From: pant@remus.rutgers.edu (Ashish Pant)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics,soc.culture.indian,rec.sport.hockey.field,rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Pant MR wiseguy
Keywords: India, Sports
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:52:20 GMT
Followup-To: rec.sport.olympics
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

This is in reply to Parth Desai's outburst.
	Your e-mail address ends in ..edu.au which could mean
anything, and I did not know it meant Australia. It also says that are
from monash Univ. which could be anywhere, once again. SO EXCUSE ME !
If your newly acquired natiionality, brings about such overzealous
patriotism on your side then maybe next time you post something you
should make it clear that you speaketh from the great land down-under.
	You say that none of the past embarassments India has caused
have made Mr.R.Datta become an Indian citizen for the past 16 yrs.
Ireally don't know what you mean. Anyway the Indian athletes might
have disappointed some of its corporate sponsors(public sector or
private) and the Indian Tax-payer(these are people who have
contributed to their training), but to embarassed by their
participation is absurd. I would like to know what Rajiv's cotribution
to the Indian effort were in Barcelona, thhat he claims to bear this
great burden of embarassment. Thus my suggestion would apply to any
country(yes even your great land down under). If a person is not
willing to make any efforts to improve the performance and yet claim
they are saved by the embarassment inflicted upon them by the
participation, maybe they should pledge allegiance to some other
country and rid me and the other couple hundred Indians like me of the
burden. Also your calling me gutless is inexplicable. Maybe you
assumed I have done or am planning to do what I suggested to Rajiv.
WRONG! If you want to know more of why that gutless call is
unjustified you can send me mail and this newsgroup the trouble.
	As far as calling me ignorant, I don't think that not knowing
monash .edu.au is in Australia is a display of some blatant ignorance,
as you put it. Also I would like to inform you that so many countries
in the world (to name a few Gemany, France) are having major problems
with Indians hopping off planes and disappearing into the country
side. Thus causing them to ask all Indians(now I mean Indians and not
all expatriates of of Indian origin)to remain seated in the plane
while it is being cleaned. Also causes their respective embassies to
ask all sorts of hassling questions to Indian applicants(even when
they apply for as much as a tourist VISA). This suspicion towards
Indians is obviously not uncalled for as they judge everybody on the
actions of a few. 
	Also Parth if you want to have any further discussion on
this please send me mail and spare the other netters the trouble.
However, please do make your arguments (if at all you have any)rahter
comprehensively. If name calling is all you can do then save it 'cause
I really don't hav the time. Whether you are in OZ, US,UK, Canada,
various parts of Africa, Germany, Fiji and so on is besides the point
as I KNOW YOUR TYPE. I have lived in motels, you know.
				Thanks 
						ashish
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