India, Sept. 22 -- Congress leader and former global diplomat Shashi Tharoor believes the huge fee imposed by President Donald Trump on H-1B visa, by which high-skilled Indians worked in the US, may be seen as "the third whammy" but actually turn out to be a good thing for India "in the long run".

"Let's not be doomsayers about this H-1B thing," he said an interview to The Wire, "It's a blow. It was unexpected. It will hurt some individuals and companies in the short term. But there are medium-term responses which may actually strengthen our hands in the long run. Let's not allow ourselves to constantly feel that we're the victims in this exercise," Tharoor, a former minister in Manmohan Singh's government, said.

His view appeared more ...