Escape perhaps easier than finding out facts

[Sanjeev Sabhlok <sabhlok@almaak.usc.edu>]

I hope some of us remember the great debates which I had with Sitaramayya
Ari. At the end of those debates one had reasons to rejoice when he said
that he had understood the kind of work being attempted here. One had
reasons to rejoice because Sitaramayya was expected to furnish to us his
hard-hitting views through the structure set out in the Rules of Debate.

I was therefore sorely disappointed when Sitaramayya quit this list
yesterday. 

I casually carried out a few web searches and found the following sites
referencing Sitaramayya:

http://telefone.acs.oakland.edu/telefone/tele_A.htm

	(indicating he is a PROF OF BIOMEDICAL SCI in Oakland University)

http://www.tana.org/patrika.htm

http://india.bgsu.edu/telugu/Writers/Rama/rama.html 

http://smartcad.me.wisc.edu/~ratnakar/telusa/jul96/0118.html

http://smartcad.me.wisc.edu/~ratnakar/telusa/aug96/0155.html

I hope the Professor has only temporarily left us for a sabbatical, and
will be back to help us hone our views more clearly. 

I hope he has not left because escape from reality is often easier than
finding out facts. 

The warm comfortable feeling we get when we see the Manifestos of existing
policital groups in India, which talk of protecting everyone (but the
entrepreneur), when we hear the hypnotic appeal of the use of names of
greate leaders coupled with jingles like:

	"Saare Desh Se Nata hai
	Sarkar Chalana Aata Hai"

and are assured that here after all is a group of great people who KNOW
how to run government, that comfortable feeling is like a cloud of haze
which drowns out the harsh reality of corruption and deprativy of our
leaders, themselves. If a PM can be corrupt, why will not a clerk be
corrupt? Question: What made that PM corrupt in the first place? Let us
find out. 

If any idea cannot stand on its own two feet in the contest of facts and
the mirror of reality, then we should have nothing to do with that idea. I
am even thinking of writing to all MPs in India to debate with us and tell
us precisely where, what we have worked out so far is wrong. And if what
we have worked out is correct, then they should reform India at once.
ASAP, as they say... Follow the guidelines we have jointly prepared.

All Professors, all MPs, all People, are invited to debate and test their
mettle against facts. Show me a typical bureaucrat and I'll show you what
drives that bureaucrat. Show me a utopian (even among bureaucrats there
are many: in fact, I was one of them for quite some time) and I'll tell
you where that utopian is wrong.

I believe in giving everyone a tough time, including myself. That is why
this is designed to be the list where only the fittest can survive. This
is the ultimate preaching of competition that one can give, about the
value of competition in getting to the best ideas, the best diagnosis.

Arriving at the best diagnosis, as a doctor knows, is half the solution. 

SS

Go india_policy!
Be not disappointed if some people leave the ring after declaring their
	intention to contest.
Treat it as a walk-over in your favor.