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Saturday, 31 July 2010

British PM in India : Cartoon Tota-Myna

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  1. This is not a problem of the British. It is a problem of the market. They want to sell and make you buy whatever. They do it in education, in food and everything. they need not be white or black they just have to market. It is just your luck that what they market is physically destructive. Are some of the ideas of development being marketed and sold any less dangerous? One does not know. The only difference is that there some are perhaps some good things when we talk of marketing of goods for development and only some are bad. Here from our perspective no cache or type of arms can be good. Also 1857 is just notional, kings and rulers have been fighting being instigated to fight across the world with borrowed/ hired mercenaries and bought ammunition. ammunition does not belong to where it is created. belongs to no where and to everywhere.

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  2. My fellow birds are back! This time with numbers and history.As gentleman Hardy said we have been importing arms for some time.
    Was it the Aryans(luckily not the German ones or may be not luckily after all the Manu troubles which still haunt us) who thundered in with the Central Asian horses? Well if you are not happy with the horse weapons certainly 1526 brought in the thundering cannons from the Central Asia with the Mughals.The resulting peaceful Lodis now at peace(or otherwise) in Lodi gardens.I am not sure where the guns for the individuals came in with the Jesuits or Clive but the individuals lead to the collective army (I wonder Taposh who believes the individual is dream while the collective brings the measurable results would celebrate this collective) of the British and the rest as they say is history.
    The only thing for me to celebrate has been the Gunpowder tea which is the army cooking tea leaves with milk and sugar; strong brew to blow.That is celebrated by every tea stall in northern,central and easern India.

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  3. Earlier I have seen the myna and the tota wearing black and white clothes and later different colours. Is it the seasons, age or does it have deeper nonbiological significance.
    As usual I wonder.

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  4. If nothing can stay veiled from Ulloo`s gaze , so be it . Actually there are several tota-mynas . It is an active forest--all real forests always are -- and every little bird is clued up to the world , and not only through satellite TV. All plumages may be seen , including black n white.

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