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From: ajei@magic.UUCP (Ajei S. Gopal)
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Subject: Re: Mountbatten's role in India
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 17:28:13 EST
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In article <4207@ut-sally.UUCP> :

> In article <343@isis.UUCP> dmiruke@isis.UUCP (Dataram Miruke) writes:
>  
>>tenth major industrial nation?), the main impression of an average american
>>or for that matter many westerners, about India still should be a country of
>>horses, tigers and elephents and maharajas, is what irks me (and many others).

Ask the "average" Indian about the US. Or even about India.

>>Isn't it time that India has a better image in todays world? Isn't the
> 
> Maybe you're selling the average American short. My experience has been that
> most of them know quite a bit about India. 

However social one may be, the kinds of people most of us
are likely to converse with (NOT speak to!) are neighbours or those we 
meet at work or on campus. People who work in hi-tech places or who study at
universities are definitely not average. While at grad school, I lived 
in a student ghetto - all my neighbours were students. Most of
us probably went through or are currently in such an environment.
Those of us who are working are probably making reasonable salaries,
and live in neighbourhoods where most of the residents are reasonably well
off (read educated). Those of us unfortunate enough to live in large
cities, probably dont know their neighbours and dont care to.

Are all Americans as knowlegeable about India as the cross section
of the population that I (for one) have conversed with? 
I doubt it.



> I would love to see a higher per capita income 
> though. ...[in India]
So would we all.

ajei gopal
ajei@bellcore