ABSTRACT
Expatriate Indians are a touch away! Diaspora is more emotional about the home country! So-called traitors, who appropriated taxpayers’ money in forms of subsidised education from premier educational centres in India and later migrated to the USA and settled there are now looking back at the country! The brain drain is reversed now. People of Indian Origins (PIOs) are forming cyber communities and are finding belonging by shared interest with like-minded people in host countries while maintaining cultural bonds with home country. Non-resident Indians (NRIs) are more obsessed with developments in the home country. What makes these possible and what is reflected more visibly in all these incidents? It is Internet and social media platforms which are the new social house of the people
abroad. Indian citizens abroad are leveraging social media sites, while Internet makes long-distance citizenship possible. In a shrinking world of globalisation and telecommunications, for expatriates who were once away from the home country, Internet is more a political option as their presence is more a question of identities and discursive practices.
