Even if people believe he was culpable, it would be more of the second than the first. To provide a direct analogy, most Indian voters know that rape of Muslim minors is both legal and non-interference in such rapes is supported by the Congress party via allowance for marriages under a special personal law. That they support such a practice hasn’t made much of a difference to voting patterns since there are so many other issues that elections are fought on.

At the time, he had a website, and some brochures, but that was about all. The few investors I talked to decided to pass, for whatever reason. I found AJ to be devoid of personality and humor (which however, I am not surprised. IMnsHO, Desis of both the Indian and Pakistani variety are seriously deficient in humor, and so maybe he was just keeping in line with the stereotype.

That is not to say that most fo the mutineers in this cutely named blog dont have a SOH. The fact that u were creative enuff to come up with a Anglophilic names suggests that u all dont meet the stereotype. Another blogger who definitely doesnt conform to the wooden humorless Desi is http://www.currybear.com, which is worth a look. As well as my buddy, Richard Menon, the Indian Playboy. (We are the certified Cool Desis of America

Anyway here are some of my comments: 1) Dont know what the real connection is between AJ and Modi, but I think Modi should definitely be locked up. In the US, he would have been convicted of hate crimes. I dont like fanatics, ideologues, and radicals of all stripes, whether they are Hindu fanatics or Muslim Talibans. I think they should kill all the Talibans, or convert them to Christianity. I am glad that the US govt had the good sense to deny Modi an entry visa to the US.

2) AJ had major attitude. He sort of pissed me off by his cavalier behaviour, and i am sure that the models who had expected to be introduced to Paris Hilton, and projected onto catwalks on Milan and Paris, and instead found themselves being groped on his couch, were equally pissed off. Plus, if he dissed them further by casting them off, without even following thru with his tacit obligations of getting them exposure in NYC, and perhaps started playing games with them, ie not returning email messages and phone calls, and generally becoming deceptive and evasive, it must have pissed them off no end.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, is what got him in the end, atleast IMO. If he had made friends after he screwed them, rather than cast them aside like so much basura, I dont think they would have filed those charges.

An unnamed Desi girl recounts her experiences: His arrogance and disregard for others was evident. http://lockupanandjon.blogspot.com/ Much as I was not enamored of AJ, I feel that the Government of India, and the Indian Embassy is remiss in not coming to the aid of an Indian citizen. Desis (Indians) rarely go out of their way to help another Desi in America, and this matter proves it all too well. No wonder all the Desis who come (atlleast the majority) wind up getting US citzenship.

Send me a note, and I will give u the name of my website and some of my articles on combatting global poverty, conflict and ecological warfare.

Long live America! kool k., CCD Certified Cool Desi (TM) PS: u may email me via the email link above.

ts worthy of a great novel, album, or contrarian hedge fund.

do you mean a “contrarian” hedge fund or a contrarian “hedge fund,” Manju? since these days fingers are being pointed at “progressive speak,” i was keeping score for a little bit. but you know i respeck you, and your power suit.

No, it’s not. I fully agree with the implicit claim in your question that Narendra Modi is no better than a vile terrorist. However, when a terrorist assumes power and still continues with the same kind of behavior, and further, uses the machinery of the state to pursue his disgusting goals, he also violates the fundamental trust placed in him by his citizens. State actors have more privileges than individual citizens, but they also have greater responsibility.

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Parts of this case is quite grey especially the statutory rape aspect. I think he does prey on young impressionable women. However, the young impressionable women are hardly children and demanding that they be treated as children is ludicrous. When a large number of underage models parade their wares, it is not unreasonable to believe that these models be treated as adults. Behaving in an adult fashion warrants that the same adult standards be applied consistenly across all areas.

First of all, this logic is crap. But many people have already explained why, so I won’t bother. What I do want to say is that a very good friend of mine (who is now my age; early twenties) became one of Anand Jon’s victims at 16. She is not, nor ever was, the kind of stupid, minksy teenage debutante you probably have in mind. Not that this makes her special or better than the other victims. You and I don’t know who those other girls were. (And so what if they were stupid, minksy teenage debutantes? Does anyone ever deserve to be raped?! This is matter of human rights and protection of minors, not IQ.) But anyway, my point is that he was so manipulative, so conniving and so aggressive that he could even make a victim out of my powerfully intelligent and dignifiedly feminist friend. She has not filed charges, but she is engaged with the bullshit Anand-Jon-is-a-Civil Rights-martyr campaign in other productive ways. Just remember that Anand Jon has more young, female victims out there than have filed charges against him.