> DUAL CITIZENSHIP TO ALL OVERSEAS INDIANS: Accepting > the long-standing demand > of overseas Indians, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan > Singh, announced on > January 7, granting dual citizenship to all those > who migrated from India > after January 26, 1950.
I wonder if dual citizenship would be a boon or a bane. First of all, the dual citizenship is limited to a few facilities. Secondly, one has also to consider one's safety. Consider if a dual citizen (British/Indian) is unjustly accused of a crime - he/she will be tried under India laws with no recourse to assistance from the British govt. Given that (to my limited knowledge) legal procedures in India are long-winded, and that no-one gets anywhere without pay-backs (aka bakshish), is dual citizenship desirable? I remember reading in a Bangalore newspaper a number of years ago (circa Jan 1996), about an Indian citizen married to a Swiss national who was framed on a flimsy charge when he came to Bangalore on a holiday; the poor guy ended up in jail as he could not cough up the "ransom" demanded by police. Gabriel. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com
