Here an Indian, there an Indian

Ketan talks about the whole idea of Being Indian and feeling proud of other ‘Indians’.

We love to laugh at the nouveau riche and the silly way in which they flaunt their baubles: driving up in a flashy red sports car, wiping themselves with branded toilet paper, wearing ice-cubes on their chunky fingers, and most depressing of all, dropping names like so much dandruff. Sure they may have arrived but they can’t stop jingling their moneybags and getting the world to take notice.India, on the road to being a global power, seems to be suffering from this disease. The most tiresome symptom being the unthinking way in which we appropriate any achiever with even the most tenuous connection to the motherland as Indian. It makes us feel better, bigger, first-world and truly global. There is not so much as a prickle of shamefacedness at the fact that India has done little to further their careers or their talents.


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3 Responses to “Here an Indian, there an Indian”


  1. 1 anish Oct 28th, 2007 at 7:47 pm

    There is an extra http:// in the link.

  2. 2 anish Oct 28th, 2007 at 11:29 pm

    this link is broken - there is an extra http// in the URL

  3. 3 adityaswarup Oct 28th, 2007 at 11:39 pm

    sorry, fixed it now.

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