<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> Well, ravi lives in New Jersey, which would make anyone miss their mother country. Actually, Jersey is OK. It's kinda flat and mellow and terminally unpretentious, but ravi lives in a yuppie condo complex, so....... Joanna Sujeet Bhatt wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid1507b36a0601170923u656189dcy578ac9e4ca541853@mail.gmail.com"> <pre wrap="">Sounds suspiciously "patriotic" coming from an Internationalist of Ravi's impeccable credentials. Sujeet On 1/10/06, joanna <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:123hop@comcast.net"><123hop@comcast.net></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">ravi, visiting family in Indianapolis, wanted me to forward this to the list: Joanna ________________ >From Sen's "The Argumentative Indian" (hardcover, 2005): </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">pages 75-80: In that large tradition, there is indeed much to be proud of [he is talking about Indian achievements that the expat community could take pride in --ravi], including some ideas for which India gets far less credit than it could plausibly expect. Consider, for example, the tradition of public reasoning. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> ___________________________________ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>