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An Open Letter to Subramanian Swamy

Dear Mr.Swamy I recently heard that Harvard dropped your summer courses covering economics in Asia. I also heard that your article in a local Mumbai newspaper titled "How to wipe out Islamic terror" (no more available on the newspaper's website) was the cause of this exclusion from Harvard's summer course catalog. While I am sad that you, as an Indian were excluded from one of the finest institutions of higher learning in the world, I uphold their decision to remove you, sir, from their faculty. I believe anyone with a conscience would deem your article as supremacist snobbery at best and plain ol' bigotry at worst. And this underlying attitude of yours which showed its ugly face in the above-mentioned article of yours was perhaps simultaneously your worst professional move (Harvard and all..) and your best political one. Who knows? Why I consider this to be your best political move is the fact that you've roused a number of hindu nationalists in the