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To: Satish C. Shah who wrote (4079)	4/20/1999 8:03:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Ref:Collapse of civilizations. Hi Satish, Thanks for the Annenberg/CPB Project link, certainly interesting.It appears natural calamities play a major role in the collapse of many as in Mesopotamia and perhaps even the Indus Valley. I don't have a clue about the Mayans,perhaps human sacrifice did them in,you know if they didn't reproduce fast enough to keep up with the rate of sacrifice then they got a problem.Perhpas the last man standing sacrificed himself and pheeew they were outta there.<vbg> PS: Copan is somewhat of an impressive site,I like to visit the place one day.Thanks again for the link.

To: Satish C. Shah who wrote (4079)	4/22/1999 10:59:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

'A Tale of Two Gardens'- Octavio Paz (1990 Nobel Prize Winner) Hi Satish: After reading 'In Light of India' I thought I try a bit of Paz's poetry.To tell you the truth I like his prose better than his poetry. May be it is me as I don't get it,perhpas it is modern poetry, lot of short disjointed words sewn together with a lot of reference to Indian literature,contemporary life,puranas,Sanskrit slokas and everything.Then again who am I to question his style,he got the Nobel Prize to prove his worth and I ain't got squat to prove my point.<vbg> Oh by the way I still have a bone to pick with him on his comment about the secessionist tendencies of Tamil Nadu. I can not find any evidence of this coming out of Tamil Nadu or any Southern States for that matter, autonomy yes-separataion no. Any way it is not all that important since Paz already stated in the book that his writings about India was the product of love of the country and not anything else, besides his knowledge (mostly academic though it might have been) of the country was quite profound and as such one can only feel admiration for the man and his works and I do.