From: uds@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar)
Subject: Seetamraju Digest # 118...
Reply-To: uds@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar)
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit
Distribution:  world
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:36:05 GMT

Soruce is Spotlight weekly newspaper. Aug 21 1992 issue.
1] {leave us to anarchy}.  P.D.Tandon.  pp 18. begin quote...
Gandhiji said `...Nor will I speak in english for the FRIENDS OF jawaharlal
who are here'' (referring to the crowd of foriegn correspondents from almost
all over the world and foriegn dignitaries).
(( My comment : Gandhiji's this particular statement has hence morally
		legitimized my revulsion towards anything nehruvian, except
		for the human named Jawaharlal Nehru)).

2]  {Indian actors in UAE face death rap}.  AFP.  pp 8.  begin quote...
...We have recieved scores of calls expressing dismay at the play.  The actors
have been arrested."  A police official told AFP.

Titled +ants feast on corpses+ the play opens with three corpses lying on the
stage.  A villager asks if he can eat one of the corpses, which scholars who
saw the videotape said represented prophet muhammed.  The other two corpses
were jesus christ and karl marx. .... However, the case has been adjourned till
september. <end of news item>

3]  There is a wonderful article on Pandit hariprasad chaurasia in the same
    issue, and a beautiful photograph of actress nanda also in another page.
    (You perhaps can conclude about my character, seeing me place actress nanda
         and Pandit chaurasia in the same slot).

4] I always wondered who attends concerts featuring salman, Amir, and a whole
   sack of other khans from BBY.  Tell me about a new movie of theirs, and
   and I scoot over to the RAJ Grocers for a cassette.  But a concert !
   Big B, or even Jitendra or Shammi kapoor, makes sense.  Khans !
   The crowd must be composed of shrieking (who else!) ABCDs...

5] India Abroad.  pp 2. Aug 22 issue.
	{Blind secularists to blame for crisis in kashmir}.  Aneeta
	chakrabarty (isnt this lady the hindu-militant `letter-writer' cum
	part time journalist of India-Abroad ?).  I like the following comments
	of hers :-
	  Unfortunately, territorial interests and reciprocity (I dont like this
	particular word) of action is not a virtue among `brilliant' leaders of
	india who groom themselves to seek applause on the world stage rahter
	than perform on the home front....
	..... While sardar patel could unify myriads of princely states into
	a whole integral unit, nehru bungled the only state that was assigned
	to him, kashmir.....
	(Though I dont agree with sardar patel's idea of a strong centralized
	 govt, or ruler, I liked the above, because it nehru-bashing ;-)  )

6] ((I love my andhra pradesh))  India Today.  Aug 31 issue. Page 47.
   {Who is the country cousin now?} begin quote...
	...AP is a happy hunting ground for film distributers simply because
   it has the largest # of theatres in the country.  While theatres elsewhere
   are closing down, in AP, the # has gone up from 2438 to 2618 in 3 yrs....
   end quote...

I WRITE THIS FROM MEMORY (HAVING READ IT ELSEWHERE).  Andhra Pradesh has
MORE (repeat MORE) 4-track stereo theatres than the REST of India.  And
MORE (repeat MORE) 4-track stereo theatres than mighty US of A itself.
Now figure that out!  How could that be possible...?

I wouldnt watch a chiranjeevi or venkatesh movie in a NON-4-track theatre.
Sometimes, I get the sick feeling that I hold emotions and feelings that are
as common as AIDS, among the expatriate indian community.  Maybe I should
have been happily mingling with the crowd of farmers in some remote village,
but for some quirk of fate, am currently weighing the `betterness' of analog
vs. digital VLSI fabrication techniques for optimization...



Seetamraju Udaya Bhaskar Sarma
(email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)
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