02-01-2008, 02:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-01-2008, 02:44 AM by Bharatvarsh.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As to Bharat Varsh's point on climate and Lanka, I've been to Lanka and I can say that the cricket team is hardly a true representative. Many Lankans are fair, some of them as white as Kashmiris or Punjabis.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Then how exactly is it that they are not found in the cricket team, it is drawn from the general population I assume.
Advani is not as white as a "caucasian", if by that you mean a white man, he can't pass for one (if only he could all the vellai thol worshipping clowns in Bharat would clamour for him instead of Sonia Mata) and most Indians are supposed to be "caucasian" irrespective of skin colour.
From what I know ancient sanskrit literature (i do not have the exact reference with me now but it is in one of Elst's books) classified Indians into:
Gaura (fair) = North
Pandu (pale) = N.West
Shyama (dark/dusky) = East
Krishna (Black) = South
That is generally the case.
Then how exactly is it that they are not found in the cricket team, it is drawn from the general population I assume.
Advani is not as white as a "caucasian", if by that you mean a white man, he can't pass for one (if only he could all the vellai thol worshipping clowns in Bharat would clamour for him instead of Sonia Mata) and most Indians are supposed to be "caucasian" irrespective of skin colour.
From what I know ancient sanskrit literature (i do not have the exact reference with me now but it is in one of Elst's books) classified Indians into:
Gaura (fair) = North
Pandu (pale) = N.West
Shyama (dark/dusky) = East
Krishna (Black) = South
That is generally the case.