Hyderabad, April 12 -- In the following examples, there is a small comfort for those students who are being dumped into the detention centres of the United States or deported to their respective countries or flown back in shackles to India in its warplanes.

This self-proclaimed oldest modern democracy had the distinction of expelling arguably one of the greatest film personalities of the West, Charlie Chaplin, from the country. Not only that, it declaredIt's one of the most dedicated scientists, J Robert Oppenheimer, as a national security risk and boxing legend Mohammad Ali Clay was convicted for five years for not joining the Vietnam War, though he was later acquitted by the court.

In the early 1950s, the United States was suffering f...