party and there is a city wide strike across Delhi because the government is SEALING SHUT all businesses operating in residential areas (many of whom have been doing so for decades) and you can't buy anything?- Grab your Lonely Planet and Learn to speak Hindi books, don your "I love Africa" T-shirt, stick Tabard, Valoid, Blackcurrant Rehidrat and suncream in your belt (me);
- Put lipstick all over your face and give yourself a really bad glasses tan (Lauren);
- Wear socks with your sandals (Chanda);
- Pull your pants up to your armpits, smash on a veld hat and hang your binocs around your neck (Nic);
and go as TOURISTS.
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3 comments:
Hmmm! To represent an evil spirit of Pagan Origin,why worry about painting your face or dress up or is it down!! God sent you this opportunity to be your true self and the strike could not have been more opportune. The Americans should have just said we are 'Americans '. We would have smelt sulphur over the blog.To make things apparent they could have pasted a copy of Goon Bush on their face. To make things even simpler a copy of Michael Moore's ' Intelligent White Men 'in their hand would have been so apt.
British / Scots / Irish could have carried a copy of 'William Goose Pimple's book named 'Last Mughal'. We in the brown & black world are still recovering from their wanton destruction and loot of the wealth of our country.
The Queen of England still owes us our 'Kohinoor' diamond and Peacock throne looted by greedy company ( East India ) officials
If all of you are from modern day transnational corporates.....then no need for all this crazy stuff.
We all know, that most of you come to push products and services without doing any adequate home work for our needs and worrying about long term sustainibility or commitments or ramification of your deeds.
Halle Halloween.
Hmmmmm Anonymous. You sure have a lot to say. Maybe you should think about creating a blog/public forum of your own on which to air your views - I think that you may be close to exceeding the size quota of the comment box!
ha ha, anonymous, this is another anonymous following this blog- you are hilariously parochial and close-minded. It is thoroughly entertaining. You accuse the writer of being narrow, where in fact you are the same... do you not think india is benefiting from the FDI it is receiving and creating, do you not think the growth story will contribute to upflifting those who are disadvantaged, in some way ( yes, even though the caste system might distort this distribution of wealth), do you really think the "India growth story" being spoken around the world is not a good thing? It is said that India will the 3rd biggest economy in 15 years time, your middle class is burgeoning- it would not happen with out foreign investment, and India Inc is going on the acquisition spree outside of India too. Perhaps you should get involved in this exciting period of your country's history, where at last it is recovering from the colonial injustices of the past, instead of writing inane comments on what seems to me a well balanced and fascinating travelogue. PS. Without the British occupiers- you wouldn't have cricket ( which would be a disaster and I wouldn't have been able to go to and thoroughly enjoy the ICC games) and you wouldn't have one of the world's best, ubiquitous and reliable train networks.
PPS. Is it not a bit precocious of you to criticise Darymple, who's every account is tirelessy researched and well written and acclaimed? Are you able to bring achievements such as In Xanadu and City of Djinns to the table-- so that you bring some credibility to your comments? He has also brought great exposure to the fascinating history of your country- an entertaining historian is quite rare.
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