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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5928)	8/27/1999 9:44:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Pentafour Software sets aside $100 m for overseas buyouts pentafour.com PTI Chennai, Aug 26: The Chennai-based software major Pentafour Software and Exports will spend $100 million over the next two years for acquiring multi-media and business software firms in US and Europe, a top company official said on Thursday. "We are looking at some companies in these two continents and a decision on the first acquisition would be taken within the next two months," company chairman and managing director V Chandrasekaran told reporters here.Pentafour Software and Exports is among the major software companies in the country that is eyeing acquisitions abroad to enhance competitive edge both in domestic and overseas markets. Recently, another software and education firm SSI Ltd had acquired US-based Indigo Software, while Complete Business Solutions India (CBSI) had evinced interest in buying out such companies in the US and Europe. Chandrasekaran also revealed that his company currently had six animation films on hand, which would result in revenue from this segment growing by at least 40per cent this fiscal from $56 million in the last financial year.

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5928)	8/27/1999 10:39:00 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Mohan and all: The Progressive Women's Association's chief co-ordinator, Shahnaz Bukhari, is in the forefront fighting against all odds to persuade the legislators to fix the problem. We in South Asia,esp in India, are so proud of and pray to Saraswathi, Mahalaxmi etc and still do this kind of thing. It is beyond comprehension. Life without parole, education, vigorous prosecution of families demanding dowry, more and more proactive woman organizations, should help alleviate this malady. The grooms accepting dowry, should be outlawed and prevented from ever holding a corporate or Govt jobs. If we in India don't take care the most vulnerable, the least, the lonliest and the last, we are not a democratic society. Selective, invasive, injurious, abortion practices on female fetuses should be outlawed and prosecuted. The doctors engaged in this selective female fetus pregnancy termination should be stripped of their licenses to practice medicine. Informants and whistle blowers should be encouraged and rewarded upon conviction of these criminals. JPR

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5928)	8/27/1999 1:40:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

Apparently, you are blissfully unaware of (or what is more likely, pretending to be unaware of) what is happening in your own backyard. Here is a recent news clipping : In 1997, the Bangalore-based activist group Vimochana began a systematic study and investigation into the unnatural deaths of women within marriage, particularly in Bangalore. Their study revealed that from January 1997 to December 1998, over 1425 women died unnaturally in Bangalore alone. When they interviewed the parents of the deceased girls, they found that a majority believed their daughters had been either killed by burning or driven to suicide due to harassment and mental cruelty by husbands and in-laws. Please contact Vimochana for more details (which I'm pretty sure you won't).