If one is old enough to have been in the airline industry for a long time (especially in Asia) then one finds that the Indians have been just as expat-minded as anyone else.
I watched with some amusement in the late seventies as early retiree Captains from AI migrated toward a (then) small SE Asian airline.
The same folks then went on to tell the local First Officers that they would never amount to a hill of beans, and what the airline needed was more of those expats from the sub-contenent.
Fortunately, the local management watched this with little amusement, and couldn't get rid of the expat sub-contenent folks quick enough...in fact, the DC-10 contracts were structured so as to exclude this group entirely.
What goes around comes around....nearly always.
