Brown Motion

This is not a corny thriller title to compete with 50 shades - far from it. It is about the idea of controlling entry into a country. I can see how the rich and powerful countries would want to limit access to their territorial boundaries and the terra within through policy designed to deter unwarranted applicants. But for a country like India to have a policy that restricts entry based on the nationality of the visitor seems farcical. To add to that the process designed to obtain the permission, the VISA application process is a first level deterrent. Now if I was the minister of tourism or an equivalent titled bureaucrat, my objective would be to encourage more applicants rather than deter. Au Contraire. They have erected a barrier that very likely results in the average American farmer (assuming someone from Iowa actually gets it into his head to go see the TAJ) to take a weekend to merely understand the 39 step process of what exactly is going to be involved to get that VISA...