So clever of him, ancient men should not barge in and spoil the show. Leave some space for the future so that what you have written can be revised to fit the times.” The rest of what there is to say will be said by your interpreters. You said all you had to say in your time. “Utter not a word more,” Rama Murthy threatened, his slender face fuming to a hibiscus, “say not a word more. Next time he deserves more respect, the devil in him. He too was there with the great ancient men, it was revealing. “Who gave you permission.,” he growled, “who gave you permission to read more into what I had written?” International communism's founder and architect viciously stared at the audience from behind his full and flowing beard, as if it was all the fault of the petrified audience. The first to show up on the rostrum was Karl Marx himself, the man who had made the twentieth century, depending on one's perspective, either an experience in revolting or a revolting experience. Because some people were attempting to make calls from bulky mobile phones, it had to be the last decade of the previous millennium. The time also could be worked out with a little bit of observation. The geographical identity was evident from the pseudo intellectuals who had just deposited their stiff and seemingly attentive physical bodies on the orange plastic chairs and then gone out ethereally wandering in the shopping malls in the midst of the city. The venue was undoubtedly a seminar hall of a major university in India, most likely in Delhi. The government would do well to follow our example. In our private lives, we choose our friends carefully. The Chinese do not trust us as individuals and they do not like democracy. As a foreigner, you cannot travel anywhere in China without a communist “keeper”. It's common sense to diversify, and India is the best way to go. India makes a much better friend because we share a common bond of language and British colonial heritage. Why should the Western world care about India? Because we depend far too much on communist China. Were it not for them, the cities would starve, and emerging industrialization would come to a screeching stop. It is on their strong backs that the rest of the country is carried forward. For in India, like everywhere else in the developing world, capital is created by the sweat equity of millions of poor farmers who toil willingly from sunup to sundown in an effort to coax cash crops from the soil. Yes, India has gained entry to the exclusive group of nations with nuclear weapons, but far more important in terms of development is the fact that India is a democracy with a vast reserve of labor, much of which is English speaking, for the global market to exploit. The difference between it and others is one of epic proportions in that an entire nation-India, the largest country in the world with more than a billion people (much larger than China and, unlike China, continuing to grow at a booming double digit rate)-comes of age and takes its rightful place among the leading nations of the world. Such Stuff We Are Made Of is a classic coming-of-age story.
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