Re: [Goanet] India: hostage to a demented culture

2011-02-16 Thread anil desai
Dear Goanetters, Selma Cardoso wrote:? Prejudice on this forum is determined entirely by the surname one writes under. What is prejudice and/or prejudgment under a Catholic Portuguese surname is a lot of truth under an Indian Hindu name.? My response: Selma has made an important point in her

Re: [Goanet] India: Hostage to a Demented Culture

2011-02-15 Thread Santosh Helekar
It looks like Selma here rests her cases entirely on her own imagination and self-centered petulance. All it takes for her to accuse me of prejudice is a disagreement with her own precious self. The Catholic person here is herself. The Portuguese surname is her own. The fact that the substance

[Goanet] India: Hostage to a Demented Culture

2011-02-14 Thread Carvalho
Rajiv Desai wrote: What's more, parents fail to understand that success does not come just being well educated. The most important thing is for their children to be well bred. This means that their children should not just be knowledgeable and bright but aware of their civic responsibilities:

Re: [Goanet] India: Hostage to a Demented Culture

2011-02-14 Thread Santosh Helekar
There is a lot of truth to what Rajiv has written below. The most important points are a lack of concern for others, poor understanding of our history and our past, misguided fascination with messianic figures and their anti-modern and post-modern views, lack of formation in the liberal arts,

Re: [Goanet] India: Hostage to a Demented Culture

2011-02-14 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
. - Original Message From: Comma Consulting i...@comma.in To: Comma Consulting i...@comma.in Sent: Mon, 14 February, 2011 5:32:42 PM Subject: [Goanet] India: Hostage to a Demented Culture ... India is in a state of dementia, largely because of the here-and-now culture that has taken hold since

Re: [Goanet] India: Hostage to a Demented Culture

2011-02-14 Thread Carvalho
Santosh Helekar wrote: There is a lot of truth to what Rajiv has written below.   And so I rest my case.   Prejudice on this forum is determined entirely by the surname one writes under. What is prejudice and/or prejudgment under a Catholic Portuguese

[Goanet] India: Hostage to a Demented Culture

2011-02-13 Thread Comma Consulting
This article is from the blog res gestae (www.rajivndesai.blogspot.com http://www.rajivndesai.blogspot.com/ ) you can reach the person managing the list at i...@comma.in Wednesday, February 9, 2011 India: http://rajivndesai.blogspot.com/2011/02/india-hostage-to-demented-culture.h tml