On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:52 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 03 May 2008 6:29:27 pm Rishab Ghosh wrote: [...} > On Saturday 03 May 2008 6:28:03 pm ashok _ wrote: > > It could probably be more because of China being a communist state rather > > than general linguistic curiosity. > > I can't disagree with the notion that "an autocracy channeled properly" forms > a large part of the explanation.
At the risk of souding paranoid, the radio stations in Indian languages were started August 1963, about a year after the Sino-India war at Ladakh and Nathu-la (1962). It sounds like a propaganda plank and psy-war strategy to me. Flying the contest winners to China every month just seems like a very convenient way to test out potential China sympathizers and recruit sleeper cells. Cheeni
