HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dipen@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov (D. Bhattacharya)
Subject: shubho nobo-borsho
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords:  
	
	borsho-shesh 
	------------
Organization: NASA/GSFC Laboratory For High Energy Astrophysics
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 05:07:00 GMT

	ishane'r punjo-megh ondho-bege dheye chole ashe
			badha-bondho-hara
	gramantore benu-kunje nilanjon-chhaya shonchariya
			hane dirgho-dhara

	borsho hoye ashe shesh, din hoye elo shomapon,
			choitro oboshan
	gahite chahichhe hia puraton klanto borosher
			shorbo-shesh gan........

	-------------
	The swift northeasterly cumulus approaches 
					unfettered and unrestrained
	Casting the shadow of blue collyrium across the village,
			on the reeds bringing the rain drops

	The year draws to an end, the day terminates
			drawing Chaitra to a close
	And the heart wants to sing the last song
			of the old exhausted year......

					borsho-shesh (end of the year)
						----- Rabindranath
---------------------------

	shobay-ke shubho nobo-borsh'er shubhechha 1399
	Happy Bengali New Year to my net-friends

	Dipen
	pohela boishakh, 1399 (14th April, 1992)
	
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
From: asaleh@eos.ncsu.edu (ASIF  SALEH)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Re: recent baimela
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:35:43 GMT
Reply-To: asaleh@eos.ncsu.edu (ASIF  SALEH)
Organization: Project EOS - North Carolina State University


  In Reply to Denis Wright's  question-------
===============================================================================

 The actual word Nasreen used in Bangla was "napungshak". Impotent is the only 
synonym that came to my mind. Can anyone help with other connotations? I am 
still yet to get the article with me. So I don't know for sure how she intended
to use the word. I believe she did not give any sexual hint using the word. 

   
  
                                           Asif /  7th april 92
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
From: zahin@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Kazi Zahin S. Hasan)
Subject: Re: News
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:22:15 GMT

In article <SAHMED.92Apr9162921@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> sahmed@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Saif Ahmed) writes:

   Taiwan may ban workers from Thailand and begin importing workers from
   Bangladesh, Burma and Vietnam to relieve its labor shortage. 
				######
But Bangladesh passports are not even valid for travel to Taiwan. Or
at least they weren't in 1988 when I got mine. Does anyone know if
the BNP govt. has shown any desire to establish diplomatic relations
with Taiwan? 
--
Zahin Hasan
zahin@occs.cs.oberlin.edu
(216) 775 5403
OCMR box 1551
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074
				

	"No, I mean is there any venomous creature you're particularly
fond of?"
	He looked out of the window for a moment.
	"There was," he said, "but she left me."

				from "Last Chance to See"
					by
					Douglas Adams
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
From: kazi@bugs.cis.udel.edu (Zunaid Kazi)
Subject: Re: What the hell is going on? 
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 14:32:40 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.183412.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> ij21@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:
>
>		LET US DO SOMETHING ABOUT AZAM
>       ******************************

Better late than never. Let's not forever take the back seat. It's time
for action. Asif, please post on the net the petition you are circulating.
I want to request 'everyone' to circulate the petition in his/her own locality
and collect as many signatures as possible. If Asif is willing to act as
the liason we might all mail him the signed petitions for compilation.

> Asif Ibrahim                      Ka23@untvm1,Ij21@untvm1,Ij21@untvax

Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
From: raja@arirang.cps.msu.edu (Narayan S. Raja)
Subject: Re: Politics of Infiltration: Stop Labanonisation of Eastern India
Reply-To: raja@cps.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University, CPS Department
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 15:40:16 GMT


In article <s3kerINNbi6@matt>, (Boo!) writes:

< 	Actaully, yes. During King Ashoka's rule, he united almost all of 
< india(A state at that time i suppose) which extended all the way to south 
< india. I admit that the tip of 'south india' was not won but I thinkj
< that was the first time there was a 'united India'. The Kalinga empire
< was still in control of the southern tip.


Ashoka's empire (~250 B.C.) extended till slightly 
north of the northernmost tip of today's Tamil Nadu
(just north of Kanchipuram).  It din't include
what are today Kerala and TN.  Nor did it
include most of what is now N.E. India.  On
the other hand, it did include what are today
Pakistan and Afghanistan.  The ``Kalinga''s
were in the Orissa area, not down south.

Just for information,


Narayan Sriranga Raja.
From: psripath@UAHCS2.CS.UAH.EDU (Prarthana Reddy, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Alabama-Huntsville)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: just a test .........
Date: 17 Apr 92 01:57:04 GMT


This is just a test...Please ignore.
From: tun@PHY.UCSF.EDU
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: testing - IGNORE!!!
Date: 7 Apr 92 01:10:59 GMT

testing

Ct
From: misra@festus.ksu.ksu.edu (Boo!)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Re: Golam Azam issue :We should have the whole picture in front of us
Date: 13 Apr 1992 15:02:41 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: festus.ksu.ksu.edu

In article <1992Apr12.143222.1@engvms.unl.edu> mermmzh@engvms.unl.edu writes:
>
>' Gana Adalat' or the mock trail is not unconstitutional or illegal.

	tell me.. how does this work? I mean.. is it like an actual 
trial with a prosecuter and a defendant and so on.. or 
it the verdict already decided. I am really interested since
this is the first time i am coming across it. Thanks..

>Aculally 'Gano Adalat' is a form of protest.

	It is form of protest for what? What are you suppose to be 
protesting against?

>
>---Zakir
From: alam@ee.rochester.edu (Sheikh Kaisar Alam)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Help
Date: 13 Apr 92 00:24:08 GMT
Organization: Univ of Rochester, College of Engineering and Applied Science

An unfortunate car accident victim needs your help:
We announce with deepest sorrow and pain that a graduate student from Banglades
h, Mr. Iftekhar Hossain, 31, is struggling for his life and carrer after a seve
re car accident on I-81 in Virginia at 11-30 a.m. on February 5, 1992. His car
hit a guardrail, rolled off I-81 and landed upside down on the road below I-81.
Iftekhar suffered severe back injury and his car was totally wrecked. He was
treated at the Neuro-Orthopedics Clinic in Harrisonburg and had a major surgery
at the University of Virginia Medical Center, Carlottesville. The most painful
and the saddest part of this mishap is that the lower part of his body includin
g both legs became completely paralyzed. According to Doctors' assesment,
Iftekhar will have to remain on wheel chair for the rest part of his life. He
is presently undergoing mental and physical therapy at the Blue Ridge Hospital,
Charlottesville, Virginia.
Iftekhar was pursuing a Master's degree in Environmental Engineering at the
University of Oklahoma, Norman. He completed coursework with a GPA of 4.0/4.0
and was scheduled to graduate this Spring semester. Newly(one year) married
Iftekhar's personal and professional life is at a stake due to this accident.
He faces a large amount of hospitalisation costs and needs financial support
for rehabilitation including transportation (a wheel chair and a specialised
hand controlled automobile) and education. The rehabilitation costs alone
would be over $30,000/ a significant part of which will be needed for the
specilised automobile.
Iftekhar's wife, Mrs. Aireen Hossain, urges all generous people, especially
Bangladeshis, for possible financial support to help pay the rehabilitation
and other costs.
PLEASE SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO:

            Masjid An-Nur (Iftekhar Hossain Fund)
            420 East lindsey, Norman, OK 73069

 Iftekhar could be contacted at the Blue Ridge Hospital, 2 West, Room No. 216B,
Route 20 South, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901; (804)-982-1409. For additional
information please contact: Mrs Aireen Hossain at (201)-481-5472 or
Dr. Musharraf Zaman at (405)-366-8761 (Email: Zaman@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu).

NOTE: I received this through email a few days back. I sent in
whatever I could (which is not much considering the fact that
I'm a graduate student). I also sent this message via email to
a few friends. I'm sure they would also do whatever they can.
See if you can be of any help. Remember, even a dollar helps.
If there are a thousand such donations, that would make it
$1000. And, if we can contribute more, it will be even better.
Please help him in rehabilitating himself, Shuja
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
From: kazi@bugs.cis.udel.edu (Zunaid Kazi)
Subject: Re: Jamaat's rise in power
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:50:38 GMT

In article <NAEEM.92Apr14171314@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen) writes:
>
>Actually, if you look at the chronology, Jamaat's position has improved with
>each government:
>
>Mujib govt: General amnesty, in defiance of angry protests from committee of 
>relatives of war dead [including Johir Raihan, etc].

What is the legal implication of the general amnesty? If the trial of Golam
Azam and other razakars do go ahead, would this require a bill to overturn
the amnesty order? 

Since most of Bangladesh's legal system has been derived from the British
Common Law, I assume there is a statute of limitations to many felonies.
Then again, under international law, murder or genocide has no statute of
limitations. I would hope all these legal loopholes, if they do exist, are
plugged properly before the much awaited trial commences. I would hate to
see these criminals get acquitted on technicalities.

[Rest of an excellent chronolgy deleted]

>Naeem Mohaiemen  naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu  snm8696@oberlin  216-774-1993

-- Zunaid Kazi
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From: mermmzh@engvms.unl.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Re: Treatment of Minorities in Bangladesh
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:16:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: engvms.1992Apr15.141627.1
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln

In article <shqeiINNcd@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, misra@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Boo!) writes:
>>Bangladesh is a country of the Bengalis, so the Hindus are not the minority
>>there (Since most of them are Bengali). Non-Bengalis like the Chakmas can be 
>>considered as minorities.
> 
> 	How can you say that when you have declared Islam as the state 
> religion.


IT WAS DECLARED BY AN ILLEGAL AND UNDEMOCRATIC GOVT., NOT BY US.
OF COURSE UNTIL IT IS OFFICIALLY DECLARED NULL AND VOID,WE CANNOT
CLAIM THAT. BUT IF YOU LOOK AT BENGALI SOCIETY AND PEOPLE, THEY
ARE MOSTLY SECULAR.





>>> Sumitro
>>
>>---Zakir
> 
>
From: fahmed@dhaka.Eng.Sun.COM (Farhad Ahmed)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Tukki-Takki on B'desh....
Keywords: PM->Prime Minister, JSD-> Jatiyotabadi Samajtantrik Dal
Date: 16 Apr 92 04:46:53 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: dhaka


	Assaalaamu-Waalaikum.

	Govt.  has arrested former JSD leader Sirajul Islam Khan on 
	charges of treason. He was arrested from Dhaka Internatinal
	Airport while he was waiting to depart for USA. 

	Raushan Ershad appeared in court on wheel chair on corruption charges. 
	The Ershad family was charged with accepting bribery to the tune of
	Taka five crore & 12 Katha of business land near Kaoran Bazar.
	She was accompanied by her(???) son Saad, adopted daughter Zabin
	& her elder sister Momota Wahab.

	The case against Ershad for accepting bribery on the purchase of
	commercial aircrafts will start on April 16'92. Others who 'r
	charged with the same case 'r Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu,H.M. Gaffar &
	Mosharraf Hossain.

	Attorney General Mr. Aminul Haq withdrew his resignation after
	PM Mrs. Khaleda Zia personnaly requested him. Mr Haq submitted
	his resignation to the President after a disagreement with Law
	Minister Mr. Hafiz over the case against the organisers of 'Gono
	Adalat' by the government. Mr. Haq strongly opposed the case.

	Jammat Islami leaders are divided into two groups on the role of
	the party in the parliament. One gr. headed by  Motiur Rahman
	Nizami want to withdraw their support from BNP government but
	other gr. header by Abbas Ali Khan don't want to do that. Abbas
	Ali Khan & his supporters want to build a good relationship with
	Awami League leaders first & also want to pursue the freedom of
	their leader through legal system.

	The 'Golam Azam' issue also divided the Jatiyo Party leaders.
	Mizan Chowdhury, Kazi Zafar & their supporters are against Golam
	Azam whereas Moudud & Moazzem & their supporters 'r in favor of
	Golam Azam.

	Govt. has announced Independence Day Award'92. The winners 'r

		B'desh Rice Research Institute- in Science & Technolgy;
		Mr. Kazi Zaker Hossain - in Education;
		Mr. (late) Zahir Raihan- in Literature(Posthumously)

	Allah Hafez.

	Farhad Ahmed.
+--------------------------------------------|------------------------------+
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	Phone   : (415)-336-3265 (work)      | Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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	                                     | 2550 Garcia Avenue
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From: trivedi@curie.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Re: Hindu Muslim Contr.(was we need a..)
Date: 12 Apr 92 16:56:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Apr12.165613.12834
Organization: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago.

In article <1992Apr11.173516.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> ij21@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:

>Regarding the topic of hindu muslim dialogue
>============================================
>
>	The articles posted on the above mentioned topic are interesting.
>I lived in Delhi from 1984 to 1987 for my B. Comm and got a chance to
> obresve the practice of secularism in India. I am going into deep details 

I am sorry, but I didn't see the details. Did you inadvertently edit
them out?

>summation of my observation is that the religious fanatics are the ones 
>who make a big issue out of the Hindu Muslim controversies, not the general 
>public.

This has been the official line. Unfortunately, while it is not INCORRECT,
it is MISLEADING.

There is sufficient mistrust and hostility in sufficiently large section
of the general public: that is why "fanatics" can have any success.

No matter how "fanatic" you are, you cannot incite a riot by circulating
some rumor about Jains or Tibetans in most of India.

There are real problems that our history has handed us. We must stop
kidding ourselves and start facing them honestly, and non-violently.
 


> We do not have such problems in Bangladesh. Why in India?

Suppose I ask you: We did not kill Biharis in India. Why in Bangladesh?
Or I ask a Pakistani: We did not kill Bengalis. Why in Pakistan?

Each place has its own dynamics, good and bad. You had, and may again
have (although I pray that you do not), your own kind of violence,
for your own reasons.

We have a majority-minority history which is not exactly duplicated
in your case::

On the majority side: 
There is the memory of invasions, of the centuries-long minority rule, 
mass scale temple destructions, demand for the partition of the country...

On the minority side: 
While being a minority never feels great, my guess is that Muslims are
even less disposed to like it. :-)  (There were the migrations out of 
pre-independence India to Afghanistan, so people coupld live in a
*Muslim-ruled* country.)

It is a complex problem; I can only point out a few obvious threads.
From: AHMEDF@BELOIT.EDU
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: poilah boishakh
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:53:00 GMT

SHUBHO NOBOBORSHO!!! EVERYONE! by the way, pardon my ignorance, but what
year does that make it then? can't remember.....
have a good year everyone!
--Famin.
From: s0k5099@zeus.tamu.edu (KHAN, SHAHRIAR)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: City of Joy
Date: 14 Apr 92 04:35:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

CITY OF JOY

	Patrick Swayze in the unlikely setting of the squalor of Calcutta, once
again is the angry young man with a heart of gold. Viewers are forced to 
confront the uncelebrated day-to-day lives of the underprivileged in India. 
Shabana Azmi (the "art film" actress from Bombay) pairs opposite Omresh Puri
(the classic villain in Hindi movies), who plays the part of a rickshaw-puller.
Provides solace to s.c.b. subscribers complaining about rickshaws, who are 
reminded that Dhaka rickshaws could have been as bad as those in Calcutta. Has 
scenes of childbirth (to a leper couple) and a teenage prostitute's mouth being 
slashed by a landlord's son; scenes we would rather not to see. Forceful scenes 
include that of the rickshawpuller pounding landlord's son's face on ground as 
son's "goondas" stand by and watch.

	The squalor of Calcutta is reminiscent of street scenes in Purana Dhaka,
complete with poverty, and the portrayal of many unglamorous inhabitants. One
almost expects them to blurt out in Bangla, which they do not do of course, 
since the movie is in English. In one scene, however, one detects a familiar
Bangla song in the background. 

Shahriar Khan
Texas A&M University
From: rahman@UTSTAT.TORONTO.EDU (Sheikh M. Rahman)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Testing
         _______
Date: 15 Apr 92 11:55:00 GMT
Organization: Statistics, University of Toronto, Toronto


This is just a testing. Please ignore it. Thank you.
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Subject: This is a testing.

Please ignore it.

From: syed@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Tanwir Syed-Mohammad)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 23:49:50 GMT
Subject: Bihari Massacre and 71 war
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
From: kabir@kabir.Eng.Sun.COM (Ihtisham Kabir)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Re: Stop Genocide, the film
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:45:39 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: kabir

In article <NAEEM.92Apr15201651@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen) writes:
>
>Was speaking to Tarek Masud [info on his forthcoming 'Mikthir Gan' was posted
>on scb while back]. Deepressing info on film archives. Shurjo Dighol Bari
>had subtitles, missing somewhere in Europe [?]. Stop Genocide, the only 
>available documentation on 71 that i have ever seen-- only poor quality 
>prints left. Very saddening. Guess it will be back to Satyajit Ray films
>at Oberlin next year.
>
>--
>Naeem Mohaiemen  naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu  snm8696@oberlin  216-774-1993
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I remember meeting a Bangladeshi gentleman in Chicago in the late 1970s
who was in Dhaka University on March 25, 1971. He had a movie camera
with him at that time and he said that he made movies of the Pakistani
soldiers lining up and shooting people from his window.

He had a dramatic personality and I still recall my hair standing on
edge as he described the risks he took by peeking out of the curtains
and running his movie camera. For the life of me I can't recall his 
name, or whether he ever saved those movies. I suppose if there is
sufficient interest I could try to find out from the people in whose
house I met him.

- Ihtisham Kabir
From: zmhasan@neumann.waterloo.edu (Z. Masum Hasan)
Subject: Rohingyas Fear Repatriation
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:40:25 GMT


Article 977 of bit.listserv.seasia-l:
From: naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Different method of posting on s.c.b.
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:30:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: occs.NAEEM.92Apr14173013
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science

In article <12APR199221575911@zeus.tamu.edu> s0k5099@zeus.tamu.edu (KHAN, SHAHRIAR) writes:

	   If anyone has difficulties posting on s.c.b., it can also be done
   by sending mail to soc-culture-bangladesh@ucbvax.berkeley.edu 
-----
Please make sure you have subject header otherwise it will return your
article.



















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Naeem Mohaiemen  naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu  snm8696@oberlin  216-774-1993
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
From: naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Charges against Keder Siddiqui
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:16:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: occs.NAEEM.92Apr14171651
	<SAHMED.92Apr11124300@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science

In article <SAHMED.92Apr11124300@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> sahmed@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Saif Ahmed) writes:

   Isn't Kader Siddiqui wanted for treason?? Or am I mistaken.
------
As far as I know, Kader Siddiqui is wanted for murder. It is also 
possible that his activities while in exile in India are being counted
as treason. Note, he was in Dhaka for over six months before he was finally 
arrested last year.

--
Naeem Mohaiemen  naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu  snm8696@oberlin  216-774-1993
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