{"id":5208,"date":"2008-01-09T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2008-01-09T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T12:13:00","slug":"dont-worry-about-coke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/dont-worry-about-coke\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Worry About Coke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All hail the WTF quote of the day:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Drinking Coke has not Coca Colarised India.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Who said these words? It takes a special mind to come up with such a profound insight, and offer us reassurance that will help us sleep at night: It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/in.rediff.com\/news\/2008\/jan\/08pbd4.htm\" title=\"'Drinking Coke has not Coca Colarised India'\">none other than Shashi Tharoor<\/a>. What would we do without him?<\/p>\n<p>(Earlier on Tharoor: <a href=\"\/shashi-tharoor-the-conviction-of-banality\/\" title=\"Shashi Tharoor: The Conviction of Banality\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"\/xerox-machines-and-democracy\/\" title=\"Xerox Machines and Democracy?\">2<\/a>. Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/dandavinci.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Andy\">Andy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Reader Ragini Srinivasan writes in to point out that Tharoor has used versions of this line &#8220;in his columns and recent books.&#8221; For example, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iitbombay.org\/info\/news\/shashitharoor122306.htm\" title=\"Shashi Tharoor gives a speech. Yawwwwn!\">a 2006 lecture<\/a>, Tharoor said: &#8220;India&#8217;s recent experience with Western consumer products demonstrates that we can drink Coca-Cola without becoming coca-colonized.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The possibility exists, thus, that Rediff reported &#8220;coca-colonized&#8221; as &#8220;Coca Colarised&#8221;. Either way, it&#8217;s a banal observation, even if the wordplay would make a <\/p>\n<p><s><\/p>\n<p>ninth-standard<\/p>\n<p><\/s><\/p>\n<p> seventh-standard student proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All hail the WTF quote of the day:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Drinking Coke has not Coca Colarised India.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Who said these words? It takes a special mind to come up with such a profound insight, and offer us reassurance that will help us sleep at night: It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/in.rediff.com\/news\/2008\/jan\/08pbd4.htm\" title=\"'Drinking Coke has not Coca Colarised India'\">none other than Shashi Tharoor<\/a>. What would we do without him?<\/p>\n<p>(Earlier on Tharoor: <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/shashi-tharoor-the-conviction-of-banality\/\" title=\"Shashi Tharoor: The Conviction of Banality\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/xerox-machines-and-democracy\/\" title=\"Xerox Machines and Democracy?\">2<\/a>. Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/dandavinci.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Andy\">Andy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Reader Ragini Srinivasan writes in to point out that Tharoor has used versions of this line &#8220;in his columns and recent books.&#8221; For example, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iitbombay.org\/info\/news\/shashitharoor122306.htm\" title=\"Shashi Tharoor gives a speech. Yawwwwn!\">a 2006 lecture<\/a>, Tharoor said: &#8220;India&#8217;s recent experience with Western consumer products demonstrates that we can drink Coca-Cola without becoming coca-colonized.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The possibility exists, thus, that Rediff reported &#8220;coca-colonized&#8221; as &#8220;Coca Colarised&#8221;. Either way, it&#8217;s a banal observation, even if the wordplay would make a <\/p>\n<p><s><\/p>\n<p>ninth-standard<\/p>\n<p><\/s><\/p>\n<p> seventh-standard student proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Don\u2019t Worry About Coke - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/dont-worry-about-coke\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Don\u2019t Worry About Coke - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All hail the WTF quote of the day: Drinking Coke has not Coca Colarised India. 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