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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: [email protected] or [email protected] or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It was the Rudyard boosting of the "Afghan Wars", there were three, and his coining of the concept of the campaign as a 'white man's burden' that roused his countrymen. In a historical context, twenty thousand square miles had fallen to the Czar, every year, for a decade, with Baluchi Emirate owned Sind and Karachi expected to fall by 1840. The impetus to act, at Whitehall, was a given. Did you also pelt on bats in Kipling's yard, behind our school ! Here he is in "Naulakha" : Now it is not good for the Christian's health To hustle the Aryan brown For the Christian riles and the Aryan smiles And it wears the Christian down And at the end of the fight Is a tombstone white With the name of the late deceased And the epitaph drear : "A fool lies here who tried to hustle the east. " History repeats, Russia learnt that the hard way in Afghanistan in the 70's, and so goes for Lahore and Ludhiana today. eric. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric, I enjoy your knowledge of Frontier lore. Roland. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:54 AM, eric pinto<[email protected]> wrote: > The North-West Frontier Province includes Peshawar/Rawalpindi, the summer > capital of the Afghan king. It was annexed by Britain, and Commissioner > Durand would later inform the king that a new line had been 'drawn in the > sand.' The king responded with a terse 'your line rests on water.' Durand > had followed in the footsteps of earlier colonists, like Ranjit Singh, who > arrived at Kargil in 1810. Benazir Bhutto will not be the last freebooter > in Pashtun-Dogra territory to discover the truth behind the king's > promise. Read about Pakistan's pyrrhic victory in the attachment below. > eric.
