[Reader-list] Suketu Mehta and Paul Miller, re: 'What They Hate About Mumbai"

[Patrice Riemens]

Paul Miller recently posted the above mentionned piece by Suketu Mehta on
the Sarai Reader list, and I just re-posted it to nettime, with due
credit.

Due credit? It would appear that Paul Miller, while suggesting in so many
words that he obtained the piece from the author himself, simply lifted it
from the New York Times op-ed pages:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/opinion/29mehta.html

(one could of course have guessed so much as he left the 'tools' line)

As they say in the famous Dutch TV add by 'WC-Eend' ('Toilet Duck')
lambasting imitations: it features a heavy German-accented professor in
the alleged R&D lab where the 'duck' is purportedly being developped:
"Nott a ffery neatt procedurre" (holding a ludicrously poor imitation in
his hand)

cheerio, patriizo and Diiiinooos!
('not best pleased')