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Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room
By Vamsee Juluri
All prejudices are unpleasantly alike on some level, but the prejudice that India and Indians face on a global scale has proven to be exceptionally resistant to change.
In a week that saw innocent Indians being murdered and imaginary Indians being maligned on opposite ends of the Western world, Foreign Policy published an article that labels India a "global villain." It is time for a serious reality-check, and an even more serious attitude-check.
Let me start with the Foreign Policy article in question. Barbara Crossette, who authored the piece, formerly worked at the New York Times, a publication, which has devoted entire editorials to its briskly exasperating civilizing mission vis-a-vid India. Now, Crossette writes about how annoying it is to deal with India on important global issues, such as trade and nuclear non-proliferation.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vamsee-juluri/indophobia-the-real-eleph_b_415237.html
2 comments:
>>>good stuff, but i lost respect for juluri when he started quoting bowel-movement historian guha.
True
Why should the world respect India when India does not respect itself?
Not only did it willingly divide itself on religious grounds, but imagine if China had done the same with confucianism, buddhism, chinese folk religion, etc.
From every year since independence it has routinely been bullied by failed nation states such as pakistan and bangladesh, which work with China BTW. With muslims massacring hindus in both pakistans and in India itself. The Indian government does nothing to stop it at all.
Then of course India is only a regional power and forever will be as long as bangladesh and pakistan continue to exist. Both countries will be supported by outside powers to no end.
On the economic front of course when people travel to India and see the slums they still see the same old India. Let's not forget all of the corrupt politicians and their swiss bank accounts, while the majority of India suffers.
So the world sees India as a pushover, which lets them push Indians around.
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