Devina Mehra, founder and CMD of First International, has unleashed a pointy critique of India’s high company voices, accusing them of a obtrusive contradiction: selling the India development narrative whereas privately investing in international training for his or her kids.
“I see an attention-grabbing development in any information reviews on the Indian elite speaking about their monetary objectives and what they’re saving for,” Mehra wrote on X. “For top-level executives (the CXOs) and fund managers, an enormous a part of their focused monetary corpus is in the direction of the ‘international’ training of their kids. Choose up virtually any of those reviews or movies and you will notice that sample!”
She didn’t maintain again in her indictment: “The considerably unusual a part of this equation is that of their day job all of them are pushing ‘the India development story,’ telling individuals how India is the best financial system and/or market to be in—and but their guess is that not simply now, however even 10 or 15 years therefore there might be no world-class institutes or universities in India!”
Mehra capped her argument with a pointed commentary: “At all times go by what individuals do and never what they are saying—particularly not what they are saying YOU ought to do.”
In a follow-up reflection, Mehra added context from her personal technology: “After we have been rising up, hardly anybody even considered going abroad for an undergraduate diploma—besides possibly kids of high industrialists. Some went for a grasp’s or post-doc, however that’s about it.”
Her submit struck a nerve on-line, with customers echoing her considerations.
One person commented, “Identical ideas once I learn {that a} widespread fund supervisor had a Rs 10 crore financial savings aim for a child’s training overseas after 15 years—whereas telling everybody how India is the place to be.” One other added, “Kids going overseas to be taught English within the UK, whereas mother and father promote Hindi and virtues of gaumutra in India. Cannot worsen than this.”
