On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:26 AM, salil tripathi <[email protected]> wrote:
> ** > Globally-mobile Indians also include labourers who go to middle east/SE > Asia. Creating a two-tier passport system would concretise class/caste > system. If you wear suits, have credit cards, and speak english and work > for mncs, one queue; if you look like a construction worker, go to the back > of the line. > > ... > > For indian passports to be respected more, india will have to improve its > standing first. > I first left India back in '93. Traveling back then I found Indian passport holders to be unsophisticated country cousin-like and the Indian diaspora holding Malaysian, Singaporean passports as being much more sophisticated travelers. Sometime in the early 2000's I started noticing that Indian passport holders had become much more sophisticated (laptops, designer clothing, etc.) and the the SE Asian diaspora Indians started appearing to be the less sophisticated moffusil variety. Thaths -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo! Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
