There are protests happening all over India against Bush's visit to India.

Arundhati Roy writes in The Nation:

Since the Purana Qila also houses the Delhi zoo, George Bush's audience will be a few hundred caged animals and an approved list of caged human beings, who in India go under the category of "eminent persons." They're mostly rich folk who live in our poor country like captive animals, incarcerated by their own wealth, locked and barred in their gilded cages, protecting themselves from the threat of the vulgar and unruly multitudes whom they have systematically dispossessed over the centuries.

Oh, and on March 2, Bush will be taken to visit Gandhi's memorial in Rajghat. He's by no means the only war criminal who has been invited by the Indian government to lay flowers at Rajghat. (Only recently we had the Burmese dictator General Than Shwe, no shrinking violet himself.) But when Bush places flowers on that famous slab of highly polished stone, millions of Indians will wince. It will be as though he has poured a pint of blood on the memory of Gandhi.

We really would prefer that he didn't.

It is not in our power to stop Bush's visit. It is in our power to protest it, and we will. The government, the police and the corporate press will do everything they can to minimize the extent of our outrage. Nothing the happy newspapers say can change the fact that all over India, from the biggest cities to the smallest villages, in public places and private homes, George W. Bush, the President of the United States of America, world nightmare incarnate, is just not welcome.

I think from the government's part, it is alright to welcome the bush visit since (unfortunately) he represent his country. But we have the rights to protest to show him we, the people in India, do not support this killer. Often the protests against bush was taken as the protest against USA. NO, it is not a protest against the people in that county but its killer presidents like Bill Clinton or George W. Bush. Most of my american friends see Bush's rule as a shame to their country.

We do not know in which all areas our UPA government is going to surrender before him. I'm sure there will be some compromise in our nuclear policies. Perhaps by the strong protest of the left parties, they may go one step behind from surrendering everything before the big brother. Let's wait and see.

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There is an organization called "Bothini" in my town, which was started by just one person and the rumour is that it grows in the support of RSS. Their posters in town say "Bush's visit is for development". At first, I was surprised and then I thought there is no need for surprise since what Bush does in USA with the support of a few Christian extremist groups is the same being done here by RSS/BJP folks.

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