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Buddy one advise for you...........try not to educate Indians about India just because sometime in your life you made a short trip to India. Ever wondered why the Indians were so "unreceptive" to you? Its because it pi$$es of Indians (whever they may belong) to be told by an outsider as to what is good for them and how they should do things. You were lucky because Indians are polite to outsiders and so they were just "unreceptive". Had it been me.........

You are the only person in the world who thinks that the dismemberment of Yugoslavia is a bad thing.

Sorry, there are a billion other Indians behind him who thinks the same way.

Just because you live in India, that doesn't mean you speak for most Indians. Take a trip into the rural areas of Bihar and Bengal and see how many of your fellow Indians share your feelings. Just because you are an Indian, that doesn't mean I cannot speak for those who would rather be free from Indian fiefdom. India wants to run a modern economy with dark age policies. They have preserved the worst aspects of the British raj, and have invented a few of their own.

He does speak for most Indians I know (and I know more Indians than you do) on the issue of political unity. Me and sukhoi are from diverse background. He is a south Indian Christian and I am Hindu bengali brahmin. I have seen and lived in rural Bengal and Bihar much more than you did. And I know how many Indians share his (sukhoi's) feelings as far as the unity of India goes. As Indians we may have our political differences on who or what party we support but if you tell an average Bihari that breaking India apart would be a good idea, the next thing you might know is you got yourself broken up.

Of course a billion Indians believe in a unified Yugoslavia. What else can I expect from a billion hungry mouths waiting in line to pick up their ration. If they felt otherwise, the central subsidies will evaporate instantly. Marshall Tito and Nehru were good friends. Tito must have taught his friend well how to keep different groups toe the govt line.

I just didn't take a short trip to India. I have lived there for close to six years. Two years in the seventies during the emergency, two years in the early eighties and two years in the late eighties, not to mention several trip in the nineties. Something always happens to someone in the Gandhi family when I show up. But, I have spent most of my life outside my country. I have lived in East Asia, Africa, and Europe. I have seen enough of the world to know what works and what doesn't and how govt controls its own citizens to perpetuate its own propaganda to keep a few in power.

It may mean very little to a Bengali babu, but I have made it my mission in life to spread freedom wherever I see oppression. That means you need to do more than raise tempest in your tea cup within the cosy confines of Coffee House. Come to think of it most good things in India in the modern era has taken place because of influence of outsiders. You need to go to your closest temple and perform a pooja to thank Warren Hastings, who did more social reform in India since Adi Sankaracharya. Also, just because I am an outsider that doesn't mean I don't know prejudice when I see it. I was in India the day Mrs Gandhi was assassinated. What followed in Delhi and many other parts of India for the next few days was nothing short of ethnic cleansing. I was able to hide two Sikh families in the American and British embassy. I can guarantee you they didn't care what my nationality was. Spending one week in Delhi in the middle of hell changed me forever. Too late my Bengali babu, every oppressed person in the world is my business. If it alters your little universe from Ballygunge to Shyambazar, then you better get used to living with me. I am coming for two months to work in Haldia outside Calcutta. Maybe I will stop by to proselytize.