We watched The Daily Show today for the second time in about two years, and Jon had on Nandan Nilekani, author of Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation. One of the first questions was about how all the experts think that India and China are vying to be our new overlords.
"I hope I backed the right horse," I said. After all, Hindi and its linguistic friends and relations are not easy to learn, but Chinese would be a lot harder.
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