On Thursday 16 Aug 2007 11:03 pm, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_6637082
Here is an article from the Financial Times, which attempts to list the equal-equal between India and Pakistan. The author's name is not mentioned but I am wiling to bet Rs 1000 to none that the author has Pakistani origins. Any listmember who disproves that gets Rs 1000 from me. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b19538f6-4d22-11dc-a51d-0000779fd2ac.html What I find interesting is a comment that has been echoing through the decades - right from the time of partition about how the Brahmins have a vise like grip on India. >Both countries suffer from the complacency of urban elites and intolerable >social inequity: the survival of feudal power in Pakistan and the >Brahmin-dominated caste system in India. I am sure Tambrams and other displaced and disempowerd Brahmins should have a say in this ridiculous cliche that perpetuates a myth into an era when Brahmins - such as those in Tamil Nadu and Kashmir are being trampled upon for their supposed excesses. Ramchandra Guha speaks of how the Nizam of Hyderabad spoke of a "Brahmin-Bania" nexus seeking to suppress Islam. I think it is about time this sort of group-profiling and character assassination is set to rest. Brahmin bashing is needless and excessive and needs to come to a halt. shiv
