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From: ssankara@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sornam Sankara)
Subject: Re: Gandhi statue in Villupuram blown up
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:17:48 GMT




In article <kat.728242760@noonian> kat@doe.carleton.ca (Kathiravan Krishnamurth
i) writes:
>In <1993Jan28.053823.11242@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ssankara@magnus.acs.ohio
-state.edu (Sornam Sankara) writes:
>     Very factful, thought provoking article on paarathi. I have
>my special corner for him in akam as well as puRam [books and pictures].
>
>
>    Your answer to me about identity crisis is more convincing than
>the other person's spectral comparison.
>

    You have not included what I wrote.  Do you agree with all what I wrote. I 
have disagreed with your original posting in many points.

Especially, I want to say that Bharathi is not a `kayavan' as you mentioned. It
is utmost degrading statement often coming out of irrational  DK platform.  
Periyar wanted his followers to be rational.  This type of stupid statements 
show how rational they are.  I think I should start a full article on the
Dravidian opportunism by the DK/DMK gang.

S. Sankarapandi
From: rajamani_t@vmsnet.enet.dec.com (R. Thiyagarajan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: A DARK DAY FOR TAMILS! (Who support LTTE and terrorists)
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:04:12 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <EfMO=vm00iV2A2gmRA@andrew.cmu.edu>, Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh <thundayal+@CMU.EDU> writes...
>>Do you want TN to become another garbage dump as Jaffna?
> 
>It's a garbage dump for Jeya and her scums. A true dream come true for
>the central government; a Brahman as the chief of a Dravidian party
>pretending to look after Tamil interests. Its like letting the cat guard
>the mice! 

Oh! does it mean that any brahmin born in TN is not a tamilian? It is an amzing
invention indeed. Remember all your fellow tamilians from Sri-lanka landing as
refugees in Canada and having same privileges as a canadian citizen?

>RT, (a faceless Brahman under a pretentious Tamil skin) should know something-

The problem with you and other haters are that you always bring caste whenever
you can not argue sense. This is an un-necessary statement from you. I do not
care about your caste and do not assume my caste.

>Jaffna is not a carbage dump. It was under the Indian People(Tamil)
>Killing Force. If the true picture of Jaffna reaches the Tamil mass in
>Tamil Nadu, it woyld be a nightmare for Jeya and Rao(another Brahman).

I thought you were a Rao supporter and you do not have any authority or the
right to say who should rule either India or TN.

>So, you better pray to that end. 

Thambi enough of this threats. Let us see who gets what. (I have been watching
from 1983).

RT
> 
> 
>
From: rmv@ukc.ac.uk (raj)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: kindal vari
Date: 21 Jan 93 12:04:37 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.


re-writing  "unnai aRindhAl, nee unnai aRindhAl .."


	"kallu irunndhAl konjam maNNu irundhAl
	 kadai iddly nee seiyalAm
	 kadiththAlum suvaiththAlum -pal
	 varisaiyaip pandhAdalAm

	 mAperum sabaiyinil nee koduththAL - angu
	 kal kadi padavEndum
	 oru perungkal sirungkal pEthaminRi - nee
	 ellam vazhanga vEndum
	 zoo zu zoo zu zoo zu  (tune :-))
					    ( kallu irundhAl ...)

	 mallihai pOle thEham - uLLe
	 vairam ena karungkal
	 indha kadai iddly ilakkaNAm , ellOrum aRiyanum 
         suvaiththu vAzha vENdum
	 zoo zu zoo zu zoo zu  (tune :-))
					    ( kallu irundhAl ...)


                raj
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: chitoor@thorin.cis.udel.edu (Srikrishnan R. Chitoor)
Subject: Re: Consequences
Followup-To: soc.culture.tamil
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:20:18 GMT

In article <8fLpkla00UhWE8smkg@andrew.cmu.edu> Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh <thundayal+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>This information is coming from reliable sources.

Do you need say it ? :-).

[...]

>As before, India has courted the ire of Eelam Tamils again. Just as
>before, India will feel the wrath.

And who will it be this time ? PVNR ? Jeya ? Karunanidhi ? 
(You can email me the name if you don't want to make it public :-)).

-Krishna.
Opinions are mine.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: sivasamy@ifi.uio.no
Subject: saa.kanthasaamy paRRi..
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:51:50 GMT
Originator: sivasamy@maud.ifi.uio.no


saa.kanthasaamiyin oru naaval ("tholainthu pOnavaRkaL" allathu "sooriya
vamsam") thamizhakaththil tholaikkadsith thodaraakath thayarikkappaddathaa?
 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,soc.culture.india
From: mani@decserv1.eecs.wsu.edu (Vaithianathan Venkatasubramanian - EECS)
Subject: A short poem (oru pudhukavidai?)
Originator: mani@luke.eecs.wsu.edu
Organization: Washington State University
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 20:08:02 GMT

				      Wish
				      ====

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
		Tamil			!	    English
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
	yOgigal sattham.		! 	Yogis chanting.
	kAviyil rattham.		! 	Bloody saffrons.
	arasiyalvAdhi puhaitthu pOtta	!	Cigarette bit thrown by
	cigarette thundu.		!	a political smoker.

	allavudin-in arpudha vizhakku.	! 	Alladin's magic lamp.
	rendu kattaLai bakki irrukku.	!	Two wishes remain.

							-Mani.
From: kanth@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (Meenakshi Srikanth)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: minnal varigaL - 78
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:53:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.49026
Distribution: world
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR


       "kaN pattathaal undhan mEniyilE
  		puN pattathO adhai naan aRiyEn!
 	puN patta sEthiyai kEttavudan
  		indha peN patta paattai yaar aRivaar??"
	

	From "nalanthaanaa  nalanthaanaa udalum uLLamum ...."

	Contributed by V.R.Kumar.

	Posted by Srikanth Meenakshisundaram.
--------------------------------------------------------
Contributions Welcome. Please send YOUR minnal varigaL to
kanth@cse.ogi.edu. 
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: kat@doe.carleton.ca (Kathiravan Krishnamurthi)
Subject: Re: A ThEvaaram verse (translation)
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:39:54 GMT

In <C19H4w.EAn@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca (Srinivasan K.) writes:

>In article <9301220613.AA18627@cec2.wustl.edu> sp2@cec2.wustl.edu
> (Sundara Pandian) writes:
>>     I think many Tamil nettors must have heard of the 
>> popular ThEvaaram verse,
>>
>>  `maasil veeNaiyum maalai madhiyamum
>>   veesu  thenRalum veenkiLa vEnilum
>>   moosu  vaNdaRai poykaiyum pOnRadhE
>>   eesan  endhai  iNaiydai neezhalE. '
>>
>>   maasil veeNaiyum -  What does it mean here ? What is
>>                       a `maasil veeNai' ? ( I know that
>>                       Veena is a musical instrument.
>>                       I don't understand this comparison
>>                       here.. ) Does the poet mean that
>>                       the shelter is pleasant like Carnatic
>>                       music in Veena without `abaswaram' ?
>>                       Was Carnatic music developed in the
>>                       days of Appar and Sundarar.. ?
>>
>If 'maasil veeNaiyum' could mean 'maasilaa veeNaiyum', it makes
>sense. "Flawless veeNai". No cracks or loose joints.

>I suppose 'veeNai' is as old as 'SaraSvathi'.


    It is maasil veeNaiyaum. It is correct. maasu=kuRRam-imperfect, flaw

  maasu+il:no flaw, flawless.

    In thamizh negation can be made just by addition:

   Another Ex:
            maasu+aRRa some times used like   

    "maasu aRu ponnE, valampuri muthE
     karumbE thEnE   ----------silappadikaaram `


anban

Kathiravan 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: snreee@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Ulagappodhu MaRai Thirukkural
Reply-To: snreee@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:49:31 GMT

OnRe PoruLenin VeRenba VeRenil
AnRenba Aaru Samayaththaar - NanRena
Yeppa valarum Iyaibave VaLLuvanaar
Muppal Mozhindha Mozhi.

ARaththuppal - Theevinaiyachcham ( Fear of evil-doing )

" MaRandhum PiRankedu SuuzhaRkka; Suuzhin
  ARamsuuzhum Suuzhndhavan Keedu.

DO NOT COMPASS ANOTHER PERSON'S RUIN EVEN FORGETFULLY;
(Unthinkingly or Unknowingly better?)
FOR JUSTICE WILL COMPASS THE RUIN OF HIM THAT PLOTTED EVIL.

This should be the philosophy behind the action of every
human being. 

ThiruvaLLuvar has given to the world a work to which, in
perfection of form, profoundity of thought, nobleness of
sentiment, and earnestness of moral purpose, very few
books can at all be compared.

I agree with nanbar Kathiravan in recommending ThirukkuraL
education. I remember my childhood days when I used to go
for early morning bath to Mullaiyaru near my place (KAMBAM).
My father used to take me and pay me eight aNaas if I said
ten ThirukkuraL songs.(Manappadamaai).

In Solvazham, I can only think of Kambar to compare with
ten ThirukkuraL songs.(Manappadamaai).

anbudan
Ramanan
From: an7506@anon.penet.fi (aruLmozhi varman)
Subject:  samarppaNam
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.culture.tamil
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:37:56 GMT



 
      samarppaNam  to the freedom fighter Kittu :


	"sithirach sOlaihalE! umai nangu
	 thiruththa ip pArinilE - munnar
	 eththanai thOzharhal raththam sorindhanarO!
	 ungal vErinilE

	 thAmarai pooththa thadAhangalE! umaith
	 thakka ak kAlaththilE - engal
	 thooimaich sahOdharar thoorndhu maRaindhadhaich
	 sollavO njAlaththilE"
	 


	       --thamizhan
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From: rajamani_t@vmsnet.enet.dec.com (R. Thiyagarajan)
Subject: Re: Sri-Lankan Tamil Terrorists blow up Gandhi statue in Villupuram
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:46:14 GMT


In article <C1J5EF.41K@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, mvishnu@bcr3.uwaterloo.ca (Meenan Vishnu) writes...
>In article <1993Jan27.143005.13799@engage.pko.dec.com> rajamani_t@vmsnet.enet.dec.com (R. Thiyagarajan) writes:
>>(UPI News) 
>>And also offices of congress party. 
>>
>>
>>Assholes!
>>
>>RT
> 
> 
>bomb blast in TN => LTTE did it.
> 
>What a credulous crowd!
> 
>Meenan Vishnu

Sri-Lankan Tamil Terrorists => LTTE

A logical conclusion !

RT
From: ashish@cs.umbc.edu (Ashish K Mathur)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Project : 'HYDERABAD' Database
Date: 21 Jan 1993 20:00:55 -0500
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: goofy.cs.umbc.edu

 
   PLEASE FORWARD THIS ARTICLE TO ANYONE WHO YOU THINK MIGHT BE INTERESTED
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear hyderabadis,

In an effort to create a database of all the people from hyderabad, 
we are involved in a database project. A compilation of the information 
will be mailed to all of those who have mailed us one-liners.

I request to please forward this email to whom-ever you might think is
interested in.

THE REQUESTED ONE-LINER CONSISTS OF 5 KEY INFORMATIONS STARTING 
WITH A SPACE AND SEPERATED BY SEMICOLONS.

These are as follows:
  1) First_Name Last_Name.
  2) Email address.
  3) Your coded educational(India) info (example shown below).
  4) Where, in hyderabad, are you from (Roughly).
  5) Your contact phone number in US mainland.

A sample of the requested one-liner from all hyderabadis is shown below:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
<first.last> <email address>                <univ> <addr>  <contact-num>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mahesh Bagade;c23mkb@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com;cbec88;moulali;(317)453-3872  
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Example: How to code your education inforamtion.
-----------------------------------------------
 The coded univ information consists of just 6 characters:

 1 & 2 = school :: 3 & 4 = major :: 5 & 6 = year of passing out.

     SCHOOL                            SCHOOL-MAJOR
     ------                            ------------
O.U. (campus) : ou     |     Civil       : ce        Psychology  : ps
J.N.T.U       : ju     |     Mechanical  : me        Literature  : lt
C.B.I.T       : cb     |     Electrical  : ee        Business/Adm: mb
M.V.S.R       : mv     |     Electronics : ec        Metallurgy  : mt
Vasavi        : va     |     Computers   : cs        Architecture: ar
Deccan        : dc     |     Industrial  : ie        Other major : xx
Muffakham Jah : mj     |     Navigation  : ne
H.C.U         : hu     |     Mining      : ye
Other univ.   : xu     |     Statistics  : st

Please send your one-liners to hyd@cs.umbc.edu .
Your cooperation is highly appreciated.

Thanx,
Ashish K Mathur

Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: snreee@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: A ThEvaaram verse (translation)
Reply-To: snreee@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:04:47 GMT

Excellent song. What a composition! 
"Masil VeeNai" - Who can think of such combinations of words like
this and which language can let you express so eloquently like this!!
except Tamil.
Thanks for the posting.
Hope someone will enlighten us on "Moosu VaNdarai".
Can someone tell me what raga is best suited for this eternal song.
I am sure I heard it somewhere.

VaaLga TamiL! VaaLga NatRamiLar!!

Anbudan
Ramanan
Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:30:09 -0500 
From: Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh <thundayal+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Consequences

This information is coming from reliable sources.

Kittu(a Central Committe member), a major and two captains of rank(LTTE)
committed suicide to avoid being tortured and questened by the Indian
navy. 
India assumes sole resbonsibility for their death. After all, IN
'pirated' the ship, MV Ahat, in international waters. It is simply an
illegal act.

It is of my view that an edgy naval officer was responsible for this tragedy.
Rao, having enough at hand already, must be regretting this affair.
Unless, this action was authorized from higher-ups in Delhi.

I must point out abother similar incident of serious consequences. It
was a crucial factor in triggering the all-out war between IPKF and
LTTE. The incident took place few days before the war began. At that
time, under the agreements between India and SL, LTTE was officials and
cadres had the freedom of movement(not armed). All was well. Then, a
boat close to northern shores of Jaffna with many top officials was
halted by the SR navy. All were arrested by the navy(13). LTTE made
protests to IPKF officers, reminding them of their obligations. The
officers involved didn't force the SL authorities to release the Tiger
leaders.
At the time of arrest, Tiger officials didn't make any resistanc for
they didn't brake any rules IPKF and LTTE had agreed upon. So much for
placinng trust with IPKF. En route to Colombo from Palaly(SR air-army
base in Jaffna), all 11 high ranking members of LTTE(of the 13)committed
suicide. Other breaches of trust committed by IPKF and their failure to
stop further Sinhalase made war unavoidable. It didn't take long at all
for Tamils to uncover India's true intentions. 

As before, India has courted the ire of Eelam Tamils again. Just as
before, India will feel the wrath.




Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: nefthi@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (a.sandeep)
Subject: A response to BAPCHA
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:20:24 GMT

	Hi BAPCHA sir,
	   (and other sirs who need vulgarity and unplesantness to
		support their arguments)

	Do you ever quit from saying unpleasant things on the net. 
	People like Selva tried to tell things in a nice way,
	and several others tried with other techniques.
	I TRIED SENDING you a personal response not to use
	vulgarity or unplesant things on this net.

	You never seem to get the message.

	If you do not agree with something just say you do not
	agree. When I read those vulgar words from you and others
	it creates such a feeling ..... I can not even attempt
	to say what that feeling is.

	I have controlled my feelings very much; but BAPCHA I
	should hand it to you for blowing my FUSE, and this
	public response.

		My motto was and is EXCEPT for this time:

			Praise in public
			criticize in private

	We need these netnews groups for sharing constructive ideas, 
	entertaining thoughts, creative outlets (for positive things) etc.
	Let's restrict to those.

Sandeep

	P. S. Bapcha,
		My intention is just to let you know that
	99.99 % of the people who read netnews do not tolerate
	vulgarity.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: fb78@sol.acs.unt.edu (Ganesh Gopalakrishnan)
Subject: Re: Paaradhi inRu irundhhal...
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:28:44 GMT

kat@doe.carleton.ca (Kathiravan Krishnamurthi) writes:

>In <2B683A17.28473@news.service.uci.edu> sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu (M. Sundaramoorthy) writes:
>>	Finally to quote the contemorary critic Tamizhavan, "Bharathi 
>>	represents all the three social traditions: i.e. paarppana marabu,
>>	veLLaaLa marabu and dalit marabu". If Brahmins believe that he
>>	belongs to only them or if Kathiravans believe that he represents
>>	only Brahmins, all are equally stupid. 

>     I just pointed the aryanism displayed in his poetry. 
             ^^^^^^^

BIG DEAL! JUST A FEW OCCURRENCES HERE AND THERE MEAN "ARYANISM"?
I THINK IT REFLECTS "JAUNDICED" EYES OF ONE WHO IS LOOKING
FOR ANYTHING TO COMMENT NEGATIVELY UPON. WHAT IS NEXT? RUN
THE EQUIVALENT OF "SEARCH/ARYAN" USING WORD PROCESSOR PROGRAMS
ON TAMIL WORKS TO RATE/RANK THEM ACCORDING TO NUMBER OF
MENTIONS OF "ARYAN"? - GANESH


>     
>  I did not say that kaNNadhaasan is thamizh or evolved a new
>  style. 
> 
>>	M. Sundaramoorthy
>>	sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu  

>    Kathiravan
From: rmv@ukc.ac.uk (raj)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: padikkattu varihal
Date: 24 Jan 93 16:50:59 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.


	"niththiraiyil pooveduththEn nenjil oru kAyam
	 kAyam konda pOdhinilum poovi endhal mOham
	 theRku kadal AzhaththilE muththedukka pOnEn
	 moochchadangi pOnadhadi muththai innum kAnEn
	 undhan muham thEdi uLLAm alai pAyum
	 thenRal inRi pOnAL dhEham analAhum
	 engirundha pOdhilum nee vandhuvidu dhEvi"



from : "oru mAlaich chandhiran malaraith thEdudhu malaiyadivAraththilE .."


posted by raj

comments : note the gentle build up served with a flavour of romance 
	   and underlying melancholy.



==============================================================================
  Please send your "padikkattu varihaL" to rmv@ukc.ac.uk
  

Rules
------

1) There should be a build up
2) No particular line should strike out ie a uniform build up
3) Preferably between 4 to 10 lines but there is no hard limit
4) Let us start with film songs. If this  catchup then we can include
   songs from other sources as well.

                      raj
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: an7931@anon.penet.fi
Subject: Get real
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.culture.tamil
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:10:00 GMT

	So they almost pulled it off this time too ? I mean who 
	can convince the good bishop of Colombo to call Mr.Pirbhakaran
	"Humane"!!
		Mr. Pirabhakaran Humane????
	The good bishop must have been sleeping for the last 15 years.
	Or perhaps a misplaced sense of humour!!!
	Hah ..Calling Mr Pirabhakaran "humane" would be akin to calling
	Jeffrey Dhammer a vegetarian! Or perhaps  Mr Milosovic
	of Serbia a mother Theresa.
		Grow up boys.Be real.All this "humane" facade was just
	to get those guns Kittu was bringing over right on time for
	the next offensive.Releasing 2 cops out of the hundreds taken
	was such a noble gesture.Of course the idiots in Colombo would
	have fallen for it hook, line and stinker if not for our 
	departed friend Kittu's little adventure at sea.
		Of course Kittu was bringing a peace proposal.The 
	proposal must have weighed tons since he needed a 600ton
	ship to carry the "peace proposal".Or was it just a final
	proposal to break off some more "pieces" from the island?
	Perhaps the stuff that was thrown overboard may have been
	part of the peace proposal too!! 
		And quit whinning about the "act of Piracy on
	international waters ".Since when did the LTTE start to
	abide by International law?Did you get permission from
	Interpol to murder our Rajiv?Or perhaps they were acting
	in accordance with international law when they massacred
	those countless Moslem, Sinnaleese women and Children
	few months back.Or maybe just maybe they were acting 
	under international law when they wiped out Padmanabha
	right here in Madras?
		Get a grip you terroists.The fat lady has started
        singing.Kittu got what he deserved .No more No less.
	The same awaits the others too. And then my friends we will
	start looking at your fund raising efforts to an International
	terroists organization and I am sure the INS and the FBI 
	would be very much interested in you persoanly.(Of course
	for the Canadian patrons the RCMP has already started doing
	it's job!!) 
		As for you Sinnaleese get off your butts and get a
	government that can govern  and an Army that can fight.
		
					Avinash Giri		
				 
		

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: kat@doe.carleton.ca (Kathiravan Krishnamurthi)
Subject: Re: Fourth Tamil articles in ACT
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:22:16 GMT

In <C1KKyo.Hu1@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> selvakum@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (C.R.Selvakumar - Electrical Engineering) writes:
>     that I contributed only for the dravidian-aryan discussion
>     ( which I will continue to contribute when time permits)
>     since I feel it is not correct statement of facts.
>     ithai eduththu solla vENdiya ikkattukku enakkE
>     kuRu_vetkamaaga uLLathu :)

  paNivaaka naaNathaal kuzhaiyum selvaa

  Kathiravan
>      
>     anbudan
>     - Selva
From: thundayal+@CMU.EDU (Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: A DARK DAY FOR TAMILS! (Who support LTTE and terrorists)
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:06:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.kfNR82200WB8RZdVBs
Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I realize the mistake I made in comparing Rao to Jeya. It wasn't warranted.
An appropriate comparision would be Subramanium Swamy to Jeya.

Rao, by his record, worked long for India. His sentiments can be traced
to his days when he was university student. In brief, he is the right
leader for India for the time.

Personally, I don't believe in judging anyone by his/her caste background.
Only, merit and his/her deeds determine the worth of character. Where I differ
is when caste is used to exploit people and to justify unusually cruel
treatment of segments of society. Examples of such treatments exits all
over India, including Tamil Nadu. But, in Tamil Nadu the problem is blown
out of proportions. Atleast, that's what I can think of.

Suresh