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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

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

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)?

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?

#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

ali87 # 96

`` Even today as many people have admitted here on this fourm that the southie brahmin is very prevalent in the software industry in India. so what exactly are you cribbing about. ``

A lot of folks overcame the system.

`` The dalits have borne worse and for centuries in just a few decades you have started cribbing that to of such a small favour in just one sphere of life.
Argeed reservation is not a efficient method but right now it is the only one availabe to the dalits ``

Explain to chowkies how many children of dalit farm workers is ever going to benefit from reservations in professional colleges. It is hard to study without a decent private school education. Hint the ones to benefit are the rich Dalits.

#118 by dost-mittar on June 10, 2003 7:57am PT

there are some called Palaghat Iyers. Palaghat being name of a place.

There are plenty of Tamil brahimins from(now of course spread out elsewhere)Mysore city who were working for Mysore state (ie the Maharaja of Mysore) similarly there are a few (including the Ex dewan) in Bhopal(working for the Nawab of Berar).
Im talking of course of old families. Post independence there has been a lot of migration to and fro.

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#116 by bbabu on June 10, 2003 7:57am PT

again this is a very relative thing.

...It is hard to study without a decent private school education. I dont think so. Private I think you mean expensive. Some of the best results in schools in Bangalore come from govt as well as private(extreemly cheap and basic schools like acharaya patshala).

Similarly In Delhi the govt schools (you got to see how bad they are, the students need to be confined in like a jail and still they manage to escape the school during school hours, approx 30% of the teaching posts are not filled those teachers who come rarely take classes) give out the best results. Till a decade back they were getting usually 60% of the top 20 ranks in the 10th and 12th exams (im not aware of the results now as I dont follow the trends there now.)

Harpreet:
Thanks for dropping by. Where have you been?

re: hamidm

...the big divide in india is between the north and south, not between brahmin or non-brahmin...

...the north is busy reproducing and $hitting on the streets while the south is busy building infosys and designing intel chips...

re: #115 by hamidm2
Methinks you are recently incarnated from the Ape. What do you think?
Sridhar

#124 by rsaxena on June 10, 2003 2:27pm PT

surprising you say that being from the north.. Now we should assume the stink coming from the north has no contribution from you :)

#121 by Studebaker on June 10, 2003 10:42am PT

Er which Zia are you talking about? and how is what ever he said relevant in this context.

I supposse that even a billon dollars is not a deciding factor.

Remember Khatre Khatre se samundar buntha hai!!

Americans need not starve only India gets better. By your silly argument it means that the rest of the world is starving? while only americans are well fed?

re: ali

{surprising you say that being from the north.. }

..what`s true is true...can`t always blame someone else for one`s problems....