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To: JPR who wrote (6521)	9/8/1999 4:15:00 PM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

To: JPR who wrote (6521)	9/8/1999 4:30:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

A Fair to Remember - Slide Show JPR: I was busy with some trading and stuff even though I have nothing to show for it today except the loss of a few bucks. Slide show 216.32.165.70

To: JPR who wrote (6521)	9/8/1999 5:33:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

"There are no clean public bathrooms in the country. The poorest villages in the Mekong Delta are cleaner than many prosperous Indian town. Most cities are so congested with traffic that one has to hire a taxi to cross the street. Rats run atop marble kitchen-counters of affluent homes. Not surprisingly, India happens to be the only country to experience an outbreak of plague in recent decades. Our children may have built a nuclear bomb, but we failed to invent a better mousetrap. During the sixties, when Trinidad-born Indian author V.S. Naipaul wrote incisive books about India with titles like "An Area of Darkness," we Midnight's Children felt insulted. Give us time, we said, and we would prove Naipaul to be wrong. But during my recent trip, I could not help wondering if Naipaul had been right all along. " ... Excerpted from : indiacurrents.com