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Why would anyone in his right mind want to be there illegally? It's a fair question. The unemployment rate is high and the economy is in a shambles. Indians, in fact, have settled all over central Europe, uninvited, since the fifteenth century. Our nomadic banjaras travelled west overland. Today there are at least two million of their descendants all over central Europe, three lakh in the Czech Republic alone. These Gypsies are a dark people, still look very Indian and speak a language distantly related to Hindi. They face enormous discrimination and hordes of them have been lately migrating to friendlier climes like Canada and Finland. The Czechs are generally not very fond of foreigners. They can't decide whom they hate more, the Germans for the infamous Munich agreement of September, 1938, by which their country was surrendered to the Nazis, or the Russians for 40 years of suppression.