17 May
2005
17 May
'05
11:51 a.m.
At 1:09 PM +0530 5/17/05, sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
If it was anything else (low cost, innovation, efficiency) the chinese would have beaten us.
But not, perhaps, for their sense of civility, as we have seen after smarting from many sharp replies on this list.
Actually, the Chinese (Confucius, as he is called in English) invented the civil servant, but it took Indians to raise that personage to the heights of misrule and uncivility. Even ;-) Sherlock can't begin to compete. Of course, s/he may be one, and if so, I rest my case.
Unlikely, of course, as s/he does not lack for knowledge or willingness to help, if not actually suffer fools or children.
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Vickram