Are you sure he's not an Indian national? This news seems to be emanating from a single source, though I could be wrong on this. In recent times, more so with the run up to the 2014 elections, there's a lot of politics being played with the news... sometimes for partisan political purposes.
I may be wrong on this one, but it might be sensible to check up -- before commenting -- whether the Reserve Bank of India Governor is indeed a US citizen or not. Else, we might end up like we recently did with a huge online debate based largely on one footnote of a lengthy academic essay written a priest (Fr Victor Ferrao) who is hardly the Catholic bigot he was made out to be! Of course, the more serious issue about national policy is the politics or the person nominated in the post. Is it a given that every Indian national would have naturally the country's interest topmost? We have politicians who claim to be hyper "nationalist" in approach to politics or religion, but have economic policies that might be more suited to the Brettenwood twins which once employed them (and probably still pay them fat pensions...) Read Davidson Budhoo's book on this, and some of his work incidentally does have a Goa link http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/IMF_WB/Budhoo_IMF.html Likewise, would every foreign national necessarily have an approach opposed to the interest of the Indian common(wo)man? I can immediately think of the work of the economist Jean Dreze or the architect Laurie Baker, who definitely started out as non-nationals but whose work has touched the lives of millions. FN PS: On another track, if a Goenkar / Indian / Portuguese national can be a pediatrician in the Bahamas, why can't someone from almost as far as Timbucktoo be the police chief of Goa? Just as it depends how many kids are being cured (or how many questions are being asked in online fora), here too, the test would be how well the law-and-order situation is maintained... not the ethnicity or origins of the incumbent.
