Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uscvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!uscvax!sastry From: sastry@uscvax.UUCP (V. B. K. Sarma) Newsgroups: net.nlang.india Subject: a proposal for the salvation of all indians. Message-ID: <34@uscvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 21:59:43 EST Article-I.D.: uscvax.34 Posted: Tue Mar 26 21:59:43 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 30-Mar-85 00:40:52 EST Distribution: net Organization: CS&CE Depts, U.S.C., Los Angeles, CA Lines: 41 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. Elizabeth Windsor Regina Queen of England Buckingham Palace London, U.K. Subject: Petition from loyal Indian ex-subjects for the re-annexation of India to the British Empire My Dear Queen, We, the people of India, having gone through some intensely cerebral discussions about our relationship to mother England have decided that we are indeed an inferior race. The image that the western media portray of us is, if anything, an overly generous depiction of our so-called civilisation. Watching many recent television shows and films about our benighted country we come to the enlightened realisation that we are still children in need of mother England's milk. After nearly 40 years of wandering away from the warmth of your bosom, not having learned any of the skills that your people tried to teach us, we are still a bunch of mud-coloured people. Instead of going to school, we played all sorts of games like cricket, parliament elections and some of us even learned to use big words and exchange IDEAS over computer networks. After trying all these games our skins still stubbornly refuse to turn even a pale pink. Recently, we started going to your other colony, AMERICA. Here also we tried desparately to reach you by trying to learn from your other children. We have also failed at this. Our only hope is for you to forgive us and take us back. If you refuse we will all move to Southall, to be near you. Your humble, brown servant P.S. Please send Princess Di immediately as the first Vicerene of newly dependent india.