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

[Paul Miller]

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Of course it was taken from the times article. It says it at the  
bottom of the email.

Uh?

Paul
On Nov 29, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Patrice Riemens wrote:

>
> 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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