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Mohandas Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani were the two most famous scions of the Modh Bania, a Hindu commercial caste based in the arid Saurashtra peninsula of India's western Gujarat state. The Mahatma idealized traditional village ways, passive resistance, and homespun cotton. Ambani, a billionaire industrialist, preached prosperity to a burgeoning Indian middle-class via a business empire built on polyester...
...people"), he is loath to ascribe any cultural significance to Seinfeld, even while in a somewhat valedictory mood. The show's aims, he insists, are entirely unpretentious: "I really aspire to The Abbott and Costello Show. That's my favorite sitcom. We walk down the street and bump into Bania, the bad comedian, the way Lou Costello would bump into Stinky, and then a scene comes out of it. That's classic. It's burlesque." One quickly learns that Seinfeld, like most comedians, can talk about comedy endlessly and with great depth of knowledge of both its history...
...shares all the Socialist's emotional tenets about the capitalist order. In consequence, he has the Socialist's undisguised contempt for capitalism, reinforced by the aristocratic Brahman's contempt for the bania (shopkeeper) caste. He speaks of the "bania civilization of the capitalist West," of the West's "cutthroat civilization." Utterly unlike Gandhi, he admires modern production methods, and wants to bring them to India (he has announced that India will in time develop her own atomic energy program). But as a Socialist he believes that capitalism, after its prodigies of production, is bound to make...
...affaires for many years, were both recalled from Albania and succeeded by the present Minister, William Seeds. 3) The Italian Minister to Albania, Baron Pompeo Aloisi, allegedly transmitted through his office "two black bags filled with Italian money" which arrived from Italy addressed to President Zogu of Al- bania while the treaty was pending. 4) President Zogu has allegedly informed the Jugoslavian chargé d'affaires, M. George Colom- batovitch, that he had no choice but to sign the treaty, since the Italians had perfected means to foment a revolt in Albania which would have swept him (Zogu) out of power...
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