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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Mountbatten series
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Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 22:29:00 EST
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>/* Written 11:04 am  Mar  6, 1986 by mukesh@epistemi.UUCP */
>Finally I would like to know why India has such aweful politicians.
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>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.

Hope you don't mind a near Brit butting in on a frivolous note.
I think mukesh meant "awful", but I ask you whether "aweful" does
not apply to the way much of the Indian public views politicians.
I always have in my mind a news clip showing Mrs. Gandhi being
showered in flower petals and being given gifts in some country 
village - in the middle of martial law. Almost the way people treat
a king - or a god-king.

Reaction?

Andy "Krazy" Glew. Gould CSD-Urbana. 
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