On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Bharat Shetty <bharat.she...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > It's a neat trick. Perhaps a magazine writer here can take it up to show > > that the rice growing in Punjab is evidence of Tamizh or Bengali > > colonisation of the Indus plain. > > ROFL. I'm reminded of this chap called Aakar Patel who said Indians > are opportunists and don't give back to society because of Hinduism > and used some hi-funda stuffs like Hobbesian trust etc in his article > for LiveMint. > > > http://www.livemint.com/articles/2009/07/02203128/Why-Indians-don8217t-give-b.html > Actually some time after I sent the mail I remembered that Vir Sanghvi had used the growing popularity of the salwar kameez and paneer butter masala to claim that South India was Punjabi now, so the reverse statement has definitely been done. -- Aadisht Khanna Address for mailing lists: aadisht.gro...@gmail.com Personal address: aadi...@aadisht.net
