On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Jon Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > The last part of that poem has been haunting me: > > "Pity the nation divided into fragments, > each fragment deeming itself a nation." > > In the early days of the web, it was pretty common > to assume that "bringing people together in cyberspace" > somehow implied increasing mutual understanding. > Clearly, __that__ doesn't happen automatically. > Jon, I don't know where you live..but I have seen the miracle of my country...India....being increasingly divided into fragments by the politicians...and yet, we have a clear entity as India...I just cannot understand how it works, but it does! I am not a great "patriot"...I like the idea of the world being my home....but there is something about India and Bharat, with all her major problems, that is wonderful. Cheers, Deepa. > > > -Jon > > > >
