[lbo-talk] BBC NEWS | Indian boy wins world peace prize

[ravi]

At around 21/11/06 2:23 pm, Sujeet Bhatt wrote:
> On 11/20/06, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6164134.stm
>>
>> An almost good story. It would have made the neolib blotter of India
>> Shining moments, I am sure, if only young Om had gone on to become a
>> systems analyst at Infosys Technologies! ;-)
>>
>> >
>> > Indian boy wins world peace prize
> 
> As is typical of non-resident Indians, you are woefully out of touch
> with reality.
>

Ouch. Except I wasn't really going for reality.


> "Systems Analyst at Infosys Technologies" is old hat. Om
> would be far more likely to make the "neolib blotter of India Shining
> moments" (whatever that might be) if he founded a start-up in, say,
> Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, that created a world-class product ...

Yes, possibly true in some cases. It's the spin that makes it "India
Shining", not the facts themselves. I could say something about
non-resident non-Tamilians and reality but I cannot think of anything
witty enough...

	--ravi