Devyani affair is wake up call

US secretary of state John Kerry called national security adviser Shivshankar Menon with an expression of regret over the wrongful arrest of Devyani Khobragade. There's hope that the Devyani affair may blow over soon. The manner in which it has played out, however, raises disturbing questions about whether India is being stigmatised again for its poverty in the US and in the West - replacing the earlier, more hopeful narrative of its being a growing economy. 

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