Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 02:26:10 -0500
From: rahul-AT-peaches.ph.utexas.edu (Rahul Mahajan)
Subject: India 4


I have a simple question for all of you Marxists:

Why is it that so few of you have any interest in India or knowledge about
it?  India is home to 1/6 of all of humanity and 1/5 if one includes
Pakistan and Bangladesh. It doesn't seem at all tolerable that so little
interest is placed on the world's second most populous and certainly most
"in flux" country in the world.

It is really important for me to get honest answers to this question, one
that has puzzled me for years and one that puzzles all Indians who actually
aren't under the delusion that any gives a shit for their country.

Could it be that any one of the many facets of India is not fashionable:
the racial composition of its people, its lack of involvement with the US,
and its desire to chart out a course for the Third World (not nowadays,
mind you, but in the late forties and early fifties, just after
Independence.)

How many of you list Jawaharlal Nehru as an important figure in recent history?

Please do tell.

Romi Mhajan




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