🔥PATRIOTISM IS EASY FROM A PRIVATE JET
It’s easy to call people back home when you have air purifiers in every room, private roads to your office, and a team that shields you from the chaos the rest of the country breathes in daily. Zoho’s CEO Sridhar Vembu, known for his small-town success story and nationalist rhetoric, has once again urged indian immigrants to return from the West — to “come home” where they belong.
But for millions who left india chasing not luxury but dignity, the question isn’t “Where are you welcome?” — it’s “Where can you live decently without gasping for air, dodging potholes, or bribing your way to justice?”
THE HOMECOMING FANTASY VS. THE indian REALITY
Vembu’s sentiment is simple: “Why stay where you’re not welcome?”
But the counter-question is brutal: “Why return to a country that doesn’t welcome you either — unless you’re rich, male, or politically connected?”
In the West, indian immigrants face racism; in india, they face corruption, casteism, and collapsing systems.
At least abroad, the roads work, the air is breathable, and water doesn’t need a health warning.
At home, you inhale poison, eat chemicals, drink sewage, and call it survival.
🌫️ BREATHE POLLUTION, DRINK TOXINS, EAT POISON
Before you tell indians abroad to “come home,” ask yourself:
What are they coming back to?
Polluted air that shortens lives by years.
Adulterated food that kills silently.
Toxic water that causes disease even before it quenches thirst.
An infrastructure that collapses faster than the government’s promises.
Patriotism can’t fix asthma. National pride can’t clean the Yamuna. A flag doesn’t filter PM 2.5.
🕳️ ROADS THAT LOOK LIKE war ZONES
“Come back,” Vembu says. But come back to what?
Potholes that resemble craters. Highways kill more people than wars. Cities that flood after two hours of rain.
If the West demands 100-hour workweeks, india demands 100 hours of patience just to commute.
Every homecoming flight lands on a tarmac of broken promises.
🧬 CASTE, CLASS, AND THE GREAT indian DIVIDE
Let’s talk about “welcome.”
In india, your “welcome” depends on your surname, language, and religion.
A man from bihar gets mocked in Bangalore. A tamil is laughed at in Delhi. A Northeasterner is racially abused in Mumbai.
The caste system still decides where you sit, who you marry, and whether you’re safe.
Why should a global professional return to a system that still worships hierarchy more than hard work?
💰 PATRIOTISM IS A LUXURY OF THE PRIVILEGED
It’s easy for billionaires to romanticize rural india when they don’t depend on it.
Sridhar Vembu can afford to live in a village because he doesn’t have to rely on its public hospital, ration shop, or school.
He can preach simplicity because he has the safety net of wealth.
For most indians, “simplicity” isn’t a choice — it’s a sentence.
🧠 THE TRUTH ABOUT BRAIN DRAIN
people didn’t leave india because they hated it.
They left because they couldn’t breathe in it, couldn’t grow in it, couldn’t fight it.
They left for meritocracy over mediocrity, for systems over slogans.
And they send back remittances that keep India’s economy alive — even as india calls them “unpatriotic.”
You can’t guilt-trip people into returning to chaos. You fix the chaos first.
🧩 BUILD THE COUNTRY BEFORE YOU BRAND IT
If sridhar Vembu truly wants indians to come home, here’s what he should ask the government instead:
Fix the air, the roads, and the water.
Protect whistleblowers and journalists.
Punish corruption instead of promoting it.
Make public hospitals, not PR campaigns.
Build a system that rewards honesty, not connections.
Only then will indians return — not out of guilt, but out of hope.
🔥 FINAL WORD: home IS A FEELING, NOT A FLAG
For millions of indians abroad, home is not where they were born — it’s where they can live with dignity.
Until india offers that, no patriotic sermon will bring them back.
You can’t Photoshop prosperity. You can’t paint over pollution. You can’t hashtag “Bharat Rising” when the ground reality is sinking.
So before asking indians to come home, ask the nation:
Is this really a home — or just a house on fire?
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