The people of the Maler Kotla town in Punjab started celebrating when the heard that Bobby Jindal has been elected as the new governor of Louisiana in United States on Saturday. Some other people in different parts of the country also started celebrating the success Bobby Jindal achieved in the US politics because he is the son of Indian immigrants. They called him yet another Indian-American who made India proud.

The major question is that should we really feel proud of his success what he achieved as US citizen born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Should Indians really take credit for Bobby Jindal’s success when his parents left India some 40 years back to migrate in US?

We Indians have developed a trend of celebrating on the success achieved by the Global Indians. India hurriedly declared Sunita Williams, a US astronaut, as India’s pride. Sunita is the first woman who spent the longest time in space with the NASA team. Why do we Indian celebrate when Laxmi Mittal achieves any new milestone in his business?

Media is making the people living in small town greatly aware about such achievements of Non-Resident Indians across the world. The major question is that’Is the growing Indian community in the US or anywhere in the world actually concerned about Indian interests at all?

Indian economy is being rated as the fastest developing economies in the world now. Are we Indians getting hands of support from these Indian communities based outside India in real sense? Are the NRIs contributing in the development saga of Indian economy? Is their relation with India just a people-to-people relation even in terms of business growth and building ties for better lives?

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