To all conceited and arrogant Arabs who take pride in the glorious history of Arab civilization, it is time you took off your hats to Indians after having treated them with discrimination and having looked down upon them for decades. Indians today run America and the world. While the US imports oil from the Gulf, it imports minds from India. Fifteen percent of start-up companies in Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco which is home to hundreds of technology companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, etc., are owned by Indians, who, by the way, constitute the largest percentage of immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their number exceeds that of the British, Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese combined, who own companies in that area. Vivek Wadhwa is an entrepreneur who was born in India and holds numerous academic positions at Singularity University, Stanford University and Duke University, all in the United States. In his study, he shows that one-third of start-up companies all over the United States were formed by Indians. Figures show that Indian-Americans have the largest annual per capita income at $86,135 compared to $51,914 for other Americans. Nowadays, Indians run several mega companies around the world. Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is an India-born naturalized American who is currently the chief executive officer of PepsiCo; Ajaypal Singh Banga is the current president and chief executive officer of MasterCard and Anshuman Jain was the former CEO of Deutsche Bank. In fact, you will find many Indian-origin CEOs running technological companies in the US. For example, Pichai Sundararajan is the CEO of Google Inc. while Satya Nadella is the director of Microsoft. India ranks second in terms of the largest number of management leaders while the United Kingdom, which colonized India for several centuries, comes third on the list. The United States is first. Venktesh Shukla is the president and trustee of Indus Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. He believes that Indians are successful managers because they greatly value competition and are humble. Moreover, India has a diversity of cultures and backgrounds. You can visit a small village in India and notice how people speak different languages, believe in different deities, and have different types of local dishes. Indian traditions celebrate the existence of various facts and multiple viewpoints. Shukla also said that Indians are different from one another, not better than one another; they are just different. In Silicon Valley what matters is not what language you speak or what you wear. What matters there is who can generate the largest revenue. Indians can easily adapt to different working environments and make great achievements with limited resources, he added. The Indian education system focuses on mathematics, engineering and science. Hyderabad is the hub of youth training and development. The Indian government also focuses on building universities that teach students how to become leading entrepreneurs. The graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, which is a public engineering institution located in Mumbai, have proved that they can outshine their American counterparts who have graduated from the most prestigious universities in the US. It is all about education and training. Indian educational, commercial and legal laws encourage and promote development and creativity. That is why creative Indians can be found all over the world.
