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Bigotry Must be Condemned – in India or the United States of America

Indian Punchline – by M K Bhadrakumar – [Reflections on Foreign Affairs]

There have been three recent incidents of attacks on Indians in the United States of America  and it remains to be seen whether they are the manifestation of a “new normal”; for a combustible mix is forming in America’s political economy.

The racial bigotry in that country is legion. Even an “African-American” president couldn’t make a difference to the entrenched racial prejudice amongst white people against fellow countrymen with dark skin.

But what makes the current situation particularly dangerous is that there are important people who happen to hold positions of high authority in that country who wear their badge of racial bigotry with pride on their sleeve.   Continue reading →