neo-Orientalism (ii)

Dominik Wujastyk ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK
Wed Nov 1 11:16:27 UTC 2000


On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, RM. Krishnan wrote:
> At 06:59 PM 10/30/00 +0100, Prof. Zydenbos wrote:
> >Apparently I angered LS when I wrote
[...]
> > I am rather surprised that anyone (an Indian?)
> >should take offence when I say that India is culturally greater than any
> >single
> >Western country - because that is what I am saying.

Cultural "greatness" is not a well-defined concept, and is it almost
certainly a waste of bandwidth discussing it.

--
Dominik Wujastyk
Founder, INDOLOGY list.





More information about the INDOLOGY mailing list