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Wed, 15 Aug 2007
Happy Independence Day
India's 60 today. The party, as they say, is just getting started.
I just hope the various neuroses of Indian people (an inferiority complex
and an entitlement complex simultaneously!) do not screw up things. I
don't think they will.
Some good writing on the day [1,2,3]. Some atrocious writing [4,5]. Some deluded writing [6]. Some well-meaning-but-badly-written stuff [7]. Some annoying-but-true stuff [8]. The inevitable China comparison [9]. Here's an article in praise of the British [10]. While I agree with the article, may I re-rant that Churchill was-- as far as India is concerned-- a jackass of the highest order. Here is a bad case of projection (the author didn't have a Muslim friend in school/college and so he assumes no one else did).