Deepak Chopra

PM Modi of India and President Xi of China were on official visits to Britain within 2 weeks of each other in Oct/Nov 2015.

There were noteworthy differences in the receptions and responses of the British. This importantly demonstrates the respective emerging Powers' potential impact on the Global Conversation (context connected to earlier post titled Global Conversation). 

India's historical strong links to Britain puts Modi at an unassailable advantage in its special relationship. Speaking in eloquent English, Modi effortlessly charmed his British audience and puts them in attentive ease.

PM David Cameron as the gracious host was naturally also the bellwether of the responses to the rhetorical dexterity of the visiting leaders. When Modi spoke, Cameron sat relaxed, wore a broad smile and laughed heartily at the Westminster Parliamentary nuanced wit and jokes.

In stark contrast, Xi's polite diplomatic platitudes only drew soporific looks from the ear-phones hung audience and a stern face Cameron who weakly broke into a smile of relief when the speech ended.

China will, of course, on its own steam and in good time influence the Global Conversation as its stature grows. But, it is an impeded race against time to beat the misled thinking of the likes of Trump in the WASP sphere. Harm could have already been done first.

I adopted my alter ego name of Dipachupa in this campaign to leverage on our Indian Brothers who have already made deep inroads into the WASP world because of their better command of the English Language. Pragmatically approached in this way, not that Chinese Language is not important, to fast track the power of Asian Voices in the Global Conversation which for historical reasons is English Language dominated.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Deepak Chopra's impressive visibility on the WASP Scientific/Spiritual arena makes him the most deserving candidate to be imitated and emulated. He is a rare personality who has mastery of Ancient Eastern Wisdom and Advanced Modern Sciences. 

I wanted to be simple and considerate and tweaked my adopted name to Dipachupa. The letter "R" is pronunciation challenged to the Chinese and was thus avoided (sorry Dr Chopla). 

Diaspora Chinese always knew their stature could be enhanced by prefixing a WASP name to their family name. Lee Kuan Yew was once Harry Lee. When he realised the substance of his achievements were attributable more to his Chinese roots, the WASP prefixed name "Harry" was dropped.

Many Malaysians studied medicine in India but did not return home as Govinda Tan, Thanabalan Lee, Siva Chan, etc...

But, we are now in a New Era. Dipachupa will draw on the combined strengths of India and China to stake our Rightful Voice in the Global Conversation before it is too late.