aug 4th, 2006
australians in general are hostile towards india (they made a huge fuss about pokhran II, have consistently refused to sell india uranium, etc.). must be the colonial hangover and some strange idea that they are the americans of the south pacific (that is, the Great White Master).
greg sheridan is the one australian who has been consistently pro-india. i do hope the indian foreign service is treating him well with boondoggle trips to visit ajanta/ellora and whatnot.
although knowing india's tendency to suck up to its enemies and disrespect its friends, i suspect the IFS is treating barbara crossette better than greg sheridan. crossette is an irrelevant nonentity in the ny times whose great contribution to the world was "the country inns of new england" before she was sent to india, spent all her time with khalistanis and jnu-types and the sling-bag brigade -- including the inevitable shekhar gupta who was mighty impressed with her -- and suddenly became america's biggest expert on 'south asia'. why, she even has a book or two on nepal and whatever. i have never dared to read these because of some of the gems in her reports: eg. "indians do not like sports because they do not play baseball". her work is remarkable, as someone said: if you know nothing about india, you'll learn nothing about india from reading her work. if you know anything about india, you'll recognize that barbara darling knows nothing about india.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20018438-25377,00.html
17 comments:
Well, Australia is the land of Mel Gibson. Maybe they have some latent grudge against those whom they perceive as Asian Shylocks.
The fact is that Australia, like North America, is an island continent isolated Eurasia, and therefore more likely to be xenophobic towards it.
Anyhow, I was reading this article on the looming defeat of Senator Lieberman and I was wondering about the idea of strategic voting. After all, Muslims do it in India, so why can't others do it too?
Also in the news, does Taiwan now have its own Brahmos?
Heh, we should get together with them and collaborate, since China does it with Pak. Oh, all under the table of course, for plausible deniability. ;P
Here's a strange case of hypocrisy:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/04/opinion/eddarfur.php
China is protecting the Islamic/Arab northern Sudanese dictatorship from world oppobrium while it massacres the largely black Christian south. Tell me, how is it that so many can scream about a few hundred deaths in Lebanon, while remaining selectively silent on the fact that Sudan is killing people by the hundreds of thousands like it was East Bengal?
It's the Red-Green Show!
Oh, I know what the leftists will say -- "I did protest this, but YOU'RE JUST NOT LOOKING HARD ENOUGH"
C'mon guys, we know not a damn thing has been said by the Left.
Prof.Purushottaman claims that Australia got its name from Astra-aalayam (land of missiles). Even more, His HOliness Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati swamiji (may peace be upon him), in his book World Vedic Heritage, claims the dance of aborigines in Australia, is similar to the Rudra Thaandavam of Lord Nataraja...
"Australia got its name from Astra-aalayam"
ROTFL
Australia is a name invented by people with similar lack of imagination as those who named the Indian states "Uttar Pradesh" and "Madhya Pradesh."
Another friend of the terrorists -- predictably, an anthropologist at an american uni
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/aug/04inter.htm
Astra aalayam??????
Australis is Latin for south. That's how it got its name. Please do yourself a favour and do a bit of research before believing what Prof. Purushothaman says.
Off Topic:
But read this blog
A TRUE TESTIMONY !!!
Pure crap!
Here's one you'll all agree is scandalous:
Pakistanis in Europe & Religious Crimes
Bala are you the same guy who posts as Bala at Bharat-Rakshak?
Wow!Small town boy from Tamil Nadu reboots Microsoft
Read this:
More on the Islamist hate crimes
I thought Pakistanis berate Hindus for casteism. I thought this meant that Pakistanis don't have caste. Or do they?
OT:Inviting attention to: http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/05china.htm, Chinese turned away from ports, rediff news, August 05, 2006 12:38 IST. -- by P R Sanjai in Mumbai. "After months of dithering, the government has finally denied security clearance to three Chinese firms for operating in the Indian port sector. . . . "
This post should actually belong to Rajeev's earlier blog, http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2006/02/sensible-comment-on-vizhinjam-port.html, "sensible comment on the vizhinjam port project", [Wednesday, February 22, 2006], but I am putting it here to ensure that it would be noticed.
Jeeva, that link was pure, unadulterated fun!!! Wow, this Dr.Singhal is a real specimen. It's funny to see how stupid people can be.
No real need to read the article pointed to by Jeeva. It is just another missonary propaganda.
Did anyone notice that the text of the London Times story that san linked to does not include a single instance of the words "Islam" and "Muslim."
The subtitle reads: Children were made to watch an attack on a woman who was forbidden to marry outside her caste - which to a casual reader suggests the story is about Hindus since the word "caste" has been indelibly linked in the English mind with Hinduism!
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