Oh the anguish and hand ringing in India over the increased charges on H1B visas that Indian companies use to take Indians to work at their offices in the US. Then there is the comment by a senator comparing Infosys, an admired Indian IT company, to a chop shop. We can easily dispense with the senator. He is a typical rude, uncouth, uncultured, arrogant american who thinks he is entitled to abuse and bully anyone he pleases. However, his barbaric behavior is not focused. He is one of those people who would not vote for extension of unemployment benefits for their own people, support the killing of innocent students by their mindless support of the gun lobby and would want to deny basic health care to babies whose parents are too poor to pay for insurance. The increased visa charges are more problematic because it seems to single out India. Our politicians led by the Congress are hurt. These people have done so much to suck up to the US over decades and this is the reward they get. They allowed Union Carbide to get off so lightly, have been trying to protect US companies supplying equipment for nuclear power plants, crawling on their knees to Pakistan inspite of repeated attacks on our citizens and bowing in supplication as the US supplies billions of dollars of military hardware to Pakistan to kill more Indians. Obama will be visiting India in a couple of months. We should see him as he is - a gasbag whose sole ambition is to get a second term regardless of how he does it. Therefore, while treating him politely as a guest we should tell him clearly where to get off. Unfortunately our lot are too used to bending.