Former Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha has raised eyebrows by suggesting that in response to Khobragade’s arrest, India should arrest same-sex partners of US diplomats in India in light of an Indian Supreme Court ruling last week criminalizing homosexuality.

“Diplomatic immunity works on the principle of reciprocity. If the US is going to assert local laws over diplomatic immunity, it can’t expect India to not do the same,” says retired Indian diplomat Jayant Prasad.

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We need to shut this down now. In point of fact, there are GLBT US consular employees who are now in violation of Indian law and who can be targeted.

Expel the woman. Send her home and take a close look at the maid who has been charged with serious crimes in India herself.

India is one of the two major Asian powers that does not like China (Japan being the other)…and we need them as friends, not enemies.