Sanjaya Baru's new book tracks the journey of the 'Non-Returning Indian'

How a seven-fold growth in nominal gross domestic product will change migration patterns

Secession of the successful: The Flight out of New India

by Sanjaya Baru

Published by 

Penguin

320 pages  ₹799

  The author is a journalist with a difference. He opted for professorial roles in key public policy institutions in India and abroad, served as media advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and was chief editor of two business papers, including this one.

 

Possibly, the journalist in him, won when he catchily, albeit narrowly, titled the book around the ongoing flight of the moneyed — unlike the poor or professionals earlier. The bulkier section on the three earlier migratory waves, starting from the colonial period