No, I am not hurt, but yes, I am amazed... "Being colonized for centuries, Indian people have become sorta disease, they have this desire to control and rule over it's not-so-powerful neighbours." i may agree with what you said here, but your arguments are directing to a conclusion that if we listen to hindi songs, we will be considered as weak neighbors? if we have cultural similarities, we will have more tendency to be ruled over? can you throw some light on this? coz i don't think, i am buying your arguments! i don't believe, cultural similarities can be a weapon for colonization or domination. matter of fact, similarities lead to kinship. agreed, indians have, time and again, shown this tendency to rule over weaker neighbors. how do we strengthen ourselves then? by being different? by shying away with the fact that we have similarities? if there is a similarity, there is--you cannot change that. you cannot run away from facts. don't take them as your weaknesses, work hard and build unto it. we may need to come up with noble ideas and work hard to materialize them-- to prove we can exist without much of indian shades. we may need to make national policies that don't stoop for india-- that's where independence is a must....not in cultural grounds. you have raised a right point but you also seem to have missed the bigger picture, my friend! LooTe