hemanth@amdcad.UUCP (Hemanth Kanekal) (04/01/85)
> As an unflinching Indian, I am truely proud of them. -Srinivas (ihnp4!iitcs!srinivas) Uh..Uh, What do you mean by "an unflinching Indian"?. Me? I DO NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF COLOR, RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, OR TO THAT MATTER NATIONAL BOUNDARIES. :-) The world is one big sea of Human Mess!! Ha! ;-) > The following is a petition being circulated among some enlightened indians > anxious to end the farce. Please make copies and mail to the address below. > If you cannot sign, a thumb print will be sufficient. Is this person serious? I don't see any smiley faces in his text. I'll assume that he is also one of the "enlightened" Indian -else how would he get hold of the "petition"?. I hope he posts a followup explaining the abscence of smiley faces.The petition can be notthing but a joke!:-) I sure would like to know who these people are! Perhaps they are tired of living in a country where democracy is yet to be understood by a large number of people --> that the power to rule themselves is in themselves. I suppose 40 years is still not sufficient for a country which has been under the rule of many, many kings and queens. One has to keep in mind that, in India, the cause of so much disturbances after independance may be due to suddenly obtaining "freedom" .(Sure , I know how long the struggle for independance was, compare it with what South Africa is going thro') Just speculating. May be I am wrong, but I think that, the years of oppression has imprinted on the minds of people that authoritarian rule is the course to law and order. It would take several generations of people born after independance to realise, what exactly democracy means. I hope that Indian democracy lives long enough for such a realisation. From what I have seen on the net, about India and the media, about what class we fall into, I am begining to see that a serious identity crisis is prevalent in the Indians here. Once again I confess, I may be wrong, but, the growth of Indian democracy may be compared to such identity crisis that many people go through their lives, especially in their adolescence. Perhaps this is what is happening. Then again it is anybody's guess! -- A whole lot of concrete buildings professing evolution of the human race does not bring to me the beauty of the bleak desert landscape or the awe inspiring presence of the mountains! ____ My inspiration from Pinnacle National monument, California