Bush's Passage to India
Unlike other world figures, George W. Bush will not be lunging into crowds of Rajasthani villagers or addressing the parliament of the world's largest democracy on his March 2 trip to India. Afraid of the reception Bush would receive from the Indian citizenry and its legislators, his speech will instead take place in a small, remote spot where the possibility of disruption is minimal.The fears of disruption are correct, because, as Arundhati Roy writes, "Nothing the happy newspapers say can change the fact that all over India, from the biggest cities to the smallest villages, in public places and private homes, George W. Bush, the President of the United States of America, world nightmare incarnate, is just not welcome."
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