’s total.

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1 posted on 10/14/2025 10:50:06 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

I’m sure they’ll soon be producing world-class software.


2 posted on 10/14/2025 10:52:44 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: marcusmaximus

Thanking you very kindly, America!


3 posted on 10/14/2025 10:55:07 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: marcusmaximus

Good for them, I wish their country the best, truly.


4 posted on 10/14/2025 10:55:14 AM PDT by vmpolesov
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To: marcusmaximus

Hilarious!


5 posted on 10/14/2025 10:56:01 AM PDT by E Pluribus Bellum
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To: marcusmaximus

Astroturf Alert! India = Brains.

India = Cheap droids in cubicles.


6 posted on 10/14/2025 10:56:53 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: marcusmaximus

Exactly, so India needs to be thanking America for no longer stealing their top talent, now India can thrive and become a world leader.

America once again proving our generosity and desire to see other nations to succeed!


7 posted on 10/14/2025 10:57:25 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: vmpolesov

They domesticating their workers so they can improve their economy, I support. Every country should be self-sufficient in its ability to provide for its people.

I say that as a principle, because I have always believed that.


8 posted on 10/14/2025 10:57:48 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Socialism's promises, like a Djinn's wishes to the greedy, lead to punishment when due. )
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To: marcusmaximus

If Life hands you lemons, make lemon curry.


9 posted on 10/14/2025 11:00:12 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: crusty old prospector

The Indians can “do the needful” and stay the hell out.


10 posted on 10/14/2025 11:01:51 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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Good luck . Take back all the demon worshipping Indians living in America while you’re at it


11 posted on 10/14/2025 11:02:41 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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12 posted on 10/14/2025 11:07:22 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: ComputerGuy


"they’ll soon be producing world-class software"


















13 posted on 10/14/2025 11:17:23 AM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Jonty30

We’ll know that India has become a successful, 1st world country when the people in India call for tech help and can’t understand the foreign tech support. LOL


14 posted on 10/14/2025 11:17:56 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Skwor

It’s an extreme act of kindness for The United States to return the caste system to India. /sarc


15 posted on 10/14/2025 11:31:04 AM PDT by bobcat62
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To: Skwor

MIGA!


16 posted on 10/14/2025 12:24:06 PM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Make India great again


17 posted on 10/14/2025 3:45:42 PM PDT by lone star annie ( )
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To: marcusmaximus

You know what the red dot on their foreheads means, don’t you?
They’re recording you, sending your benis and vagene to the internet


18 posted on 10/14/2025 3:48:54 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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