Ramaswami: However, in the last few years, India has emerged as one of the leading countries with a huge amount of outward migration of middle and upper middle class white-collar workers, professionals, students and artists temporarily (that is, leaving their extended families behind) moving to the ‘West’. These are transnational migrants that keep travelling between ‘home’ and ‘host’, sharing spaces, dreams and remittances and actively cheering for the oh-so-foreign-savvy Prime Minister of India.