Expats come on a 'Discovery of India'

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Ten years ago it wasn’t big business. But it brought in enough high-end clients for Rohit Kumar to plunge into the business of relocating expats with his firm, Ikan Relocation.

Business has been growing ever since — from a small base of 100 families five years ago, last year he relocated close to 500 expat families. “We have been growing at 35-40% annually,” he says.

But the rising numbers are only a part of the expat story in India. On the back of a globalisation wave, outsourcing surge and sizzling Indian economy, the changing profile of expats, its shifting demographics and growing gender diversity is perhaps a bigger story here. With India shedding its “hardship posting” tag, the expat community here is becoming more diverse.

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