Comments on: Eunuchs, Taxes, Oh My! http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/11/eunuchs_taxes_o_1.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:31:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: BTD_Venkat http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/11/eunuchs_taxes_o_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-56329 BTD_Venkat Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:21:20 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/11/eunuchs-taxes-oh-my.html#comment-56329 I find these types of stories annoying, but then again I am of Indian origin! I could trudge to rural America and other countries and find all sorts of crazy stuff (as does Borat). But the national and international press seems to pick on India as some sort of backwater to point out these quirky cute and backward ways of dealing with things that must surely pervade the country. Fine Balance was awesome (but I'm advised that the incident you mention Christine is not representative, and it too, annoyed me). I guess it would be like asking if someone writing about lynching was depicting a common or freak occurrence. And I would guess it would have been more common at some point than the plan in a Fine Balance. I find these types of stories annoying, but then again I am of Indian origin! I could trudge to rural America and other countries and find all sorts of crazy stuff (as does Borat). But the national and international press seems to pick on India as some sort of backwater to point out these quirky cute and backward ways of dealing with things that must surely pervade the country.

Fine Balance was awesome (but I’m advised that the incident you mention Christine is not representative, and it too, annoyed me). I guess it would be like asking if someone writing about lynching was depicting a common or freak occurrence. And I would guess it would have been more common at some point than the plan in a Fine Balance.

]]> By: Christine Hurt http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/11/eunuchs_taxes_o_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-56328 Christine Hurt Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:50:33 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/11/eunuchs-taxes-oh-my.html#comment-56328 Have you ever read A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry? The novel is set during the "emergency policies" of 1970s India. One of the protagonists consents to a vasectomy under the state's birth control plan and comes out a eunoch. I don't know if the author was trying to depict a common occurrence under the birth control plan or a freak occurrence. Have you ever read A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry? The novel is set during the “emergency policies” of 1970s India. One of the protagonists consents to a vasectomy under the state’s birth control plan and comes out a eunoch. I don’t know if the author was trying to depict a common occurrence under the birth control plan or a freak occurrence.

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