On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Shoba and others....this problem of having "little patience" is one I'd > like to address. > <snip> > Oh well...nuff said, I guess. Please...let us have, not "little patience", > but...a little MORE patience! > > This is quite the Derrida-ish argument that everything is justifiable if only we try to really really understand it, and that Charles Manson should really be loved and cared for, because maybe he had a 'genuine' difficulty that we don't appreciate, given our relativistic points of views, and so with Saddam Hussein and Pol Pot - we just need a "little MORE patience":-) to understand how they really felt. Sorry, I'm quite the intolerant one here. I do think returnees who have a problem today came to India with a chip on their shoulder and a wrong set of hagiographic expectations. And there is no to blame for these than themselves. And if they feel bad now it's their fault. And no one else's. And damn the "genuine difficulties". :-) And if there's any more patience needed, its not on our part, it's on their part, with India as she is today. My $0.02, Mahesh
