On Wednesday, 18 April 2012 at 16:33, Thaths wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:29 AM, salil tripathi <sali...@gmail.com > (mailto:sali...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > And ec(n)r prevented school-drop-out artists from travelling, since if you > > hadn't finished hi school, assumption was that sarkar maibaap would be > > needed to look after you and decide if you were eligible to travel abroad. > > I know. The EC(N)R regime probably goes back to the migration of indentured > laborers to the colonies. > My dad used to know a fellow in Al Ain (UAE) who ran a successful, how do I put it, public-private partnership in passport renewals and ECNR stamps. We used to call it the "Kozhikode Embassy" and this fellow the Ambassador of Kozhikode.
