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To: HG who wrote (8254)	10/30/2001 3:36:54 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi HG, Very nicely said. I was wondering if you'd object to that characterization of India under Britain's rule. And such restraint on your part! :-)

To: HG who wrote (8254)	10/30/2001 3:44:14 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Here's India's emerging view on foreign aid.... And thus my comment about how the US is doing more than many of the other 1st world nations when it comes to providing foreign "aid", by way of having such an extensive trade deficit which represents opening up our markets and absorbing their products to be sold here. But we can obviously only do so much and Europe and Japan much do more. But given Japan's deflationary spiral, that's the last thing they are in a position to do. Hawk

To: HG who wrote (8254)	10/30/2001 3:47:18 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

British were God's answer to India's prayers. Yeah, what was the line that British schoolboys use to memorize? Clive took India with (How many Soldiers?) RE: "dragging the bodies of US soldiers thru streets". At least we are not "pulling our people out of the well at Cawnpore" The old argument of "Might makes right" can be argued forever. I read a Quote yesterday that shows how someone's view of it can change. If any question why we died Tell them, because our fathers lied. -RUDYARD KIPLING writing in the voice of his son, John, KIA, the Somme, at the age of 18

To: HG who wrote (8254)	10/30/2001 5:38:20 PM
From: k.ramesh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That is the emerging Indian view on Foreign aid? That is the opinion of one writer in the Indian Express. I have mixed feelings about that. Yes it is okay to refuse aid with strings attached, and expectation of subservience. But India is really about 10 countries in one. The elite and the chattering classes are almost first world colonizers themselves! What about Orissa and starvation there, just a state away from Amartya Sen the nobel prize winning 'Famine' economist? The big shots in Delhi are falling all over themselves for granting one million tons of wheat to Afghanistan in aid. I have a similar problem in saying no to the Nike factories, what is demeaning/offensive to one person might be job opportunities to another group. The Indian government should say no to government to government aid which is mostly puffery, but say yes to aid from developmental agencies. The better off states in India need to step up and adopt some of the really clueless states, in the process creating 'nice' bureaucratic jobs for their middle classes. <g> Bihar the true heir to the mantle 'Afghanistan of India' is already derisively called Rabristan by its own residents on account of its illiterate Chief Minister - did not even use the money due to it to from the Centre under various schemes due to ineptness! ( do a google on Rabristan)