If asked to discern a common symbolism behind George Bush's flamboyant visit to London, his furtive presence in Baghdad, and Jamaican poet Zephaniah's spurning the Order of the British Empire (OBE), I would say they represent the death throes of the imperialistic thrust behind the White Man's Burden.
VICHARAMALA no.33 Thoughts on issues of current interest [my comments - as an Indian citizen - within square brackets], including instances of some double standards of our public figures, especially in the construction of Indian identity (all those Macaulayan myths, and the hypocrisy that is Nehruvian secularism) - Krishen Kak
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