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Ramblings
The Global Village Is Tilted
in America’s Favor
by Glory Sasikala
Franklin
Happy Diwali
- or is it happy Memorial Day? Or what?
I have heard people say after the 9/11 terrorist attack that America
"deserved it." No, they were not Osama's henchmen or heartless and they
really dint mean it that way. They were just Indians giving vent to
their frustration and complaining that Americans were "smug and
supercilious." They felt America was insulated from the rest of the
world.
They were the Third World screaming for recognition.
If Indians knew all about 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina and about
hamburgers and how many children Madonna has, they demand that Americans
know all about 7/11 and cyclone Baaz and about dosas and idlis and how
many children Juhi Chawla has.
No matter that they themselves dint know what Nepalese and Bangladeshis
ate for lunch and North Indians looked at South Indians like they were
from outer space and vice versa. They of course knew all about Shoaib
Akhtar and were happy that Osama was alive or dead on the other side of
the border.
But then Americans have an insatiable curiosity about Russians.
But who am I to complain about these things when I am myself a part of
the booming BPO sector and I make my way to the office on Diwali -
Waiting impatiently for people to burst their crackers while they wait
impatiently for me to pass, wondering at where I was going with my lunch
bag?
Yes, I am wearing a silk sari. And yes, I have sweets in my bag and I
wish my colleagues a happy Diwali. But wait a minute - the day hasn’t
dawned yet, has it? Its still 10/20/06. Or If that's very confusing -
its the 20th of October.
My neighbors suffer from chikugunya and Dengue fever and I have not had
a health check up in years, but I worry about the fluid in so and so's
knee across the world and wonder if they have had their six-month follow
up colonoscopy.
"Major error!" I scream at the young girl who has innocently walked into
the snare lured by the pay check (and that is 'eck' and not 'que', mind
you).
"It is "favor" and "odor" and not "favour" and "odour". And "analyze" is
spelt with a "ze" and not "s." Please change your autocorrect from UK
English to US English. Don’t you know Tony Blair goes the Bush way?"
Its 4 pm now and time to go home. In India, I assure you - In India. And
its still Diwali outside. The files will have reached the doctor's table
across the globe before I've taken 20 steps. And he, having had his bowl
of cereals for breakfast will be perusing it.
Now that's the global village for ya. I'm no longer amazed by the fact.
Just terribly confused and I am not sure whether I am right-hand
dominant or left-hand dominant any more either.
Perhaps I deserve it when a little boy takes good aim and shoots me with
his toy gun.
Was it CNN or NDTV that conducted a poll recently on whether the world
took India's stance on terrorism seriously?
Dint see the result of that poll - but I think that the question could
be slightly rephrased - Do Indians know India's stance on terrorism?
Lemme finish this hamburger and then I'll answer ya.
October 29,
2006
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The Week of October 29, 2006
Will the PM Abet Corruption? by Rajinder Puri
US Elections and the Hell Shaped Curve by Gaurang
Bhatt, MD
United States Neurotic Obsessions
with
Pakistan's General Musharraf by Dr. Subhash Kapila
India's New Defence Minister:
The Dilemma of Honesty or Efficiency by Col.
Rahul K. Bhonsle
Criminal Freedom versus Civil Thralldom by V.
Sundaram
Is England Becoming 'Little England'? by V.
Sundaram
Do They Speak ... These Statues? by Pradip
Bhattacharya
Death – An amazing phenomenon! by Pradeep
Joshi
Beware! The Land Slides by VK Joshi
Home, Home On the (Nuclear) Range by Stephanie
Hiller
James Rennell: The Father of Indian Geography
by Kumud Biswas
Michael Schumacher – the man and the champion
by Yamini Ayyagari
Parenting with Love by Atasi Sen
Love: A Pleasurable Pain by Julia Dutta
The Best of Both Worlds by Vikram Karve
Chega Tchega Sega! by Naiya Sivaraj
The Witty Side by Melvin Durai
America's Weakness by William R. Stimson
The Global Village Is Tilted in America’s Favor
by Glory Sasikala Franklin
I Want to be a Drop-out by Prakash Pathre
For the Sake of Laws by Aruni Mukherjee
Would Gandhi Win Today? by Rita Manchanda
The State of Saffron by Elsa Sherin Mathews
Don't Stop the Flow by Gagandeep Kaur
Bringing Health to their Doorstep by Sushmita
Malaviya
'I had an Abortion at Home' by Michelle R
Bayaua
Mother's Recipe for Quality Schools by Malvika
Kaul
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