Joel Stein's Indianized New Jersey

I have read Joel Stein's columns when he wrote for the LA Times--some were really good, and many fell flat.  Now, Stein has become the news himself not because of a brilliant column, but otherwise.
At Time, where Stein has a regular gig , he has written a piece that is neither funny nor critical nor even informative.  In fact, it sounds very high-schoolish.  He does a very poor job of joking about things that, say, Russell Peters has already joked about and joked really, really, well.

The WSJ has a round up of some of the reactions to this column.  The title of that piece says it all: Indians Unamused by Time’s ‘Edison’
Back in India, Pranay Gupte has authored an opinion piece with a title that is meant to be more catchy than anything else: Will Indians face a backlash in the U.S.?