Good that Punjab is helping its children to escape.

"CM (chief minister) Amarinder Singh has directed the education department to explore all possibilities to offer languages such as 'French, Chinese, Arabic' to students. In his statement, he also said that once he saw a placard while travelling in rural areas of district Kapurthala which pointed towards a location where Italian was being taught. This, he said, indicated that the youth of Punjab was 'keen to learn foreign languages to settle abroad'," The Indian Express (TiE). How honest is that? Here is an Indian politician,  chief minister of a state no less, who wants to help his people escape from India. There are people from Punjab who are attacking Hindus from India in Canada, Mint. "Punjab should be worried because it is losing energy," said the first Indian origin Premier of British Columbia Province, Ujjal Dosanjh. "Families are selling assets to finance their children abroad, hoping they will be immigrants," Hindustan Times (HT). "Khalistanis in two or three foreign countries are not going to make much impact on India. In fact, it is much more dangerous for the host societies." "Mercedes-Benz AG recently introduced its Maybach sport utility vehicle in India", and, "It turns out that just as the rich were scrambling to own these $400,000 wheels, annual per capita income was sliding below $2,000 with the country falling behind neighbouring Bangladesh," wrote Andy Mukherjee. "Economic power flowing from workers and small enterprises toward large firms -- uncontested if not aided by India's fiscal policy -- is boosting their valuations. It's helping create the wealth that's powering sales of Maybach SUVs and a lot else besides," Economic Times (ET). Why then are the wealthy also trying to escape? "India's wealthy have topped the list of people seeking to relocate abroad through visa programmes that offer citizenship or right of residence in other countries in return for investments," BBC. Even among the unfortunate, Indian women have suffered much more from the pandemic with higher job losses, increased work load at home and higher domestic violence. "Our workforce was turning more male-dominated for many years before covid hit us," Mint editorial. "As researchers at Azim Premji University found, last year's lockdown likely turned seven times as many women out of jobs as men, with the gender ratio of people rejoining work thereafter even more stark." Niti Aayog's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) index found that the state of Uttarakhand has a sex ratio of just 840 girls for every 1,000 boys, probably due to sex selection, but "the state government said it is actually 949, just one short of 'ideal', based on its own data", Times of India (TOI). Are the unborn girls luckier than their living sisters? "According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, seven million jobs lost in April cause the national unemployment rate to jump to 8% from 6.5% in March. Moreover, youth unemployment in India already reached an all-time high of 23.75% last year," wrote Prof Kaushik Basu. "Thus, as we battle a second wave and related lockdowns, we also face the prospect of higher inflation, unemployment and inequality, and lower incomes, for most households, especially in rural areas," wrote Ajit Ranade. "Plutocracy, is woven deep into India's political architecture," wrote Rajrishi Singhal. "The most recent example of plutocracy is the government's vaccine delivery model, which has been mandatorily ported through a digital app in an economy starved of bandwidth and proper digital access, plus, in the face of limited vaccine supplies, the policy favours the private sector over the public health system," Mint. Perhaps, it is unlucky to be born. Try and escape.