Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 10:59:55 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <20010930105955.B352@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <3BB6A622.58C86193@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:57:06PM -0700 References: <1001447850.3bb0e1aa11dfc@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010925222900.A71817@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB216E8.89F3419@mindspring.com> <20010926202630.C10954@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB427FD.61AE3E6A@mindspring.com> <20010928144755.C7471@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB6174E.BCDCCAA6@mindspring.com> <20010930021157.A315@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB6A622.58C86193@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert said on Sep 29, 2001 at 21:57:06: > > You *may* be thinking of forehead markings worn for religious reasons > > which tend to vary among castes (eg, Iyengars in the south have a > > peculiar style, and this is sported only by the men, not the women). > > These are increasingly rare even in India except in traditional > > settings and religious occasions, so while I could be charitable and > > assume that you were thinking of some such thing, > > This is, in fact, the case, at least for the examples I was > giving, according to the examples themselves ...as I pointed > out in a previous email. In that case I'm interested in knowing what exactly they are. As I said earlier, such caste-specific marks are worn normally by men, and increasingly only on religious occasions. It would be pretty rare to see them in the workplace even in India. I can't imagine seeing 3 on the same day in the same workplace in America. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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