Interesting indeed!... The post was made in 1999 and a few things have changed since then The author writes that the conditions in India and China are "worse",

Interesting indeed!... The post was made in 1999 and a few things have changed since then The author writes that the conditions in India and China are "worse", which might have been true in 1999, but certainly not today! See http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/feb/20apac.htm http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/feb/20apac.htm Interestingly, academic jobs are on the rise as well with burgeoning of new grad schools/research institutes. The demand-supply curve in India is skewed in other direction. Finally, (this is an information gathered from a few senior professors, haven't found any web resource yet!), the success of grant proposals in India is of the order of 60-70%, much higher than that in the U.S. Though, it's still a fact that academia is not looked as a 'lucrative' career option yet. (Well, as a supplement to an earlier post, there are a bunch of hilarious webpages by Philip Greenspun. See http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/ http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/)