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Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 09:27:17 EDT
Subject: India, Swayze

Gurvinda Bagga (#17484) expressed surprise that he may be the only one of 
almost a billion people in India to post to Cryonet.

We (CI) occasionally receive inquiries from India, but so far no members. (We 
do have at least one U.S. member of India origin, and at least one of Chinese 
origin, and one Korean.) Since the people of Asia are bright and numerous, 
they will obviously become increasingly important, both in cryonics and in 
most other areas. (India is already an important resource in software.) The 
problems holding them back so far are probably mainly twofold: First, the 
weight of cultural tradition, worse there than here; secondly, the apparent 
priority of other issues such as bread-and-butter. As usual, identifying the 
problem is not the same as solving it, and I know of no new strategy to speed 
things up in Asia.

Mr. Bagga also said he would try to help raise money for the James Swayze 
fund. He has our heartfelt thanks for this, with so many other 
responsibilities already weighing on him. There's an old saying: "If you want 
something done, ask a busy man." 

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
www.cryonics.org

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