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From: dss00@amdahl.UUCP (dss00)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: On Horses, Jutkas, and other things
Message-ID: <2818@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 12:01:50 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 12:01:50 1986
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Summary: ignorance etc. etc.

>When I came to USA, about three years back, one of the americans
>asked me, whether there are still horses used for travel on the roads in
>Bombay and other cities!!!

> <FLAME ON>
.
Lots of lines here...
.
> Sanjaya Kumar
> Duke University

Ah! The pangs of being stereotyped...  Tch! Tch!!

And how much do *WE* know about life of people in countries closer
to India, huh? Take Burma for example. But then why go to Burma.
I grew up in Indore (M.P.). When I came to IIT Bombay, my newly
aquired friends, who had grown up in Bombay, made more offensive
and stereotypical querries about Indore, M.P. etc. etc.. They seemed
to believe that civilization ended outside the city limits of
some major cities like Bombay, New Delhi, Madras, Calcutta etc.

Just to drive a point home, friends, allow me to remind you all
that few weeks back, I posted a request in this news group for
places I could find a copy of Gitanjali. Guess how many of my
Indian friends responded. You guessed it. Zilch.
Only some American readers of this group responded.

Mere Desh ki Dharati, Sona Ugale, Ugale Heere Moti.....
-- 

Deepak S. Sabnis ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!dss00    (408) 746-6058

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