An unexpected FedEx package

From: New Straits Times | Date: April 27, 2003| Author: Meera Tharmaratnam | Copyright information


New Straits Times

04-27-2003

An unexpected FedEx package
Byline: Meera Tharmaratnam
Edition: 2*
Column: Jottings

IT was the FedEx guy's fault that I got on the subject of Indians and Aryans. He was delivering a package to yours truly, when he asked me whether Indians were Aryans. Since when did Indians have something in their genetic make-up that made them similar to Hitler's blue- eyed, blond- haired storm troopers, I wondered.

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