All names taken
Good luck to Brum with Delhi and all that but as someone who travels to India 4/5 times a year, I will continue to use Emirates or Etihad, mainly because I go to places in India that aren't Delhi (mainly Bangalore but Chennai too).
In my opinion MAN to India is better served than BHX to India because of the seemingly endless connections to this huge country through multiple daily flights.
That is absolutely your prerogative, but on that basis bagso's comment regarding India is unfounded, since nobody wants to travel direct. It would seem also that there would no requirement for any direct services to elsewhere in Asia / Australasia as people would rather use a connecting service.
Somehow I fear that is not true!