Re: On Our Telugu Jana Sanghamu, 1 & 2 ....

Rao Veluri (rveluri@smtpgate.anl.gov)
Thu, 13 Jun 96 16:14:19 CST

[ Friends: Since Sri KT made references to people who post frequently on
Telusa, I am posting this note on Telusa and SCIT. -- vr veluri ]

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O! my!! Sri kt is at it again.....daa diM diM daa daa diM diM daa.......

Well! One can try deductive logic with The Pope and convince him to write a
preface to a book with a title something like "Mary was a Moron," or
"Jesus was a Jester," one can probably persuade the Ayatolah to perform
'halal' on a pig and cook kosher pork chops for Benjamin Netanyahu, and
succeed; but to reason with Sri KT Narayana such that he could make some
sense, seems just impossible!

Sri KT has invented his own brand of logic:'sillygism.' Somewhere in one of
his 'high horse' pulpit posts, he flatters himself by saying that his
'thought dimension is different.' Absolutely no argument on that. It's not
the dimension; it's the entire thought process that's different and
convoluted. Some one has to prescribe severe deconvolution routines to
remedy his malady!

Some time ago, in reference to Sri KT's posts, I wrote that I met a guy in
a medical ward in India who reminded me of Sri KT. Now, I am thoroughly
convinced that I was not wrong at all!!


For the benefit of those who have missed my earlier post on SCIT, and to
those on Telusa who could not read it, here it is, with a couple of minor
editorial corrections:

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This post has reference to Sri K T Narayana's recent irrelevant posts
on the Feminist Writers.

um...

Well! This happened a long time ago. Once, in India, I went to meet a
physician friend in the hospital he worked. Just out of curiosity, I
asked him if I could just chat with any of his patients in the ward. He
said: 'sure, no problem.' He took me into the ward. I saw a very well
dressed young man, busy pacing in the ward. He greeted my doctor friend
with an army salute with his left hand. My friend reciprocated, and said
to me that I could talk to him. He told me that this young man was one of
his star patients with two post-graduate degrees. I was a little
surprised; he did not look like one that ever needed to stay in a medical
ward under doctor's constant care.

I walked to him, introduced myself, and we started talking. He talked
freely about several things: politics, poetry, philosophy, Nehru dynasty,
market forces, Nannaya's plagiarizations, corruption, communalism,
koochipoodi dance, his brother-in-law's mischief, etc, etc. Boy, you name
it, he knows about it! He sounded omniscient! He was very authoritative
in his replies and assertive in his statements. Even before the
completion of my question, he was ready with an answer. On everything, he
has the last word, at least he believed he has the last word, although,
he was frog-leaping from one topic to the other, quite incoherently,
making very little 'sense.' He told me that he was writing a
comparative study on Beowulf, Rig Veda and Gandhi's Salt Satyagraha.

We talked for about half-an-hour. Frankly, he did the talking, I
listened. All this time, he was holding his right index finger pointing
to the sky, held close to his right ear lobe, the other three fingers
tightly closed, and the thumb clasping. I got curious and asked:

"Why are you holding your index finger like that?"

He replied: "O! I have to hold it exactly like that!"

I did not understand. I thought he has some medical problem with the
phalanges of his finger.

"You mean, you can't fold that finger?" I asked.

He yelled, and yelled very confidently:

"Heck No! If I fold that finger, the earth would fall down and crumble!"

I quit.

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Regards to all and my best to Sri KT.

-- Venkateswara Rao Veluri