From: mgundeko@pcserver2.Naitc.Com (Murthy Gundekota)
Subject: The Gundekota File - Freedom of Expression: The Indian Way=Dysfunctional 
Organization: Somewhere near Chicago
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 15:12:05 GMT



The Gundekota File-Entry#6: Freedom of Expression-The Indian 
Way=Dysfunctional:
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Freedom of expression, the Indian way, is limited to the following:

i.    religious preachings 	-- restricted to Hinduism only
ii.   moralistic ramblings 	-- straight from the geneto-gastronomical
				   canal of Hindu gurus
iii.  family values  		-- derived from Ramayana
iv.   legal proceedings 	-- synthesized from Manu's code
v.    school lectures  		-- abstracted from mutilated, 
	                           copyright-cheated
				   text books from West
iv.   parliamentary filibuster  -- I can't type its source because its
                                   name is vulgar for my taste;
				   geneto-rectal canal is cleaner 
			           in comparison.
vii.  election speeches 	-- the source of it is a great tome
				   called ``Lies Lies Lies''
viii. movies 			-- you know where they all came from:
			           canned worms 
ix.   film songs  		-- they are usually composed in
				   railway toilets without water or tissue
x.    Doordarshan  		-- the script is prepared in Russia or
				   formerly USSR.


There are times when you read SCI and recall Bernard Shaw: ``Ten
people try to express themselves in their original way and then a
thousand people are just there to throw mud balls.'' Some of the SCI
readers EXIST to release one-liner wisdom. It's like a fart in an old
car whose interior has high levels of carbon-monoxide--you're all
bells and whistles about the fart but never know what is really gonna
kill you. 


The problem is not with expression per se, as in the case of the fart
the problem is not with body odor. It is with the choice of
expression.  Because any fool can type words to sound like sentences
(and only social morons fart in public), although it is much easier to
type stuccato, illegible, incongruent half-sentences and phrases that
have the same significance as sit coms. That is the TV way. You would
have solved the problem with knee-jerk responses in 20 minutes as
opposed to a dramatic high pitch lasting for an hour.  That means, any
fool who ventures to respond to my long messages in stuccato phrases
is condemned to serve as a TV director--Mr. Kane Anonymous Incognito,
or take the creative writing course offered by Bharati Mukherjee in
UC-Berkeley. Either way, they would've moved from coma to brain-dead
status. I hope.

The problem is once again intolerance, below usual levels of stupidity
or illiteracy. Take for instance the Indian judge who ruled against a
journalist and incarcerated him to 4 months of ``rigorous''
imprisonment. It is not coincidence that this Muslim journalist, who
is supposed to have libeled a Hindu Chief Minister, is now working for
Amnesty International in U.K. Only in India such a judge would've been
on the bench. Let me analyze the Honorable
Big-Fart-between-pants-and-bench's thought process in my usual way.

``Hum...this little twarp thinks he can call a chief minister a
conspirator and get away with it. I don't care if he is a Muslim. He
can be anybody. But Muslims of late are aggravating Hindus. Weeny
flies need big swats. My religion taught me that: `Matru Devobhava;
Pitru Devobhava; Acharya Devobhava; Atidi Devobha; Narayana
Devobava;' Now I will add two more people to this list of Godly
people: chief ministers and judges. That way, I would establish
my religion as secular. It doesn't matter if the chief minister is
also of my religion. What a coincidence! Secular also means I should
secure my job well. So I better protect this innocent and honorable
chief minister from the blistering accusations of this journalist
rat.''

Thankfully, this journalist rat is away from the vicious paws of the
sucker-upper. I am sure he will do very well in the long run, after
the judge passes away uttering his last words as: `prrrrrrrrrrrrrrr,'
requiring fumigation of the entire neighborhood.

Looking at India Abroad, the so called voice of NRI's in USA, one
realizes that its journalism is the definition of dysfunctionalism.
There is nothing in India Abroad that makes real use of freedom of
expression, including the matrimonials. The newspaper perpetrates
Indian mythology in the most egregiously American way. Ask any
American-Born Indian teenager what (s)he thinks about IA's family
value's and teen-orientation articles. Most of them will point to
something in their body that is worn on all the necks of the IA
editors. Not to mention that IA has no literary section, other than a
literary review section where, once again, a bunch of dysfunctional
peach-brained writers directly imported from India along side pickles
pour their salty pickle gravy.


Have a nice expressive day,


Murthy
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