From: venugop@athena.cs.uga.edu (Gopakumar VENUGOPALAN)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Are we an intolerant people?
Keywords: India, Youth, Intolerance.
Date: 26 Jul 92 17:59:50 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <1992Jul26.113204.20312@hellgate.utah.edu> nkramesh%harpo.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Nanda Ramesh) writes:
>In article <1992Jul25.195608.24788@usl.edu>, sgs1679@usl.edu (Sudhindranath Sira G) writes:
>
>
>|> * Is this an isolated incident or have any of you
>|>   experienced/witnessed/heard of such incidents ?
>
>
>1991 August. On a night bus to tirupathi from bangalore.
>
>I was travelling with my parents. It was a package tour, so
>there were mostly families. There was a group of 5-6 students
>also, probably taking this trip after finishing their final
>year exams ( from what I could make out ).
>
>They were loudly talking even after the lights were out. But trouble
>started when they started smoking inside the bus at around 10pm.
>As my mother feels nauseated with cigarette smoke in a closed
>atmosphere, I requested the person sitting next to me ( with
>a please ) to stop smoking as my mom was not feeling OK. This guy
>was ok..and stopped. But the others did not like somebody telling
>them what to do. They urged this guy to smoke and started blowing
>more smoke. They loudly started asking others whether they wanted
>a smoke ...etc. I kept quiet as I realized arguing woudn't get me
>anywhere. But the bus had families with kids etc...and the others
>( one man especially ) started a fight. It nearly came to blows.
>The students never relented through out the trip and never
>apologized. I do beleive that they thought they were right
>in smoking inside the bus in spite of the complaints.
>
>|> * If it is indeed happening often, what's the reason for
>|>   our youths becoming so intolerant ? Where exactly did
>|>   things go wrong ?
>
>
>This was something I also couldn't figure out. I just coudn't
>understand what exactly made them so adamant when the whole
>bus was telling them to stop smoking. It's not a question
>of morality but just plain decency, something they could have
>faced themselves from my stand point. Wonder what they would
>have done then?
>
>nanda
>
>-- 
     Men and women can never be friends     (*)
	because the sex part               \---/
	  always get's in the way.	    |#|
          - "when harry met sally"	     V

  Having lived in Bangalore all my life I have witnessed several such scenes
  have interfered in quite a few,have managed to convince quite  a few and
  have been beaten up by quite a few.
  As ,a matter of fact I lost my internship at The Times of India Bangalore 
  in Junne 1990 because I stuck up for a woman on the road for against
  a person in a maruthi car and he happened to be the chief manager of
  The Times.
  In 1989 Dec I was even locked up by the cops for a night when I tried to
  stop the public from thrashing a person who ran his mobike into the crowd
  while driving under influence.
  One unrelated question ,is that signature that i have copied above
  a phallic symbol or is it the urino genital organs of a woman or 
  a combination of the two and does it have any significance.
  regards
  gopa
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