07-04-2005, 03:36 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-abdul_bin_mao+Jul 3 2005, 09:15 PM-->QUOTE(abdul_bin_mao @ Jul 3 2005, 09:15 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Folks, this thread is to collect facts, evidence and analyses...
Incredibly, there are still desis who are unaware of much of this, and are being suckered every day by the glossy web pages and tear-jerking propaganda pamphlets of the AID-India. They claim that the "projects" of AID-INDIA are excellent. ...
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I can vouch for the pamphlets etc part. I had once, a long time ago, gone to an AID sponsored event in College Park. By the general "desi" atmosphere there, you would not know that these people were in cahoots with communists and naxals. And most of their "volunteers" were either genuinely taken for a ride or were laughing at us gullible Indians behind our backs. They were bending over backwards to show how they were all into uplifting the downtrodden etc. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Most desis just go to the events as "hey, they are showing XYZ at College Park", then when they are buying samosas in the break, the AIDers move in. No donor has any idea what their money will actually do; they are all taken in by the orphans on the pamphlets, as most good people will be.
AID has an icon all for itself: <!--emo&:liar liar--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/liar.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='liar.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Incredibly, there are still desis who are unaware of much of this, and are being suckered every day by the glossy web pages and tear-jerking propaganda pamphlets of the AID-India. They claim that the "projects" of AID-INDIA are excellent. ...
Comments/ info please.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I can vouch for the pamphlets etc part. I had once, a long time ago, gone to an AID sponsored event in College Park. By the general "desi" atmosphere there, you would not know that these people were in cahoots with communists and naxals. And most of their "volunteers" were either genuinely taken for a ride or were laughing at us gullible Indians behind our backs. They were bending over backwards to show how they were all into uplifting the downtrodden etc. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Most desis just go to the events as "hey, they are showing XYZ at College Park", then when they are buying samosas in the break, the AIDers move in. No donor has any idea what their money will actually do; they are all taken in by the orphans on the pamphlets, as most good people will be.
AID has an icon all for itself: <!--emo&:liar liar--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/liar.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='liar.gif' /><!--endemo-->