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From: cs461a09@umbc5.umbc.edu (cs461a09)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Mr. Arindam Ghosh is CONVERTING ME from Hinduism please help me.
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:39:24 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, Academic Computing Services


	HELP me how to kill files written by Mr. Arindam Ghosh
	======================================================

This man has gone mad.  He is crazy religious fanatic who is hell
bend on converting me to MUSLIM religion.

	MR. GHOSH IT WILL BE BETTER IF YOU TAKE YOUR VIEWS TO 
			
			"SOC.RELIGION.ISLAM"

You are really a big pain. SOC.CULTURE.INDIAN is NOT YOUR FATHERS PROPERTY.

IF you are a MUSLIM THEN why have you not changed your name to
some better name like Sultant bin Ali AL-HAQ REHMAN

HEY WAHT IS WRONG WITH HINDUSIM IS IT A RELIGION OF CRIMINALS OR WHAT?
YOU ARE SAYING TOTAL GARBAGE.

" E_MAIL adress of this religious fanatic"
i>From: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam Ghosh)


I have not called your religion any names WHY THE HELL YOU ARE COMPLAINING
ABOUT HINDUSIM?.

You say you are not interested in conversion BETTER IMPLEMENT
YOUR STATEMENT BY ACTIONS NOT JUST LIP SERVICE.

AVINASH 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: 10702946@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (PARTH DESAI)
Subject: Re: Mera Bharat Mahan
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 03:05:18 GMT

In article <bimal.5.713609038@wench.ece.jcu.edu.au> bimal@wench.ece.jcu.edu.au (Bimal Parikh) writes:
>From: bimal@wench.ece.jcu.edu.au (Bimal Parikh)
>Subject: Mera Bharat Mahan
>Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 08:43:58 GMT
>Hellow everybody,
>     I am overseas Indian student in Australia. Could anyone please write, 
>day to day news on different topics, which are going on in India (e.g. 
>news on politics, exchange rates and rules, movies...). These types of news 
>would be a great help to keep touch with India for students like me, 
>because in Australia there mieght be hardley one news in 120 pages newsaper. 
>It would be appreciated, if everyday news will be under one title, like as 
>above.  
>     Thanking you for your interest.

try MISC.NEWS.SOUTHASIA
PARTH
From: sharma@mcs.kent.edu (Naveen Sharma)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: A H1/F1 visa question.
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:59:36 GMT
Organization: Kent State University


 Hi netters, 

  I have (yet another) US visa related question. I do read SCI regularly 
  but have not seen any case parallel to this situation. 

  My Status:
  I am currently finishing my PhD in CS here (in fact the defense is 
  scheduled in the first week of September); I will however graduate in 
  December. I have a 2 year NSF (post doctoral) position starting 
  Sept. 1. I have already started to process my H1 papers through an 
  immigration lawyer. In the mean time I will switch my status to 
  ``practical training'' a day or so before Sept. 1 so that I can join the 
  postdoc position. 

 My wife's status:
  She joined me in 1989 (without much hassle in getting F2). 
  Her F2 was only for 1 year and has expired since. 
  Starting Fall'92 she has an admission and graduate assistantship 
  in Biology. Through international office, we applied to INS for 
  her F2->F1 conversion, and that is in progress. 

  Now, we are planning to visit India in December. By that time 
  (if every thing goes as described) I will be on H1 and my wife 
  will be on F1. 
  <<We both will have to apply for visa renewal in New Delhi.>> 
  
  I will highly appreciate if any netter - who has gone through this 
  situation or has some knowledge about H1/F1 visa prospects at 
  New Delhi - has any suggestion for us. 

  Thanxs. 
__________________________________________________________________________
Naveen Sharma	  		                |                  /      \
Institute for Computational Mathematics         |<     /  ----     /       |
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science  |<__    / ____     /       |
Kent State University		    		|  | O| | |   | O| | |O  | |
Kent Ohio 44242 		    		|  |  | | | O |  | | |-- | | 
e-mail: sharma@mcs.kent.edu          (internet)	|  |O |_| |/  |  |_| |___| |
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: basab@columbia.eng.ohio-state.edu (Basab Chatterjee)
Subject: travel by Aeroflot/Bangladesh Biman (!!!)
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:21:36 GMT





         Can anybody share his experiences regarding travelling
 by Aeroflot or Bangladesh Biman to India. I need some feedback
 as I am planning to travel in December.

        Thanks a lot

              Basab        basab@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: abdutta@icaen.uiowa.edu (Abhijit Dutta)
Subject: Re: India successfully launches missile
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:44:16 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa


|Now "successfully" as used here is highly subjective.  For example Mr.
|Chatterjee would probably define a successful launch as one that destroys
------------------------------------------------------------------------
|Pakistan, Bangladesh, and selectively removes all Muslims in India.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
|Successful to Tamils would be destroying northern Indians, and vice-versa.
|Anyone can launch a missle and have it fall harmlessly somewhere, success is
|destroying an intended target, or something close enough.
|
|Ed

        This is sort of putting words in somebody's mouth you want to
        denigrate!  You may have differences of opinion with 
        Mr. Chatterjee, but that doesn't give you right to this type
        of heinous slander!  Mr. Crick, to say the least, it is creepy.
        You may even run into legal trouble someday if you keep on
        writing such things in a public forum like SCI!

        -jit
-- 

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: kayshav_dattatri@taligent.com (dattatri)
Subject: Air India - Try it and you will not complain
Organization: Taligent, Inc.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:13:56 GMT

After reading all the complaints and some compliments I couldn't resist 
posting my experience. I flew from Tokyo to Bombay and back on AI.  At 
Tokyo the flight got delayed by about 24 hrs because the pilot suffered 
food poisoning. Of course we were given good hotel accommodation and 
transportation to the airport.

When the flight took of I noticed that it wasn't that full and the service 
was excellent. One thing that is outstanding about AI is the choice of 
food. Usually you can pick between Veg/NonVeg on the flight itself. Try 
doing that on domestic US flights (I have had problems even after prior 
food requests). 

Food was good. And plenty of it frequently. And I couldn't find any flaws 
with the service. I was having a good time talking with the cabin crew and 
discussing 'this and that'.  I had fun on that flight.

On my return trip, accidentally I met one cabin crew who was with us on 
the first trip.  This person put me up in the business class (even though 
Ihad an economy ticket). And no complaints about food/beverages/service. 

Even I was skeptical of their service. Sometimes people compare AI and IA 
(Indian Airlines- the domestic carrier). One cannot compare the domestic 
and the international carriers. They are a world apart.

And after the AI experience, my home stretch was on NorthWest. I hope I 
wouldn't have to fly on that airline again. Awful food and meagre 
quantities. These domestic carriers look down upon economy class and 
bestow their service on business and first class passengers; MONEY talks.  

In terms of safety I think AI has a very good record. 

So the next time you fly, try AI (wow, that rhymes).  You will enjoy the 
trip.




KD -- kayshav_dattatri@taligent.com
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 1992 14:00:57 CDT
From: Sesha Talluri <U51935@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Help Arindam Ghosh, and ALL of us too!!!
Distribution: usa
 <1992Aug19.162854.25767@menudo.uh.edu>

In article <1992Aug19.162854.25767@menudo.uh.edu>, mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam
Ghosh) says:
>
(Deb Chatterjee says)
(lot of brotherly advice deleted)
>>Are you facing academic problems ? If so, quit this
>> goddamn SCI and etc. This (SCI/ SCP/ SCB) is not the end of the world.
>
>nah, not academic problems
>> Think about it Arindam, give yourself a second chance.
>>
>
>Thanks for your concern, no pun intended.
>Arindam
>> - deb chatterjee
>>(a good samaritan)


It breaks my heart to say this....
Do you mind carrying this conversation through e-mail??????

( ie Mr. Chatterjee and Ghosh)

Thank you.
sesha

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: skc@Turing.ORG (Shriram K. Chaubal)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Indian babes ....
Date: 18 Aug 92 02:58:46 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <rich07.713909947@milton> rich07@milton.u.washington.edu (Jon Jochem) writes:
>
>Are Indian babes horny?
>

The last time I subscribed to the group ... there was a "horny babes" post from
some dudes out in California (about a year ago...). Glad to see things have not
changed *grin*. Isnt it interesting how indignant some folks can get when they
read a post like this? 

Mebbe I'll come back in a year or so and see if any of the women get the nerve
to respond to a similar post.


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Cincinnati, OH 45236				70134.3310@compuserve.com
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From: debchat@vax2.concordia.ca (DEB CHATTERJEE)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Moslem Intolerance must be dealt with now.
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:48:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Aug16.215058.30541@ccad.uiowa.edu>, bhat@ccad.uiowa.edu 
(Dinkar N. Bhat) writes...
>........ (deleted) ......
>In article <92226.103805DXA4@psuvm.psu.edu> <DXA4@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>........ (deleted) ......

 Yes, I am extremely amazed and makes my blood boil too. However the IPSG
 group at Columbia University will now definitely keep quiet. These groups
 and others who preach secularism, egalitarian principles are to be looked
 down with utter contempt - as they are hypocrites. These groups (IPSG) do
 preach that Kashmir should be given away to Pakistan, and, they fight against
 the " injustice " towards religious minorities in India. But, contrastingly
 enough, nobody dares to raise a voice against these incidents. I am now
 absolutely sure that long back when King Cobra and myself were telling the
 same thing, I received death-threats from Moslem students (including Girish
 Bonde) and was booed down by our good-natured Hindu (????) friends. These
 people - the most notable being Sridharan Venkatraman and his ardent chamchas
 wrote against me to my system admin. I think that these people (IPSG) guys
 are pseudo-communists and are a menace to the society. Obfuscation is what
 they do best. I just cannot understand why we cannot be united to protest
 against the intolerance ? Is it a shameful act, or, a crime ? What is now
 holding us back ? Or, as according to IPSG members, am I abusive ???? I mean
 what is offensive and abusive ? What is the definition/ guideline ? Or as
 Paul Chemanoor indicates in his most stoicist fashion, " Stay Cool " and
 hence chill out ! What in the name of blazes is goin' on ? Spinelessness 
 of some morons - and adoption of a penitent posture before oppression from
 a fundamental religious group ?

 - deb chatterjee
(a good samaritan)
From: krishnan@ra.csc.ti.com (Srinivasan Krishnan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Why India abstained from endorsing the use of force?
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:03:37 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments


My editor spoiled my previous post. Sorry
--------------------------------------------------------------------

The United Nation security council voted yesterday that force could be 
used to deleiver humanitarian aid to Bosnia Hercegovina with three 
abstensions namely India, China, and Zimbabwe.  


Though India's abstensions may look strange to many, I think it made a
wise decision.  India always held that the war in erstwhile Yougoslavia
is a civil war.  If India had voted to use force, then Pakistan and its other
allies could very well bring the issue of Kashmir and ask for U.N intervention
to solve the problem which could have put PVN in a tight corner with all the
political instability at home. By NOT endorsing the use of force, India
atleast has made herself consistent and probably has avoided a political
minefield temporarily. It is a wise decision given all the problems and 
the choices we have.  

Any comments???

Krishnan
From: dharma@verdix.com (Manjeri Dharmarajan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: INDIANS AND SEX
Date: 23 Aug 92 03:11:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: verdix.4593
Reply-To: dharma@VERDIX.COM (Manjeri Dharmarajan)
Organization: Verdix Western Operations; Aloha, OR

In article <1992Aug22.204822.12017@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> lanka@chargers.ent.ohiou.edu (Lanka Somanath) writes:
>
>A intelligent girl gives more pleasure in bed rather than a beautiful
>girl.
>
>Somanath 

An intelligent woman gives even more pleasure, and you won't get arrested for
statutory rape.

	Dharmarajan
From: raja@magic (Raja Seth)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Categories and Castes
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:06:02 GMT
Reply-To: raja@ctron.com
Organization: Cabletron Systems Inc.,

In article <1992Aug21.122258.10537@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
raghu@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Raghu B) writes:


>In educational institutions the reservations is like this.
>
>       S.C/S.T      -     8% + 15 %
>       BACKWARD CASTE -   50 % (Oh my god!)
>       OBC            -   I think is a part of B.C or have they
>                          taken over some share of O.C
>       O.C  (open category) - remaining % .
>
>       The funniest thing is that they have the left over % as
>an open category. That is what really kills me. When you have
>reservatons for all categorys, then the remaining share should come
>to the left over category. But these cunning politicians wanted
>mushtache as well as Kanji. They categorized the remaining % as an
>open category so that all can compete under that category.

I am not sure what you are talking about here. If you are saying that
the B.C candidates *after* filling up 50 % of their seats can compete
for OC seats, you are wrong.

The B.C and S.C, S.T compete with all for O.C quota first,
then once the O.C seats have been filled up, they compete within their
B.C or S.C/S.T category ! That makes it even worse !! This has given
rise to major misgivings among the so-called forward class communities.
Many have started saying that anyone who gets through the reservation
is good for nothing, not really qualified etc.,

I think the real solution lies in building many more colleges and
making so many seats available in every professional field that
reservation will become meaningless. After all, it is because of
limited resources that people resort to reservation. Any other solution
is going to get politicized so much that it just won't be worth it.
Can you think of any other measure that is not draconian ?

cheers.......raja

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|
| Raja Seth : raja@balrog.ctron.com
|
| All opinions expressed in this article are my own. 
| The company I work for has no claim or liability
| to this article in any implicit or explicit form. 
|
------------------------------------------------------
|
| Morality is self-imposed, legality is enforced.
| In the modern world, legality is replacing morality !
| Or is it really modern ?
|
| I hate legality for it makes life more complicated. 
| But what I do with my morality is my own business.
|
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From: vijay@wizards.austin.ibm.com (Vijay Joglekar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Visas...
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:38:53 GMT
Reply-To: vijay@wizards.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM (Aix Tools Development)

A new news group has been created called alt.visa.us.
Why don't you guys post visa questions in alt.visa.us?


**********************************************************************
               Vijay Joglekar - arbiter elagantiarum
 Disclaimer: These are my opinions and my opinions only. Has nothing
                      to do with where I work.
            Littera scripta manet: Credo quia absurdum
**********************************************************************
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sidnag@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (siddhartha.nag)
Subject: A man from the Rockies - The Final Cut
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:37:17 GMT

There was a man from the High Rockies
Of an Ohio-an, who was a faithful lackey
 Had this Grand Illusion
 Of being a "writer", "poet"..even a "musician"(sic)
'Tho people think, his style is zimb-lee tacky


Hang loose ; )

Sid



Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:28385 soc.culture.pakistan:13772 soc.culture.bangladesh:4542
From: ag3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Arun K. Gupta)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Re: Contradictions in the Quran
Date: 16 Aug 92 17:07:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.ceXjixK00aw=IOe2Yp
Organization: Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Mr(s) csNumeral, the filth of the pig reflects on the owner, not on
the person who shuns the pig.

-arun gupta
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: nparkar@seamis1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nuru Parkar)
Subject: Re: INS question
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:27:14 GMT

ycp@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (yogesh.c.patel) writes:

>A person had applied for change of status from visitor to permanent 
>resident; her application has been accepted and recently she 
>received a letter  (End of July) from INS saying that the processing 
>on her application is completed.

>Can she apply for her unmarried son or has to wait for green card before 
>doing that?? She has "a-number" on the letter. How long does it take
>to get the green card.

>Thanks for help in advance.

>Yogesh Patel


Yes she may apply for her Unmarried son for green card.  Do not forget to 
take INS letter in which her A number is mentioned.  She may receive green
card (which is pink now a days) in 3 to 4 months.

Nuruddin Parkar
From: prasanth@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ravi K. Prasanth)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Meat eating....etc!
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:14:13 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <16bdheINNrl1@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, sngattan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Sanjay N Gattani) writes:
> In fact there are many ore examples.....starfish...Then you have centipedes
> (maybe, I don't have the name right!)  etc...But that exactly is the point.
> No one feels bad if a lizard's tail is cut off.  I think there is a 
> connection between our feelings and the regeneration capability of the
> animal. Perhaps if the animals were like plants, vegetarians wouldn't come
> out against killing life.

Perhaps.

> 
> sanjay

RKP
From: bkannan@ha06.eng.ua.edu (Balaji Kannan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: religious talks
Date: 14 Aug 1992 12:45:53 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



> What would you like everyone to discuss on s.c.i ?

      Ravi, Madame only likes the 98% stuff.

>> [deleted]
>>
>> The only way out of this is to abolish reiligion from this
>> earth (WHAT A DREAM!)
>>

       That sounds like an edict...
       There is a term for people who do that. Or am I mistaken?
       
>You have only looked at the negative aspects of religion. One
>can talk a lot about nuclear bombs and conclude that science
>should be banished from earth.


      Well said! Probably some of us here are not aware
      that it is prejudices more than anything else that
      is the root of all evil. Religion, Race and Oh yes
      sex are just the apparent causes. You see,we could,
      staying out of religious nonsense still kill each
      [Science has given us knives, assault rifles....]
      other discussing a topic like "Indian men are SCUMS".
 
      About this ship/plane [How wonderful science is!] that
      you might have taken to be a born-again Scientist, I'm
      sure there are more people contented back home [at
      least they don't have holes in their hearts, and have
      their "thinking" intact] than there are contented,
      peace-loving, anti-religious Scientists in this country.
      Just MO. [I have done no SCIENTIFIC survey to back that
      up]

      regards,
      Balaji Kannan


      P.S. Locked in our egos, we could still go for each
           other's throat without religion/race/sex/language
           ........


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rc05@gte.com (Ramesh Chandak)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Fax # of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. Bombay INDIA
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:16:01 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham MA


I'd appreciate, if anyone in India reading this, could help.  I need to get
the fax number of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Bombay.
This need is kind of urgent.  So I'd appreciate if anyone in India,
especially in Bombay reading this, could help me with this.

Please email your responses to Ramesh at rc05@gte.com. Thanx much well in 
advance. 

- Ramesh
From: vprasad@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Telugu Culture Net Digest 41
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:59:18 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

In article <1992Aug17.154114.1@tesla.njit.edu>, smp4584@tesla.njit.edu writes:
> I would appreciate if the learned Poster of this news item posts this item
> in SCI.Telugu
> 
> Sashidhar
> 
> ******************************&&&&&&&&**************************************
> 

	Please note that quite a few sites don't receive SCIT as yet; atleast
	at my site, there is no newsgroup named SCIT. Once the distribution
	of the group becomes truly global, do you think the editor of these
	digests still keeps posting them on SCI?? Please have a little bit of
	patience, for a while atleast.

	Oh, next time you respond with such an inane message, don't include
	the whole text again. Thanks.

	Siva Prasad.				(vprasad@uoft02.utoledo.edu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: susanc@rice.edu (susan chacko)
Subject: Re: Curious observation.
Keywords: Is it just me amd why not HE?
Organization: Rice University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:49:40 GMT

gchacko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (George W Chacko) writes:

>My point precisely. Ethnicity cannot be demonstrated convincingly by 
>clothes. Hence my disdain for the alleged liberal.

Speaking as an alleged liberal, I find the desire to consciously
avoid signs of ethnicity as depressing as the need to flaunt it. 

>Hmm! I would imagine that the sight of a woman irrespective of her
>garb is usually enough to create lively excitement in the male
>population. 

I bow to your undeniably more informed opinion here. :-) :-)

>Yes, I've consistently observed that women, especially Indian women,
>are free spirits and not constrained like men. One wonders why there
>is an incessant clamouring for equality though, in the face of such 
>freedom.

Shocking, isn't it? Such discontent in the face of all these clothing
options!!! On the other hand, one wonders why men are not more incensed
at their lack of these options.

Susan.

--
Mail from this account is forwarded to susan@vger.niddk.nih.gov
From: z3ij@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Looking for Hindi Fonts
Date: 12 Aug 92 11:00:45 EDT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Cornell University

Hello Folks.

I hope somebody out there can help me.  I need to find a Hindi font for
Windows or for WordPerfect.  The person who needs this font will be leaving
for India this weekend.  

If you can send me such a font, or where I could find one, I would appreciate
it.  Please respond via email.

Thank you.


Melanie Hiranandani