We Indians will not come out of crab mentality wherein we will not miss any opportunity to pull down our own countrymen or women same way as crabs in a bucket pull down a crab that might actually be escaping the bucket.
Our own media specially the English one was the first to spread false propaganda that Sonal Shah was linked to the RSS and the extreme right-wing of the hindu fundamentalist movement followed by so called secularists Indians in US and India. These allegations about her being communal are the wicked trash of these closed minded people. These allegations have been timed to contemptuous aptness with the aim to embarrass her and Obama's transition team. Her organization, 'Indicorps' had done great relief work in 2004 when the tsunami struck coastal areas of Southern India and secondly the following the Gujarati earthquake of 2001, her organization helped and coordinated the relief work. So I am appealing to all bigots who are maligning her, stop spewing your venom against a praiseworthy person who made India proud by being an Indian-American who was chosen for a unique privilege for serving on the Obama-Biden transition team. Regards Vinay Obama ignores 'secular' group complaints, promotes Sonal Shah 21 Nov 2008, 0329 hrs IST, Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN WASHINGTON: US President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday named Indian-American policy wonk Sonal Shah as a leader of a key policy working group, ignoring charges from the so-called leftist-secular Indian groups in the U.S about her alleged links with radical Hindu groups. Shah is one of nine leaders who will head seven Policy Working Groups tasked with ''developing priority policy proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for action during the Obama-Biden Administration,'' the transition team announced on Wednesday. Shah will co-chair the Technology, Innovation and Government Reform panel along with Julius Genachowski and Blair Levin. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Obama_ignores_secularists_protests_pr omotes_Shah/articleshow/3738975.cms