Mr. Tripathi's Reply

["Dr. Subroto Roy" <sroy@vgsom.iitkgp.ernet.in>]

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Mr. Tripathi has not identified who he is or where he is as far as I can

make out, and then chosen to send in a fair amount of argumentam ad
hominem,
which he may be unaware of to be a fallacy.

Subroto Roy



----- Original Message -----
From: Krishna C Tripathi <krishnact@yahoo.com>
To: <debate@indiapolicy.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: Reply to Dr. Roy


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> Please help make the Manifesto better, or accept it, and propagate it!

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> Now I will discuss your statements one by one.
> 1. "Of course I do. Unlike Mr. Tripathi,  I do not
> rely on dictionary.com for my vocabulary."
> ---So consult the source on which you rely upon and
> please let us know the source, positively.
> 2. "The term "rabid socialist" is known to me; it
> likely  derives from quite archaic British usage of
> the late 19th or mid 20th centuries."
> ---This claim shows how stubburn you are. In stead of
> quoting any authentic source you are assuming and
> pronouncing that your knowledge is complete and final.
>
> If you have the correct etimology I would be happy to
> know it, but am not interested in any of your LIKELY
> etimologies.
> 3. "My objection was to gratuitous rudeness which
> violates IPI's norms."
> ---It appeared rude to you because you don't know the
> correct meaning of this term. You should try to know
> how rest of the world uses a particular term before
> getting offended by it. Let me tell you one more
> thing, you have been one of the most rude persons on
> this board. Of course I am rude in this mail but its
> you who started it.
> 4. "I must add a new objection about the anonymity
> being used by Mr. Garg and Mr. Tripathi to make their
> rude remarks from behind their yahoo email addresses.
> Would they care to identify themselves by name and
> address?"
> ---Another stupid objection based upon 2 more stupid
> assumptions. Let me tell you why they are stupid.
> Assumption One: Mr. Tripathi is using yahoo account to
> remain anonymous.
> Fact One: Mr. Tripathi( that is me ) is not using
> yahoo acount to remain anonymous but,
> a) I have some morality left in him which prohibits me
> from using official resources for regular personal
> usage.
> b) I am  not using a fake name. This is my real name.
> You can check the IPI data base, my initial memebrship
> was with my company account (krishna.tripathi@....)
> but I changed to yahoo becasue of large number of
> mails coming there.
> Assumption Two: The non free mail accounts are always
> correct.
> Fact Two: It is possible and very easy to write e-mail
> with any mail id as sender id. If you want I can start
> writing from your iit acount. It shows your ignorance
> of SMTP protocol, but since you don't have be a SMTP
> expert to contribute positively on this board, I won't
> mind that.
> 5. Rest of your mail is request to teach you english
> phrase usage, which you can learn by joining an
> English language course. Once you are done, you will
> be able to comprehend what is discussed here.
>
>    I have one final suggestion for you, don't write an
> objection mail about everything that you don't
> understand. Try to learn and understand them.
> --- "Dr. Subroto Roy" <sroy@vgsom.iitkgp.ernet.in>
> wrote:



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