From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 30 2:15:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postfix1-2.free.fr (postfix1-2.free.fr [213.228.0.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55AED37B408 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 02:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-5-45-115.dial.proxad.net [212.27.45.115]) by postfix1-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B3EAB1AE for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:15:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 503 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Sep 2001 08:57:46 -0000 Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 10:57:46 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: Salvo Bartolotta , Konstantinos Konstantinidis , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <20010930105746.A352@lpt.ens.fr> References: <1001447850.3bb0e1aa11dfc@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010925222900.A71817@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB216E8.89F3419@mindspring.com> <20010926202630.C10954@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB427FD.61AE3E6A@mindspring.com> <20010928144755.C7471@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB6174E.BCDCCAA6@mindspring.com> <20010930021157.A315@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB6A622.58C86193@mindspring.com> <3BB6A7BE.8157B03F@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BB6A7BE.8157B03F@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 10:03:58PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert said on Sep 29, 2001 at 22:03:58: > > PS: I will happily listen to your alternative theories as to why > there is continued ethnic and religious violence in India; For much the same reasons there is everywhere else in the world, including the US. Much of it historical enmities, generated by religious bigotry, of all religions. As I said in another mail in this thread, I consider all ideologies, religious and otherwise, to be bad things. However, religion is so deeply embedded in the world that it's hard to dislodge it. But that's a separate topic altogether. > language sources (there's a dearth of Tamil, Devengari, and other > Indic script writing on the subject on the Internet, There's a dearth, yes. Though the amount of Tamil writing is increasingly large, and several Hindi magazines now do have web sites. One reason is that most Indians who are likely to have internet access do speak English; and most internet news sites were originally set up to cater to Indians abroad, the domestic audience has grown only in the last 2-3 years. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message