-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Cynthia, The message below is a hoax. Another reason why it makes sense to attribute what you repost.
Journalists in Chennai on the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mediavigil/ list said they checked and found that nobody of the name existed. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mediavigil/message/1106 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:11 PM > Subject: [journos_dkl] Re: Veracity of Mail sent by > Dean IIT Madras > > UNI has called up IIT Madras to check the veracity > > of this message and got to know that there is no one > > like Vijay Kranti as the Dean of IIT Madras. > > Will abhishek let us know as to what is the source > > of the information below. Please also see http://sv.typepad.com/forsv/2005/10/a_mail_from_vij.html QUOTE: Some spammers wants to make fool of people. Who is this Vijay Kranti claims himself to be as a dean at IIT madras and every information that he has given in the mail are false and made even a Sr. Scientist belive what he said was true. This guy has achived what he wanted. He wanted this mail to go places and impress people and i dont know whats the real name of this guy is, but whoever it might be here is my message "you are a stupid" ENDQUOTE But there are still some people who are willing to believe this story. Incidentally, India donated US$5million -- and not 50millionUS$. Five million dollars is not much by US standards, I guess... anyway, that's not the point here. The point is about hoaxes (and false pride). Please all, be careful about the messages you forward! FN ........................ http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033996.html From: "Cynthia Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jai Hind :) Dear Friends, "In the middle of 1965 India-Pakistan war, US govt - then a close friend of Pakistan - threatened India with stopping food-aid (remember "PL-480"?). For a food deficient India this threat was serious and humiliating. So much so that in the middle of war, Prime Minister (Late) Lal Bahadur Shastri went to Ram Leela Grounds in Delhi and appealed to each Indian to observe one-meal-fast every week to answer the American threat. As a school boy, I joined those millions who responded to Shastri ji's call. I continued the fast even when the war was over and India became self sufficient in food. Hurt deep by the national humiliation suffered at the hands of the US govt, I had vowed to stop my weekly fast only when India starts giving aid to USA. * [Goanet] RE: Words from Dean IIT Madras -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 1st Young Goans International Essay contest 2005 | | | | Theme: WHAT CAN I DO FOR GOA | | More details at | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/034190.html | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
