Hindus may believe in an infinity of lifetimes, but we maximize our welfare in this one, just like everyone else

From The Brain-Drain Panic Returns by Jagdish Bhagwati.

In India in the 1950’s and 1960’s – a time when many professionals were emigrating – working conditions were deplorable. Bureaucrats decided whether we could go abroad for conferences. Heads of departments carried inordinate power. So, no surprise, many of us left. We Hindus may believe in an infinity of lifetimes, but we maximize our welfare in this one, just like everyone else.