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Obama will be the sixth American President to visit India after (in preceding order) Presidents Bush, Clinton, Carter, Nixon, and Eisenhower.

"We cannot allow our anxieties about globalization to cause us to demonize India for crass political gain," said Republican Senator John McCain.

elbudamexicano!Superstitions are there in every religion, it's not only restricted to Hinduism, and any superstition does not make sense. Traffic problem in some of the crowded cities in India is terrible. But poking fun at Indian people using such illogical link is ridiculous and indeed of bad taste. You should try to be a sensitive human being first before claiming yourself "a down to earth kind of Buddhist". I don't know your nationality, but I can guess you are too focused on your non-Indian nationality rather than anything else.

Does look or nationality really matter much?

skipthesong! You sound cynical. Do you want India to stop funding for science and technology because they have problem with their infrastructure. India is certainly not putting the money meant for infrastructure into moon mission. Poverty and poor infrastructure in India is manifestation of systemic failure, not actually due to lack of money. Moreover the amount spent for the Indian moon mission is just a small fraction of the amount other countries would spend for such a mission.

India is getting expensive to use - Indian companies are already outsourcing work to Chinese companies to keep costs down so why not just go straight to the Chinese companies?

I wonder who prevents from going straight to the Chinese companies...