Humiliation

On Saturday that is 15th August,2009 when Indian were celebrating 63 Independence Day not only in India but across the globe wherever Indian community reside to express and show that despite they are physically far away from their country but they have as much regard & respect for India and it’s achievement & festivals as much citizen of India , on this day they host functions and gathering in the country where they presently reside and also invite icons ,well known public figures of different fields like politics, films and Cricketer but on this auspicious and happy day a news came from America which is sad as Humiliation and malpractices on Indians these days have been the most all over the world and the latest victim to such humiliation is Mr. Shahrukh Khan in which this well known Actor Mr. Shahrukh Khan specially travel to participate on the functions of Independence day but at Newark Airport he was humiliated by authorities/Security personals for almost two hours as if he was criminal, despite Mr. Shahrukh Khan’s clarifications that he is an actor and let me have contact to India through phone but he was deny to phone and even at Airport he was recognise their by a person who said I know him he is Shahrukh Khan but authority there oversight this and said his name pop up on to our computer, so we have to check him and as per information he was released after intervention by Indian High Commission .Well in today’s environment it’s really good to be alert but it should have some respect for other countries icon, well known public faces as they travel their country not to do any wrong thing but just to be part of some project in which their participation is utmost. The most shocking of this happening was that Indian respectable personalities were third time humiliated and America was directly Involve in all these humiliations it was known to everybody because Indian electronics and print media able to gather these incidence and highlighted it otherwise don’t known for how many times Indians were humiliated, and below is detail of such shameful humiliations -
• Mr. George Fernades - In the year 2003 when Mr. George Fernades was Defence Minister of India he was strip search by officials at U.S. Airport and then seeking to calm the ripples on the reported ''strip-search'' of former Defence Minister George Fernades at a US airport in 2003, on the eve of US Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage's talks with the senior Indian leadership, the US Embassy here apologise for the fact that appropriate diplomatic procedures had not been observed. There is in place an established procedure whereby heads of state, government ministers and other foreign dignitaries are accorded special diplomatic procedures during entry to the US,'' a US Embassy spokesperson said. ``We're sorry that these procedures were not observed in the case of the Defence Minister's 2003 transit of the US and regret any inconvenience caused,'' the spokesperson added. The comment comes after reports of a book on India by Armitage''s predecessor, Strobe Talbot (`Engaging India: Diplomacy and the Bomb''), in which the author has Fernandes telling him that he was ``strip-searched'''' during a trip to the US.
• Doctor A.P.J Kalam (Former President of India) - Doctor APJ Abdul Kalam who apparently was traveling from New Delhi to Newark by Continental Airlines CO-083 on April 21. He was accompanied to aircraft by duty officer of CISF and his personal secretary.At the door of the aircraft, Doctor Kalam was asked to remove his shoes by Continental Airlines security staff. CISF officer told Continental staff Kalam was exempt from checking according to Indian Government rules. But the Continental security in-charge insisted that check was required for every passenger. Kalam went through with the security check and boarded flight. BCAS letter says staff was reportedly rude during Kalam’s boarding.

• Mr. Shahrukh Khan – On 15th August, 2009 his experience at Newark Airport Shahrukh Khan while speaking to the media said, "I was detained against my will at Newark and the airport authorities questioned me for almost 2 hours at a stretch. They were continuously asking irrelevant questions and demanded me to introduce someone I knew in America. Despite my explanations that I am a movie star and returning back after signing a deal with Fox Company, the humiliating interrogation continued until they decided to leave me.” On his frisking experience, SRK continued that they were many people who were detained in the room for second check on their visas and even though his documents were legal, he was questioned. The authorities didn't mind even when a large group of fans in the room thronged towards me to get autographs and identified me so clear. I had to make calls to the Indian embassy and Congress MP Rajiv Shukla who rescued me from the nightmare. But, what about the fate of unidentified other Indians,' said Shahrukh Khan.
On the name of security India’s three well known Indian personalities on different occasions were humiliated by American’s neglecting norms which apply to dignitaries or icons and as humiliation is keep on happening on Indian, through proper channel India should registered strong reaction .