On 11/2/06, Hari Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pfft! 1700 signatories? Big deal. Compare with a 1.1 billion Indians and 1000,000 people of Indian origin in the US (at least 50% of whom are online).
As for the comments, the lunatics always make the most amount of noise. Always.
The Library of Congress appointment triggered what
must be one of the most vicious attacks ever launched
on a scholar anywhere, through an online petition,
which now has over 1,700 signatories, most of them
NRIs.
Pfft! 1700 signatories? Big deal. Compare with a 1.1 billion Indians and 1000,000 people of Indian origin in the US (at least 50% of whom are online).
Also as Ravi points out the article is seriously dated. Joshi is no longer education minister and his party no longer rules India. Has the new government reversed some of those awful textbook changes?
-raghu.
