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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XIII No.6

BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla A
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan fter liberalisation and deregulation of the dirigiste socialist
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, Indian economy in 1991, the country’s middle class has grown
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); and prospered. According to some estimates it numbers 400
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. million or 80 million households, as the outflow of Indian
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida, Premchand Palety
(Delhi); Dr. Kannan Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra graduates and latterly school-leavers, to universities in English-
Subba (Kurseong); Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. speaking countries — the US, UK, Australia and Canada as also to European
Achyuta Samanta (Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore countries — has become a torrent. India’s new upwardly mobile middle class
(London)
has become acutely aware that the best quality higher education offered by
EDITOR well-equipped Western — especially America’s — universities is the smart
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passport to jobs and success in the increasingly complex workplaces of the
MANAGING EDITOR 21st century. Therefore currently an estimated 500,000 Indian students are
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enrolled in higher education institutions abroad, 40 percent of them in the
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