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To: JPR who wrote (2500)	8/21/1998 8:05:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Ugly Indian & Pretty boy The Pinkish-Greek... .<VBG> Hi JPR: 1.Alexander-the-not-so-great perhaps??? Yes I did watch that program as well,if I recall correctly once he took an arrow through his chest while the 'locals' ambushed him but unfortunately the dude didn't die.His stay there was rather brief,perhaps it was too hot for the 'pretty-boy' and his male-lover.<VBG> 2.The Ugly Indian -Scathing Self Criticism. Here is a good article I found in the latest issue of India today and I tend to agree with the author, I say guily as charged. Excerpt: Fifty-one years after Independence, national life revolves around a series of meaningless rituals. We grease the policeman's palm to keep the wheels rolling. We create institutions, only to destroy them with endless politicking. We look to conveniences, quite forgetting the common good....... By Swapan Dasgupta We grease the policeman's palm to keep the wheels rolling The most fascinating thing about India is its capacity for self-delusion. As a nation, we seem less concerned with being than with reputation. Hundreds are butchered in one of those senseless bouts of sectarian madness that periodically grip the country. Hundreds of crores of public money are siphoned off into private coffers because Indian ingenuity is more potent than complex rules. Yet, come Independence Day, the nation wallows in the "tryst with destiny" recording and awaits further reassurance that it is indeed the land of the Buddha and the Mahatma, the land that nurtured ahimsa (non-violence) and dharma (righteousness). Privately, the Indian epitomises -- or imagines he does -- goodness and morality, collectively he is the Ugly Indian. india-today.com