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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 12:56:35 EST
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- From: Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- Subject: India
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- I recently read a review of "Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God" by Jonah
- Blank. He is an American Journalist who spent 6 months in India in
- 1990, reporting for the Dallas Morning News. The review says "...Blank
- seems to have become so imbued with the spirit of the noble Prince Rama
- that he tends to look at present-day India in too romantic a light.
- Having believed the ideal Indian to be 'a man like Rama: pious, brave, a
- duty-driven battler for peace and order of his world', he regrets
- finding that today's Indian is really 'a bazaar merchant haggling over
- the price of dyed broadlooms so he can afford a new VCR for his color
- television.' " As aren't we all....
-
- Karen
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