India rises to reply to US assault

Tarun Vijay
18 December 2013, 04:08 PM IST

The upper house of the Indian parliament, Rajya Sabha, witnessed a rare and unique solidarity today, cutting across party lines to condemn the US arrogance and unfriendly act against India, demanded stern action and leaders expressed concern at the lowering of India's respect and credibility abroad .

Some credit must be given to this UPA govt, otherwise known for its pusillanimous attitude towards the US, for showing a spine, raising the issue with self-pride and cancelling meetings with the visiting US Congressmen besides taking a few other measures. Minister for External Affairs Salman Khurshid, NSA Shiv Shankar Menon and Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh held the Indian flag high. And all recognized it beyond party lines.

But that's not enough. For long these Americans and other varieties of firangs have taken us for granted, and we loved to surrender every time they insulted us, interfered in our affairs and humiliated our citizens. The way they treated our former president, cabinet ministers, students hasn't been forgotten by Indians. Our ministers are subjected to humiliating searches and we kept quiet. They brazenly snooped on our highest state leaders, violated security norms, abused friendship and still this government didn't utter a single word in protest. German Chancellor Markel cancelled her US visit on NSA snooping. Israel protested. French President hit back at US. It was only Indian government that in a way justified US snooping on us.

We may have the rights of both the Indians protected, of Devyani's and as well as Sangeeta Richard's. But should we accept the most unacceptable undiplomatic behaviour of the US? That's the issue.

Look how we give trouble to our own citizens to facilitate Americans wherever they have their embassy or the consulate. In New Delhi it's only the American embassy that has blocked two main roads passing through Chankayapuri, the diplomatic area just for themselves. Only Americans or those who get their approval are allowed to pass through these roads. Let these roads be opened to all immediately and a sense of freedom from American 'big brother attitude' be celebrated.

They treated Devyani like a Taliban member in Guantanamo. Arrested her and handcuffed before her little daughter in front of the school gate. Strip-searched her in jail and made her feel like Osama's cousin. A country that boasts of having democratic, civilized values inherited from Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln and Martin Luther King, showed it can go back to the times when they had savagely eliminated the Indians in Columbus era. A state power that boasts of very warm close and strategic relations with India became the first country to arrest an Indian diplomat, that too an acting Consul General. Not even Pakistan had done that, neither China, whom we love to declare as our number one threat.

The number one friend did what even the enemies won't do.

When it comes to relations, Washington doesn't treat India any better than Pakistan. If there are drones for a colony they maintain at a huge cost, it's the disdain and contempt for us Indians. Obama treated our PM too warmly, as we were told, when Dr Manmohan Singh visited him this May. He even came to see him off up to his car, a rarest of the rare gesture, we were told. Was that the American regime showing friendship to India or was that an individual warmly cozying up to show how much he cares for his uncle?

Devyani Khobargade, sent to the USA to improve bilateral relations by the government of India, known as abidingly pro-Washington, is assaulted by a state power headed by a Nobel peace prizewinner. Washington's act against an Indian national can be compared only with those whom its regime and embedded media derides as intolerant and Obama regime has joined the ranks of the likes of Kim Jong-il.

They don't have to tell us there were wrong entries in the contract signed for the domestic help, Sangeeta Richards. Devyani wasn't expected to give her a salary package bigger that what she gets. A section of the Indian media, too eager to get an invite to enter Delhi's Roosevelt House, is busy building up a case against Devyani and tell us, how Indian mission was caught on the wrong foot and since US law agencies are NOT like us, they take action according to the law. The house maid was taken after fulfilling all requirements under the Indian law and the contract they signed, obligatory in the US, did speak about a salary package of $4500 per month. Are the Americans mad that they think an employer would be able to give a salary more than what she gets? The Preet Bhararas, though might wear an Indian sounding name, are like those Indians who felicitated Dyer after the Jalianwala massacre. They have no concern for human values or for the people of the land their ancestors might have come from. There is a possibility that Sangeeta Richards has fallen in the trap of asylum provider mafia active in the US and many such incidents have occurred before too where the ambitious domestic help finds it easy to report falsely against the Indian employer in order to get a compensation and permission to remain in the US with a work permit. This aspect too needs to be inquired into.

Do we know how much they pay the security personnel they have hired in New Delhi? Do these Indians, serving Americans in India get the same salaries as is prescribed for their status in the USA? They flout every Indian norm and still say they are our friends. No, they are not. They just use the Indian hospitality and a sense of respect that we have acquired because they had once produced stalwarts like Lincoln and Kennedy. Today they are producing savage controllers of other nations' internal affairs and help despots and autocrats world over. Their concern is limited to the American hegemony. The way Pakistan is being helped and fattened is an example how seriously they take India's security concerns.

Even an American company like Google, which flouts Indian laws, collects sensitive data on our POIs (Places of Interest), shows our strategically important military locations, makes this government afraid to take any action to enforce law on them.

I have taken up the mater way back in March, the Surveyor General of India has filed an FIR against Google India six months back, nothing, absolutely nothing has been done so far. This government is so much under the pressure of the USA that it finds it convenient to ignore the protests of its Member of Parliament and the Surveyor General. It doesn't protect and take cognizance of the complaints of its own citizens in order to please Americans.

So, the question is, should we blame the Americans for the ill treatment meted out to us Indians or question our own government's patriotism and their inexplicable pro-US policies for making Americans think they can take us for granted?

But we in India are so proud of having a colonized mindset, that a firang barbarism looks so logical and an act of law enforcing state.

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