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The pleasure of watching Uncle Sam being outwitted on his own terrain
January 15, 2014
This has been another good week to be an Indian journalist in Washington. It felt nice to be sought out at venues such as the National Press Club, where diplomats from regions as diverse as Latin America and Europe to Africa and Asia are associate members; and sought out, not merely for trading stories, for a change, but sought after to bend elbows together only because you are Indian.

The joy among Washington's diverse diplomatic corps, one of the largest for any city in the world, over the perception that India showed Americans where to get off on the Devyani Khobragade episode is surprisingly boundless.

The Telegraph's KP Nayar writes on the episode that has made Indo-US diplomatic ties chilly. Read
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