--- On Tue, 24/3/09, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] the business of charity!?!
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, 24 March, 2009, 10:30 AM
>
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> . [24/03/09 10:18 +0530]:
> >http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1241042
> >
> >It's time the government shut the foreign-funds tap for
> NGOs
> >Prof R Vaidyanathan
> >Friday, March 20, 2009 23:59 IST
>
> where did the fool get his tenure? well, any indian
> university is full of
> idiots with tenure, so .. that's probably not relevant
> here.
>
> he started out on a perfectly good angle - NGOs that treat
> foreign +
> government funding as a cash cow and do far more to line
> their own pockets
> than any kind of public service.
>
> then it went straight into a reprehensible rant that solely
> targets
> christian church type groups
>
> if he wanted to compare donation figures he could compare
> those to the
> figures going into shirdi, puttaparthi, siddhivinayak
> temple, aurobindo
> ashram etc (several of which have 100% tax exemption for
> social work
> projects they carry out, and which also have large, even
> grandiose building
> programs like that huge golden golfball at auroville, for
> example)
As Udhay pointed out this is publicly archived. Just don't waste time on such
poisonous effusions.
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