pleasure reading it..research combined ( or dissolved?) with creativity
here's a song
...uthle ha chati ke jobanwa
piya ke khelawna re hoi...
...her budding breasts are ready
to be her lover's toys
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:07 PM, damodar prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> pls find attached an interesting reading of sachimash on amitav ghosh's new
> novel- sea of poppies (pdf version)
>
> damodar prasad
>
> an excerpt:
>
>
> ..."The story is set in the 1830s in the company days when the opium
> trade had become the main sustenance of the Empire. "The Empire was not
> simply possible without China consuming opium", Ghosh remarked in the
> dialogue referred to earlier- held in Delhi on the 17th of June-and went
> on to detail the unfair trade practices that sustained the export. No part
> of the trade benefitted India;they used Indian farmers to cultivate opium,
> and Indian merchants to do the trade as they did not want to directly take
> the responsibility, but the money- a revenue that was equal to the total
> revenue of the United States at that time- did not come back to India; it
> was used to purchase tea and similar commodities from China to be sold in
> England. The cruelty the so-called 'Free Trade' engendered was beyond
> imagination"
>
> >
>
--
Dileep R I thuravoor
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