The Indian American

Sreelata didi

Did you send this to the Hindu? Also try the (handwritten) ``magazine`` ``published`` by a fellow here whose stuff Chowk editors love to dump on us. Can`t remember his Lenin-forsaken-nickname, but he is some leader of some revolutionary marxist mega movement of precisely two illiterates, shaking India from Kashmir to Kankyakumari.

There ought to be some readers interested in this. Best wishes.

Sreelata: I agree that America is not the land of racial harmony, but it is far better than most. You refer to the Virginia Tech shootings, but as I recall there was scarcely any backlash against the Korean-American community because most people recognized the perpetrator as a deranged individual and not someone representative of that ethnic group. Barring a few exceptions, it is what you do that counts not where you`re from.

Re: # 1
i agree entirely with:
``it is what you do that counts not where you`re from``
Americans like the rest of us, can and do get emotional about ethnic issues, regardless of what their constitution says or does not say. But generally, after the first waves calm returns when practical sense prevails. In any case their tendency and facilities to sue at the drop of a hat usually keeps everybody (except maybe the deranged) in line.