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Pseudo Indian

One needs to accept the fact that Sunita is born and brought up in the US and is not an Indian (also her mother is not Indian as well). Unfortunately, we Indians have little to celebrate as far as our achievements are concerned internationally so we live in a world of dream to call somebody as a part of us just because she has been very successful. Kalpana can be called to have more Indianness as she grew up here but she was a naturalised American in the strict terms. It sounds all right to say that Kalpana was of Indian origin and Sunita was of half Indian origin.

In the past few days when Indian media was ga-ga about Sunita's return, it reminded me of the saying, "बेगाने की शादी में अबदुल्लाह दीवाना". However, in one respect this too much coverage about Sunita in Indian media was good as youngsters have something better to see as their role model.