My Own Private India

Joel Stein writes in an article for Time about how Edison, NJ has become home to one of the largest Indian communities. My only question to Mr. Joel

"You sure are aware that right now American troops are in Afghanistan, Iraq right? If you are so pissed off having Indians in Edison, NJ just imagine how Iraqis and Afghanis are right now feeling? "

Seriously TIME, don't you even think twice before publishing an article. I mean did you even read the article? Is that the journalistic levels you had to stoop to. I will have to say here that I am not a regular reader of TIME magazine. Occasionally when CNN links to TIME, I do read some articles or if any of my friends forward a link from TIME. From few articles I read in TIME magazine, it seems to suffer from Indophobia. For instance search for this article - An Indian Muslim in Crisis by Aryn Baker. (This article appeared in Time during Mumbai Terror attacks).  And I never heard of Mr. Joel Stein before this. So my views on Joel Stein are strictly related to this article alone. Well after reading this article I don't think I will be reading Joel's articles anymore.

Update: I was reading other blogs like Sepia Mutiny(mostly written like a rant rather than response ) and few other comments. Do read them. 8asians.com asks a very good question : What if in the article, Indians were replaced by Latinos and what if the Joel Stein had written "Now we know why Mexico is so damn poor".

Another interesting thing I found out was "White Flight". Do read about it in wikipedia.

Read the opinion piece in The Hindu http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article495461.ece?homepage=true