In an article titled " Passport? Failport! " in the TOI of today, one Mr Jug Suraiya writes angrily of how his wife was not allowed to board a Finnair flight from London to Helsinki because her visa was stamped in the previous passport. Mr Suraiya laments the fact that Indians are suspected of attempting to immigrate illegally by every country in the world and thinks this is due to hoards of poor people paying to be smuggled to a western country in search of a better life. He thinks that this is an indictment of the government which has been unable to provide basic necessities to citizens to prevent them from trying to escape. Although right Mr Suraiya is being too politically correct. The reason others treat us like dirt is because our criminal politicians and thieving parasitic civil servants treat us even worse. Even in police states like Saudi Arabia citizens do not have to queue up for immigration check when they enter the country. In countries like Britain even European Union citizens just breeze through while in Delhi, our capital city, foreigners' queue is shorter and they are cleared in a few minutes while Indians have to stand for hours. When politicians travel abroad on official business they take their wives, children and friends along for the fun at taxpayer expense. When they return these criminal beggars do not undergo any search by customs officials and are thus able to smuggle in any quantity of contraband. While we the people never know what these scoundrels have smuggled in foreign governments will have every detail of every purchase. That is why they see us with contempt. That is also why we have to go to Pakistan on " bended knees".