Mr Khan detained...so what?

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As news of "SRK detained" captured the top headlines all across the Indian print and electronic media, it seemed a bit too amateurish a behavior by the Indian media in particular and the public at large. Do you really feel that an American immigration officer will know who SRK is? That the officer must have watched one of his candyfloss K-Jo movies because they are usually shot in US? This is asking too much from an American immigration officer. The biggest surprise or rather shock for me was the comparison made by Rajiv Shukla between SRK's detention and ex-President Dr. Kalam's frisking. A bigger shock was that the media concurred and made similar comparisons. Let us first clear the facts. Ex-President Dr. Kalam's frisking was against the protocol set up for top Indian government officials and hence it was rightly taken up with the US authorities. On....