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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (9665)	11/19/1999 8:17:00 PM
From: Satya Podury	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Oh well, looks like I must have misread your headline. It's just that it came across as though you had made up your mind in a certain way. Yeah, I agree atleast someone is asking questions as to why we blindly follow what that max mueller guy wrote as gospel. Sad part is there are still a number of folks who would like Indians to believe that as the truth, and will retaliate hard to suppress ideas such as Dr. Kak's. My reply to your post was triggered that such a situation may develop on this thread,just because of your headlines. I can easily see folks like Dippy writing "the Fundamentalist Dr. Kak... or the reactionary Dr. Kak...", and there he is doomed to be thus labeled. Of course, I will keep my opinions open till I know more of what Dr. Kak has to say. It irks me no end when, like a parrot, for example, all western news agencies say "the Hindu Nationalist Party" for BJP. It's a convenient tag/label, as though they are scoring some PC points with the rest of the world. No offence meant, otherwise.

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (9665)	11/19/1999 8:44:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

A taste of India - Amberish Diwanji in IInd class. Travellers in a second-class train compartment are down-to-earth, with little airs or pretensions. In such compartments exists a mini-India and a montage of middle-class values. After many years, I travelled second class by train once again. It brought back memories of travelling during my college days... cooped up in cramped compartments, stinking loos, wonderful co-travellers, the Indian's bottomless patience... Every journey in a second-class sleeper is an unforgettable experience, further heightened when carried out around the Diwali vacation (when one half of India is travelling to meet the other half!). Travelling by air and by India's much vaunted Rajdhani Express are frigid experiences. Air travellers invariably have an air of self-importance around them, "We're all busy people," or "Time is money," or "I am off to meet some very important industrialist/ politician/ crook..." are the expressions plastered on the faces at airports and inside the aircraft.......... 216.32.165.70