From: ssankara@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sornam Sankara)
Subject: Re: An article by Prof.Jeyaraman
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:03:09 GMT



In article <1993Jan21.230122.26804@udel.edu> chitoor@mercury.cis.udel.edu (Srik
rishnan R. Chitoor) writes:
>In article <1993Jan21.060653.22127@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ssankara@magnus.
acs.ohio-state.edu (Sornam Sankara) writes:
>>
>>The following very long article was posted in SCI.  Since it is very long,
>>please dont try to skip.  It is an excellent article which describes the
>>corruption of intellectualism in every walk of Indian life.  If you are a
>                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Khuram's follower, you may find it very embarassing.  We cant help it.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                                     ^^
>
>These kinds of stupid statements are those that prevent healthy discussion,
>and who all are you referring to in `we' ?


     Yes, it is an unwarranted statement but I used it after reading Kuram's
response to the article in SCI.  He criticized that article before even going
through that article (later he read the article and he given his wisdomic
comments)  just because it was posted by Sanjeev Mahajan

 {BTW,  I took pains to  read the long article immediately because it was
       posted  by Sanjeev Mahajan :-)}

     Even Khuram would have liked my comment, because this artilce did embarass
him.

     BTW, are you a Khuram follower,  because you did not rise to condemn
Khuram's statement (intelligent ?) branding Sanjeev Mahajan, Chukka Srinivas,
 Srinivasa Budaraju together as some unique creatures.   I am sure you are not.



>
>Anyway, that was a well written article. It is true that hindu fundamentalism

>is tending to become like the Islamic fundamentalism and we might have science

>being corrupted by these elements.


     I agree that you are not a Khuram follower. I am very happy about it.


> He takes it a bit too far when he equates
>secularism with `atheism' (partly explains Sankarapandi's interest in an
>article totally unrelated to TN culture except that the author is
>from Madras :-).
>


  Sankarapandi is more interested in other Indian cultures too.  Since he knows
more about TN and TN culture he talks about it.  One cannot generalize TN
culture as Indian culture  {in the same way as one cannot generalize
Brahmin-Vellala culture as Tamil culture :-) }  and hence he wants to listen
to others when they talk about other Indian cultures.

  He is not strictly an athiest because he still wonders about the organisation
of the molecules in living systems to do specific functions at specific times
with high precision and reproducibility which human beings will take billion
years to even understand, leave alone creating them.


  He becomes an athiest whenever he meets a `thiest' because the latter stops
his research and starts fighting on whether the creater is `X' or `Y'.



>    I also have no problems with introducing `vedic mathematics' if
>any such thing is found to exist (as long as we do not have one of those
>theological schools). It is ridiculous to dismiss it if it really
>existed. Only thing is that it should not refute the modern science but
>can supplement it (teaching calculus and saying that we had it 2000 years
>back really doesn't hurt). The basic thing is that we should be taught
>our history as it is (with no bias on either side).
>


     Even if it there, what is the point in talking about ancient pride.  The
present India is far behind other countries in all essential fields and more
than half the population do not even get goodfood.  What is the point in
talking about vedic mathematics or `thamizhan as aRiviyal munnodi'.  Our
society is not able to develope our languages to study science and technology
which should be a first step in the original development of a country whereas
we fight Hindi Vs Tamil etc on the one hand and glorifying the `extinct'
Sanskrit language on the other hand.


>-Krishna.
>Opinions are mine.
>

Sankarapandi
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