The May-June 2010 issue of the Brown Alumni Magazine (Brown University being where I got a MS degree in Computer Science) carries a feature on my book Roadrunner by Beth Schwartzapfel. Beth and I had a phone conversation earlier this year, based on which she wrote this essay: What is Patriotism?.
Your thoughts welcome.
PS: The photograph on that page is one of my favourites from the weeks I spent roaming the US for this book.
PS #2: I trust you can figure out which photograph on that page I mean.
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5 comments:
" So he returned to the United States to see if he could learn anything that might help him understand his own country's history and conflicts"
What a load crock. The trip appeared to be to gather pics/material for a book. How would driving across USA help understand India's history. Oh wait did that mean one has to start with an understanding of that misnomer "Indians" attributed to the natives ?
" So he returned to the United States to see if he could learn anything that might help him understand his own country's history and conflicts"
What a load of crock. The trip appeared to be to gather pics/material for a book. How would driving across USA help understand India's history. Oh wait did that mean one has to start with an understanding of that misnomer "Indians" attributed to the natives ?
And this "He wonders whether an Indian war memorial he once visited might ever honor Pakistanis who have died in the decades-long conflict."
Yes, We need a memorial for Ajmal Kasab (if he is ever strung up) !
When that Country refused to even accept the dead soldier's remains and the Indian Army took care of the last rites even in the face of having received mutilated bodies of Indian Soldiers, we surely need a big memorial for the ISI.
> How would driving across USA
> help understand India's history.
Its' called "perspective".
But may be you have to know your own name, not cower namelesly, in order to understand it.
Gurpreet
It's hardly an essay. More like a spotty precis. India and Pakistan ... the children of abusive parents... will take generations to recover. If ever.
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