02-25-2008, 11:17 PM
Though I do not fully agree with the ways of Raj, I thought his posers to LK Advani was good. Raj is not doing something so out of way than what Modi or LK did. He his galvanizing people for a "cause". It might be a different matter if he really believes in the cause or he is just piggy-backing to gain political victory.
I think Raj does raise some interesting questions about local culture and its dilution from outsiders. When there is one outside immigrant nothing much happens to the locals, same when there are two, five, ten, hundreds of immigrants. But when there are thousands of immigrants then definitely there begins a tug of war, and the local culture has chances of dilution or evolution. For one person it is dilution, for the other it is evolution or a change.
India is not a homogeneous entity and intra-country immigration brings the cultural baggage and politicians, officials and people have to deal with it.
I think Raj does raise some interesting questions about local culture and its dilution from outsiders. When there is one outside immigrant nothing much happens to the locals, same when there are two, five, ten, hundreds of immigrants. But when there are thousands of immigrants then definitely there begins a tug of war, and the local culture has chances of dilution or evolution. For one person it is dilution, for the other it is evolution or a change.
India is not a homogeneous entity and intra-country immigration brings the cultural baggage and politicians, officials and people have to deal with it.