Perhaps folks based in Assam can see that Debojit faced opposition at Mumbai music fest SaReGaMa not becos he was from Assam but was a little known outsider from a place considered backward by Mumbaiites. Same for Mr Gogoi - current Mr India in body building championship.
Just like backward Rajasthan's village born LN Mittal is considered in Europe - despite trying to make amends by buying the costliest house in the world ($400 million) and getting his daughter married off in a real French palace -the costliest marriage in the world (in monetary terms) - $100 million.
It is an interesting phrase rooted in Indian history and culture -- "Monkey money!!"
Mittal -the third richest in the world - was born in a village wthout electricy and scarce water in desert -so maybe he is considered a tribal -in the aristocratic European circles. And tribal might be like a monkey to
city bred folks perhaps. Just the way tribal (Van (Jungle) + Nar (man) ) Hanuman - the supreme devotee was labelled a monkey (vaanar) by the writers of Ramayan and now is worshipped as a monkey God by Hindus -since tribal was considered a lower person.
umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Monkey money" is what Arcelor chief called Mittal's fortunes as in the article. Seems like a catchy phrase often used by his team mates atleast. Primary school kids would also like the link between the two words.Money + k = Monkey!! So lots of money (K = 1000s) makes a monkey out of you!UmeshPS: Incidently I had been trying this week to implement some of the things I learnt at the teacher training session last weekend - and did some - graphic organizers (like a butterfly to list out main points of a story) and strecthing exercises to get sleepyheads to work after school and being easy going on Valentine's Day since thay all had partied at school - the whole school was partying with lots of gifts and food.
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