Former U.S. ambassador to India Robert Blackwill visited a Delhi gurdwara in ‘01. He’s now flipped out the whirligig door to a cushy lobbying position in D.C.:

India, which has paid Barbour Griffith & Rogers $1.24 million since Mr. Blackwill began lobbying for it in late 2005, has hired him… to push for a nuclear deal between the United States and India…

[Blackwill is] known within the Bush administration for his intellect and irascibility. In India, his tough management style prompted complaints from embassy staff members and a review by the State Department’s inspector general…’

Among his clients are India, Serbia, Taiwan, the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Alfa Bank in Moscow and Thaksin Shinawatra, a former prime minister of Thailand and a billionaire communications tycoon who was ousted in a coup in 2006. [Link]