Eugene, Are you suggesting Goanet also apologises for the much scorn we continually pour on the "ghantis"? FN
PS: The Edison piece hardly struck me as "humour". It just sounded like the new trend in a much globalised world -- everyone feels "they" are being swamped in "their" own backyard. Including Goan expats to the Western hemisphere who have the loudest voices on this (specially when it comes to the home they have left, as Augusto points out). In India itself, the situation would have been comical if its consequences were not so tragic and the cause of so much bitterness (as seen in the Nellie massacre, for instance) -- almost every second state (if not every one) believes it is being swamped by The Other! My Tamil friend was talking about labour from Bengal and Bihar invading his State. Karnataka's capital of Bangalore believes (maybe numerically) that it has been run over by Tamilians. Marathis are battling Kannadigas in and around Belgaum, and parts of Hubli-Dharwad. The Shiv Sena's paranoia in Mumbai is only too well known. Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh were formed out of the feeling that they were being colonised by non-tribals. Telangana is a similar case. Delhi has its simmering suspicions, particularly about Punjabi dominance and post-Partition migration. The entire North East has a grouse over these issues. Tripura could be seen as being ruled by Bengalis and the CPI(M) there has more to do with regionalism and ethnicity rather than class. And the list continues.... Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490 On 7 July 2010 23:23, Eugene Correia <[email protected]> wrote: > Time magazine apologises for article on Indian-Americans > By Arun Kumar > Washington, July 7 (IANS) Time magazine has > apologised to Indian Americans after some of > them took umbrage at a humour piece, which > they said has racist overtones, about the > community in Edison, New Jersey, where > every fifth resident is a native of India.
