Thank you for sharing your delightful views with 'us' through this article. By 'us'I mean the minority of the Indians within India who access the Net and check rediff.com now and then, and the ones who live abroad. Yes these some of 'us' pride in ourselves for being educated and being able to support ourselves, and possibly have a dream for the future.
You know, we are much better placed than so many others of our Indian brethren who find it difficult to make two square meals a day, find a place to sleep in the nights of monsoon and winter, feel inadequate because they cant feed their children, or those cant fight off that nagging urge to consume pesticide (because the government did not come to the rescue on the farm debts).
I think that am also better off because I can bribe the corrupt clerk better than so many others who have to have a small loan sanctioned, pension released after a lifetime of slogging, to get government declared compensation for the relative who was killed (from one of those numerous train/road accidents in India), or be displaced from my farm lands and my home to accommodate somebody%u2019s business plans. Hmmm, I don't think that I will starve to death, let those who do that like they do in India, do it.
And here I am with a cup of tea from my company's vending machine (aaah....) and I have read your article. Your article is delightful.
Someone once coded that ignorant of history repeat it. If your article is meaning to convey that it makes great sense. Because, characters from history repeat themselves in the to-day in various forms, colors, ethnicities and communities. And I am sure you don't want another such a villain from any community at all. And funnily enough, to counter the ghost you have just raised from hundred of years ago.
Culture is important Mr. Gautier, and I am proud to be an Indian. I don't need a self styled saviour of Indian culture telling me what my culture is. And have another Aurangazeb fantasy come to reality today.
If you have anything better to do, would you have any ideas for those who have not this article yet? They could be any of those numerous examples mentioned at the start of this message?
