Wealthy westerners may have paid exorbitant sums or chartered jets to flee the war in Gulf, but the region’s biggest expatriate population is making a different bet: the vast majority of Indians are staying put.
For most of the nearly 10mn Indians working in the Gulf, daily drone and missile interceptions overhead are not enough of a reason to quit jobs which are far more lucrative than the ones they left behind on the subcontinent.
Just 67,000 Indian nationals returned home in the first nine days of the conflict, according to foreign minister S Jaishankar.
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