Indian Maids and Indian Spies Move to US and Vanish-to Live
Happily Ever After - The New Indian Express   Published: 29th
December 2013 07:43 AM  Last Updated: 29th December 2013 07:43
AM  In one corner Devyani Khobragade, aglow with disarmingly
oversize smiles. In the other, Preet Bharara, collector of
celebrity heads as hunting trophies. The unequal match is so
smartly manipulated that all we see is an explosion of righteous
indignation—indignation over a diplomat being provocatively
humiliated and indignation over a housemaid being exploited in
customary Indian style.  How neat. But this clash of emotive
issues defies logic. US-India relations are based on strong
economic factors as important to the US as they are to India.
Lately the US also began seeing India as a pivotal strategic
partner in its new East Asia policy. It defies common sense that
America would throw all this away just because an Indian
consular official paid below minimum wages to her housemaid.
What then is it really about? Let’s look a