Devyani Khobragade – Born to Privilege as a Scheduled Caste Despite multiple rounds of talks between NYC Indian Consulate’s Deputy Consul-General Devyani Khobragade’s legal team and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s office to resolve the diplomatic crisis caused by Devyani’s arrest and subsequent strip-search, a plea deal to resolve the crisis has been bedeviled by serious […]
(Thanks to SI Blog Reader Desimom99) Telugu bidda Raghunandan Yandamuri is waging the fight of his life. Defeat could literally cost Yandamuri his life because he faces the death penalty for his alleged killings of baby Saanvi Venna and her 61-year-old grandmother Satyavathi Venna during a botched kidnapping-robbery struggle at their King of Prussia (PA) […]
Attorneys for Telugu bidda Raghunandan Yandamuri appeared before Judge Steven T O’Neill of the Montgomery County Court in Pennsylvania this morning to have his video confession and written statements suppressed. At issue is whether Yandamuri’s video enactment of the crimes and other statements he made to the police of his alleged heinous crimes should be […]
In Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal promises to empower the Aam Aadmi. In Charlotte (NC), another Indian, Shailendra Suman (pictured at left), is promising to light up powerless households through his new SmartCharge LED light bulbs. In short, Shailendra Suman, like Kejriwal, promises light where only gloom and darkness prevailed earlier. Light Without Power I swear only […]
(Thanks to SI Blog’s U.S. Reader aaa001) NYC Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, in the eye of a diplomatic storm between India and the U.S. over her alleged Visa Fraud crimes, won two lotteries early in life: 1. Birth as a Scheduled Caste a.k.a. Dalit, a cornucopia that keeps on giving till death in modern India. […]
No Indian diplomat since India’s independence has been in the limelight as much as Devyani Khobragade, Deputy Consul General of the NYC Indian Consulate. She’s since been transferred to the United Nations but has yet to be accredited by the U.S. State Department and Diplomatic immunity is not retroactive (won’t cover alleged past criminal actions). […]