India Rearview Mirror
Judith Klinghoffer, Indiablogging, posts on the anti-Americanism and Soviet nostalgia of India’s elite … which seems awfully shortsighted to me for a country already under attack by Muslim extremists from within and without.
Topics: india
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:14 am on Monday, February 12, 2007
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February 12th, 2007 at 9:47 am
So, your scholarly Americans have complained: “The vast majority of us have experienced long delays in receiving our grants, while most still pending as of December 13, 2006. Those whose grants are pending have received no funding or accurate information that would help us to plan for the future, and many of us are without income and health insurance,” they said.
“No health insurance?!?!? Scandalous!
Is that the sound of the world’s smallest violin I hear?
Have any of you gone to The United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI) site?
“The Fulbright fellowships for Indian scholars are announced in the month of April each year, in leading newspapers in India, for awards tenable the following year.”
Tenable the following year?!?!? It’s a goddamned academic boycott is what it is!
How on earth are those poor Indian scholars going to be able to plan anything or find health insurance?!?!?
Scandalous!
Also at HNN, the big story is ” Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: British author jailed for jaywalking in Atlanta”
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe, Jules, you should’ve gone with that story instead.
February 12th, 2007 at 10:47 am
The key word here is Indian ‘elite’. And Indian academic. In other words, those that benefited, and benefit, from the status quo and cannot look past the old Indian relationships.
I don’t think (well, I know) you don’t find those old attitudes so enshrined in the growing Indian middle-class that is benefitting greatly from an opening (slowly) economy. Have a heart! The elites are rattled with the ‘new’ India and so they turn to what they know best. The old pain of colonialism and dreams of socialism.
The important thing is to develop relationships, as Americans, with the growing middle class that likely gives Bush his relatively approval ratings, particularly after his visit. You know, for someone who supposedly doesn’t do diplomacy, that bit of diplomacy went well. Another reason the elites are rattled……
February 12th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Arrgh. That last post was so riddled with typos and errors. I have got to learn to proofread before I hit submit!