Ramesh and Mohan I didn't ever mean to go after you in any way, whatsoever. I enjoy your posts immensley.
Really, what I do hope for passionately... is for the people of India to get a fair shake. After centuries of oppression from the British, the French, the Dutch, the Moghuls... what India doesn't need is more small minded people with selfish interests.
I once asked a Chinese historian why the historian of China was so bleak. He thought for a moment. "It is because, " he replied slowly, " Chinese have no sense of coutnry. They think only of themselves and their famlies." In India you and Mohan are a great credit to your country. You think of India before yourselves. That is why India will have a great future.
I constantly think it is wonderful that you absolutely leap to the barricades in defense of your country. I think Sankar, of Sankar and what appears to be his type -- the small minded little babu with his scratchings, his dhoti, and his dinky gods of service. His type is usually found in the postal service, say in the Murshidabad district, where his cold passions dictate the selling of fifty anna stamps and fighting over the grubby change in tattered rupee notes.
Instead, people like him have made India what it is. Bureaucrats. Educational bureacrats. Government bureacrats. Rule ridden idiots. Now, they are given PhD's by American institutions and given sinecures, tenure, heat/light/ and consulting positions at the Federal Reserve.
But people like you Ramesh and Mohan are the hope of India. I think, however, you shaould know your enemy. Because the bureacrats are the enemy... make no mistake about this. The politicans; the bureacrats; and, the running dog banias who have never competed and can never compete in a world market. I have no doubt that you will win. That the people of India will win.
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