1. Kalpana Chawla was born and brought up in India and had friends here. Talk of Bharat Ratna may be too much, but you cannot take the fact away from her that she succeeded in her dreams to fly high. If she was a secind generation Indian, your article would be logical.
2. Perhaps, she might not have been able to get to such heights without a citizenship and we should give her the benefit of doubt.
3. Gulf 'Islamic' Countries DO NOT give citizenship to outsiders. Indians there still maintain their Indian passports - some grudgingly. So what is this talk of Gulf expatriates being left out?
I wonder what your point is? If it was just another ranting against the 'Hindu' goverment- complete with sly misreadings and half baked notions- I am sorry I read your article.
Apalling ignorance, Mr Mitra. I have lived and worked in the UAE for seven years. NRIs in the Gulf have to always remain as expatriates, because they are offered no citizenship rights, even if one is born there(to expatriate parents). So why on earth, would they want dual citizenship? Please get your facts right, before your churn out rubbish based on ignorance, and try to recycle an obselete, anachronistic ideology.
Also, there are poor Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and Muslims doing small jobs and living in poor conditions in the Gulf countries. Poverty is not limited to any particular community there.It afflicts all of them, who are Indians first. Your attempts to portray this to the contrary is despicable and only exposes your hypocrisy.
