Silicon Valley (US), Sept 17: Former US President Bill Clinton has urged the Indian-Americans to play a greater role in ensuring that social development in India kept pace with the technological advances in the country. Speaking on Monday at the American India Foundation charity fund-raiser in San Francisco, Clinton said India's future was threatened mostly by its continuing problem with Pakistan and now the growth of internal religious violence. Underlining that the future of India would play an instrumental role in the future of the world, he urged Silicon Valley's increasingly influential Indian-Americans whom he characterised as the nation's most prosperous and well-educated ethnic group on to a new era of philanthropy.
Indo-Americans would get a "higher rate of return" in their homeland by leveraging their money through such groups as the American India Foundation, he said. Bureau Report