--- On Sat, 11/29/08, Rajan P. Parrikar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The Pakis are skilled in
> the PR department. They trot out smartly dressed
> Oxbridge-accented individuals on television who
> can charm the pants off Americans and other
> world audiences. The Indians, on the other hand,
> are missing in action. And when the Indian govt
> finally sends a rep, it will be some stuttering,
> doddering, apologetic oaf.
>
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Here I agree with Rajan, not the who-speaks-for-us-Hindus bit; in a country of
600 million Hindus, it stretches the bounds of imagination that they cannot
find anyone to speak for them.
Where I agree with him is that Pakistanis are experts in the PR machine. Not
just in America, but here in the UK too, they have been at it, bringing out
their best pin-striped suits to tell us how disaffected and disenfranchised
Muslims in India are and that India should look to resolve its own internal
Muslim problem. Well, the last thing India needs is lessons from Pakistan about
treatment of minorities.
To add to that we have some bizarre conspiracy theories doing the rounds that
the Mossad and the CIA might have been involved in orchestrating these events
to further penalize Muslims. I've never come across such a deep-seated sense of
victim-hood. It is precisely this absolving of responsibility that ultimately
leads to more chaos.
Why do we have to mollycoddle everyone in India?
Selma
