The Devyani Khobragade episode has revealed some disturbing facts:One, the socalled "strategic partnership" between the US and India has been found to be hollow, with a lot of gas but no substance. When it comes the crunch, the US govt as well as its Indian-American citizens act as arrogant, crude adversaries. If Indo-US strategic partnership was based on any genuine friendship, mutual respect, equality and sensitivity, how could a minor incident of an alleged "visa fraud" on the part of an Indian deputy consul-general in New York happen in the way it did? It is unthinkable that a diplomat of a friendly country would be subjected to a worst kind of public humiliation:arresting, handcuffing and strip-searching as a common criminal when she went to drop her two girls to school in the morning. Does this not show the US authorities' utter disregard for even basic courtesies and decencies provided under the Vienna Conventions?
Let us face the bitter truth:our government's soft and weak-kneed policies to the US-as also other nations-have brought such humiliations on our citizens. The US administration dare not do this China or to Russia. It is reported that when the Russian ambassador's car was towed away in Washington DC, the next day, six American embassy cars in Moscow were picked up. Even Brazil cancelled its President's official trip to the US when Snowden's account of the US spying on it was revealed; it also revoked 4billion dollar military deal with the US. This is how self-respecting assert themselves.
Let us face the bitter truth:our government's soft and weak-kneed policies to the US-as also other nations-have brought such humiliations on our citizens. The US administration dare not do this China or to Russia. It is reported that when the Russian ambassador's car was towed away in Washington DC, the next day, six American embassy cars in Moscow were picked up. Even Brazil cancelled its President's official trip to the US when Snowden's account of the US spying on it was revealed; it also revoked 4billion dollar military deal with the US. This is how self-respecting assert themselves.
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