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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 21 Jul 1992 05:43:44 CDT
From: Shyamala Parameswaran <U15297@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: What's with this guy?

>Yes, my kill file is a big one too. And guess who is next? But how do you
>put up with yourself, when your messages are so dull and empty?

I was talking about others. But it's nice to hear you have
a big kill file. And I'd be happy to be on it. But I think you
won't. We'll see...

It's your messages that are empty, sunnyboy.

>Sigh...some people!

Ah, yes...some people!
From: mukherje@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Amit Mukherjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Multiple Entry F-1/H-1
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:25:51 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network


Hi,

I need some information for two of my friends who are going to Toronto,
Canada next month. One of them wishes to apply for a multiple entry F-1
and the other one wants a multiple entry H-1 over there. I would appreciate
any tips regarding how difficult it is, what to watch out for, what kind
of documents to take etc. Please email me at "mukherje@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu".
Thanks a lot in advance.

Amit Mukherjee
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ssr@cypress.com (Bapcha/FPGA)
Subject: Re: Communications Program in USCLA
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:30:59 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.191132.352@talon.ucs.orst.edu> rakhee@ece.orst.edu (Rakhee Gupta) writes:
>Hi Guys,
>
>A friend of mine is planning to apply in USCLA for Master's
>in Electrical Engg. Her major is Communications.  

Awww pleeeeze.... call USC USC.... the University of Second Choice,
                                       ^             ^      ^
and don't even try to make it come close to UCLA by calling it USCLA....


-- 
Bapcha - A very bad boy from Cypress Semiconductor
3901 N.  First Strasse
San Jose,  CA 95134, 408-943-2719
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: be127@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Navneet Bhalla)
Subject: Help on renting a car in Delhi
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 22:33:32 GMT


Hi fellow netters,
     I will be going to Delhi in about 6 weeks and don't want 
risk driving there.  So do any of you know if I can rent a car
and a driver for approx. a month, and what costs might be 
involved.  Thanks in advance.  All information will be 
appreciated.

Navneet Bhalla
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada

EMAIL: SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA
From: sgs1679@usl.edu (Sudhindranath Sira G)
Subject: Re: Lawyers !!
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:21:46 GMT

In article <91878@bu.edu> khalid@bu-bio.bu.edu (Rasheed A. Khalid) writes:
>In article <8ePgr1K00VAwMKeEQn@andrew.cmu.edu> ag3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Arun K. Gupta) writes:
>>
>>
>>The latest Economist gives these figures for lawyers/100,000 population.
>>
>>At the top of the list is Pakistan ! (508.4 lawyers/100,000 pop.)
>>Singapore comes in second (396)
>>US third (312)
>>Japan is 16th (101.6)
>>India is 32nd with 34.4.
>>
>>-arun
>
>Thanks for the info.
>This does not necessarily indicate high literacy, but lopsidedness towards
>a profession that does not directly relate with national progress and
>civilization.  Whereas having enough lawyers does indicate a positive
>trend, it is not the only trade in which one should excel.
>
>There could be several explanations for this *pleasant* surprise:
>
>
[deleted]

>* In Pakistan, getting the L.L.B. degree is one of the easiest things to
>accomplish in education while remaining in a professional field (one can
>simply pass the exam privately, without having attended an institution.
>

This is a little bit like getting a science degree in India. The
statement that India has the "third largest pool of scientists in
the world" does sound real hollow when we consider the fact that
many of these science graduates are working in banks and other
places as clerical staff...

[deleted]

>Regards,
>Rasheed.


Regards,

--Sudhi.

--
                       Sira Gopinath Sudhindranath. 
email : sudhi@usl.edu, sgs@ucs.usl.edu    Address : USL PO Box 41688,
Phone : (318)-232-2198 (r)	                    Lafayette, LA 70504-1688.
	(318)-231-6539 (o)                          USA.
From: banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: US National Debt
Date: 24 Jul 1992 14:41:46 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu

In article <1992Jul24.144444.3390@news2.cis.umn.edu> crick@htlv.med.umn.edu (Ed Crick (CD)) writes:

>
>I must disagree with you concerning my credentials.  I am adroit at using
>the Indian biological technique, the Eastern blot.  This technique was
>pioneered in India's institute of higher learning, as existed before
>DNA hybridizations.  For those of you wondering what an Eastern blot is, it
>is when you spill curry on your fresh, white kurta.
>
>Ed


I guess by the same token, an American  Western blot would be spilling ketchup
from a Big mac on the front of a dirty and torn blue jeans.

Wonder where the antibody would come from? Maybe Dan Quayle's brain cells
that are as close to an anti----body, as you are ever likely to get.
From: ftvm@acad3.alaska.edu (MEHTA VIVEK _)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Yet another Ajit joke!
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:05:30 GMT
Reply-To: ftvm@acad3.alaska.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Alaska - Fairbanks
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a3

Hope you guys haven't heard this one before:

Robert (to Ajit): Bass, mujhe actor banna hai.
Ajit: Dilli ke laal kilay pe khade ho jao, Raabert Red-ford ban
     jaoge.
From: moghejs@vax2.concordia.ca (MOGHE, JAYANT S.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: dumb men jokes
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:23:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41









Q.   why are dumb blonde jokes one liners?
A.   So, men can understand.

Q.   What's a man's idea of helping around the house?
A.   Raising his feet so u can vacuum around him.

Q.   What's the difference between Gov. bonds and men?
A.   Government bonds mature.

Q.   What did God say after creating man. 
A.   I can do better and created woman.


                                               --- attributed to 
                                                   The Globe and Mail 


Enjoy,
Jayant
From: ndua@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: SEARCH: D.C.E (DELHI)
Date: 30 Jul 92 00:52:33 EDT
Organization: Univ of Miami IR

Hi!
   I am looking for Graduates from the Delhi College OF Engg. Delhi
1991 batch.I know that few of them are around but I do'nt have there  address
with me.
          Thanx
    
Please send your mail at:
   dua@impala.ir.miami.edu
   ndua@umiami.ir.miami.edu


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: guri@apogee.sps.mot.com (Gurvinder Singh Ahluwalia)
Subject: Re: AFCS (Subroto Park, Delhi Cant.) Graduates
Reply-To: guri@apogee.sps.mot.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:37:24 GMT

In article 13865@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com, rpendse@velveeta.mfg.hou.compaq.com (Raju Pendse) writes:
>I am a graduate of the Air Force Central School in Subroto Park, Delhi Cant.
>I am sure there are graduates of this school in this country. If there is sufficient interest I would like to see if we can come up with a directory of
>ex-student. If you are a grad of this school please e-mail me directly and lets see waht we can do as a group to help the school.

It's now known as TAFS for The Air Force School.  What year did you graduate
and has there been much of a response to your posting?

__
Gurvinder Ahluwalia
From: asrini@sanjuan (Anand Srinivasan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Astro Turf surface and India
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:17:05 GMT
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA

In article <1992Jul27.192749.21377@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> rpendse@velveeta.mfg.hou.compaq.com (Raju Pendse) writes:
>I don't know why everybody is so worked up about Bob Costas' remarks during the
>opening ceremonies regarding India not able to afford astro turf surfaces for
>hockey. It is tru that India cannot afford to put this surface for regular 
>hockey matches. A recent article I read (I don't remember the name of the paper
>some UK paper) mentions some statistics. There are about 5-10 astroturf surfacesin Pakistan and about 15-20 in India compared to 300 in a small country like theUK. If practicing on astro turf really makes a big difference to the quality of


>Raju Pendse 


kya be-sharam ladka hai!!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,alt.culture.us.asian-indian,soc.culture.asian.american
From: mgundeko@pcserver2.Naitc.Com (Murthy Gundekota)
Subject: Re: Family values and the West.
Keywords: Marriage, Family, Industrial, West.
Organization: Somewhere near Chicago
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 17:52:06 GMT

In article <3653@randvax.rand.org> edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes
in reply to several things I've posted.

I think you have kept the bathwater and threw away the baby. The various
examples I've provided relate to the ``concerns'' at the individual
level that have little to do with technology or religion. 

>I'm sorry, but I fail to see how traditional theories of blame/credit
>apply to technologies.  It seems to me that they apply directly to the
>ethical behavior of humans.

Yes, and some humans are also scientists and engineers spinning off
technological marvels (Ex: genetics).

>A paraphrase of Karl Marx.  I don't think religious programming, per se,
>is a problem.  In fact, such programming might conceivibly form a
>counter-balance to the moral rot you decry.  

No I didn't cry :-)

>Hmmm... How much sex, religion, or violence has the U.S. Government
>programmed lately?  I think Sudhi was closer in his original post
>when he wrote of unrestrained market forces.  I've no problem with
>capitalism, but merchants shouldn't shirk the fact that they, too,
>have ethical responsibility for their behavior.

Classic case of `our government is perfect.' Have you heard about the
senators trying to cut down PBS funding? Their reason: the PBS
programs are leftist. I guess, like everyone else, PBS should market
sex and violence to get govt. approval. I know this is my perception
only. 


Murthy


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: J.Ainikkal@massey.ac.nz (J. Ainikkal)
Subject: Olympics - Info on Indian Contingent would be nice:)
Summary: Olympics - Info on Indian Contingent would be nice
Keywords: Soc.culture.indian
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 00:32:09 GMT

Could some kind soul post some information on the Indian contingent
in Barcelona and 'realistic' estimations of medal 'hopes' - if any.
It might be well appreciated on SCI.

Thank You 
John Ainikkal
'Aotearoa' - Land of the long white cloud
From: csv25@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Manu C)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: info. req.
Date: 21 Jul 1992 11:56:09 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu
X-Unparseable-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 17:54:38 WET DST


Fellow desis:
	
	Can some very kind person please email me the addresses and 
phone numbers to the following places;

	1. Bajaj Institute of Management
	2. NMIMS
	3. Bombay University
	4. JN University (Delhi)
	5. Univ. of Poona

	Thank you in advance.




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	Barnes, University of Keele     dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
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   email: csv25@seq1.keele.ac.uk                   - Rabindranath Tagore -
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From: un107375@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: FAQ
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:25:01 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

Hi..

I know this is an FAQ, but I forget the source of answers to FAQ.  Here is the
question :

Where do I find a multi-system VCR that records/playsback in all three systems,
PAL, SECAM and NTSE ?

Could you give me model names that I can look for specifically ?  Can I
mail-order for them ?  Do I need a TV specially for that or is the scanning
rate taken care of by the VCR itself ?

I live near Pittsburgh, so if there are places around here, or Washington, DC
where I could find one, I would be happy.

Thanks in advance..

Balu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: telang@watson.ibm.com (Jitendra W. Telang)
Subject: Request for Point Park College students.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:30:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Followup-To: telang@watson.ibm.com


Hi netters,

I would highly appreciate if somebody from Point Park College,
Pittsburgh could give me some information about couple of things.
One of my friends in India has secured admission in the
school for MBA program. He needs some info before he joins the
school in coming Fall. The info I need is about -

. What's the standard of living near the campus?
 ( Living expenses per month per person etc., assuming one
   shares the apt with couple of other students. )

. Assistantship scene on campus.
  ( How's it? Is it very difficult to get one in a semester or 
	two? How about student worker jobs? )

I hope somebody replies to this request. I would indeed appreciate
it very much.

You can send me mail at telang@watson.ibm.com.

Thank you very much in advance.

Jitendra Telang


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam Ghosh)
Subject: Re: Calcutta: Degrading social and political life.
Reply-To: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 23:16:37 GMT

> to the Central Govt. and MISA may be imposed and all the murderers/ rapists/
> fraudlent buisnessmen/ drug-smugglers and `political criminals' be thrown into
> the Tihar jail, order and discipline be restored. Let the existing rules be
> imposed. Let all strikes, student unrest and doctor's strike be banned. (Read
> Samit Banerjee's posting.) If we choose to remain indisciplined, by adhering 
> to the stone-walling tactics that you, Aditi and Arindam plus some donkey-
> brained `pseudo-intellectuals' have adopted, then such hypocrisy will get us
> nowhere ! Am I abundantly clear, Mr.Shubhendu Sekhar Mukherjee ???
>
> - deb chatterjee
>(a good samaritan)
Well, I don't know about Aditi I am not concerned what you are going to do.
Your plans do not conflict with mine. But please do something: don't chant
destabilize: show how to do it.
Arindam

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: kuntal@algol.cs.umbc.edu (survivor)
Subject: Re: MEN of EASTERN origin  
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:10:14 GMT


In article <1992Jul21.140951@daffy.mc.ti.com> a726226@daffy.mc.ti.com (savithri) writes:
>
>
>I just happened to scan this group out of idle curiosity.  From what I have seen,
>I am now more than certain that MEN from the EASTERN part of the world have something
>seriously lacking in their brain cells. (More than 98% - a figure I concluded from the
>number of scum bags I have met).  What is most surprising is even though they SEEM to

[... lots of bile removed ...]

the primary instinct of the MCP portion of me is to suggest you to resort to 
the other alternative. if you don't dig men, go gay !

some part of me agrees in part with what you have to say.

another part of me, would like to ask you to speak out against something
specific. don't mount a pedestal, make sweeping statements and crawl back.

and the remaining part of me is just rubbing my hands in glee at the 
anticipated fussilade of posts, rebuttals, flaming and debates on this net !


kuntal

ps : as usual, my acetylene torch is primed & in ship shape. wanna flame ? ;-)


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sgs@ucs.usl.edu (Sudhindranath SG)
Subject: Re: Family values, premarital sex, etc.
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:51:40 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.183112.19184@wuecl.wustl.edu> bs@wucs1.wustl.edu (Bala SWAMINATHAN) writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.051000.12834@usl.edu> sgs@ucs.usl.edu (Sudhindranath SG) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul25.184712.14620@menudo.uh.edu> nagappa@Rosie.UH.EDU writes:
>>>	
>>[deleted]
>>>I know a single mother and she has done a very good job of bringing up her
>>>kid. Most single parenting in the US is caused by the male spouse abdicating
>>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>his responsibility as a father, and not due to an external relationship by his
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>mate.
>> ^^^^
>>
>>Hmmmm... interesting. All this talk of the male not concerning itself with
>>any responsibility as a father and the mother bringing up the child 
>>(or cub) to be honest, caring and hardworking (strong, good at hunting, 
>>and successful at escaping), etc. reminds me of _another_ world...
>>
>>[deleted]
>>
>>--Sudhi.
>>
>
>Did you read the tale of an abdicated mother and child in sci a
>few days back? Well, the mother is trying and doing her best to
>survive while the father is untraceable.
>

I wonder if the irony has been lost on you. (If I am making a
mistake here, please pardon me). I was saying that the
state of affairs seems to imply that the LAW OF THE JUNGLE
is at work here, and that such a situation is not a happy
one, put it mildly. Something that I didn't expect to
see in a "developed"(?!) country...

And yes, I did read the tale of the abandoned mother. If you
have seen the wildlife serials of National Geographic, you
would have noticed that the mother indeed works hard to
survive and to sustain the kids, while the father is 
untraceable...

>S_Bala

Regards,

--Sudhi.

-- 
                          Sira Gopinath Sudhindranath. 
email : sudhi@usl.edu, sgs@ucs.usl.edu           Phone : (318)-232-2198 (r), 
						         (318)-231-6539 (o)
From: banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: US National Debt
Date: 24 Jul 1992 16:37:09 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu

In article <1992Jul24.225454.8254@news2.cis.umn.edu> crick@scrapie.med.umn.edu (Ed Crick (CD)) writes:
>
>Like most Indian technology, this one is fairly simple.  It avoids the use of
>complicated probes that are fluorescent or radioactive.  The Eastern blot
>uses a visible-wavelength detector.  Simply observe the sample for the 
>yellow stains on the front of his garment.  That is considered a positive
>result.  

Oh, oh. I thought you have to conjugate it to protein and even
though it uses a UV detector, a bathochromic or hyperchromic shift cannot
be ruled out. Hence blanks will have to be run, a complete scan of
the spectrum will have to be done and the wavelength for max. absorption
have to be identified.

Simple yelow stains can only say if the test is positive or negative. In
order to make it quantitative, a standard curve will have to be
constructed. 

Given the lack of spices in the US and the polluted nature of the water
supply, the test may not run as well as it does in India. Contact your
local Embassy for help to get authentic samples from India.
 



>The brown stains on the lower rear of the garment are artefacts
>that can be eliminated by high-stringency washes in a denaturing buffer.

Last I heard, the FDA was conducting tests to determine what food value
this might have for the American population. To wash it away, would
be to waste a precious source of carbon and nitrogen. Can the US do that
in these hard recessionary times and with the national debt climbing
steadily?

Samit




>
>Ed
>
From: ag3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Arun K. Gupta)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Justice Bains - Release of Third Open Letter
Date: 21 Jul 92 05:16:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.EeP0t5600VB58DSkcn
Organization: Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


While I support the right of anyone to hold whatever views they want to
without persecution, I also support the right to point out when they are
talking nonsense.

In particular, Hardial Singh Bains' statement:

Both as a point of constitutional law and as a matter of historical fact,
neither Punjab nor any of the other nations or tribes of India ever
voluntarily enlisted into the currently existing union.

belongs to that class of statement. The history books are out there, and
can be brought to bear on the issue if necessary.

-arun gupta
ag3L@andrew.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: mgundeko@pcserver2.Naitc.Com (Murthy Gundekota)
Subject: Re: MEN OF EASTERN ORIGIN
Organization: Somewhere near Chicago
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 20:15:30 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.132955@daffy.mc.ti.com> a726226@daffy.mc.ti.com (savithri) writes:
>I will not go into the horror tales from the women of other middle eastern 
>countries or into bride-burning and dowry deaths in our backyards.
>Suffice to say that I maintain my original position
>that more than 98% of the MEN of EASTERN origin are SCUMS.
>
>p.s.  Recently the postings on Are we that intolerant, Have you noticed that
>in all the  cases mentioned, it was the MEN who were acting insufferable?
>It is some chemical imbalance on that side of the hemisphere that seems to target the male species.
>
>savithri


Well, dear Savithri is at it again. This time a theorem proving
machine, the most ominous portent to all the mankind. Anyway, taking
things very seriously, and yet not to lose sight of the apparent humor
in life situations...

In spite of the worst case scenarios, i.e. say you got raped while you
were in India, why should 98% of the men be blamed? Are you by
yourself 98% of the women? What's this magic number dear?

Suppose, a large percentage of Indian men are admittedly MC pigs, then
how does 98% of the men from east become identified with the former?
And vice versa. All Indian men by definition may be eastern men, but
not all eastern men are Indian, dear.

Eventually, women blame men for all their problems. Men will
rationalize them with sophistry. Take Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill
case for example. So the nature of man is to balance that of woman,
dear. You seek revenge when someone lays hands on you, I feel
frustrated when someone accuses me without reason. So it is your body
against my mind. 

Relax,

Murthy


Organization: Senior, IM - MCS/CIT Track, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA