The Times of India reports on the Overseas Citizenship of India program, through which people born abroad to people of Indian origin can claim citizenship, “to woo the rich and influential Indian diaspora from across the world.”
It’s been quite a success, though the bureaucracy can be a little thick at times:
Recently, the scheme was in news when Nobel laureate V S Naipaul, whose ancestors belonged to UP’s Gorakhpur, was given a hard time by overzealous babus in London when he applied for the card. Naipaul was asked to provide documents to prove that his ancestors indeed lived in India.
