Devyani Khobragde, Indian diplomat in New York, was "charged with paying her maid too little and committing fraud to obtain a visa for her" and was asked to leave the country. The Indian government responded to the accusations and the poor treatment on the diplomat by "removing the security roadblocks outside the embassy in Delhi, for example, halting its import clearances and investigating what Americans paid their domestic staff in India." The incident contradicts both countries' will "to be 'strategic partners'." This incident can also cost votes to the Dalit party, the one Ms. Khobragde is affiliated, with the elections approaching. "From the Indian perspective, America remains unwilling to afford it the respect a true partner deserves. And from the American, the Indian response reveals both a brittle anxiety about its own status and a callous disregard for the well-being of the person the American justice system saw as the victim in this story"
The author did a good job of keeping the language simple and analysing the effects of the incident. The author, in the first paragraph, gave the most important information and on the following paragraphs, wrote the response of an involved party, later describing what were the results of the conflict. However, he includes unuseful information about the diplomat's family, abruptly interrupting the so-far flow of information. The author could also change the order of the paragraphs to make this job of evaluating and summarizing his article easier by firstly listing what happened, then what was each country's opinion, what they did, what can happen, and maybe the author's perception. However, the author, although loosely following the suggested pattern, placed some paragraphs in a very odd order.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/01/america-and-india-odds
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