Secession of the Successful: Flight out of New India is Sanjaya Baru's enthralling examination of the Passage from India of its affluential elite: the families who not only bestride our corridors of power but command, in many ways, our nation's coffers. While it is tempting to dress up this inexorable emigration of talent and wealth as "Indian nationals exploring the global workplace" and an "ever increasing and expanding diaspora" that bolsters our soft power, Baru argues that this phenomenon demands serious introspection on the very nature of the Indian state, which is fuelling influential India's 'desire to escape not just from the clutches of the taxman but from the tentacles of an intrusive and arbitrary State and its "regulatory and surveillance" Raj.' As our millionaires and billionaires pay 'their way out of the country', their paths to developed nations paved with golden visas, the spectres of 'wealth drain' and 'brain drain' loom ever larger upon India.