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From: plaul@latech.edu (Pummy Laul)
Subject: DO YOU WANT TO MAKE SOME EXTRA MONEY??
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:24:34 GMT



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Pummy Laul
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From: hameed@hal.COM (Hameed Mohammed)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Indian Carpet Exporters Promise ( Not a victory..)
Keywords: Child labor, Carpet manufacturing
Date: 30 Jul 92 01:15:55 GMT
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: sabre.hal.com

In article <1992Jul29.193156.3003@doug.cae.wisc.edu> budaraju@cae.wisc.edu (Srinivas Budaraju) writes:
>
>Indian Carpet Exporters Promise to End Child Labor



This is not a solution to anything, except changing statistics & a victory to

the protestors. 

One can easily see the economic plight of their families. They form a heavy fraction of their families' income ( just for survival i.e. ). And this kind of stuff creates havoc for sure.

A promise from the employers, for an earn&learn kind of plan for the children would be the right one.

No?!... well just a thought.


Hameed Mohammed
From: x92nath@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: RE: India is poor nation-yes
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:27:49 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

HI READERS,
	We should be ready to accept the very fact that yes India is very
poor country, we shouldn't go by sentiments only.  This doesn't mean that
to be poor is bad or India is not a good country, we all like our mother and
mother land, whether good or bad, but to accept that India is poor does 
not degrade it.  Yes there are people who live below poverty line, don't have
food to eat and house to live.  An averagr indian income is $250 p.a., which
is far less than other developed country.  We cannot solve this problem till
we really realise that yes ours is a poor country and it really needs actions
to come to a average level.
	We have to pay highest debt to developed countries after Brazil and
today also we are taking too much loan from world bank.  We are in a viscious
circle of poverty,population,loan,illiteracy,low production,old techonology,
red tape beuracracy,corruption, and ... ..... ....
	None our politician have a master plan to provide basic needs of food,
shelter and cloth to all citizens,  they need poor people to vote for them.
Prehaps we need to work on Japanise style, who instead of lack of resources
are so rich and advanced.
From: debchat@vax2.concordia.ca (DEB CHATTERJEE)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Calcutta Power Situation
Date: 26 Jul 92 19:20:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Jul24.155112.19083@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>, 
rpendse@velveeta.mfg.hou.compaq.com (Raju Pendse) writes...
>....... (stuff deleted) .....
>Any explanations as to why the power situation degraded so rapidly in Calcutta
>and is it still so bad ?
> 
>Regards,
>Raju Pendse

 Your own experience about the power situation in Calcutta conforms to what
 CPI(M) has done to the city. Pseudo-intellectuals like Anirban De will keep
 obfuscating facts and thus spread systematically falsehood ! If nobody does
 want to work under the thew auspicious directives from Alimuddin Street, how
 can Calcutta get power ???

 NOTHING CAN IMPROVE UNTIL CPI(M) IS DE-STABILIZED !!!!

 - deb chatterjee
(a good samaritan)
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 21 Jul 1992 05:14:46 CDT
From: Shyamala Parameswaran <U15297@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject:    Re: What's with this guy?


Maybe MG doesn't mean what he says as usual, and won't have
me "killed." We'll know soon, when he gets cracking on this one
as soon as he gets to work.

>No, even I am tired with your inane pitches that have neither content
>nor substance other than whining, complaining, chastising,
>castigating.

You mean you recognize this yourself, the little boy craving for
attention ?

>The Problem: You read my stuff for tool long and too
>much in between the lines.

Too much? So you accept your stuff is content-free? Thanks!

>Solution: Stop reading or meet a psychoanalyst.

You mean you need one, especially with the Freudian case.
Though a psychiatrist should do.

>Another solution: Step down from the moral high ground.

Because your scatological and other fixations don't appeal?

>Yet another solution: Get real!!

Why don't you set the example, I'll follow.

>Yetannuder solution: Stop being fussy, snooty and snobbish.

How about just stopping...?

>Yeannudder solution: Attain nirvana.

You mean you have? What's yeannuder?

>hat dog shit, dear flea. You neither understand the concept of
               ^^^^^^^^^
>freedom of speech nor appreciate the fine line of communication with
>responsibility and not devoid of creativity. Oh, by the way, flea, Hue

Don't they say it takes one to know one? And were you the one that
said *I* was whining, calling names? Do sometimes read back your own
messages and see where it starts.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: crick@tsp.med.umn.edu (Ed Crick (CD))
Subject: Re: Olympics Opening Ceremony
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:10:53 GMT

In article <l78kk4INNs6v@phad.hsc.usc.edu> banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee) writes:
>
>
>"Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom" - excellent choice for mentally depraved
>punks wanting to know a little more about India. 
>
>Samit
>
>
In that regard I suppose that the opinion that most of the netters have about
the American West is formed by "Sholay," or does that represent the 
gunslinging days of yore in India?

Ed
From: kgprasan@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Hello There Fella)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Olympics Opening Ceremony
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:35:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

On a side note, does anybody have any information about the 
facilities built for the 82 Games in N.Delhi. If I am not wrong,
the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium has been used extensively for
staging political rallies and for a few cricket extragavanzas.
Are interested people allowed to make use of the swimming pools,
indoor courts, etc. for training etc. ?
And, profiles on any medal prospects would be appreciated.
Pras. 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: udcrusd@meaddata.com (Sylvia D'Cruz)
Subject: Re: MEN OF EASTERN ORIGIN
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:15:30 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Jul28.190437.17236@usl.edu>, sgs@ucs.usl.edu (Sudhindranath SG) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul28.132955@daffy.mc.ti.com> a726226@daffy.mc.ti.com (savithri) writes:
|> 
|> [deleted]
|> >Suffice to say that I maintain my original position
|> >that more than 98% of the MEN of EASTERN origin are SCUMS.
|> >
|> 
|> I suggest you speak to some of the WESTERN women who are married to
|> EASTERN men. Then you will perhaps come to know what % of western
|> men are scums.

I don't think that is a right comparison. The EASTERN men in the above 
marriages are much, more flexable and willing to change when married to
WESTERN women than to EASTERN women. Maybe, they accept the fact that
they have to change because they are living in a westernized society.
Maybe it would be different, were they in an eastern environment. Maybe
the WESTERN women may be required to change, if in an eastern environment.

Also, the EASTERN men in the above marriage is a lot more tolerant. Any
EASTERN culture interests shown by the WESTERN women is taken as a bonus,
rather than a demand.

Generally, in a marriage the dormant patner changes and adapts more, than
the aggressive, dominant one. Marriages are great, if there is a balance
and each changes and contibutes to it. The reason why a lot of EASTERN
women are submissive and listen, rather than make sure that they are not  
taken advantage of, it because they are raised in the above fashion. 
Similarly, the EASTERN men are raised to be more aggressive and demanding.

(It is not uncommon for married men, when they get together to brag, about
the service they can get out of their wives. I have heard - My wife makes me
hot parathas for breakfast, before I leave for work. A hen-pecked husband
is mocked ? )

It can be changed. But, this change has to be there at the onset of the 
marriage.  Later on, it only leads to divorce. Some EASTERN women married 
to EASTERN men are becoming aware of their situation through the media and 
are trying to change and demand more respect and recognition in a marriage, 
but the marriage cannot withstand the sudden demands and changes and break.

I think the only way a family can be really happy and a great to be in,
if their is mutual respect for each other. Even your baby. If fact the baby
is the best test of the above. Treat the baby as an individual, too. They
are defenseless and maybe can't do much. (Don't let anybody and everyone
pull their checks). Each member in the family has a right to stand up for
weaker one. Teach them to become stronger.
|> 
|> >It is some chemical imbalance on that side of the hemisphere that seems to 
|>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> >target the male species.
|> >
|> 
|> The "chemical imbalance on that side of the hemisphere" somehow does
|> not jell with your statement that you have worked in centers that help
|> battered women _this_ side of the hemisphere.
|> 
|> >savithri
|> 
|> Regards,
|> 
|> --Sudhi.

-- 
Sylvia D. D'Cruz
From: anisetti@mozart.cs.colostate.edu (vijay anisetti)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: SATANIC VERSES
Keywords: Freedom speech
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:02:47 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University

In article <1992Jul23.080040.22176@cc.uow.edu.au>, g9220348@cc.uow.edu.au (adil shaikh) writes:
|> 
|> In "The Hindu" newspaper's international edition I read that 
|> a Professor from Jamia Millia Islamia requested the government to 
|> lift the ban on  the Satanic Verses.
|> adil

There was an article in "India Today" saying that there have been
strong protests from a section of the students in that university
demanding the ouster of the Professor.

I don't know what happened after that. I sincerely hope he has NOT
been ousted.

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your right to say that word.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: me@comstore.uark.edu (My Account)
Subject: Calcutta : Do we really have any solution?
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:31:04 GMT
X-Posted-From: comstore.uark.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Deb, Yo, yo! Calm down. I know, whenever you look at the tremendous  
problems of our society in particular, you think time is running out and  
we need to do something drastic RIGHT NOW. But the problem is we have only  
few choices. 

I read the note written by Shubhendu Shekhar. Don't you think he has a  
point? We have to recognize our limitations, then only we will be able to  
come up with practical, and viable solutions. 

As for your comments on my views, I still think, end does not justify the  
means. This is true in almost every aspect of life, particularly politics.  
Look at every movement in the world, whenever the means to a political  
change was not morally justified, the whole movement fell into pieces in  
no time. To achieve any END/GOAL, the process is of utmost importance  
because the 'process' shapes the goal, the process determines the success  
or failure of the goal, the process shapes the people and the future (  
even after the end has been achieved). You cannot ignore the 'means'it  
will determine whether the 'goal' that we are trying to achieve will be  
lasting or not. 

As for your HOW question, my plan is somewhat different from that of  
yours. I think, our (NRI's) capacity to do anything is fairly limited. We  
can only do so much. May be write few articles in the news paper, arrange  
for some seminars, essay contest etc.Indians in India will have to do the  
tough job. 

Economic prosperity is the key to all the solutions. If some of us would  
be willing to spend the necessary time and money to open factories,  
offices, schools and universities in India, and hopefully these  
institutions will be based on concepts like team work, workers as  
stakeholders and not just employees, equal opportunity based on merit,  
profit sharing, employee stock-option plan etc. This in turn will open  
people to newer ideas and realize their own power not only in work place  
but also in their community and gradually to bigger political picture. 

I think I am writing too much. But you asked for it. 

Another step that can be taken is to restore confidence in people by  
showing what the Indians can do in the world arena. Our engineers can help  
design and produce world quality product and compete in the world market.  
We need to get back our  identity. NOT through some phony spiritual fake  
sadhu (as in the '60's) but by competing with real goods, technological  
might, and intellectual power. 

What do YOU think?
--- Aditi Sen. 
Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:25859 soc.culture.pakistan:12711
From: tzaki@schumann.helios.nd.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: Lawyers !!
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:46:21 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame

THE ECONOMIST had a typo. The figure for Pakistan should read
as 50.8 rather than 508. The figure for Singapore was also in 
error. 

The USA thus is indeed the #1 country in terms of lawyers/population.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gchacko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (George W Chacko)
Subject: Re: MEN of EASTERN origin
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:57:14 GMT

In article <5a35c7eb.1b2f0@digital.sps.mot.com> vikc@digital.sps.mot.com (Vikrant Chaudhry) writes:

>Uhmmmm !!!
>
>So you still can't call them good/wonderful/pleasant/charming/ ...
>whatever ....

or dissolute/lascivious/salacious ?

whatever ;-)

George
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rroy@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Raja R Roy)
Subject: Re: Sholay was original...not!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:23:55 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.023758.24289@news2.cis.umn.edu> crick@tsp.med.umn.edu (Ed
 Crick (CD)) writes:
>To Sthan, Nath, Sumitro, and all the rest of you who staunchly defend the
>so-called genuine nature of this obvious imitation:  Get a clue.
>Before you give me the patriotic rhetoric of the Indian bandits, of Hindi
>movies, and of how Shakespeare was actually from Bombay, go rent "The
>Magnificient Seven," or "The Seven Samurai."  Since all of you have seen
>"Sholay" 20 or 30 times each on video, I assume you have VCRs
>Some of you have jumped on the Columbus-bashing, anti-Western bandwagon by
>citing Native-killing in the one or two movies you saw a brief portion of
>while you were lying on the couch, flipping through the channels, and doing
>your Eastern blots for garam masala.  You may be shocked when you don't
>see the US cavalry in this movie.  You may also be disappointed when, in the
>heat of a gun battle, Yul Brenner does NOT stop shooting and start lip-
>synching to Kishore Kumar's voice.  Nevertheless you will soon understand, if
>you are capable, the movies from which "Sholay" was Xeroxed.
>
>Most of you bypassed the citation of "Satanic Verses," wherein Rushdie
>writes that all Hindi-movie actors are obligated to do a remake of "The Mag. 7
."FYI, you are allowed to own that book in the US.
>
>Now go do some of the background research before instinctively hitting
>shift-F and soiling the screen with your groundless (and mindless) responses.
>
>Ed
>

 Is this guy Crick an Indian or American. If he is american, his knowledge
 astounds me.  If he is indian, he should be ashamed of himself.

 Raja
From: banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: US National Debt
Date: 24 Jul 1992 15:35:13 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu

In article <1992Jul24.212647.24297@usl.edu> sgs1679@usl.edu (Sudhindranath Sira G) writes:

>
>
>Oh, no! The Ed Crick virus marches on relentlessly as it infects
>yet another subject-header... 
>
>...and yet another line is added to my kill-file.
>
>--Sudhi.


Wait for the sequel -the revenge of the Crick virus. It should make quite
an insertion into an unsuspecting DNA molecule. The Crick virus is here to 
stay and you probably have to learn how to co-habitate with it, in a strictly 
networking sense.

So dont sign off so early - you havent seen nothing, yet. Wait for the flames
to come, the posts and counter posts and eventually total bedlam on SCI.
And you want to miss all this? How rude.....:-)



Have fun!!!

Samit
From: partha@paul.rutgers.edu (the_great_dictator)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Aditi, Arindam and me.
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:58:19 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Aditi wrote some stuff about passion and logic....

Does passion and logic go together?
From: samaddar@siemens.com (Sumitro Samaddar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Amnesty Report on Left Front Govt. in Bengal
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:01:47 GMT
Reply-To: samaddar@siemens.com

THS1@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>>      The Left Front in West Bengal is caught in a web of dissimulation
>>over an Amnest report that 43 deaths occurred in police custody in the
>>state between 1985 to 1991 out of a total of 415 deaths all over India.
>>[...deleted...]
>>S. Kumar

>I don't understand something here. If the Amnesty report is credible, then
>deaths are occurring in police custody in other places besides West Bengal
>too. So why point finger only at the Left Front Govt? They may be no better
>than other parties, but are they significantly worse?

Going by WB's population ratio (66 million out of 880 million in India),
they should have about 32 deaths. But once you include exceptions such as
Punjab and J&K, then the police custody death rate in WB seem even higher.

Sumitro
From: akc@research.att.com (abhijit kumar choudhury)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: H-4 visas
Date: 22 Jul 92 04:53:14 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.indian
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories


Fellow netters,
	I'd like to get some information on obtaining H-4 visas. I got
married recently and my wife, who has a full TA-ship to UC Santa
Barbara was refused an F-1 visa ( she applied before getting married)
from Calcutta. The visa officer in Calcutta, Katherine Burke, has been
refusing visas to students left and right - in the 2 days I was at the
Consulate not a single applicant got an F-1 visa (out of about 20
applicants).  Anyway, my wife is now planning to apply for an H-4
visa.

1)  Has anyone had the experience of having a H-4 visa application
refused ? If so, could you please suggest what we could do to increase
the chances of obtaining a visa ?

2) Is it possible to hop over to Canada or Mexico and have an H-4 visa
converted to an F-1 visa by showing the I-20 or does one have to go
back to India ( Calcutta, in this case) to make the change ?

3) Do I ( the H1-B visa-holder) have to be present for her to apply
for an H-4 visa ? What documents are required and what are recommended
?

4) If the H-4 application is refused ( and that fact stamped on the
passport - my wife already has one stamp from her earlier F-1 denial )
is there any way to go to Madras or Bombay to apply ?

5) ANy experiences with H-4 visas are welcome - please send me email -
I'll summarize for the newgroup.

Thanks !
	Abhijit Choudhury
	akc@allegra.att.com

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From: shubu@cs.utexas.edu (Shubhendu Sekhar Mukherjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: US national Figure - Correction
Date: 23 Jul 1992 09:54:19 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: oporto.cs.utexas.edu


>>>>> vinay@SLCS.SLB.COM ( Vinay Purohit) writes:

SSM> Interested in the US National Debt?  - It's $3,993, 287,737, which

VP> Ooops, You goofed over there. The figure is off by 3 orders of magnitude.

VP> - Vinay

Yes, I did.  The corrected figure is:  $3,993,756,093,602 as of now
at 9:50am, July 23, 1992.  

Luck!
-Shubu

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: jej@engin.umich.edu (Janani Janakiraman)
Subject: University of NEW ORLEANS .. info req
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 12:16:45 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: usa

Hi!
My brother has been admitted to the University of New Orleans
for the term starting this fall (next month). Is there an
Indian students association whom he can contact to help him
find an apartment. Any other general info about the
university and the place will be greatly appreciated.

Hope someone out in New Orleans reads this and replies back.
My address is : jej@caen.engin.umich.edu or jej@pan.citi.umich.edu
Or you can call me collect at: 313-677-4641

Thanks in advance,
Janani
From: chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: What are the chances?
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:52:42 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

How many of you think that India has got a chance
to win a medal in 1992 Olympics?

---Sreehari(also people call Harisree)