[Assam] Assam:FROM INDIA BUSINESS SCHOOLS --2

[Chan Mahanta]

BK:


Another thing:

>As Indians, we feel happy to get good news about 
>our expatriate friends in spite of the ground 
>realities of which I am >keenly aware.


*** I am curious about this "us Indians" thingie.

I have always wondered WHY Indians like you ( I 
say you, because I don't consider myself either 
an Indian and certainly not one like you describe 
:-)) get so euphoric about it, and often extend 
the euphoria to include all their kind, even 
though you don't?


Could it be due to a debilitating national 
inferiority complex,self doubt, no doubt born of 
centuries of colonial subjugation;that when 
some-one of their kind gets noticed by their 
once-tormentors, they think, finally they have 
arrived, they are getting RESPECT ?

And could the same affliction be the reason for 
so many Kharkhowas' inferiority complex and 
self-doubt? This time born out of dependence on 
and similar subjugation of Indian colonialism in 
Assam, even though the latter may not be as overt 
as British colonialism was, but more insidious 
and pervasive?

Even though I don't consider the syndrome 
malevolent, I find it quite tacky. I will be the 
first one to acknowledge a fellow person's 
success. But would I want to wrap myself up with 
the reflected glow of his or her celebrity, like 
we see desis do so often, all over this darned 
internet and in the desi-media?

Would you?

Does it reflect a paucity of individualism that so plague desis?

Best.

c






At 5:09 AM +0100 8/26/06, umesh sharma wrote:
>
>BBaruah at aol.com wrote:
>
>Chandan/Umesh
>
>As Indians, we feel happy to get good news about 
>our expatriate friends in spite of the ground 
>realities of which I am keenly aware. Have no 
>intention to make a song and dance about it.
>
>Most able will race ahead, whether it is USA or 
>Namti.  Despite barriers like age, sex, colour, 
>creed,  want of  prescribed qualifications, 
>family connections, etc.  This particular kind 
>of ability â*“ I am speaking from experience â*“ 
>some of us do possess, particularly in India.
>
>Bhuban
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