Fwd: From the mailbox: how ignorant can indian intellectuals/media be???

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From: Rajeev Srinivasan <rajeev.srinivasan@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 10, 2006 7:20 AM
Subject: From the mailbox: how ignorant can indian intellectuals/media be???
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jan 10th

this is a good reason why the national language should be sanskrit. yanks will find it hard to learn. this is the secret of china's success -- yanks can't read the inscrutable chinese.

rajiv is using the terms 'intellectuals' and 'media' loosely, you understand.

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From: Rajiv
Date: Jan 6, 2006 6:04 PM
Subject: how ignorant can indian intellectuals/media be???
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http://www.samachar.com/showurl.htm?rurl=http://headlines.sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14115307&headline=Americans~to~learn~Hindi~for~prosperity

The US Intelligence director in conjunction with state dept decides to
revamp the cold war funding of certain foreign languages for
americans. Goal: to secure the supply of foreign language trained
Americans for a range of duties from spies to translators for govt
work to academic surveillence of foreign suspects and activities, etc,
etc. Idea is to study the "other" - a very important activitity which
indians dont understand. Read their announcement and its clear. There
is nothing wrong with doing this, and it is to be expected of any
large superpower concerned about external threats.

Then read the above url which portrays how this news is framed for the
Indian reader in a completely stupid manner: It shows this as
indicator of how much the american love Hindi!!!!!

No wonder the average Indian "intellectual" one comes across in Delhi
is so out of touch. No wonder they find NRIs' perspectives to be
threatening!