How Did US Make Millionaires out of Immigrants from India?
US is a land of opportunities, where hard work and a little bit of luck, pays generously. Today, an Indian population of about 2.3 million can count about 200,000 millionaires; about 40,000 practising doctors and 300,000 high paid IT engineers. In Canada out of a total population of 700,000 people from India, there are 5,000 doctors, 40,000 IT engineers and 20,000 engineers of various specialities. All the foregoing is a significant number. Compare this mass with any other community, which immigrated to US and Canada in last 50 years, you will see that these achievements are above average. Almost all of the prosperity is self-made. They all landed on the US and Canadian soil with a few hundred dollars in their pocket. Today, their palatial houses, extravagant lifestyle and charitable contribution are testament of their success. In late sixties and early seventies, when America was at war in Vietnam, the universities were having difficult time to fill up classes both at graduate and und