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...advised his cadres to burn his body and not allow it to be discovered by government forces, but Prabhakaran's intentions - let alone his whereabouts - are difficult to determine. "He rarely allows anyone other than his trusted lieutenants to get physically near him," says retired Indian army intelligence officer Ramani Hariharan, who was stationed in Sri Lanka from 1987 to 1990. "Now probably very few people even among the top LTTE leaders - so few are alive today - will have direct access...
...Bina Ramani, an uppity fashion designer from India, is currently touring the U.S. She was at Harvard, one recent Friday night, and I sat through her revolting fashion show. The event was presented by Dudley House with the cooperation of Air India...
...announcer welcomed the audience to what he described was a "East meets West" night at Harvard. For me, what symbolized this quintessential East meets West circus was the announcer's violent mispronunciation of each and every Indian name that he uttered, including that of the fashion designer Bina Ramani...
...cultural con-artists can claim to find any trace of the cultural roots of the Afghani and Iranian refugees who purportedly handcrafted the convoluted designs. I find it difficult to believe (a doubt which some of my friends from Delhi confirm) that even the elite in Delhi, where Ms. Ramani has a boutique, would venture their bodies into the tinseled town clothes that passed for "the East...
...whenever "East meets West" someone is buying or selling something? I will admit that trade, call it free-trade if you will, does benefit some in the East. But these parasitical beneficiaries, the Bina Ramani's, are vastly out-numbered by those whose lives the West insists on mispronouncing. Have no delusions, the bare subsistence level wages of the Afghani and Iranian refugee workers and more critically, the Indian craftsmen (and women) displaced by a greedy designer's quest for lower production costs, can find no reason to celebrate this capitalistic intercourse of East and West. As my friend...