I agree, to India pride is more important than justice. I have written off India, that nation is destined to remain a sorry mess until people change their attitude.
Let me be careful this time, you tend to misread my comments maybe due to shortfall in my articulation.
Indian government's/Media's outrage has been directed towards the US's interpretation of vienna convention of 1963 regarding consular staff, of whose interpretation roughly is considered not to subject diplomats to civil criminal code unless the matter is in the nature of grave criminal offence.
Next is Indian diplomats in India coming out in public and raising suspicions that this was directed as a vindictive measure by US state departments tacit approval as a retaliation to last visit of Indian foreign secretary who was trying to show US state dept, the
book on getting access to David headley. Thus this was a by the book measure by US interdepartmental action...
Another aspect has been the strip search, although in US it's not a big deal and I understand why, culturally subjecting an Indian women to strip search will create a public reaction. I do not believe that US officials are that dumb to not understand it's implications in a country like India. This hasn't been the first case, If George bush or Clinton was subjected to a strip search in India, what predent would it set. Why cant US recognize Ex Presidents travelling on a written ledger when they can identify terrorists hiding under a camel from satellites.
Additionally,
US flying the maids family from india in a case that has a Prima Facia evidence provided by Indian Government deems US actions deplorable as it is in fact accusing the Indian government of institutional unjust practices. Then there is the diplomat getting a call from an unidentified lawyer for settlement with a large Sum, and attorney General going out of the way to defend the actions- all of them raises additional suspicions...
United States of America when declares India as a global ally and then intentionally declines to address India's sensitivities, It projects the exact ground situation that US want's i.e. US doesn't care about India.....
And then there are eminent representatives of US school of thought on the internet, you included who show us the book on the case and completely ignore our sensitivities, declaring 1/6th of the world population to remain a "mess" among other things...Such compliments do not project the sense of global partnership which has been whitehouse's rhetoric for more than a decade....