"Kupa manduka is a Sanskrit phrase for the frog in the well that imagines the well, its home, to be the whole world and, therefore, becomes pompous. It is a ter

"Kupa manduka is a Sanskrit phrase for the frog in the well that imagines the well, its home, to be the whole world and, therefore, becomes pompous. It is a term of derision for the intellectually complacent, for someone who thinks he knows everything there is to know."