Soter D'souza (May 31) states: ''We have not washed firangi(meaning whites) or Arab toilets to develop our (i.e. his family's) economic conditions.
Let us think a wee bit deep and we will arrive at a conclusion that we have been for centuries using such a derrogatory language against our adversaries more out of envy than anything else. Our whole Indic civilization has been revolving round and round human faeces.Purity was measured in terms of distance away from it. But can any human being say that he has nothing to do with it at all ? No matter how ''high'' he is from pollution point of view , he has to clean with his own fingers his anus at least once a day. And besides did he not spend his first nine months of his life in the womb of his mother near her large intestinses ? his first nine months of his life in the womb of
