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From: waseems@sco.COM (Waseem Siddiqi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Is Islam equal to Intolearnce and Fascism ?
Date: 25 Aug 92 13:58:18 GMT
Organization: SCO Canada, Inc.

In article <2892@ucl-cs.uucp> B.Kumar@cs.ucl.ac.uk writes:
>
>Follow upto soc.culture.indian, soc.culture.arabic, soc.culture.pakistan
>
>Where are those who say islam is tolerant (:-)), peaceful (:-)),
>you own your way and me on mine (:-))?. Here is one more example of
>islamic brutality on what it considers blasphemous  (:-))
>to Mohammed. Here is one more excuse for islamic oppologists to say that
>state x/ ruler y/ action z is "unislamic", but as true muslim we
>all support it  anyway ..... Ha...ha....- regards.
>

Wake up dude. To be tolerant doesn't mean to allow people to walk
all over you. THere are limits to unacceptable behaviour. 
In any country, a person has to respect the wishes of the majority.
It's called decency. I would have though that these actors would know
better than to do what they did. They were even denied permits
to put on the show but they went and did it any way. One has
to obey the law of the land.

Even in UK, you can't insult the Queen (not even in Hyde Park)

regards
waseem
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ramkumar@cs.stanford.edu (G. Ramkumar)
Subject: Looking for Vimmi - missing in Florida
Reply-To: kochumol@leland.stanford.edu
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:22:34 GMT

Vimmi, daughter of M.A. Thomas is missing in Florida for the last
three weeks. Her parents, who are in Nagpur, have not been able to
contact her since hurricane andrew hit florida. She is from Kerala.

If you happen to know about her where-abouts, please urgently contact
Roy Jacob at South Carolina, 803-537-6115 or reply to this mail.

thanks,

-ram
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus)
Subject: Tall Tales from Hell -- Icarus.
Organization: The Net-Anarchists of SCI, Inc.
              Flaming Homer Division.
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 21:13:59 GMT

1] At lunch at the dining halls today, Njan told a pretty girl,
   an astounding fact:
   
   There is a place in kodai canal called suicide point,
   with a sheer drop of over 5000 meters.
   People who jump off the cliff, are lost without a trace,
   because they  burn up on re-entry from friction due to the
   higher densities of air towards the end of the fall.

   Now I have on occasion told women that Chemmanoor was latin
   for Genius, but this one sounds a bit far fetched.

   Anyone knows anything more about this fall from outer space ?

2] Another one:

  So theres this guy from Kerala,
  whos got this host family, which invite him over for thanksgiving lunch.
  During the lunch, the chap notices the husband and head of the family tell
  his wife:

  "Honey, will you get the phone ?"

  and

  "Honey, pass me the tabasco sauce please."

  So at the end of this presumably delicious lunch, our man gets up
  and bows to the family and says :

  "Thank you for a delightful, delicious, tasty lunch, Mrs. Honey."

3] Two clever ones I remember from Rajan didgits of pi's repertoire:

   a]
      So, The Buddha, is meditating and concentrating on Shiva, 
      waiting for him to appear to ask him the meaning of life.

      He waits for ten years, patiently.
      Nothing happens.
      Finally, disgusted with everything, he gets up and walks away.

      Shiva panics, after playing hard to get all these years.
      Shiva appears in front of The buddha and says:

      "I am well pleased with your worship and dedication, ask anything
       and it is yours. "

      The buddha in disgust says:

      "Oru Maiyurum Venda!"

      The rest they say is history.
      Sorry I dont know how Buddha came to be concentrating on Siva
      or why he choose to speak in Tamil, the results however were 
      immediately evident.


    b] The motto of the only 
       Hindi speaking fraternity in America:
       Rho Beta Rho.


4] Stay Cool.

     

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From: g9220348@cc.uow.edu.au (adil shaikh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: RSS
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:33:53 GMT
Organization: University Of Wollongong

jakhan@IASTATE.EDU (Javed A Khan) writes:


(stuff deleated)
>==
>If it takes 15 kar-sevaks to demolish the Babri masjid in 300 days, how
>many kar-sevaks would it take to demolish it in 30 days ?
>==




Javed RSS never considered the disputed construction as Babri Masjid.

RSS says it is temple and it is rebuilding the temple.

It is BJP who accept the disputed construction as Babri Masjid built by
demolishing the temple eventhough BJP does not have any proof.



By the way, a new era is coming in India.

This new era
will spread a question of loyalty to India among those people whose
perants and grandperants selected the secular India and not a fundamentalist
India.



Bye
Adil
From: guri@sps.mot.com (Gurvinder Singh Ahluwalia)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: H1 to F1
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:20:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: oakhill.1992Sep4.162000.13701
Reply-To: guri@apogee.sps.mot.com
Organization: Motorola SPS - Systems & Network Computing

In article 17383@berlioz.nsc.com, vaseem@berlioz.nsc.com (Vaseem Anjum) writes:
:>
:>I have a friend who is comming here on an H1 and wants to persue
:>his higer studies. Is it possible to change his H1 to an F1 assuming
:>he gets admission in a university.

Unless your friend is losing his H-1, there's no need to apply for F-1.
It is legal for H-1 holders to go to school.   Nevertheless, it is 
permissible to apply for change of status from H-1 to F-1.

__
Gurvinder
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ailawadi@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Sameer Ailawadi)
Subject: Re: Help ! Urgent ! Urgent !
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:37:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.164219.13411@cs.albany.edu> ganesh@cs.albany.edu (Ganesh Murugesan) writes:

Help with what?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: vijay@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Vijay Fafat)
Subject: Mulund/dadar [was Miscreant soc.]
Organization: University of Engineering, College of Engineering
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 22:42:56 GMT

Sthanumurthy writes:
>kannan Subram. writes:

>have no doubt, in your commutes southward, hopped off the 6:12 fast on
>platform # 12 and followed the herd further south-south-west, about a
>hundred and fifty yards across the street, to tuck into a hearty meal 
>at "Canon"? Bhaji pao at its best. A divine creation, to use that theistic
>expression, served straight off the stove, with every melting-mouthful 
>engraving upon one's memory the warning worth remembering, that in life, one 
>must always watch out for cheap imitations.    

No need to worry. My native Mulund is quite accurate. However, such 
precision when it comes to predicting platform numbers is bound to
raise questioning eyebrows - at least a pair in Hawaii (in case the
specimen got caught in kill-files the reference is to one Fafat.) 


        Heh - heh- heh :) You presume your name is not along with mine :)
Yes, the eye-brows did go up. I did'nt know Mulund had 12 platforms :) Ahhh,
but to listen to such honey words .. Ghatkopar, Dadar, Byculla, ....the
heart goes out to Bombay :) For me, the train always stopped on #1 at
Ghatkopar since I always preferred to take the slow train, savouring the
college beauties walking on each station .. Unfortunately, Ghatkopar, 
inspite of being a Gujju stronghold, cannot boast of any world-class
eatery .. That credit goes to dadar. D. damodar on the TT side and that big
batatawada shop on BB side .. maybe Soldier arnik remembers the name..
While in Ruia, our favourite jaunt would always be to the Samrat hotel
behind the 385 bus stop (the latest one.. The BEST idiots play musical
chairs with that stop, having relocated it 4-5 times in the past 5 years..
The top level of Samrat was very cosy-cosy and only "serious" couples went
there :) Of course, one had to tip the waiter for not peeping in at
awkward moments but later, even he was very helpful, reserving the corner 
table in the darkest corner ;-). The bhel-puri there was simply irresistible
(which, of course, I never got to eat :) ..
.. and a glass of cane-juice .. Ahhh.. heavenly... And to compare that with the 
lousy Sujata and Radhakrishna stuff outside IIT .. sheesh ...The chinese
shop inside the campus was better ... Sthanu, you must be an expert on
that (or are you going to tell me there was no Chinese restaurant inside
IIT during "your time" ?

Gotcha Gangster.
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From: misra@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Boo!)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.kerala
Subject: Re: EMAIL ADDRESS OF PANTNAGAR UNIVERSITY WANTED
Date: 3 Sep 1992 10:36:13 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

trivedi@yukawa.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi) writes:

>with Pantnagar; why not have a go at that too?

>And let's not forget comp.sys.next.advocacy since someone from
>around Pantnagar just might have strong opinions about NeXT.

	I can see you have completely missed my point.. this is as we
say going around in circles.. rest well.. 
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: pra@tut.fi (Lakamsani Prasad)
Subject: Re: A Question About "Swastik(a)"
Organization: some where near by north pole
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:45:03 GMT


In article <933@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>, chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala) writes:
|> As many of us know, Swastik(a) was a mighty and frightening
|> symbol of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Germany. Also, this
|> symbol has been used for centuries by Hindus as a symbol
|> of good luck and fortune(I don't know its religious background).
|> Infact, its word origin is Sanskrit(ham)(Su+ati). Did Hitler
|> barrow this symbol from Hinduism, and if so what attracted
|> him so much to adopt this as his symbol? Knowledgeble netters/
|> historians can throw some light on this subject.
|> 
|> ---Sree.

	Recently, there was a very nice & lengthy article in Reader's Digest on this. 
 	(around May '92, probably)
	If I have to say in short...according to the author of that article, Hitler has 	
	adopted swastika because it's `aryan'.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sdevraj@epx.cis.umn.edu ()
Subject: Nice apartment available
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: umn
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:10:33 GMT


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 Thank you for your time. 
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rpendse@velveeta.mfg.hou.compaq.com (Raju Pendse)
Subject: Autonomy for Kashmir
Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:46:10 GMT

I think it is a very bad idea since this will open up the flood gates and also
set a precedent for others to ask for more autonomy. If it is done though I think that the GOI should exclude Jammu and Ladakh from the deal and only give autonomy to Kashmir valley. Hence Jammu and Ladakh should be made full fledged states
 i.e. article 370 should not apply to them anymore which will foster further
integration with the rest of the country.

What do folks think of this ? Actually in my opinion the center should not give autonomy to Kashmir but should initiate a dialogue which gives more autonomy  to
all the states thereby bringing Kashmir in line with all the other states. 

Raju Pendse
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From: sarang@saturn.sdsu.edu (Srinath Sarang)
Subject: Re: Seetamraju Digest # 118...
Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:21:10 GMT

Seetamraju Udaybhaskar (uds@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu) wrote:
---<other stuff deleted>----
: 
: 6] ((I love my andhra pradesh))  India Today.  Aug 31 issue. Page 47.
:    {Who is the country cousin now?} begin quote...
: 	...AP is a happy hunting ground for film distributers simply because
:    it has the largest # of theatres in the country.  While theatres elsewhere
:    are closing down, in AP, the # has gone up from 2438 to 2618 in 3 yrs....
:    end quote...
: 
: I WRITE THIS FROM MEMORY (HAVING READ IT ELSEWHERE).  Andhra Pradesh has
: MORE (repeat MORE) 4-track stereo theatres than the REST of India.  And
: MORE (repeat MORE) 4-track stereo theatres than mighty US of A itself.
: Now figure that out!  How could that be possible...?

  How about "surround sound" ???
  Any of these in AP ?
  Just curious... Actually could figure out the part about movie theaters.
Movie Theaters are not there in any major way in the US... VCR's are supreme
here... so that could explain why US may not have as many theaters as AP...

: 
: I wouldnt watch a chiranjeevi or venkatesh movie in a NON-4-track theatre.
: Sometimes, I get the sick feeling that I hold emotions and feelings that are
: as common as AIDS, among the expatriate indian community.  Maybe I should
: have been happily mingling with the crowd of farmers in some remote village,
: but for some quirk of fate, am currently weighing the `betterness' of analog
: vs. digital VLSI fabrication techniques for optimization...
: 
: 
: 
: Seetamraju Udaya Bhaskar Sarma
: (email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)

Srinath Sarang
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From: sk2g@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Sudesh  Kannan)
Subject:  Question about J-1 -> H1 conversion for doctors 
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:50:04 GMT



My cousin is currently undergoing his medical
residency program in an American hospital.

He is on a J-1 visa. He wants to know what
formalities he needs to complete to transfer
to a H-1 Visa / Green  Card after finishing his
residency requirements.

Please send your replies to sk2g@virginia.edu.

I will summarize the replies if there is enough
interest.


Sudesh Kannan

sk2g@virginia.edu

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.women
From: skc@Turing.ORG (Shriram K. Chaubal)
Subject: Re: looking for ways to meet opp sex
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:01:36 GMT

>Ah, another non-indian ventures into SCI, only to be rebuked by the 
>ignorant, xenophobic denizens here who look down on all
>that is Western, although they get their education in the US or Canada.
>
>Mark, your input will not be appreciated here as long as it is critical,
>or even honest.  For an outsider to be appreciated, you must write only
>of the past glories of India, the spicy food, the colo(u)rful clothing,
>and the exotic dance and music.  Glowing drivel about the Hindu spirituality
>is also welcome.  Frank discussions about the culture however, are strictily
>taboo, and will elicit the rage of all the "defend-India" zealots who are
>too narrow-minded to see the options presented by other societies.
>
>Ed Crick
>

Oh yea ... you also have to talk about how India will turn into a Super-power
by the end of the century (did someone have this century in mind?). Not to 
mention .... you have to laud the fidelity of Indian men towards their wives.

Ed .. Shame on you for forgeting it ... :-) Not all of us are all that bad ..
its just that some of us dont have soap-boxes to stand up on :-)

Shriram

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rnk@cbnews.cb.att.com (ram.n.kumar)
Subject: Re: Interested in a sexy desi girl
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:15:48 GMT

In article <Btvn1r.KIB@wpi.WPI.EDU> sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu (Suresh Doki) writes:
>
>In article no. <sdjfhjds> rpsingh@uwovax.uwo.ca said: >In article
><BtuwJ1.Ay1@wpi.WPI.EDU>,   sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu   (Suresh  Doki)
>writes: >> >> i am a six footer and am also dark. i  am  handsome
>by  any  standards.   >> you can ask all my friends. i am looking
>for a desi chick who is about >> 5 feet and  6  inches  tall  and
>should  be fair. she should be sexy too.  >> caste no bar.  >> >>
>send all mail to sdoki@cs.wpi.edu >> >> doki >> >>  PS:  i  don't
>know  if  this  is  the right group to post but nevertheless i >>
>decided to post only on this group  becoz  there  is  nothing  >>
>worthwhile being posted on this group.  >> >> :) :) :) >> >Well !
>One among the various lonely, pitiable, utterly desperate  person
>>trying to attract attention. I'm sure any person who has a cali-
>bre of your >standard would ever find a girl  through  approaches
>like  these. I hope your >friends are just kidding when they call
>you handsome, if not - isolate yourself >from them, maybe  you'll
>find  some startling revealations about yourself.  > >BTW, if you
>do find a girl by above means- HANG ON TO HER & MARRY  HER.   >My
>elders  used  to  say  seeing  couples  like  yours (I hope??): >
>^^^^^^^^  >"Ram  banaiye  jodi-   ek   langada   eik   luli".   >
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>
>no comments :) just some 'nrofff'ing
>
>
>
>Suresh Doki


I thought that after seeing the above nroff output, our eyes could benefit
from a few clean, blank screens.
From: vaseem@berlioz.nsc.com (Vaseem Anjum)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: H1 to F1
Date: 1 Sep 92 22:10:15 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation
Originator: vaseem@glass



I have a friend who is comming here on an H1 and wants to persue
his higer studies. Is it possible to change his H1 to an F1 assuming
he gets admission in a university. 

Replies appreciated.

Thanks,
Vaseem...


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From: sunder@altair.crhc.uiuc.edu (Srinivas Sunder)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: A Question About "Swastik(a)"
Date: 2 Sep 1992 21:06:25 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: world
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In article <1992Sep2.194506.16337@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, banerj@sundagger.lerc.nasa.gov () writes:

|> Saw Part I of a biography of Hitler on A&E last night and noted a few
|> points.
|> 
|> 1) A form of the swastika, with the arms flowing clockwise and the "main"
|> arms of the "cross" pointing to 3, 6, 9, and 12 o'clock, exists above a
|> statue of a former abbot in a monastery (in Austria? Lenz?) where young
|> Adolf was a chorister. This was pointed out in the program. Could he have
|> picked up the sign there?

I am not sure about this, but a mini-biography of Hitler that I read in the
Reader's Digest some years ago (it was an old edition even then) mentioned that
he got the idea to use the Swastika for his "movement" from his dentist (of all
persons). Somebody with the time can try checking this one out.

|> Comments?
|> 
|> Amitava
|> 

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Srinivas Sunder                                         sunder@crhc.uiuc.edu

If my employer shares these views, I'd be most surprised.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.pakistan
From: gagrawal@cs.tamu.edu (Gopal Agrawal)
Subject: Re: Indian Recipes...Wanted...(long)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Texas A&M University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:44:39 GMT

Haroon H. Dogar writes : 


Matar Panear (Pea Cheese)

2 onions		2 tomatoes
4 cloves garlic		1/2 packet frozen peas
1" cube ginger		1/4 t tumeric
salt and pepper		1/2 t Garam Masala
2 c water

1. Cut panear in 1" cubes and deep fry.
2. Make masala with onion, garlic, ginger, and tomatoes.
3. Season and add turmeric
4. Add peas and panear and water
5. Boil, then simmer to reduce the water by half.
6. Sprinkle Garam Masala and serve.

----------------------------------------------------

Where do you get Paneer or by what name is it 
sold as ?

regards,
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