She used to write well on social issues. But this one seems really out of step. Frankly she should pack up and head for "home".
Some of these people just don't get it. Wharton, Harvard etc is meaningless to locals who are feeling more marginalised in their home country. There are serious social issues arising from allowing this influx of foreigners. Pretending that 2.3m to 4.8M with a low birth rate is unheard anywhere else in the world is not helping either. These people also are writing to the press with the notion that they were helping Singaporeans but not themselves. If you want to be near your ageing parents get a job in India and be with your parents. Why is this considered a global city for everyone's convenience except Singaporeans.
Radha Basu would have done a whole better for Singaporeans, all FT Indians and herself if she wrote an article educating FT Indians how to behave, the local norms, how to integrate, how to be sensitive to the local's concerns and issues. Till today, you can open and hold a gate, a door for an FT Indian while they enter and many don't have the basic courtesy to say thank you. Mind you I am talking about the constructions workers who are much more pleasant. I am talking about well do Indians who stay in Condo and go to well heeled clubs etc. Asking their maid to buy bulk purchases and carry it a long distances is another.
Mind you, its not only the Indians, it also the incouth PRCs that get to me as well. The only consolation is that they write to the press with a lopsided importance of themselves and their kin with liberal dropping of branded names. But you can never beat the PRCs when it comes to laws, rules, social norms, basic manners. None of it applies to them or they have no clue such things exist. Spitting, talking loudly, sleeping on public transport, occuping more than one seat, parking in the wrong places, pretending that no one else exist are the obvious indicators.
With letters and article like these, a clear message has to be sent to the govt of the day.