Devyani Khobragade

Diplomatic immunity has long been a staple of good-faith diplomatic relations between governments in the modern state system. But although the privilege was designed to reduce the incidence of conflict between states, its abuse has often had the opposite effect.

India and US could finally resolve the diplomatic furor over Devyani Khobragade case after she was granted full diplomatic immunity by the US authorities on Thursday. The diplomat left US for India on Friday.

While India and the United States struggle to break through the unsettled diplomatic row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York, Indians are angry over the politicization of the issue and the high-handedness of the U.S.