I’m catching up on my marking backlog from my India trip so not much to say at the moment..but via the Indian Ministry of External Affairs twitter feed I’m interested to learn about the case of Tri Valley University in San Francisco – which has just been shut down on suspicion of money laundering. Most of the students are Indian and some of them have been electronically tagged – which is going down like a lead balloon in India with the foreign minister weighing in.
This is a nice example of a story that is probably not getting any play in the US but has considerable visibility in India and is probably coming as a bit of a surprise to the State Department. Statement from the MEA here and some Indian coverage here and here.
Public Diplomacy, Networks and Influence 
Namaste, I’m here in India and a lead balloon doesn’t even begin to describe the anger at the indignity of the radio tagging.