It is a sad day for the Indian knowledge industry that its members who are the toast of the developed world are ill-treated

in a country which aims to reach the portals of developed nations soon.

Had it happened to even a barely literate barmaid and steward of British or American origin, the world media would have gone to town over it.

For all the investment in physical infrastructure that the Malaysians had the vision to put up, they fail the grade by showing discrimination to Indians - the very same discrimination in the West that the Malaysian PM spoke about so eloquently very recently.

Ultimately the knowledge industry will gravitate toward nations which provide the best physical and social infrastructure for it.