The Diplomat and the Domestic: Or, Homage to Faking It.

A literary criticism of the book "Faking it: US Hegemony in a Post-Phallic Era" by Cynthia Weber is presented which focuses on the crisis in foreign relations between the U.S. and India based on issues of sex, gender and caste. Topics include arrest of former Indian Deputy Consul-General in New York, Devyani Khobragade on charges of visa fraud, Dalit caste identity of Khobragade and masculinity of India suffering humiliation of rape.