KAHIHI

Juliet Wurr, PRO of US Consulate office in Hyderabad seems to be a romantic lady.

'It's funny people getting upset about this. I don't know about your servants...but my servant has big heavy silver anklets...that look a heck of a lot more uncomfortable and binding,' she quoted on small screen.

What a dialogue! For India!

Do they find servants in US?

Romanticism, derived perhaps from the era of Nizam, of wearing and displaying gold. No gold? Silver will do! After all the lady stays in Hyderabad and her name goes back to 400 years. But it is not the Victorian time.

The modern lady of mod American Raj Darbar deputed to stately Hyderabad forgot, this is an ebonite age in her country and let them ankle-cuff their celebrity culprits as she said, not here in Hyderabad where we too have our own H(y)ollywood.

This is a fusion with Californian effect; Tri Valley University and Celebrities,

There are some wrist watches looking like a mini copy of the radio-tag in fashion in India. One can’t tie a wrist watch of the kind and sleep comfortably. But our students’ ankles are locked with them, their batteries being recharged intermittently and enforced to continue for more than a month now.

Or does she think if an American university with a picturesque name Tri Valley is duping, migrant students from India are necessarily culprits?

In the meanwhile, the Consulate office, that too of a mighty American country has to apologize. An apparent victory!

What’s so big to make a hue and cry about such a petty mafi-nama when the democratic country invades and burns another country?

On the flip side our own buffoonery doesn’t seem to see the end. The effect being carried over since 3000 years, well past Victorian times of Juliet.

The overseas affairs minister said he was gathering information and in a way buying time.

The foreign Affairs minister isn’t serious at all, (when was he? Check his muster as a Governor of Maharashtra earlier) as it has happened to a very few students and it is necessary to think about a hundred thousand students and appeal media to stop disseminating the news.

What a perspective! And the man is incubating over international affairs.

Next day he had to eat back his words.

Times Now defied him point blank saying that they are not going to give up the issue.

Earlier when a biggest American retail chain of consumer goods decided to put the electronic-tags on their ready-mades, consumer movements there had opposed the action.

One of the most outspoken critics of the Auto-ID Center has been privacy activist Katherine Albrecht, the head of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering. She called for worldwide boycotts of clothing retailers to put RFID chips or "tags" on their products. Albrecht also criticized the Auto-ID Center for trying to downplay the privacy concerns over the technology after finding documents on the group's Web site that contained public relations advice on how to "neutralize opposition" to RFID systems.

In their stores hanging jeans are made to wear the e-tags over them and the attempts are challenged by the activists. However, when our students, our future is forced to wear them under the jean by the country boasting to have eradicated slavery forces, our own rulers are holding back as if suffering with fatigue of conscience.

American laws for obtaining visa are stringent and the university is sham, as such though the students enter through an agent, how can they be treated as culprits?

The fact is that we have lost our sense of self honour.

Rajputs fought to death to preserve that.

Marathas (of Shivaji) staked their lives to block millions of mogul soldiers because their self respect was alive.

In this 21st century we (the rulers of the country) have lost it in totality. The political rulers injected with sycophancy have been so anaemic, they are left with no energy to even protest.

They feel America; every time would come of her own and save us.

If you are an oil begging country why America would come to you?

But when America is butchering you, insulting you as if pre-decidedly; I mean the lowest rank officer here in India spitting an insult upon you, how can you expect America to save your honour? Formerly USSR was at least a solace.

The days to command respect met an end with Indira Gandhi.

The days to demand respect don’t seem to be anywhere near in sight. The days to beg are here matravalla.

But, do the beggars survive?

In the meanwhile, advent of universities is visible on the Indian horizon. How many of them, yes, I mean universities, would have to be radio-tagged, time only will tell.

About a month has passed. Some half a dozen radio-tags have been unfastened in instalments.

The scams here are overshadowing this international insult of Indian students. Tell me, when public memory was not short in our country. It’s a nauseating cliché.

When all the radio-tags would be removed after a few days some of the hollow show-makers will celebrate. Those suffering silently would burn candles over such blackballed souls in their minds.