Well, to be precise Preet Bharara did not compare Rikers Island prison in NYC with India’s notorious prisons. But in condemning alarming levels of violence against adolescents held at Rikers Island correctional facility, Bharara may have discovered that Rikers Island is as bad as hell-hole prisons in his native India where horrific ill-treatment of inmates […]
Let it never be said that Telugus are not doing their best to jumpstart the troubled U.S. economy. In New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and other parts of the U.S., Telugus are stepping up to the plate by committing crimes (big and small), plead guilty or get convicted, go to jail […]
Ha Ha Ha – Uncle Tom Loses Uncle Tom was piling on trophies, both Indian and Western, like there was no tomorrow. The publicity-crazy fella wouldn’t stop preening and his non-stop press releases were driving me up the wall. Would there be no end to Uncle Tom’s victories against desis, I wondered while quietly dispatching […]
After a recent high profile court battle against NYC Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade for visa fraud over her maid’s monthly salary, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara is now going after aam aadmi (average Indians) in the U.S. for alleged student visa and financial aid fraud. Preet Bharara Aam Aadmi […]
Just how ambitious is US. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preetinder Singh Bharara? If you ask me, Bharara is ambition on steroids. Who is Bharara? Okaaaay, so you’ve been hiding under a rock these last few years. Born in Firozpur, Punjab (India) to a Sikh father and Hindu mother, Preet Bharara moved […]
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 […]