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From: vaidhyan@ecn.purdue.edu (Ramesh Vaidhyanathan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: Uniform transliteration: vote pro/con
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:51:30 GMT
Reply-To: vaidhyan@cn.ecn.purdue.edu
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Aug13.174119.1@draco.rutgers.edu>, viswanath@draco.rutgers.edu writes:
|> 
|> 1) Should netters try to use a single uniform transliteration scheme?
|> 2) Which scheme should it be?
|> 
|> My own answers are:
|> 1) Yes.  2) Adami.
|> 
|> P.V. Viswanath


My answers are.

1) yes. 2) ITRANS.

ITRANS is a very good transliteration scheme which uses LaTeX. The
tamil font used is the wntml font developed at U of Washington and 
the output can be printed using a postscript printer. ITRANS is
available free via ftp from:

584092 duke.cs.duke.edu /dist/sources/itrans21.tar.Z
584092 nic.stolaf.edu /pub/sci/itrans21.tar.Z

I am using this itrans21 for printing tamil, and the quality of
the output is excellent.

To  use this  package with  TeX, you  must have  a PostScript-capable
printer,  and Tomas  Rokicki's  latest  dvips package  (see  the FAQ  
in comp.text.tex for  more info).  (And,  of course, you need  TeX 
itself!)

We have to see if the majority of the netters have facilities to
use itrans or adami. Even if we choose to use either of them in
SCT (based on majority or the quality), then we have to use itrans 
or adami in such a way that the netters who are using the other 
transliteration scheme should have very little problems. i.e. whenever 
possible we have to use the trasliteration which is common to both 
itrans and adami.


-Ramesh Vaidhyanathan
From: raj@news.cs.odu.edu (M. P. Krishna Raj)
Subject: Pyromaniacs
Originator: raj@aelle.cs.odu.edu
Organization: Old Dominion University Dept. of CS, Norfolk VA
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:37:24 GMT


Please avoid responding to the articles of Pyromaniacs.

I beg you, please ignore them.

They are the people who opposed the formation of this group.
They are the people who called for moderated newsgroup.
They are the people who  are posting rubbish articles in SCT

Please ignore them.

Every group has suffered from the postings of  some perverts.

Please boycott them.

M.P.Krishna Raj
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: kat@doe.carleton.ca (Kathiravan Krishnamurthi)
Subject: Re: Reservation for temple priests
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:49:46 GMT

  Arasu!
       You made a point. Although we don't look at how many Brahmins/
Sudras made it, some guys are very conscious about being reborn
even if they don't even know what they are.

    You said of 5/40. 1/8. In my class we never counted
but there were more than 10/40 in REC Tiruchi.

KK
Xref: sparky soc.culture.tamil:1006 alt.culture.tamil:1184
From: shivakl@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (LAKSHMANAN SHIVAKUMAR)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: EVR - Part II (Atheism)
Date: 17 Aug 92 03:33:00 GMT
Organization: Vanderbilt University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Mr. Kumar in his aricle writes,

>	Excuse me, here .. Something  I had read comes to
>	my mind. How will you expalin this ?
>		Lord Siva comes as a Pulaya confronting
>		Adi Sankara in a narrow path way ...
>		And Sankara avoids him ... (may be, giving
>		all the repect :-) ...
> 
>		After some exchanges ... Lord Shiva show his
>		true figure and Sankara apologizes ...
> 
>	If this is TRUE ....
>		Sankara was acting against religion ????

As has been pointed out by you, Adi Shankara was acting against
religion and that's what god pointed out to him with this drama.

Regards,
Shivakumar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: muthu@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (muthu.muthusamy)
Subject: Re: Dark Future for Professional Services in TN?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:51:57 GMT


 I think there is some logic behind the reservation system.
To give more chance for backward, sc/st people and
they are the majority in TN.

Moreover farward people have lot of connections through out India
and some how they get into some professional collecge if not
in TN. For example take IITs, I could see very few non-bhramins,
also in RECs. I donot have any idea about medical line.

In jobs area, who dominates in TVS groups, Ashok Leyland? 

Muthu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.kerala
From: manu@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Njan)
Subject: Re: Sex Ratio, Population growth
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:20:53 GMT

In article <Bsz9x0.M5x@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca (Srinivasan K.) writes:
>In article <Aug.12.15.05.12.1992.2589@paul.rutgers.edu> samaddar@siemens.com writes:
>>srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca writes:
>>
>>>2. Population increase: In spite of the dis-incentives, like
>>>   parliament seat allocation, national ressource allocation, lack of any
>>>   real benefit to areas of low population growth, TN and Kerala
>>>   have shown lowest rate of population growth in the interest of the
>>>   country as a whole.
>>
>>Since 1971, parliamentary seat allocations have been frozen as disincentive
>>towards population growth. eg; U.P. had 85 seats in all Lok Sabhas since
>>then.
>>
>>Sumitro
>
>some legislation. Giving dis-proportionate representation will 
>eventually be considered against democratic principles.

So you mean to say that Kerala, with the smallest population growth-rate,
will lose more seats? Why should we suffer for the lack of family-planning
on the part of north Indians?

I seriously think that India is too big and diverse to be one country.

>K. Srinivasan

Njan
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: mvishnu@morse.uwaterloo.ca (m vishnu)
Subject: Re: EVR - Part II (Atheism)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 03:57:28 GMT

In article <92230.102729IO92395@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> T.C.A.Venkatesan <IO92395@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
>In article <Bt37rv.6zp@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, mvishnu@morse.uwaterloo.ca (m
>vishnu) says:
>>           Casteism and Fatalistic outlook to life are the
>>main causes of failure of India in almost any field (including Olympics
>>at Barcelona, where India came out with 0 medals, although it sent one of
>>the largest team).  These two ideas are central to the varna-ashrama dharma
>>
>
>    Could you please explain this idea of yours that casteism is what
>cost India medals in the Olympics? Are you seeing some sort of brahminical
>(or any other caste, for that matter) scheme here, to keep talented
>sportspersons in India out of their deserved positions?

In a democratic institution, the key words are
'active participation of the masses' and 'informed decisions my the masses', 
both of which are lacking in India.  There are instances where masses vote
for a candidate in return for a meal (This was told by Congress worker 
from Kerala) When more than 80% of the Indian population is classified as
inferior (sudras) and whose lives are worse than that of animals, how can
they be expected to participate in the country's destiny.  They are apathetic
to the country's progress.  This is no more by external pressures than
by the psychological damage done to them by this age-old system (varna-
ashrama dharma).  (please do not assume that the caste system is not
present in India.  It is very much alive.  Moreover it wont go by simply
assuming that it does not exist)


>    I can even see fatalism playing some role in this - although, I
>still think that a fatalistic attitude is used more after failing,
>rather than when trying to acieve something. But casteism in sports,
>in present day ??!!!!

Many people think that fatalism is only used in India to cope up with
failures.  But the truth is that this believe in a completely pre-determined
world does not let us exert great effort towards a goal.  For comparison, an
american bought a large chunk of land and attempted to build an
artificial forest on it.  The forest was burnt down 20 times by teenagers.
The man persevered (while fighting the teenagers in the courts etc) and
in the end (after 40 or so years) he has his forest.  The US government
recognized his perseverence and awarded him a medal.  Now tell how many
of us (Hindus soaked in fatalism) has the perseverance to try building a
forest 20 times over a period of 40 years ?  We cannot blame us. 
Our world view does not encourage us to persevere.  
>
>
>*************************************************************************
> T.C.A. Venkatesan                Bitnet  : IO92395@maine

Meenan Vishnu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.tamil
From: raghu@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Raghu B)
Subject: Re: Please be Accurate to avoid flame wars.
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:48:46 GMT

In <1992Aug18.041123.23620@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU> kumar@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (V.R.Kumar) writes:

>In article <l908k1INNcvu@aludra.usc.edu> rammohan@aludra.usc.edu (Karthikeyan Rammohan) writes:
>>	Mr.M.P.Krishna Raj,
>>		Let me tell you that my neighbor, who supposedly
>>belongs to the backward caste(even though he is a well off
>>person,economically) got into guindy, after getting 24/50 in the
>>entrance exam and 43% , while my brother with 42/50 in the entrance
>>exam and 94% still could not get into any govt college.Are you trying

>This is very untrue. Mr.Rammohan's brother might not have got guindy.
>But it is untrue that his friend with only 43% got Guindy. The 
>minimum cut-off percentage for bothe backward and Forward castes to
>enter guindy is 70%. There have been many incidents where many BC
>guys despite with more than 90% could not enter Guindy.

>Anbudan,

>V R Kumar


>-- 
> V.R.Kumar (Ramkumar Venkatachalam)                                 
> CSIRO, Division of Information Technology                         
> P.O.Box:1599, Macquarie Centre, North Ryde, NSW 2113, AUSTRALIA  


	Whatever the hell it is , why should a person with low marks
should get admission when the other person is far better than him.
Any fool will be able to understand this logic. There is total injustice
going on this world. 


Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.tamil
From: raj@news.cs.odu.edu (M. P. Krishna Raj)
Subject: Please do not respond to the article 'Periyar Temple'
Originator: raj@aelle.cs.odu.edu
Organization: Old Dominion University Dept. of CS, Norfolk VA
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:51:04 GMT

Please do not respond to the articles of the above nature.

Ignore them.

There was a similar poster in another soc.culture.group.

Everybody boycotted him.

This person is one of them who posted articles in SCI
against the formation of SCT.

Now the same person is posting articles in SCT so that
other nettors will come with nasty replies.

Let us boycott him/her.

Raj
From: sramacha@talitha.usc.edu (Sudarshan Ramachandran)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: What went wrong?
Date: 22 Aug 1992 22:56:00 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: talitha.usc.edu

In article <1992Aug23.014235.27562@menudo.uh.edu> aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu (Venkatachalam Aruna) writes:
>In article <l9dpfjINN1d6@talitha.usc.edu> sramacha@talitha.usc.edu (Sudarshan  
>Ramachandran) writes:
>> In article <1992Aug21.223025.18975@menudo.uh.edu> aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu  
>(Venkatachalam Aruna) writes:
>> >In article <1992Aug21.180752.5844@ms.uky.edu> aras@ms.uky.edu (P. I. Arasu)  
>> >writes:
>> >>
>> >> with someone posting a "I HATE TAMILS" post. Such 
>> >
>> >Yes. This is true. I edited my .newrc file and scanned
>> >to find out the thread for caste/reservation/brahminism/
>> >periyar started from that posting.
>> >
>> 
>> I suddenly realized I had found the root cause of all the problems
>> facing humanity: Adam -n- Eve (*). (I didn't have to edit a lengthy file
>> for that ;-))
>
>  Sparkling humor. (No, this is not mentioned ironically)
>> 
>> Some wise soul once remarked, "When you point one finger at someone, note
>> that at least three are pointing back at you."
>
> You can point all the ten fingers at me.
> [ yes, I know three here refers to three different persons' fingers]

Very witty indeed. (Serious!)

Anyway, the point is there is no point in pointing fingers. We'll run out
of fingers. Or points. Have I made a point ?

(Retiring from this thread. Future humorous exchanges, if any will be by email)

(*) FLAME-WAR-PREVENTION DISCLAIMERS (needed for this group IMO):
 
 1. I bear no ill-will towards those believing in (the Biblical)
    Genesis. Or towards believers of any other theory of human evolution. 
    Or towards anybody else.
 2. I will *NOT* be responsible for any thread evolving over the
    reservation/brahminism/Periyar/caste affiliations of Adam and/or Eve.
	   
	    
Sudarshan (can be flamed and "fingered" at ramachan@usc.edu)
---------------------
"You must have a tranquil heart, a heart that is affectionate yet
detatched and impersonal, and able to give its affection to all
and not to one individual alone, or to one particular group."
 
 -   Last night's quote from /usr/games/fortune. 

Sudarshan
From: cen466p@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (S. Parthasarhathy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: Kanchi Aacharya
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:16:56 +1000
Organization: Dept. of Chem. Engg., Monash University, Australia

In article <1992Aug18.210322.11578@CS.ORST.EDU>, pennats@ptolemy.CS.ORST.EDU (Shankar Pennathur) writes:
> 
> In article <9208182044.AA14233@ha06.eng.ua.edu> bkannan@ha06.eng.ua.edu 
> (Balaji Kannan) writes:
> 
> Dont even bother apologizing BK. When the original poster did not even
> display an iota of sensitivity to the people he offends by writing such
> crap, I think your posting was well within limits, in comparison.
 
But when a person is doing a wrong thing and when another retorts with 
the same mistake what difference does it make between the two.  

> Ofcourse the usual disciplining postings from SundaraPandian and Krishna Raj
> will follow... For that has been the norm in this newsgroup so far...
> 
> 
> Shankar. 

No use in policing people. SP and KR should not be wasting their time. they can
do some constructive things. As one MGR song goes "thirudaraai paarthu
thirunthaa vittaal, thiruttai ozhikka mudiyaathu". same things applies here
too. 

my A$0.02 worth.

Paarthaa
ChemEngg
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: thiyagarajan@mims.enet.dec.com (RT)
Subject: Re: Dark Future for Professional Services in TN?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:39:43 GMT


In article <l8tl3tINN14m@bathtub.cs.utexas.edu>, raman@cs.utexas.edu (Raman Rajagopalan) writes...
> 

>I am quite concerned about the nature of the present day reservation
>system for admission to colleges in Tamil Nadu, and in particular, am
>concerned about the quality of the graduates.  I fear that if the present
>  
>- raman rajagopalan

I agree with you totally on this stupid reservation system. I am also a victim
of this so called if-you-are-forward-caste-screw-you education system. I did
not get admission in any prof college in TN despite the very high marks I had.

I think we should collect a statistics in the net about how many suffered
because of this stupid-descriminating policy.

What do you think about caste-based promotions in govt offices and
institutions?

Do you know about the notorious Salem engg college. I heard from one of my
friends that Salem college is somewhat 'reserved' for students from
'reservation' quota and obviously they do not care about studying anything
there.

Imagine this. You are from so-called-lowere caste and you get 35% in +2 and get
admission to engg (while students with 90%+ are getting screwed). After
finishing engg you get a job in govt again based on reservation. You get
promoted once in 2 years again because your caste. You totally screw up the
system from top-to-bottom.

I know we forward caste people (other than our strength in education) lack of
muscle power or any strong political base. I won't be surprised if total
reservation exceeds 90% in future

I will write about my thoughts later

RT
>
From: bkannan@ha06.eng.ua.edu (Balaji Kannan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: Varna & Brahmins
Date: 18 Aug 1992 11:08:14 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu




lkumar@umiami.ir.miami.edu writes:

>>   P.S. What is wrong with (T)this Gita?
>> 
>>        Oh No!;(T)that Gita is not wrong.
>> 

>	Now I understand why manipulation of Vedas and other texts
>	might have happened.


         Naughty boy! For a moment, I thought you were too dumb
         to get that. Anyway, you are atleast making an attempt.
         Someothers are not as lucky.  


>	A couple of articles in simple English from Mr. Vishnu and 
>	Mr. Pandian could not convey the intended obvious meaning
>	to "some" ---


         Here we go: Confusion again! Intended Obvious Meaning!
         So there was an unintended cryptic message too!!. Some
         of us like the cryptic, you see. I would have loved it
         though, had it been in "chaste" Tamil. You know what I 
         mean. The kind of "chaste" Tamil "some"  are used to.


>	No wonder that "some" in the past might have also had tough
>	time in realizing the meaning of verses and words that were
>	available to them in an alien language ... {Sanskrit is the
>	language of Gods and those "some" are humans anyway .. :-)) }


          Ha ha Ha.....uMM. At least some of us are "humans" and
          continue to like that. How are things out there? And, if
          you get a chance, grow up. You will like it. Maybe then 
          you will realize that there is more to life than just
          fanaticism and revenge. Nyah! Maybe you should instead 
          blame someone for not growing up too. Like has always been 
          the case!
 
          
>	May be, that is a valid reason ... !
>        :-))


          Insert smileys wherever your teeny-weeny; OK OK; dhamathoondu
          ****n lets you to.


>Best Regards,
>-- Laxman
>


Bestest regards,
BK 


Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: pasupat@ecf.toronto.edu (Subbarayan Pasupathy)
Subject: Re:Translation help wanted.Thiruppugazh
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:34:12 GMT

>Article: 1500 of rec.music.indian.classical
>From: srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca
>Subject: Translation help wanted. Thiruppugazh
>Message-ID: <BtAGpJ.GEH@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
*********************************************
I have corrected the poem from a book of Thiruppugazh
I have.
It is a ThiruththaNi thiruppugazh.
*********************************************
koorvEl pazhiththa vizhiyaalE marutti mulai
   kOdaal azhaiththu malar aNai meedhE
kOpaa idhazh paruga maarbOdaNaiththu kaNai
   kOl pOl suzhatri idai udai naaNa
kaar pOl kuzhal sariyavE vaay adhatti iru
   kaadhOlai itru vizha viLaiyaadum
kaamaa mayakkiyargaLoodE kaLiththu nama
   kaanoor uRai kalagam ozhiyaadhO
veeraaNam vetri murasOdE thavitrimilai
   vEdhaagamaththoligaL kadal pOla
veeRaay muzhakka varu sooraar iRakka vidum
   vElaa thiruththaNiyil uRaivOne
maarOn iRakka nagai thaadhaa thiruch cheviyil
   maabOdhagaththai aruL gurunaadhaa
maalOn aLiththa vaLiyaar maal kaLippa vegu
   maalOdaNaiththu magizh perumaaLe.
*********************************************
Here is the meaning in Tamil based on Kripaanandhavaariyaar's
interpretation.
***********************************************
  kooriya vElai pazhiththa kaNgaLaal mayakki, malaiyanaiya
dhanangaLaal azhaiththu, malar niRaindha padukkaiyin meedhu,
thambalap poochchiyai pOl sivandha idhazhaip paruga, maarbudan
iRugath thazhuvi, kaNgaLai ambu pOl suzhatri, idaiyin udai 
negizhavum, mEgam pOndra kariya koondhal sariyavum, vaaych 
choRkaLaal adhatti pEsiyum, iru kaadhu OlaigaL kazhandru
vizhavum viLaiyaadugindra podhu maadhargaLudan kaLipputru, 
yamanudaiya ooraagiya kaadu pOl bayangaramaana naragil 
uRaigindra kalakkam adiyEnai vittu agalaadhO?
   veeraaNam, vetri murasu, thavil, thimilai, vEdhaagama
OsaigaL ivaigaL kadal pOl perumaiyudan olikka, edhirththu
vandha sooraadhi avuNargaL maayumaaRu viduththa vElaayudharE!
thiruththaNigai malai meedhu ezhundharuLiyiruppavarE!
manmadhan podiyaaga siriththu paarththaruLiya
sivaperumaanudaiya thiruchcheviyil sirandha gnaanOpadEsaththai
aruLiya gurunaadharE! thirumaalin magalaagiya vaLLi naayaki 
anbudan magizhumaaRu migundha anbudan thazhuvi magizhgindra
perumidham udaiyavarE!
****************************************************
S.Pasupathy
pasupat@ecf.toronto.edu
 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: prem@cs.montana.edu (M.P.Premkumar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: Let us build Periyar Temple
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:20:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: coe.1992Aug18.202023.15529
Distribution: world
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717

In article <1992Aug18.143809.25218@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> raghu@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Raghu B) writes:
> HELL WITH PERIYAAR, HE WAS NO. 1 FOOL IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY ,

I beg to differ. Periyar was a man who fought for what he thought was right.
And millions thought he was right and followed him. True some times he got
carried away and did some mistakes. But he was one man who changed the life
of Tamilians for ever. And that was for the better.


Sincerely yours,
M.P.Premkumar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: crathina@norton.uwaterloo.ca (C Rathinavelu)
Subject: Mistake ...
Originator: crathina@norton.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:19:36 GMT

  This is a film song (1980's), but I don't remember the name
of the movie. Can anybody help me out?
  
     "Thapai Kooda Thappuyilammalae Pannakkuda Thappukuda
      Thappu ilayae".

      "A Mistake is not a Mistake if it is done without
       a Mistake"

Anbuden,
C.Rathinavelu
From: crathina@ritchie.uwaterloo.ca (C Rathinavelu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Senthil Jokes.
Date: 23 Aug 92 03:27:30 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
Originator: crathina@ritchie.uwaterloo.ca


  Joke 1:
          Gowndamani:  moonum erandhum anju ... sari ...
                       moovirandhum koodava anju ...

           Senthil  :  annae ... veedu koottindhiruntha anniyedam
                       koottaradhunalum, perukkaradhunnalum orae
                       arthamnu namma mami sollicha ...!


 Joke 2: 
             Senthil:  "Olympics_lae namakkuth therindha
                       villaiyattellam vaikka mattanghala annae?"

          Gowndamani:  ..... enna villaiyattu dha! .....
  
             Senthil:  athannae namdha ooru "Manghatha!"(seattatumn)


Have fun,
C.Rathinavelu

"Eye contact, facial and arm gestures, body language all add to the
 information transferred during a conversation" - M.C.R.
From: sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu (M. Sundaramoorthy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: `aRivoLi' - a mass movement for literacy - Part II
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:07:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: orion.2A92A9F6.3964
Distribution: world
Organization: University of California, Irvine

In article <1992Aug19.182221.5734@news.acns.nwu.edu> rags@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Raghavan Jayaraman) writes:
>-------------------------
>My opinion:-
>Till now all these programmes depend of govt. funding and volunteers to do
>the job. With all that % of pervasive unemployment is it not possible to
>hire young unemployed graduates ofcourse with monetary help from
>interested?

	There was a program during DMK regim during early seventies.
	Unemployed graduates were appointed as paid volunteers for this
	kind of work. They have to stay in the village full time and the
	government supplied sports and educational materials, like
	books, carrom board, chess board, foot ball, volley ball etc.
	There were two such people in my village and they also 
	gave 'free tution' for the school students. This program was
	abolished during emergency.        
>
> I know of atleast one person Mr. Ram Thukaram in Chicago who has helped
>setting up mobile computer centers to help the kids in rural areas. 
>

	This is a 'populist scheme' of western kind. Rural students need
	properly roofed buildings, general books which they lack very much.

	Does TNF believe that rural students should learn computer games?.

	Showing computers to them is just a kind of entertainment, like
	showing animals in the circus.
>raghavan
>

	Thanks for other information regarding 'aRivoLi' movement.

M. Sundaramoorthy
sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil