[jacquesm]

It's just a matter of perspective, really. There are problems to be solved aplenty in the 'rich' countries (where the wealth is anything but equally spread). This takes time and other resources and when you're young those problems can seem overwhelming.

So the right response is to change your viewpoint to one where the problems you are confronted with match your abilities to solve them, in order to get better at this so that you can solve larger problems later on (and it helps that while you're doing this you also make contact with other people who will in turn become your real-life network).

This can take a while, but that's fine. Living in India or the West would not change much in this respect but for someone that grew up in the West to go to India would likely change their perspective on life and values tremendously, just like the reverse would happen if someone from India moved to the West for a while. They'd come back a different person, and would mature a large amount in a relatively short time.