27/06/2021
The clock is ticking, and the time to act was yesterday, so we are already running behind. Unless Bangladesh starts moving quickly towards reversing the crisis of brain drain (and stops blaming graduates for choosing a better life elsewhere), we will have to contend with our current talents eventually becoming busy running multinationals in the US, or building the next unicorn in Canada.
"Brain drain" is defined as the emigration of highly trained or qualified people from a particular country to abroad. It is a perpetually damaging problem that mostly affects underdeveloped nations. And given Bangladesh falls into that category, it is no surprise that we are facing a rapidly worseni...