Fred in the news ... :-)

[Veeranarayana Pandurangi]

dear all.
I hope people understand time and again that scholars should not be burdened
with topics not related to indology.
veeranarayana pandurangi

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:35 AM, George Thompson <gthomgt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear  List,
>
> I got a note yesterday from Fred Smith who is still in India.  He
> insists in the following note that what he has been quoted as saying
> in a number of interviews in Indian papers has not been accurately
> reported, and so he has asked me to pass on to you this correction
> [Fred does not have good internet access in India now, so he has asked
> me to post this note to the list]:
>
> "I was informed that a story on me from the Mirror (a slightly dubious
> newspaper in Bangalore) was posted to Indology. I'm not usually on my
> own computer in India, for internet at least, and can't look at
> Indology right now. Can you please reply to Indology that most of
> what's in that story was wholly invented by the Indian press. I didn't
> say most of what's reported there, which is why it doesn't sound like
> me. They wanted cookie cutter pablum, and put it in my mouth. I
> actually tried to feed them hard, but digestible, nuggets, but
> apparently they were regurgitated without leaving a trace. I don't
> know how many times I've told myself never to talk to any reporter. I
> went back on this and what came out were words I would never say. The
> fact is that I went to the Mysore demonstrations in support of the
> very necessary anti-corruption initiative inspired by Anna Hazare. I
> went with some people I know well there, who in fact organized the
> Mysore demonstration. The press and TV were there, and seemed to be
> interested in the tall videshi. Egged on by my friends there, I gave a
> few interviews. I tried, at some length, to tie corruption in with the
> catastrophic environmental problems in India, that the same impulse
> has led to both of them, but none of that made it into the newspapers.
> I guess it was too much for the press to handle, probably more so for
> editors than for reporters. Supposedly I was on NDTV and a few other
> channels, but never saw any of it. I gave a couple of other press
> interviews, including a long and substantive one to the Times of
> India, Bangalore edition, but have not followed up on any of it."
>
> So, this is what Fred has to say about the news from Fred in India!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> George
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/10/20110817201108170046151189b42573f/Sick-and-tired-of-paying-bribes-American-joins-stir.html
> >
> >
>



-- 
Veeranarayana N.K. Pandurangi
Head, Dept of Darshanas,
Yoganandacharya Bhavan,
Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Samskrita University, Madau, post
Bhankrota, Jaipur, 302026.

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