06-20-2011, 08:38 PM
As an addendum to the above post, the BJP/NDA's "gifts" to India were: EVM's, foreign ownership of press which will one day lead to foreign ownership of India, and last but certainly not the least, the Italian plague. Of course, one musn't forget the botched and faked thermonuclear test. As an aside, those readers who have worked in Europe know what the productive parts of Europe (Germany, France, UK, Scandinavia notably Sweden, Holland, and even Switzerland) think of Italians. They think they are pathological liars and bullshitters. While Switzerland has a sizable Italian population, they've been civilized by the Teutonic influence. In Russia, the only two Italian contributions were vodka and syphillis. Even today in Russia, syphillis is often referred to as the "Italian disease".
In my case, I felt ashamed and could only put on a stony face when in the beginning some of my colleagues used to ask me as to why a nation of 1 billion people needed a "fu***ng wop", who cannot relate the the bulk of the masses in any way, form, or manner, to rule them. I've taught them never to ask me such questions again, but the innate shame and feeling of disgrace remains.
In my case, I felt ashamed and could only put on a stony face when in the beginning some of my colleagues used to ask me as to why a nation of 1 billion people needed a "fu***ng wop", who cannot relate the the bulk of the masses in any way, form, or manner, to rule them. I've taught them never to ask me such questions again, but the innate shame and feeling of disgrace remains.