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Musty Tomes Full of Trouble

Bhaskar Dasgupta February 7, 2006

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#4 Posted by jang on February 7, 2006 4:18:00 pm
#1 {India has probably become the third most corrupt in the nation becuse of your new educated class; }

why 3rd most corrupt? which are #1 and #2?
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#3 Posted by Behram1 on February 7, 2006 2:37:06 pm
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#2 Posted by samosa on February 7, 2006 12:42:55 pm
Is the author going to join the conversations?
Can anyone point out changes that BJP Government introduced in History books while they were in power? I looked online and googled BJP +History +books and all I find is accusations but never a list of changes.
Was history ever revised in text book before BJP government?
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#1 Posted by Urstruly on February 7, 2006 11:33:11 am

There is a proverb in urdu language that says that in order to test the rice in a cauldren you only need to taste a few grains from it. If Indian chowk crowd is a representative ``strorm trooper`` outcome of your education system then may God help your country. The only people I see here who are psychotically obssessed with religion, especially other people`s religion, are your countrymen. Your education system may have produced next generation of clerks who use PCs instead of typewriters, and who shout in their cell phones rather than at their chaprasis but it has failed to produce decent human beings. India has probably become the third most corrupt in the nation becuse of your new educated class; with McCauley`s education and with majority illiterate at least there was some degree of honesty but now the sense of right and wrong has been lost. You call this education? So either the crowd here is a product of your education system or they are the people whose unwed mothers leave them on garbage dumps and they somehow survive and grow up hating everyone. Dasgupta sahib take off your horse blinkers and see where your country is standing today. Sure you are making more money now but so does a street thug.
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