COCHIN, India _ The state government of Kerala wants to transform this tropical idyll of the seaside resorts of the south-west coast of India, in the nation-states the most recent High-Tech Center. In order to make up the Business Centre with the incumbents, he built industrial parks and trying woo an untapped potential of investment: India lost sons.

This looks like a good strategy. Ausgelernten legions of Indians have evolved in recent years abroad to seek their fortune in the field of high technologies. But Kerala is the same problem that the rest of developing countries, India has, since the central government in the economic reform began in early 1990: Indian expatriates have not been at home ahead and the richest of them to their money abroad, investing, and not in India.

There were some exceptions, but the dissolution of the Inde’s brain drain “is always a long way.

The reasons are complex, influenced by cultural attitudes and social and general economic conditions and business opportunities. In China, the other Asian giant population, the Chinese risky investments overseas has played a decisive role in the economic growth inspires. But the Indian diaspora has not yet placed its bets on the reform of the Indian economy.

“Coming back home is much more complex than for the Indians, it is for Chinese. Nobody wants again,” said Arvinder Singh, a researcher at New Delhi’s Center for Study of Developing Societies. “If a millionaire from the United States wanted to invest in the Punjab, he would be expelled. ”

Less fortunate people who are up to the port villages resentment, jealousy and mistrust, “said Singh.

Fitting still in the former social structure is not attractive, having freed from the burden of hereditary caste and religious identity in the West, Singh and others to tell us. Since India’s independence and the United Kingdom in 1947, the number of groups and sub-caste groups from 700 to more than 3700, and it is a maze of 16 official languages.

Not everyone agrees that it is difficult to go home. Ash Lilani, South Bay Regional Manager of the Santa Clara, California-based Silicon Valley Bank, born in Mumbai. He said that social barriers are a thing of the past, especially for high-technology entrepreneurs.

“In the community of technology we do not see the problem,” says Lilani, head of the investment bank in the country for India. “Technology is the great equalizer. Nobody wondered what you think of caste or where you went to school.”

However, the economic obstacles to investment and business in India can deter the Indians from overseas, as well as non-Indians.

Kerala, in their efforts to attract foreign investors, it is designated an example of this dilemma. The country is suffering from decades of the socialist system, in a suite of bureaucracy Communist leaders of local governments. It has a reputation for militant trade unions and for those who have global capitalism. Kerala can be viewed as a microcosm somewhat over the rest of India, the reflection of the central government of retention from a planned economy. “The leaders of Kerala demonize the United States and globalization,” said James Varghese, Cochin area native living in Fremont, Calif.

In Kerala, it’s Aruna Sundararajan bid to overcome the negative image of the state and the sale of technology for potential investors. It is the government of IT secretary, a career civil servant, who, in both left and, more recently, centrist political masters.

“In recent years, the whole of Kerala, by intense activity in the transition from research opening to the outside,” Sundararajan, said in an interview with a little investment extensively consulted by a seminar at the Cochin hotel.

Sundararajan’s skeptical seminar consisted of assistance from the last meeting in September, a Hindu spiritual organization that had expatriate Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and in other regions of the United States. Delegates at the Global Leaders Summit discusses the advantages of the company individualism versus India traditional communalism.

Most delegates have come to listen, India’s President Abdul Kamal ceremonial reveal its “Vision 2020″ for economic development and poverty reduction by the villagers, aid projects. Kamal, a Muslim and a physicist, revered by many Indians as the father of the Indian atomic bomb, urged the delegates to consider itself part of a “global Indian family” and “stakeholders growth the Indian economy. ”

But Indian entrepreneurs from overseas, who did not open their wallets for a vague idea of global society of Indian identity.

One of the participants was optimistic Cochin Guru Parulkar of Silicon Valley, co-founder of the start-up, growth of networks and now runs the network program of the National Science Foundation in Washington. Parulkar he said he sensed a change in attitudes over the past five years in its Indian friends who tell him that they are going home to India for quick trips to visit their families, but they are now and seeks longer possible business opportunities.

To be sure, there are occasionally stories of technology companies going back to live in India, as Dinesh Vaswani, who is in Mumbai for the San Francisco Venture Capital firms Walden International. He pledged a three-year limit, but may stay longer.

“The quality of work and the opportunities are much better than in the 1990’s, and I am rather see other cases, Indians are returning to work for multinational companies,” said Vaswani. “This could be the beginning of something, unless something goes wrong, such as an expansion of Kashmir. Unfortunately, India has a long history of screw things. ”

For the most part, but the United States-Indian venture capitalists are only a part, support for new businesses, especially with regard to the boom in demand in India for back-office services, where large corporate clients contract for accounting or billing for services in salary. The operations in India are taking low salaries and overhead costs, but their management and nearly all the equity remains in the United States.

Silicon Valley Bank Lilani India, the financial consequences of the reforms is still a long way to go. He cited as an example the requirement that Inbound and Outbound capital, the Reserve Bank of India: “For the United States to get investor confidence, some obstacles are still to come.”

India can not wait for the confidence _ perhaps motivated by a dose of patriotism _ starting to fire in its departments of the population known as non-resident Indians?

“NRI is used only for non-resident Indians, then it was not already, Indians, and finally the Indians not necessary,” said G. Bakthavathsalam, a poor follow-up to the command of his father in 1970 and gave his life in the United States and India came after the conclusion of his medical training.

“In all cases, they are not yet in recreating India,” said Bakthavathsalam, a defender of public health, to which a teaching hospital in rural Tamil Nadu. He gave the order to begin the same come to the house to his own son, Ashok, done by EE and his MBA degree from Syracuse University, and he worked for Hewlett-Packard.