New Delhi: After maintaining an ominous silence over the strip search and cavity search of a senior Indian diplomat in New York, the US media is suddenly on overdrive trying to justify the treatment meted out by US marshals to Devyani Khobragade in New York.
In an editorial titled 'India's Misplaced Outrage' , the New York Times wrote: "India's overwrought reaction to the arrest of one of its diplomats in the United States is unworthy of a democratic government. Officials in New Delhi have inflamed anti-American outrage instead of calling for justice, especially for the domestic worker who is at the heart of the case."
NYT says, "charges brought against Khobragade should concern anyone who values worker rights", completely overlooking the huge disparity in salaries given to Indian and American staff working for US diplomats in India.
The NYT editorial further states: "Instead of concerning themselves with that injustice, many in India seem incensed that Ms. Khobragade was arrested at all."
Without making even a cursory mention of the strip search and cavity search that an Indian diplomat was subjected to, the NYT editorial sheds copious tears over the poor salaries paid to domestic servants in India.
"It is not unusual in India for domestic employees to be paid poorly and required to work more than 60 hours a week. But such practices are not allowed under American law, and abuses by anyone should not be tolerated, regardless of their status", says the editorial.
The NYT appeared to be more worried about security barriers removed from outside the US embassy compound than the despicable insult the Indian diplomat was subjected to.
