Eric, Your thoughtful and reasoned response gives me hope. This is what I have been waiting for some time now and truly appreciate it. Very often those who write such pieces are products of the same pedigree and from the same erstwhile perfidies as those who are given to stringent hierarchies. They also do regard their tongue-in-cheek as being refined and highly elegant. But aside from such topics where a few connectives are made -- and reasonable ones too, there is scant rigor in thinking, although,there is some flair for language. Note, I say flair. In spite of having received education in esteemed institutions -- its hard for them to gather even a few grains of sense. Many of them thrive and consider themselves constructive in that they make analogies -- as though giving out splendid and meaningful insights -- woeful analogies notwithstanding.
venantius j pinto Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:56:27 -0700 (PDT) From: eric pinto To: GOA2 <goa...@.....> Subject: [Goanet] Fw: Fwd: Response to "The British left six decades too early" --------------------- Every now and then I see something which defies even a forgiving excuse for its cynicism. Aakar Patel obviously belongs to that exclusive group that cannot seem to get their blinkers off. Sure, there is a lot wrong with the way things happen in India but to equate this with the abject poverty that the British encouraged to keep a nation enslaved defies reason. The same warlords divided this country and sowed the seeds of religious intolerance. When they found they could not milk this country very much longer they decided the scorched earth policy to undo the British Raj on religious and impotent princedom grounds.
