On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:48 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope Debbie gets her visa,
Thanks! It turns out that living in India for a year may have taught us useful skills in dealing with the bureaucracy. Rule 1, if you don't get the answer you want at first, be persistent. Keep asking. Fortunately we didn't have to invoke rule 2 - if you still don't get the answer you want, ask a well connected friend for help. They just issued her a 10 year tourist visa. > but I guess you don't know that "writers" are the > baddies of the season in India. Live and learn! It's still surprising to us where some of the "mines" are located. > Like writing on US visa application form "Need to learn how to take off and > navigate aircraft in the US" ... "landing instruction not required." > Further questions that Debbie might need to answer regarding writing: > > 1) Are you a secular writer or a communal writer? > 2) Have you written anything to hurt the sentiments of the minority community > in India? > 3) Are you a writer of literature that can rip apart the secular fabric of > the > nation? > 4) Have you drawn any cartoons? > 5) Have you written for any cartoonists? > 6) Name one city in India 2000 Km away from where you would like to live in > which you can be give a "safe house" in case your writing is a political > liability (what with elections coming up soon and all that) 7) Are you now, or have you ever been a feminist? Are you or any members of your immediate family from Bangladesh? I suggested she say she wasn't a journalist but a pornographer but she wisely declined my suggestion. -- Charles
