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I really hope that, the NRI community (or Kammanaatti, as a friend jokingly refers to them all the time, being a  much hoary, dyed-in-the-fool NRI himself!) gets it act together and makes him busy elsewhere.

It is my fervent plea to the Amerikkan Indian Diaperspora, puhlease!

Puhlease save us – the hapless and development_challenged Indians who have been left behind – and of course, yourselves.

And ah, add to this basic raw material, the pleasures of long distance fumin’ & frettin’ and lamentin’ the lack of everything in an essentially feudal society such as India – yes, I know what I am talking about. It is oh so easy to watch a couple of videos, readup/lookup about  the release date of a book and make some random causal connections, rather indifferently at that, and pontificate ad nauseam. And yes again, I know what I am talking about.

As a person afflicted with the same boorish asinine logical flow of thoughts, I commiserate with the plights of punsies of the aforesaid HH.

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Sirs and Ma’ams – I do not have any problems with the opinions and scholarly take of  AK  about Asokamitran’s work, and the Dravidian Zeitgeist, the sad state of Indian science etc etc; actually, I did not and do not plan to know much about this Ilayaraja-youthfulIdiot spat and of course, Vijayakanth spat.

I also agree that USA gives the fundamental liberty of free expression (devoid of logic sometimes, but what the heck) and I really love that AK is able to make full use of it, in all its blunder.

Worse still, I actually like AK’s prose style, long winding sentences – and hell, I do tend to agree with quite a few of his takes – but not necessarily his logic.  Mind you, before I came to this stellar conclusion, I wanted to get to know what his ideas are/were about etc, and have read the whole of his blog, mommeee, over the past few months or so. I feel that, he is generally good intentioned, but sometimes, in his over enthusiasm to prove his point (or pointlessness, as the case maybe), routinely takes major leaps of faith and enters into territories, that do not exactly seem to be his forte. This is a MAJOR problem for him and his hapless readers like yours truly. And this is because, though he does his homework & provides references, he does not do a very thorough job of it. This is rather unfortunate. Of course, I understand that, being in IT industry, one tends to become mediocre across many fields. Yes, I know myself.

However, I really really wish, he did his homework properly, at least henceforth.

He should not have a problem here – as, unlike the feudally wilting India, doesn’t the democratically vibrant USA, give access to all kinds of fantastic resources and materials?

Otherwise, I really wish him all the very bust. Seriously.

Now, I just want to take, one simple/sample bit of AK’s essay and subject it to a surgical scalpel. But then, it will have to wait for the next post.

Sorry indeed are our half-bakery.com factories and their monopolistic owners, that dish out perennial wisdom – just because there is a good Internet connection available, and there is enough free time so that we can freely ‘air’ our jaundiced and half-baked views. We revel in mediocrity and in our learned gasbag opinions. We are insufferable.

hmm… and in spite of us, life goes on; life lumbers along in delirium. But remember friends…