Xref: utzoo soc.culture.indian:24405 news.groups:18166 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!srinath From: srinath@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Srinath Viswanathan) Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,news.groups Subject: Re: talk.politics.south-asia: CALL FOR DISCUSSION Message-ID: <22527@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 25 Feb 90 05:31:40 GMT References: <5231@brazos.Rice.edu> <0ZtK56e00WB90MQJJ8@andrew.cmu.edu> Reply-To: srinath@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Srinath Viswanathan) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Services Lines: 23 In article <0ZtK56e00WB90MQJJ8@andrew.cmu.edu> sa1z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sudheer Apte) writes: >dorai@titan.rice.edu (Dorai Sitaram) makes some good points: > >The idea is to *separate* political debates from the rest, because >political debates >1) tend to be especially acrimonious, >2) are disliked by a good subset of s.c.i.-ers, I would venture to say that most of the acrimony has involved Kashmir, which in turn has involved religion and in some sense culture, since it seems about to spawn soc.culture.pakistan. I am not at all sure that another group is warranted, a solution to acrimony in s.c.i., or even that acrimony is such a bad thing. If the passion that gives vent to the acrimony were tempered with a little reason, we might one day have some understanding. > Sudheer. >----------------- >...{harvard, uunet}!andrew.cmu.edu!sa1z >sa1z%andrew@CMCCVB.BITNET Srinath srinath@unix.cis.pitt.edu