As usual, Marshall resorts to ignorant paranoia in his shameful attempt to make much about nothing. As an Indian student in N.America who was a board member of several Indian Students Associations for a span of 10 years, in several universities, I can say with much confidence that there was very little of what Marshall claims to have happened.
Like India itself, the Indian student community is very diverse, which sometimes could lead to tensions between them. However, this mechanism also served to ensure that no group or individual was able to use these organizations to push their ideologies forward. As far as Indian students being marginalized, the facts speak for themselves. Indian students are amongst the most represented and over achieving group in most US universities. I also happened to have many second generation pub going, meat eating Gujarati friends (ABCDs) who happened to be pro BJP (pre Modi). They were pro BJP not because of ideology, but because they correctly viewed the Congress party as being corrupt. Marshall's posts would suggest that the vast majority of these folks were communal, which is simply false. It is time folks like Marshall get off their communal high horses and take a deep look at their own paranoia. Marlon --- On Tue, 3/24/09, Marshall Mendonza <mmendonz...@gmail.com> wrote: Will Santosh explain why persons like Narendra Modi are eulogized by some of the expat population in USA and repeatedly invited by some of the various Indian associations to be the keynote speaker or chief guest, despite his gory track record? It may be hard to accept certain unpalatable facts, but to live in denial of the same is escapism. Regards, Marshall
