From: rrp@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (rakesh.r.patel)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: The Gundekota File: The Indian-American Dream
Date: 19 Aug 92 12:52:33 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Aug18.201037.15524@Firewall.Nielsen.Com> mgundeko@pcserver2.Naitc.Com (Murthy Gundekota) writes:
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>The Gundekota File-Entry#7: The Indian-American Dream
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>Bali finished his last verse as: ``The whores approached Him to peel
>his skin and find for themselves His essence.'' Mahound walked into
>the cave and shot Bali with an AK-47. The reverberations woke Jibreel
>Farishta who had been sleeping in his own wetness thinking it to be a
>swimming pool in his dream. Back to reality for poor unrelenting
>Gibreel whose heart had long ago been broken into a million pieces by
>Babloo Minakshi back in Bollywood when she refused to sleep with him.
>Not even on the last day of the out-door shooting near Andamans when
>they were deserted by the crew and tied to poles by aboriginees
>preparing them for the sacrifice. 

Murthy, from now on you better be careful.  There might be a bounty on your
head for quoting from 'The Satanic Verses'.  Especially, with the rash of
Quran postings lately...

>* To wake up every morning from the right side of the water bed and
>  then sit on the toilet seat thinking about the dreams
>* To go home in the 10-acre ranch and make love to the little
>  Americanized wify or  hubby 
>* To turn the million dollars around into profitable rupees and buy
>  anything in India
>* To be able to go to India on a short notice on a private jet and
>  party with the stars in the latest favorite video film release

I can dream, can't I?? Yeah! That Madhuri Dixit is great, isn't she?
>
>All these are dreams, rightly so, for they are whims in some one's
>fancy. A real Freudian American Dream, whatever that means, is to see
>Indian society become like American in all its wrong places: roads,
>buildings, poverty, power, resources, food, transportation,
>universities, sports, television, radio, computers, cars,
>entertainment parts, fast food, kissing in public, pre-marital sex,
>x-power-n-rated movies, etc. 

Oh! Please. Nice bullshit...Freudian American Dream.  Boy! I'm impressed.
 
>* Let the politicians who use religion to get elected and elect
>  religion to power die
>* Let the socialists who make debt to service army and use GNP to
>  service debt die

Very profund! 
 
>Of course, there is this one ardent wish that has to be necessarily a
>part of Indian-American dream: let there be no national language.
>Americans don't have one. What they have is an official language and
>what works for the goose...so we can do great with English.

ENGLISH IS THE DE FACTO NATIONAL LANGUAGE OF THE USA.  

>Next time
>if you argue: ``How can the SC or ST or aboriginee or Brahmin Hillbilly
>or rickshawallah or railway porter or bus conductor or farm worker
>understand a government run by English speaking people?'' remember
>in the land of immigrants no one cares for the government because
>government doesn't talk to people. Government is there to protect
>people whether national security or welfare net. And it doesn't
>matter what language you speak when the marauding enemy pushes the
>sharp and cold bayonet on the neck and sez: ``Comrade, *&%^$ fuck $@#
>die *$#@ pig @#@&%( alien &^% gadha @#&%.'' Because you don't have
>time to explain you are not a gadha.

I have no response to this.  I am dumbfounded.  Let's bring back the British!


Rakesh Patel