On Friday 13 Jul 2012 7:12:33 pm Eugen Leitl wrote: > http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/whnoj/as_an_indian_never_reali > zed_that_these_words_from/
Incidentally. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/gurgaons-of-the-mind/973709/0 "Gurgaons of the Mind" > In a small way, this episode highlights several crises we are facing. It is > symptomatic of our lack of intellectual self-confidence that we constantly > take our measure from what is written about us abroad. Some of this is to > the good: an outside perspective can be an aid to greater self-awareness. > But our relationship with outside perspectives is not in the service of > greater self-reflection. It has, rather, become the yardstick by which we > measure ourselves, the basis of judgement and the mechanism by which our > pride is inflated or deflated. shiv
