A US delegation led by Senator Michael B. Enzi and US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings among others visited India recently to study the educational system and how India is able to produce a large number of highly skilled professionals - the reason for so many American industries and companies coming to India to relocate their operations and to expand. The mission visited Bangalore to see major Indian IT companies at work. Spellings said the US would encourage American students to come to India to learn and their numbers - excluding NRIs - will increase from less than a thousand now.

NRIs have been sending their school-going children to India at renowned public schools for decades. Some still do. But a new group of these 'public schools' has cropped up. These are classy schools teaching for a British secondary school examination or the International Baccalaureate for admission into any foreign university.

Awesome construction, talented faculty from India and abroad, huge libraries, massive IT systems, impressive array of sports and cultural activities, counselling, global cuisine, 24-hour health services, well appointed rooms with only two or three beds instead of dreary dormitories and a very low teacher-pupil ratio... these schools have it all.

These schools cater for executives of the multinational companies in India, high income Indians and, of course, NRIs. Many NRIs have established such schools, especially in Punjab, for their children for top quality education with a large dose of Indian culture.

Just surf the web for these opportunities in India and you will be surprised.

Says Chandran: "If you can survive as a student in India, then for the rest of your life, you can survive anywhere in the world."