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

[taraprakash]

In fact I did send the same article to the list much before Paul did with 
the subject line "What They Hate About Mumbai (NY Times) I wonder if it did 
not make it to the list.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrice Riemens" <patrice at xs4all.nl>
To: <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:09 PM
Subject: [Reader-list] Suketu Mehta and Paul Miller,re: 'What They Hate 
About Mumbai"


>
> 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')
>
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