I suspect this address of Deepa's is no longer on the list. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [silk] Just So Stories Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:19:09 +0530 From: Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> To: [email protected]
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:35 AM, John Sundman <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder what you-all think of Kipling's Just So Stories? > > So I wonder: What do Silklisters (especially Indians or members of the Indian > diaspora) make of the Just So Stories? > > Do you find them innocent & lyrical & funny & potent as I do, or do you find > them obnoxious and all of the same cloth as his other "white man's burden" > imperialist writings? I grew up in urban India, with rural India just a doorstep or a street away. I read the stories as a child, with no preconditioning, and found them delightful. Now, with all the politically correct viewpoints dinned into my head daily...read them again recently, and found them delightul. This was especially so as there was no electricity at home at the time. Is whimsey the right (er, Kipling British) spelling or it is whimsy? I always thought it was the latter. Deepa.
