From: psubbu@trace.eng.wayne.edu (Ponnuswamy Subburajan)
Subject: Re: U.S. Citizen NRIs Please leave India alone (Re: BJP)
Reply-To: psubbu@trace.eng.wayne.edu (Ponnuswamy Subburajan)
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:08:30 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.030810.2374@galois.mit.edu> kumar@carleman.mit.edu (Kumar) writes:
>verma@pfeast.enet.dec.com (Virendra Verma) writes:
>>	I am not a BJP supporter. I don't like politics. I hate congress
>>	more than BJP. I will pick BJP if asked to pick a party. It doesn't
>>	mean that I like BJP. I am an American first and an Indian
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>>	nationalist second. I will fight anything negative about India
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>>	among my fellow Americans. Supporting democratic principles is
>>	not unAmerican but very much American.
>
>So we see the true colors - like expatriates khalistanis and kasmiris
>here we have the group of fundamentalists promoting their ideas in their
>land of origin and that support has partly filled up RSS/BJP/VHP pockets
>and is responsible for so much death and destruction following the temple
>mess. Mr. Verma will you please tell us also how much stake (through
>investments) you have in India's well being? If you do not then shut up
>and if you do then you are burning your money by supporting the rabble-
>rousers. 
>
>Definitely the people living
>there (and that includes millions of minorities) definitely have much
>larger stake than you and please do not destroy their economy with your
>support for BJP et al (known through your posts over last months).
>
>Have you estimated how much financial loss alone India has taken because
>of the temple building agenda pursued by BJP/VHP in last 2 months alone?
>What is the expected result which can be worth that economic cost and 
>worth so many lives lost?
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>BTW, just like India is hindu majority, this country is christian 
>majority and western thought centered. Will like to known why
>Pat Robertson and Pat Buchanan and David Duke should tolerate you
>here? If you should be given the nice treatment here why not
>minorities in India? Ofcourse many hindus of your variety will
>love it if Diwali or Holi were to be declared a holiday and Hindi
>instruction alongwith Ramanyana and Mahabharata offered in schools
>- will that be pandering the minority at the cost of majority. 
>Have you ever taken advantage of being 'an asian minority' through
>affirmative action? Do you think that your children who might not
>do so well in schools here [high school life here has many more 
>pressures] should take advantage of affirmative action to get ahead?
>
>Sorry about raising so many questions but that is probably the only 
>way you will understand the tolerance required in India and the impediment
>BJP/VHP/RSS are to that very tolerance. May be
>an anti-Indian riot by some digruntled group will make you all
>see the light.
>
>It is so sad that even though you are a minority here you can not understand
>the problems faced by a minority in India. Is it possible that
>persecution that you might have faced here has made you beleive that
>Hindus are persecuted in India?
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	Well said. But you cann't convince these BJP/RSS/VHP terrorists
anyway.
				
			
					-Subbu

>Enough for now.
>
>
>-- 
>Thanks
>
>Sanjay
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