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\textit{Summary or Abstract of the Paper}   In The purpose of  this presentation, we argue why reputation important paper is to present our thesis that,  ininternational affairs and what can India do about  ensuring that India  as a "soft power" in the world, she is alsoa  responsive and responsibleplayer  to ensure protect  the health ofone-sixth of humanity. Since the second half of  the 1990s, as Indian economy opened up, two citizens. Two  significant changes occurred: phenomena since mid-1990s in India helped to establish India's emergent role as  a number of soft power in the world. First,  Indian entrepreneurs established "call centres" which served as back offices to the developed world, and there was world; second,  an associated increase in the migration of Indians from India abroad. abroad occurred.  Boththese  contributed towards to India's economic growth and  establishment of India as a "soft power", and India's economic development. power".  In the call centres technologically articulate young Indiansfound job opportunities and  came in contact with clients in the developed countries. This work involved working at long  night times, and interaction hours interacting  with people clients  from a different culture. Second, In turn,  just before 2000, due to  the Y2K threat led threat,  the developed countries employ employed  young programmer talent programmers  from India and Indians migrated out leading to migration  of their home countries and found jobs Indians. This too brought Indians  in foreign firms as a result of their work experiences contact  with the IT enabled sectors foreign clients  and business process outsourced companies in India. changed lifestyles.  Boththese phenomena contributed to the Indian economy and established India's reputation and  contributed to India's emergence as a global soft power. In addition These in turn led  tothese positive economic changes,  social and public health related changes emerged as well, which is the objective of this paper. for Indians everywhere.  We present the findings from a survey conducted in Bengaluru, India and highlight health issues related to stress and work associated with call centre and busines process outsourcing. We also draw a parallel of health effects observed among Indians in a survey conducted in Auckland DHB region in New Zealand. In the light of these findings, we discuss the broader question how should India address health issues to create a better environment for its own citizeneven  while it realises its aspiration as a soft power.