September, 2008
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A decade ago Jairam Ramesh wrote an insightful essay entitled "Yankee Go Home But Take Me With You". It was an analysis of the elaborate hypocrisy of the Indian political establishment, which preached a loud anti-Americanism publicly and privately yearned for all things Starred and Striped. Today, the Indo-US nuclear deal has signalled an end to the hypocrisy. The preachy sanctimoniousness about American imperialism is restricted to the Left. MPs now take crash courses in leadership at Yale University under the India-Yale parliamentary leadership programme. Many of the government's key economic advisors are bureaucrats and academics who have had long tenures either at the World Bank and IMF or at Ivy League universities. When Bush came visiting in 2006, Manmohan Singh said that as far as America and India are concerned there are "no limits on partnership." Attitudes to America have transformed as rapidly as Indian society has transformed.....
More about Sagarika Ghose
Sagarika Ghose has been a journalist for 20 years, starting her career with The Times of India, then moving to become part of the start-up team of Outlook magazine, subsequently joining The Indian Express as Senior Editor. She was anchor of the flagship BBC World programme Question Time India before moving to CNN-IBN as prime time anchor and Deputy Editor. She is the anchor of the award-winning flagship debate programme Face The Nation on CNN-IBN. She is also a columnist for the Hindustan Times. She has won numerous awards including FICCI Media Achiever Award and Gr8-ITA Award for Excellence in Journalism. She is a graduate in History from St Stephen's College and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where she gained an MA and M.Phil in History and International Relations. She is the author of two acclaimed novels The Gin Drinkers and Blind Faith, both published worldwide by HarperCollins Publishers.
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