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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!rdg.dec.com!laxatv.reo.dec.com!vaghela
  2. From: vaghela@laxatv.reo.dec.com (Umesh Vaghela)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
  4. Subject: Re: Knighthood for SMG????
  5. Keywords: I want my present........
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.140936.16173@rdg.dec.com>
  7. Date: 23 Dec 92 14:09:36 GMT
  8. References: <sfAAPy600WB9QQyHZA@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Dec21.183204.16225@rdg.dec.com> <1992Dec23.104232.7557@rdg.dec.com> <BzpsoI.B5H@cs.uiuc.edu>
  9. Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
  10. Reply-To: vaghela@laxatv.reo.dec.com (Umesh Vaghela)
  11. Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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  15. In article <BzpsoI.B5H@cs.uiuc.edu>, bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao) writes:
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  17. |>Indians can not accept knighthood.  Dates back to a minor grudge we have called the "Battle for Independence":-)  Actually, Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize for Literature) began this tradition by turning down a knighthood.  It was a brave act at that time, (1920s or thereabouts) and gave quite a fillip to the burgeoning movement for self determination...
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  19. |>-- 
  20. |>R. Bharat Rao                         E-mail: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu
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  22. But were any Indian cricketers with major achivments like this offered
  23. any knighthoods???
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  26. |                            Umesh Vaghela                                |
  27. |                Digital Equipment Corporation - Reading, Berks, UK       |
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  33. |All views & opinions expressed here are entirely my own and NOT digital's|
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