RE: Response to an ABCD

[Manoj Mehra]

True Madhu,

Chaitanya is our brother, may be he is in problem but i know his indian genes are not going to let him do wrong .

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From: pvish...@jetairways.com
Sent: ‎24-‎11-‎2008 11:08
To: Sushmi...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Response to an ABCD

Hi Madhu,


I have read your articles ever since I was a kid and you were at India

Today.  You have often come across as a balanced person not prone to

Gandhi nonsense, until now.


I live in a White Nation (the US ) and have never felt like a second class

citizen.  Only a blind and a deaf  person can compare the pride of a US

citizen with the indignity of being an  India . A US citizen trusts his

government, knows his/her death will never go unpunished, while an Indian

solider is there to die. Elite is a bad word in India because 95% of our

country lives in abject poverty.  Next time ask the waiter in Taj who

served you the Rs. 400 drink, how much he makes in a month.  The  Durban

who opens the door for you, ask  him how much he makes?  I bet his monthly

salary will be around your dinner  bill.  Shame on you and journalists

like you who have failed India in the past with coloured reporting and are

doing so now. They should feel ashamed.  Rather than calling Bush names,

maybe we should hang our heads in shame on PM's like Vajpayee who is too

old to walk, too much of a coward to protect  his people. Maybe, just

maybe, the day people like us (the English educated hence smarter) start

feeling ashamed enough we will start making changes in India  rather than

just exploiting our servants and labour class.  It anguishes me  to read

this national character articles.  A nation that cannot feed its  people

(a la Orissa) has no character, a nation whose children move around naked

(Mumbai) has no reason to feel proud, a nation whose elected reps call

religious riots 'opposite reaction' has no future. Once again, shame on

you and all of India .  I am ashamed to be an Indian and  shame on you for

suggesting anything else.


Chet (Chaitanya)


Madhu Trehan's response was:


Hello Chet,


I will answer your letter point by point.  Your name.  You can be Chet or

Jet, stay away from the sun, fake an American accent, but you  will never

be able to run away from Chaitanya.  He will always be  there even though

you hate him today.


Gandhi, whom you hold in such contempt, despite all his controversial

behaviour, is largely responsible for the fact that there is no white boot

on  a part of your anatomy today.  You live in a white nation but you are

not  white and never will be.  You can fool yourself to believe that you

are not treated as a second class citizen.  You choose to forget the Dot

Busters,  the Sikh who was killed because he looked foreign, and rampant

racism. How many times a week do you have to explain where you are from

and spend  your time EXPLAINING India to Americans?  I cringe to think

what you say to  them about India .  We do not need spokesman such as you.

You will never be  able to share a good desi joke with any of your new

friends. If you can't  laugh together; you cannot understand each other.

You will always be an  alien.


Yes, we are economically poor compared to US but we do not have to suffer

the highest rate of teenage pregnancies, kids coming into schools and

killing students and teachers, the highest rate of suicide among college

students, alienated parents and children, lonely old  people dumped into

old  age homes, drugs being offered to eight year olds (as my daughter was

when she was in the UN school in New York), serial marriages and divorces.


The US had a president who was senile and deaf (Reagan), one who turned

out  to be a serial sex offender (Clinton), and now you  have one who

didn't know  the heads of state of major countries and ignored warnings of

a terrorist  attack months before it took place.


The US is responsible for massacres in  Vietnam ,  Cambodia ,  Iraq ,

Chile  and  the list goes on.  The rest of the world does not view America

with the rose-coloured glasses you have been brainwashed by the US  media

to see through.  And, how much does a waiter in Jean Georges restaurant in

Trump  International Hotel in New York make compared to the price of the

drink he is serving?  The labour class is exploited all over the world.

You seem to be very upset that I am pointing out we have a national

character  to be ashamed of and we should do something about it. Your

insistence that  we stay ashamed and do nothing about it, is perhaps to

make it easier for you to live in a country where the only religion is to

hang out at malls and  accumulate consumer items you don't really need but

have been dictated by advertising to buy to keep the US economy going.


It is not by accident that Americans are flocking to yoga and meditation

classes to buy happiness.  You have done well to leave a country you are

ashamed of.  Call yourself an American but sooner or later your disguise

and  American Halloween costume will frighten you enough to get rid of it.

I love America 's energy and have good friends there.   New York is a

centre for an enormous outpouring of creativity and imaginative thinking.


Every country has its own problems.  It is for the people who belong there

to take responsibility for change.  If you are so far removed from India ,

ask yourself why you are so anguished with my article.  Chaitanya is

raising his  head, Chet is in trouble.


Regards,



Madhu Trehan











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