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Sacred Bodhi tree - new lease on life
by Bodh Ramdeo on Jun 28, 2007 09:55 PM   Permalink

Indians care as much about thier own history or history generally as they care about ethics or sanitation.
Worse, they prattle on about their 'great' culture and traditions, yet it was the phirangs, namely the Brits, who gave them back their own history. fact is, Indians have no social compact with their larger society - they historically have only filial loyalty - they care only their immediate family - the heck with everything and everyone else. And that's why they have no civic pride, as prior to the arrival of the Europeans, Indians had no civic associations, only religious ones.

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Lease of life for sacred tree