{"id":5519,"date":"2007-06-11T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2007-06-11T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T05:59:00","slug":"analysing-indias-backwardness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/analysing-indias-backwardness\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysing India\u2019s backwardness"},"content":{"rendered":"
Aadisht Khanna<\/a> sends me a mail in which he raises my hopes by speaking of a comics store he went to recently with “a nine inch Cthulu figure on display,” but then shifts the topic to other things, and ends the mail by writing:<\/p>\n By the way, on the topic of using pretty Chinese girls to drive sales, also check out Wikipedia on Betel Nut Beauties<\/a> and the Flickr photoset<\/a>. Taiwan has betelnut beauties and we have paanwaalas<\/i>. This is why we are still third world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I strongly object. There may not be a “Flickr photoset” (pah!) on Paanwaalas<\/i>, but they are part of our culture and we should be proud of them. <\/p>\n Indeed, I now withdraw my previous nomination for president<\/a>, and insist that we elect a paanwaala<\/i> to that august position. Imagine the hospitality visiting dignitaries will get. And the cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aadisht Khanna<\/a> sends me a mail in which he raises my hopes by speaking of a comics store he went to recently with “a nine inch Cthulu figure on display,” but then shifts the topic to other things, and ends the mail by writing:<\/p>\n By the way, on the topic of using pretty Chinese girls to drive sales, also check out Wikipedia on Betel Nut Beauties<\/a> and the Flickr photoset<\/a>. Taiwan has betelnut beauties and we have paanwaalas<\/i>. This is why we are still third world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I strongly object. There may not be a “Flickr photoset” (pah!) on Paanwaalas<\/i>, but they are part of our culture and we should be proud of them. <\/p>\n\n
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