Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, Mumbai, hosted a meeting today on The Indian Diaspora: Converging Destinies. The role of the Indian Diaspora was on the discussion agenda at the India-US Strategic Dialogue held in Delhi from July 19 to 21.
The panelists at the Gateway House meeting were Alwyn Didar Singh (Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs), Robert O. Blake (United States Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs), Devesh Kapur (Director, Centre for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania) and Adil Zainulbhai (Managing Director, India, McKinsey & Company). They discussed the phenomenon of the growing return migration of the Indian Diaspora to India — at nearly 100,000 a year, the largest ever recorded in India’s history.
