Richard Nixon on the ugliness of Indian women

September 07, 2020 17:39

"On September 3, The New York Times published an extraordinary article that detailed Richard Nixon's loathing of Indians, especially Indian women. Its author, Gary Bass, who had earlier written The Blood Telegram, a book-length critique of US diplomacy during the 1971 war, based his piece on tapes recently declassified by Nixon's presidential archive. In them, Nixon is heard saying at various times that Indian women are the most unattractive women in the world, that they are sexless, that they turn him off and there's a particularly entertaining bit where he wonders how Indians reproduce at all, given how repulsive their women are. "

Read the Mukul Kesavan's column for the Telegraph, here

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