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From: raj@umcp-cs.UUCP (Raj Bhatnagar)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Mountbatten series
Message-ID: <197@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 10:00:49 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 10:00:49 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Mar-86 05:26:33 EST
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Reply-To: raj@maryland.UUCP (Raj Bhatnagar)
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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In article <584@epistemi.UUCP> mukesh@epistemi.UUCP (Mukesh Patel) writes:

>Finally I would like to know why India has such aweful politicians.
>Do the people really deserve them?  Or are they the dregs left behind by 
>the huge brain drain of Indian intellectuals?  Maybe we should have a chat 
>about this.
>
If by aweful you mean corrupt, then ... Yes, people really deserve them.
Don't we have plenty of corrupt administrators, corrupt civil servants,
corrupt businessmen and traders...! Corruption seems to have become
acceptable aspect in one's character and this gets reflected in the
set of politicians also. Afterall, they are selected by society and
can not have traits unacceptable to the society !  

No, they are not the dregs left behind by the huge brain drain. I can
interpret such a thought only as an exercise in self-appeasement by the
"Drained Brain".
 
There is no shortage of 'brain' in India. It takes a lot of 'brain' to
survive in Indian politics also! What we lack is a strong national
character. The causes and fixes for this deficiency is another question.

Raj Bhatnagar.