The Varsha Missive - A Kargil six-shooter
"...Yeah, yeah, yeah... I know all about that "from each according to his ability" pinko bullshit..."
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...The NRI fundie believes he has a moral right to advocate that India reject diplomacy or cross the LoC or regain PoK or start a full-fledged war and other such weighed stuff. So he works on cyber-polls -- which results are taken seriously by certain duffers in India.
Up to July 1, the Army Central Welfare Fund has received Rs 11,941,005; $ 23,353; and £ 501. Even if we take the dollar as Rs 55 (to make up for the few who sent rupees), our war-like Indian-American messiahs -- doctors, computer engineers, scientists, etc -- have contributed far less than Rs 1,284,415 (since some of that will certainly be non-fundie). Earn dollar value, donate rupee value...
Of my debaters, only one put his money where his mouth is: Dr Chanchal Chatterjee sent a very respectable sum in one shot. Way to go, Tall and Gorgeous.
Yeah, yeah, yeah... I know all about that "from each according to his ability" pinko bullshit. And I also know the living standard of America's Indian community... In any case, that clause also applies to the consequences of the public pressure you exert: If you aren't here to face the wages of an all-out war, if it's not your neighbourhood that will be flattened -- don't spout empty words from afar. Back up your machismo with at least funds. Hell, students can afford to give, without feeling the pinch, what is the average American donation. It's all in the willingness to feel the pinch... No great shakes to bunk office to whine before the UN... what are you *personally* willing to sacrifice? If you can't forgo even a month's worth of bills, if you can't make a dent in that savings account -- skip the war cry.
Moral right is a very funny thing -- it has to earned. It is not a birthright like citizenship, nor a legal right like suffrage. Those who oppose the Shroud should know its inherent delicacy better than most...
Have I managed to alienate everyone? Good! I've been itching to get it out of my system since Kargil erupted. Every time you show a mirror to others, it's good to take a look in one yourself. I get my dose from pinkos and Mosies, as they get theirs from me. But the mentally steroid-pumped NRI fundie has had things soft: Sheltered from the daily actualities of India, encouraged by the huge ideologically-identical expat numbers, busy bolstering dippy insights through mailing lists, he's become a pontificator without a stake in the consequences of his words. I can't think of a worse characteristic for a pressure group than the insulation from responsibility... Easy to ask others to die; hard to let go of that mortgage installment, eh? |
