The Ambassador was attending an event in Mississippi State University and was flying back to Baltimore. It is believed she was flagged for wearing traditional Indian dress. She alerted the State Department and will file another complaint to add to the thousands already filed against the TSA.
"She is a very strong woman, but you could see in her face that she was humiliated," Tan Tsai, a research associate at MSU's International Security Studies center who witnessed the screening, told The Clarion-Ledger. "The Indian culture is very modest."
"The way they pat them down, it was so humiliating," Tsai added, "Anybody who passed by could see it."
Janos Radvanyi, Chair of the MSU's International Studies Department was quoted as saying, "She said, "I will never come back here." We are sending her a letter of apology,"
Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna has described the incident as "unacceptable".
"Let me be frank, this is unacceptable to India. We are going to take it up with the government of US that such unpleasant incidents do not recur," Krishna told reporters outside parliament. He said that there were "certain well-established conventions, well-established practices as to how members of diplomatic corps are treated in a given country."
"I am rather surprised by the way the Indian ambassador to the US has been treated. This has happened for a second time in three months," he said.
Not acceptable in India, and it shouldn't be acceptable in the United States.
