The following piece is written by an eminent Indian - a one-time contender for UNO's Secretary-Generalship. He is a noted writer plus a Wodehouse lover. I don't question his right to hold the view he expresses, but I do not agree with him. What he advocates can be done even without kicking out Kipling from our midst. ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India 13/04/2008 The Hindu THE SHASHI THAROOR COLUMN Losing our heads to Kipling? Fine words strung together in praise of the morally indefensible: that was Kipling every time, and the sonorous cadences of "If", alas, are no exception. It is time to retire this poem from our curriculums. It is time to relegate Kipling to the darkest recesses of our history, where he and his ilk belong. And then perhaps we can offer new closing lines to our fellow citizens who spurn Kipling: "Yours is the land and everything that's in it, /And - which is more - you'll be an Indian, my son!" [snip] http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2008/04/13/stories/2008041350070300.htm

'nicer if he understood the last lines of "IF" don't you think??? MMegan S. Mills PHD198 St Helen'sToronto CDA M6H 4A1 > From: bosham@gmail.com> To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:17:05 +0530> Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Time to relegate Kipling to the darkest recesses of our history??> > The following piece is written by an eminent Indian - a one-time> contender for UNO's Secretary-Generalship. He is a noted writer > plus a Wodehouse lover. I don't question his right to hold the view > he expresses, but I do not agree with him. What he advocates can > be done even without kicking out Kipling from our midst. > > ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar> Nagpur, India> > 13/04/2008 The Hindu> > THE SHASHI THAROOR COLUMN> Losing our heads to Kipling?> > Fine words strung together in praise of the morally indefensible: that > was Kipling every time, and the sonorous cadences of "If", alas, are no > exception. It is time to retire this poem from our curriculums. It is time > to relegate Kipling to the darkest recesses of our history, where he and > his ilk belong. And then perhaps we can offer new closing lines to our > fellow citizens who spurn Kipling: "Yours is the land and everything > that's in it, /And - which is more - you'll be an Indian, my son!" [snip]> > http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2008/04/13/stories/2008041350070300.htm> > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message> >

too bad that Shashi Tharoor failed to understand the poem! M > From: bosham@gmail.com> To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:17:05 +0530> Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Time to relegate Kipling to the darkest recesses of our history??> > The following piece is written by an eminent Indian - a one-time> contender for UNO's Secretary-Generalship. He is a noted writer > plus a Wodehouse lover. I don't question his right to hold the view > he expresses, but I do not agree with him. What he advocates can > be done even without kicking out Kipling from our midst. > > ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar> Nagpur, India> > 13/04/2008 The Hindu> > THE SHASHI THAROOR COLUMN> Losing our heads to Kipling?> > Fine words strung together in praise of the morally indefensible: that > was Kipling every time, and the sonorous cadences of "If", alas, are no > exception. It is time to retire this poem from our curriculums. It is time > to relegate Kipling to the darkest recesses of our history, where he and > his ilk belong. And then perhaps we can offer new closing lines to our > fellow citizens who spurn Kipling: "Yours is the land and everything > that's in it, /And - which is more - you'll be an Indian, my son!" [snip]> > http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2008/04/13/stories/2008041350070300.htm> > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message> >