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#109 by Layman on June 10, 2003 0:34am PT
dostmittar #61:
``All five founders of Infosys, I believe, are Tamil Brahmins and are continuing their brahminical traditions, sans arrogance, in their newly found organization.``
There you go again, with your inaccuracies. Infosys - this is public information - has seven founders, not five. Only two of them are Tamil (Brahmins). Narayana Murthy and one other guy are from Karnataka. There are at least two from Kerala.
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I have been to various organisations like HAL Bangalore, ADA and others. I observed that there are people from all over India working in these organisations. There were so many of them from Punjab/Gujrat etc..
It must be the same in IT industry as well...so the brains working behind any successful venture are from all over India

Layman#109
That information about all founders being brahmins was not based on my visit to Infosys but an article I had read a year ago; hence the qualification ``I believe``. Sorry, if that info. is incorrect.
BTW didn`t Kerala (old Travancore) have tamil brahmins as well?

shankar, hi
i may be visiting bbay around the same time and i join u in hoping fervently musharraf doesnt cause any accidents just then... can u tell me of some nice second hand book shops in the breach candy area (or places nearby)?

re: A new green revolution in Andhra?
Ultimately, technology wedded to the needs of the local population is the answer to poverty. The following article is worth reading. It seems, the technology of Drip Irrigation borrowed from Israel is paying rich dividends in parts of A.P.
http://www.sulekha.com/redirectnh.asp?cid=310859
Sridhar

re: # 109 by layman
Five of the six founders of Infosys are brahmins. Nilekeni is a Kannadiga brahmin. So is Narayana Murthy (i thought he was a Tamilian but i may be wrong). Two of the rest: N.S. Ragavan, S. Gopalakrishnan are definitely Tamil brahmins. I am missing the fifth. May be it is K. Dinesh.
I was surprised to learn that Gururaj Deshpande (founder of sycamore Networks Inc.) and Narayana Murthy are married to sisters.
http://www.dalitstan.org/journal/brahman/bra001/brah0105.html
Sridhar

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Dost Mittar

I really enjoyed this piece...thanks alot

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Arjun_ m

``If abdul paki is asked the with urstruly or with the capitalists, guess which side he would pick? ``

Ain`t it a hoot and a holler to see American ``progressives`` support anti-globalization measures because they ``care for the poor of the third world``?? The only people they care about is Union dudes making $30 an hour, working 40 hours a week while the third world poor starves to death.

are all brahmins party-poopers?

............. i have had the misfortune of knowing many many horrible hindoos over the last twenty five years - it is a professional hazard - and i don`t want to stereotype, or anything, but i think i can a spot a brahmin from a mile ............... i don`t like them - not that i love any kind of indian - but i like brahmins least of all ............. as william tecumseh sherman once said, `` the only good indian is a dead indian`` .......for that he is a national hero in pakistan with statues and temples dedicated to him all over the place - ranks right up there with aurangzeb and mahmud ghazni .......... but that is another story

......... the only indians i know who are vegetarians, don`t drink or smoke, have silly little temples in the basement of their homes, have absolutely no sense of humor, show up for work with red war-paint on their foreheads, stink up the entire eight floors by warming up lunch in the microwave and generally have a constipated look about them, are the brahmins .......... am i wrong? ............ is it my imagination or do other indians also think they are a sheer waste of a step in the reincarnation process ...........

............. just looking for confirmation ............

dostmittar #61:
``All five founders of Infosys, I believe, are Tamil Brahmins and are continuing their brahminical traditions, sans arrogance, in their newly found organization.``
There you go again, with your inaccuracies. Infosys - this is public information - has seven founders, not five. Only two of them are Tamil (Brahmins). Narayana Murthy and one other guy are from Karnataka. There are at least two from Kerala.

ali87 #78

Put things in perspective
Cost Plus sales is $1 billion
Wal Mart sales is $250 billion
Who would you want to supply ?

India exports $10 billion in textiles. China exports $30 billion. One reason is MFA. The other reason is that Chinese have bigger and more efficient factories The Chinese have zero sentiments for Khadi and other handloom industries. I have no problems with handloom and small scale units. But some idiots want to impose restrictions on large scale factories to keep your handloom sector competitive. That is my real gripe.

Software and IT enabled services hit $7 billion. If there are no tarriffs from the West I expect it to hit 100 to 200 billion dollars.

hari #90

`` Good for them. I think education and opportunity should be economic based and not caste based. Caste based opportunity is ripe with corruption.

One of school class-mates, son of a very, very, very rich industrialist paid a local panchayat adminstration to get a sch caste/sch tribe classification to get admission to a good college. Was it worth it eventually? the answer is NO. Eventually, he inherited his father`s empire and became a CEO. But in the process took an opportunity away from another needy student.``

I agree and disagree.

Why I should admit a poor Brahmin student with 97% marks over a industralist son who scored 85% ? Especially in a field related to the industralist business like mechanical engineering or MBA program.

Ideally I would admit both. The industrialist son gets preference.

Your 97% or 85% reflects the ability to memorise and write legibilly and take exams. It does not reflect true intelligence or analytical ability. Don`t ask me how I would setup the admissions process.

Studebaker #88

`` Yealike ENRON,World Com ,Unum ,Merill Lynch ``

For every Enron there are plenty of Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, IBM, GE, Motorola and GM.

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