The Diaspora and India's Future

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Avadge: India's losing some of its very best students, especially those in technical fields. More than a third of the top thousand students who were applying to IITs had left India eight years after taking that exam. He says there's just not enough good bureaucrats and smart people in business when so many of the good minds are going abroad. And it's too early to tell if many of them will return home in future he adds.

They lead startups, giant corporations, even countries: people of Indian origin are finding great success outside their home country—and wielding much influence inside it. On its 30th anniversary we revisit Derek Jarman’s film “Blue”, finding it to be a sound-design masterpiece as much as a daring cinematographic experiment. And examining whether breeding racehorses has hit a genetic limit of speed.

Additional audio taken from Blue Now featuring: Joelle Taylor, Russell Tovey, Jay Bernard, Neil Bartlett. Sound/music: Simon Fisher Turner

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