http://blogs.sanmathi.org/anasuya/2006/08/17/ignorant-mps/ Anasuya's musings and amusings about life, the universe and whatever Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:20:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/anasuya/2006/08/17/ignorant-mps/#comment-90 silkboard Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:00:31 +0000 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/anasuya/2006/08/17/ignorant-mps/#comment-90 late reply, but yes, shall we? Mail me your list, I will mail you mine. And then we can cross-post the merged mother of all lists. late reply, but yes, shall we? Mail me your list, I will mail you mine. And then we can cross-post the merged mother of all lists.

]]> http://blogs.sanmathi.org/anasuya/2006/08/17/ignorant-mps/#comment-89 anasuya Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:08:26 +0000 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/anasuya/2006/08/17/ignorant-mps/#comment-89 Hi, Silkboard... says a lot about our so-called ejkashun! Frightening (though a better percentage than the MPs). Perhaps we should collaborate on one of those 'All you wanted to know and were too embarrassed to ask' lists. What say? Hi, Silkboard… says a lot about our so-called ejkashun! Frightening (though a better percentage than the MPs). Perhaps we should collaborate on one of those ‘All you wanted to know and were too embarrassed to ask’ lists. What say?

]]> http://blogs.sanmathi.org/anasuya/2006/08/17/ignorant-mps/#comment-88 silkboard Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:28:50 +0000 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/anasuya/2006/08/17/ignorant-mps/#comment-88 BTW, I asked 10 random young folks in my office - who wrote Jana Gana Mana. 4 of them said Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. BTW, I asked 10 random young folks in my office - who wrote Jana Gana Mana. 4 of them said Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.

]]> http://blogs.sanmathi.org/anasuya/2006/08/17/ignorant-mps/#comment-87 Gladly Beyond Any Distance :: Nothing but sound and fury? Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:55:17 +0000 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/anasuya/2006/08/17/ignorant-mps/#comment-87 [...] Granted, I think of the nation as an imagined community, courtesy Benedict Anderson, but the alleys and hyperboles of this landscape tend to reach two dead ends: one, of too much imagination (in that too many people imagine the nation in too many different ways; i.e. when do the joys of pluralism get overwhelmed by the dangers of confusion?) and the other, of too little imagination (in that too few people seem to have the power to change the nature of the nation for the greater good, and those who do, hardly seem to think about it at all). [...] [...] Granted, I think of the nation as an imagined community, courtesy Benedict Anderson, but the alleys and hyperboles of this landscape tend to reach two dead ends: one, of too much imagination (in that too many people imagine the nation in too many different ways; i.e. when do the joys of pluralism get overwhelmed by the dangers of confusion?) and the other, of too little imagination (in that too few people seem to have the power to change the nature of the nation for the greater good, and those who do, hardly seem to think about it at all). [...]

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