Originally Posted By: Wordsmith
"I'm not sure I would have been as welcome, and as successful, in another country writing about a language that's not even my native tongue"


My first reaction to Jackies posting the news was exactly the same as that of your Canadian friend word for word, but even putting that aside I don't know why you make the above assertion given the long and successful history of the Indian Diaspora throughout the English-speaking world not just in the USA.