While I was looking for an example of Dilip Deka's inquisitiveness, I found this piece written by Tilok Daktor about the recent post of Umesh Sharma's. Thought newcomers to the net might find the analysis from a certified goru-daktor interesting.
cm >Status: U >X-Originating-IP: [65.57.57.157] >From: "Tilok Hatimuria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Inferiority complex-Part I >Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:00:14 +0000 >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Jun 2002 15:00:14.0140 (UTC) >FILETIME=[DB3FAFC0:01C21221] > > >Hello Raiz: > > >Sri Rajib Daiti disputed Sri Sondon Kaiti's charges about certain Indians' >'inferiority' complex. I am finding these things interesting. >Because things of the mind are my area of work also. I must admit in the >beginning that I know more about large animal minds. But because man is a >kind of largish animal, maybe I can be excused for getting into the subject. > >Xeigune, pun-prthomei raizor khema magi lolu. Daix dux korile raize jen maaf >kore. > >I live in the dizzying heights of the high ozark mountains. Name of my great >city is Dog Patch. I am the only large animal shrink ( LAS ) here. Life has >been good. All the crazies are my patients. THat is good. But what is bad is >that I don't see many Indians here. They prefer the coastal areas I think. >Easy to get in and out of. Even though I don't see many Indian hot-shots >here ( never mind the Patel-motel, does not count), I read India Abroad. > >This is what my diagnosis is, as ascertained from the symptoms picked out >from the tabloid, and as seen in Assam Net: > > >All these 'desis' ( Sri Sondon Kaitis favorite term) that come here from >all those top colleges and not so top colleges alike, usually getting >highest marks in Math, Chemistry, Physics, Mechanics, Statics, Anatomuy , >Pharmacology etc. etc., and filled with the awe of going to an American >University where everyone must get record breaking marks, >suddenly find that they are, well--geniuses. They find that the locals are >pretty bad in their studies. That the desis are , creme-de-la-creme >etc. etc. > >That is good and bad. Good that they are no longer intimidated by the myths >of American academic genius as could be measured by college exam. marks. >THey finally realize that they are truly 'hot-shits' ( pardon my language, I >am trying to be informal and folksy as only us Ozark Hillbillies can). They >begin to wonder-- heck we desis are so much better than these local >beer-guzzling, womanizing, all-night-partying >lot; who never forget to remind the brownies who the greatest nation on >earth is and other such superlatives; and we think of ourselves as good for >nothing? No right they tell each other. They say, we should be able to do >much better than we do,back in India. > > >THey are right. > > >The bad news is that these hot-shit desis don't realize that they are >mutants. Yes, mutants! Several of their neurological receptors have been >turned off since birth by Indian thought police. Of course they don't know >about it. If they did, they would hack the source code and e-mail corrective >patches to each one overnight and be whole again. >They assume that their academic expertises should put them and the country >that they identify themselves with on top of the heap. > >They should not be blamed though. Not their fault. They were raised with >turned off neuro-receptors, remember? They cannot comprehend that academic >preparation is just that--preparation. That it is no guarantee of success as >entrepreuners in industry, business, nation building. Certainly not in a >nation whose governance and national attitudes are is vastly different from >that of the USA, even though they *seem* to be alike. > >Seem to be alike is a big problem too. How can you tell the difference? >They have same 'democrasy' wrapper. It is hard. Much harder than, say, >mukhostho kora or onko kora ( memorizing or math solving), statistics >spouting or debating. Takes time, interest, and >most of all, commitments of a different sort: of getting involved. > > >Why me, they ask if challenged? After all they grew up with that mantra, >didn't they? That is for the guvmint. What are they there for, they would >retort. > >So what happens? Mostly nothing. A few go try 'to do good things for the >motherland'. Still nothing much happens. They can't figure out why. >THey have of course no clue that nations are not built thru charitable >efforts. And that nothing of any substance could be accomplished over the >internet. They don't realize that entrepreunership is a little different >from software code writing, or doing medical trnscriptions for American >doctors or manning call-stations for US Industry. > > >This causes serious problems. Even though mutants, these *are* very bright >folks, let us not forget that. Pretty soon they begin to see that their >initial optimism to do better by their 'desh' does not go anywhere. Episodes >of hopelessness, and Sondon Kaiti is right: despondency, do begin to raise >their ugly heads. > > >THey then try to analyze why. They have what it takes to do the analyzing. >But what they see is big trouble. They can't come to grips with what they >see. > > >Why, you ask? > > >Remeber now, that being the good students, they were also always pampered, >given the royal treatment over their fellow under-performers and even >siblings, held up in great esteem. THey were also raised with good moral >values. Many do serious Pujas at home. At least makes a point of offering a >prayer with the family at the temple in cities they drive thru on their >summer holidays, memorial day outing etc. And even the non-god-fearing ones >come from good families. They cannot get themselves to admit that, back in >the 'desh', there are some seriously bad problems -- which come in the way >of effecting progress. Oh, they know what they are. But to say it aloud >would be sacrilegious. It will be like abusing their mother, Mother India >that is. > > >So they head towards the warmth of the religion of denial, where others >before them already have begun to converge. Like 'sogaa to saaki' ( moths to >the candle). > > >Of course it is suicidal. But this time those turned-off neurons come in >the way again. They don't see what is coming. Instead of dealing with >reality, they begin to circulate feel-good articles, laden with impressive >sounding stats, dating back to thousands of years. Not one, two, three >thousand either. Seven thousand, ten thousand and the like. They are >heartwarming though. Even I get teary eyed when I read that Azim >Premzi is the third richest dude in the world. It is the new growth >industry, right after >Valentines Day promotion. Even luminaries like Dr. Kalaam, home grown >scientists of eminence, are getting into it, without hesitating to >plagiarize some cute pieces from other internet do-gooders of the recent >past. > > >But alas! If only they would ask *why*? Why is it that 'desis' behave in >Singapore and London but not Mumbai or Chennai? > > > >(To be continued) > > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: >http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
