HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sdoki@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Suresh Doki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.telugu,wpi.students.desis
Subject: Re: BABY NAMES
Date: 15 Nov 1992 23:00:42 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

The BUTT bhat@cs.columbia.edu (Dinkar Bhat) writes:

>>A HUNDRED TIMES BEFORE - CAN NEVER TELL WHEN SOMEONE WILL POP
>>A BABY - NEED 'BOY' NAMES (IF YOU TRUST SONOGRAMS)!!!
>>I WOULD APPRECIATE IF YOU COULD MAIL IT TO MY E-MAIL ADDRESS

>Baby names!!  Hope Doki does not respond to that!!
>Dinkar.

i wasn't actually going to reply to this mail.... but since you
mentioned my name i thought i should follow it up.......and since i
already hit 'F' why not treat you to some humor too.......

warning for the humor and sense impaired:

hit n now or else it will be too late for your brains.



Q: Why does god make baby's so cute?
A: so that we dont kill them..



suresh


Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:37823 soc.culture.indian.telugu:1150
From: sdoki@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Suresh Doki)
Newsgroups: wpi.students.desis,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.telugu
Subject: password
Date: 21 Nov 1992 00:44:09 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu
Keywords: password connection PSG


Is there anyone who knows Waheeda from PSG Tech? She is a CS major i
think and passed out from PSG tech in 1989. 



suresh
From: saxena@smsun9.crd.ge.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: GC and Company name change - info/help needed urgently !!!!
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:09:35 GMT
Reply-To: saxena@smsun9.crd.ge.com ()
Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY


Green Card and Company name change 
----------------------------------

Dear fellow netters :

    Recently my company has been completely bought over by 
    another company as "successor" company. My PR process is
    still underway with my original company.

    I would appreciate if any of you out there has been in
    a such a situation before, be able answer the following
    questions.

     a) How does INS see it when I go for the GC interview 
        with (hopefully) a letter of employement from the
        new company letter head.

     b) Do I have to get a new H1B or do something to notify 
        INS.

    Please send your reply to 
                e-mail : sarathy@crd.ge.com

    Your input will be very much appreciated


                                        ParthaSarathy
                                        Off: (518)387-7708
                                        Res: (518)370-8634
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: balajiv@reno ( )
Subject: Re: Books and the Indian-American experience
Organization: Fujitsu America Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:38:45 GMT

susan chacko (susanc@rice.edu) wrote:
: 
: I'm waiting for a similar writer to write about the Indian-American
: experience. The closest I can think of is Rohinton Mistry, 
: ("Swimming Lessons and Other Stories"). He writes with the
: same sort of non-sentimental but tender appreciation of both
: sides of the generation gap. They're critical, but critical as
: insiders, which is distinct from the sort of criticism that
: V.S. Naipaul offers. 
: 
: Bharathi Mukherjee, occasionally touted on PBS as the spokesperson
: of the immigrant experience, writes about people who are
: totally unlike any Indian or immigrant I've ever met. The
: men in her books are scoundrels or immature or lustful or
: all of the above, and the women are vague, confused creatures.

i agree. i wonder on what basis she became the spokesperson. her writing
is not representative of the mainstream indian literature. it doesn't even
come anywhere close to giving a thoughtful, balanced analysis of the
immigrant psyche. she has an extremely skewed view of the world, and the
characters in her stories are detestable at best. (eg. the novel 'Wife'
had nothing good about it. the main character - a bored housewife - for
whom the reader was supposed to have sympathy was rotten and her husband -
who was supposed to be the bad guy - really did nothing wrong.) Bharati
Mukherjee is certainly the worst writer of indian origin that i have read.

: Anita Desai is better, and some of her descriptions of Indian
: gatherings in Britain are delightful, but her characters are
: hard for me to identify with, perhaps because of the differences
: between Britain and the US?
: 
: Susan.
: 

i too have not read any book that explores the indian-american experience
to the fullest extent. but there are some new upcoming writers from whom
one can expect a better treatment of this subject. (incidentally, one of them
chitra divakaruni - she's not really new, because she is an established
poet(ess) - is working on fiction right now. i've read a couple of her
short stories that deal with the indian experience, but i'm not sure if
they are to be published.)

-b.
--
From: prem@prem.lbl.gov (R. Shirdi Prem)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: ** Indian Marriage **
Date: 17 Nov 1992 02:16:26 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: prem@prem.lbl.gov (R. Shirdi Prem)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.140.191

 In article <1992Nov16.175752.10446@mercury.ncat.edu> joshi@mercury.ncat.edu writes:
 >Hi netters,
 >	Here is a piece on arranged marriage that is really funny. Enjoy !!!
 >**************************************************************************
 >              The Arranged Marriage: An Investigative Report 
 >              =====================  =======================
 >                    All Rights (and Wrongs) Preserved
 >                   Photocopyrighted (No Xeroxes please) 
 >                    Quote this and "Hum Tumhe Tumhari
 >                        Naani Yaad Dila Denge" ** 

	Oy man! Why didn't you include the original author's name in that 
	article ?? Or did you want people to think you wrote it ?? Yeah, yeah
	I know you did not make that claim, but an error of omission is 
	sometimes as bad as an error of commission........unless you happen 
	to be Bangarappa.....

	I saw it on the net more than two years ago, by ASJEET LAMBA,
	who, sadly, is no longer with us......or so it seems (on S.C.I.)

	I guess it is okay to repost his article, but at least give the chap
	his due credit man!

	Prem!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.kerala
From: tripunit@algol.cs.psu.edu (Mahesh V Tripunitara)
Subject: A true secularist
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:52:21 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.214640.238@athena.cs.uga.edu> venugop@athena.cs.uga.edu
(ABDUL PETER IYENGAR) writes:
 ----- ----- -------

The only similar name I've heard is that of Amitabh's character in 'Naseeb'.

Mahesh.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: fafat@aludra.usc.edu (Vijay Fafat)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: arathi,allah,srik
Date: 24 Nov 92 02:30:01 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <26982@optima.cs.arizona.edu> srik@cs.arizona.edu (Srikanth Raghavan) writes:

># ># #  * Allah, allah, feminism, Dokism, Gluh, glah.. aaumaau...*
>
>	Crooked Fafat!! Don't edit my posts.

		See the astrices? Those were to indicate *my* summary of 
		*your* writing :)


># 	QM assignment and also send a bolt on Doki? Or are you going to 
>        ^^^^              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	what on earth is that??????????
>
>	Leave me outta this Doki baiting business.
>

		Quantum. And scared of Doki, eh? Just because he begins every
		reply with "In the bliss of his ignorance.." and goes on to
		display his non-existent software? Shame on you :) 

		FFT
From: regis@eriador.Prime.COM (Charles Regis)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: multi system VCR's
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:09:26 GMT
Organization: Prime Computer R&D


Has anyone bought a multi-system VCR in Dubai or London to be used in India?
Would like to know how different the prices were from buying one
in an Indian store here in the US. Any info would be greatly appreciated!
Mail to regis@s35.prime.com. Thanx!

-- 
CHARLES ANDREW REGIS 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: bhat@cs.columbia.edu (Dinkar Bhat)
Subject: Re: BABY NAMES
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:56:07 GMT

In article <92319.210522AXC123@psuvm.psu.edu> <AXC123@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>CAN ANYBODY RE-POST THAT BABY NAMES FILE THAT HAS BEEN POSTED
>A HUNDRED TIMES BEFORE - CAN NEVER TELL WHEN SOMEONE WILL POP
>A BABY - NEED 'BOY' NAMES (IF YOU TRUST SONOGRAMS)!!!
>I WOULD APPRECIATE IF YOU COULD MAIL IT TO MY E-MAIL ADDRESS
>: adwait@hekla.pnge.psu.edu
>- THANKS Y'ALL

Baby names!!  Hope Doki does not respond to that!!

Dinkar.
Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:38084 soc.culture.tamil:3879 alt.culture.kerala:834 alt.culture.karnataka:262
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Newsgroup monopolized by riffraff?
From: J.Ainikkal@massey.ac.nz (J. Ainikkal)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 04:21:08 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Keywords: None
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c

Mr Basu writes:

>obscure places like 
>WPI, Emory University, Massey University (who or what is Massey
>anyway?),

Massey University is a University - Just as the name suggests. 

It is located in Palmerston North, New Zealand. 

Massey University has an annual intake of approximately 8000
students.

New Zealand is a small country consisting of 3.4 million people
and 60 million sheep. 

Its capital is Wellington which is located on the North Island.

The country consists of three major islands - the North Island,
the South Island and Stuart Island.

New Zealand is in the Southern Hemisphere - very close to
Australia - but it is NOT a part of Australia.

There are 2 major 'races' in New Zealand. the Anglo-Saxon
'caucasian'(~80%) and the Maori 'polynesians' (~15-17%).

There are no snakes in New Zealand. There are no natural mammals
in New Zealand 'cept for those introduced.

Auckland is the biggest city in New Zealand

I sincerely hope this helps.

Most of the Indhist aritcles comes from an esteemed collegue/
friend who posts from an 'obscure' place called MASSEY
UNIVERSITY.

John Ainikkal
How can I be sure that this is the real world and not just a
clever imitation?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: venugop@athena.cs.uga.edu (ABDUL PETER IYENGAR)
Subject: Re: OM SHANTI!!!!!! SHANTI!!!, WHERE IS NET P
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:07:20 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.152322.17657@hubcap.clemson.edu> mgupta@eng.clemson.edu  writes:
>
>
>>Hello netters,
>
>>Yeh sab kya ho raha hain? I thought Samit and Sreehari 
>>were sensible and matured guys, but after reading their
>>postings I have changed my view. 
>
>>Before the postings degenerate to 'hardcore'
>>rickshaw puller stuff, I would request net-police
>>to kindly ask these guys to pull off the net.
>
>>My sincere advise to Samit and Sreehari: why don't you
>>post your articles to alt.sex or alt.pornography?
>
>>I feel  ffended by these posts and I think   
>>our fellow netters also think the same.
>
>>A well wisher for soc.culture.indian!
>
>I wholly agree with the above.  Earlier a very regular reader of this group, I find
>it disgusting to read the junk being posted on it nowadays.  
>
>Without starting a flame war, I recommend that obsceneties be restricted to personal
>accounts rather than on the group.  And discussions like <Indian Tits> and <Why 
>Indian men watch pornography> also be discussed on a personal basis.
>
>Please try to keep this group clean.
>

   One possible solution would be complaining to the 
   systems administrator and I have done so after I
   received a nasty piece from Sree Sreehari.
   I have a reply from his systems administrator
   and he told me he could prevent such further 
   posings on evidence.
   I have been threatned by this character Sree 
   Sreehari,I would only caution him that if
   so the law enforcement does accept these
   postings as evidence and could be used for
   prosecution
   API
From: vilok@bmerh322.bnr.ca (Vilok Kusumakar)
Subject: Re: * Hindi Movies * - reviews...
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 19:16:09 GMT

In article <92322.113851U26043@uicvm.uic.edu> SALIM <U26043@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>Hi, here are some of the movies I have watched recently.
>
>Yaalgaar         ---- starring Feroz Khan, Manisha Korela
>              Time waster.  Songs were so-so.  Don't waste
>              your money.
>                          *
>

Don't agree at all. Yalgaar (not "Yaalgaar", meaning Attack) is a good 
movie with excellent songs. Watched it on full screen. Manisha Koirala is
excellent.

>Sangeet        ------ starring Madhuri Dixit
>               It was an o.k movie with too many songs. (some of them were
>               good).  See it if you have nothing better to do.
>                         ** 1/2
>

Good movie with good songs and dances. Very good acting by Jackie and Madhuri.

>Drohi         ------- starring Danny
>              I would recommend this movie to everybody.  A little different
>              than the usual Indian movies.  Songs are good too.
>                         *** 1/2
>

haven't seen yet.

>  I hope this helps you decide what you want to watch.  If you have any
>comments please email.
>                                      ------- Salim Lakha
>                                          u26043@uicvm.uic.edu
>

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.bangladesh
From: dogar@rtsg.mot.com (Haroon H. Dogar)
Subject: Re: CFV: soc.religion.islam.ahmadiyya moderated
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:44:26 GMT

bhatnagr@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Raj Bhatnagar) writes:

>PS: Some of these fanatics think that they are still in Pakistan or in 
>some other religious islamic state and can continue with the religious 
>persecution that is carried out back home in their countries. Yes sir,
>objecting to Ahmadis from calling themselves Muslims is religious
>persecution. I wish "Religious Tolerance 101" with a grade of B or above 
>is made a pre-requisite for graduation in every university for people from 
>these countries.

>---raj

I bet y'all thought that you had seen it all didn't ya?  :-)

Here we have one of the greatest defenders of Hindu chauvanism,
apologist for...nay denier of... the genocide in Kashmir,
unsympathetic to the complaints of the Sikhs, unaware of the
sufferings of the Muslims, desiring the destruction of the
Babri Masjid and who knows what other Muslim holy sites,
calling for the forced reunification of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India,
demanding that Muslims not feel any affinity for Arabia or
for other Muslims but only for "Hindu" India and other Indians .....
...........        now trying to present himself as "tolerant."  :-)

Amusing in its vulgarity.

Raj Bhai, I don't know how other nettors feel, but as for me ...
well when it comes to the subject of tolerance, you have a *bit*
of a credibility problem. :-)

-hd
Dump Ditka
From: U58555@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: email address of Indian companies
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:20:09 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

HI,

       could any one there post the e-mail address of indian companies
and institutions, that would be of great help.
thanx in advance
bye
rajesh
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: balarama@cae.wisc.edu (Prabhu Balaraman)
Subject: Re: Premarital Sex - Is It OK?
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 16 Nov 92 10:21:48 CST
Keywords: sex, marriage

> Atul (someone who's glands are going to burst..)

  go ahead fellow! GLANDSnost is in - premarital sex is no longer
  taboo ..

  Prabs
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: J.Ainikkal@massey.ac.nz (J. Ainikkal)
Subject: Re: INDIAN CULTURE - Radically Racist
Summary: Indian Culture - racist
Keywords: INDIAN CULTURE - Radically Racist
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 01:24:13 GMT

RKP writes:
 
>I would not have objected if we were discussing ethnology and 
>skin color. Anywhere else, the terms white, black, brown, etc 
>are racial slurs. I agree with you that we must evaluate all  
>beliefs that stem from/lead to prejudice. We must also take 
>the greatest care to discourage verbiage that could have 
>racial connotations. 

My options were few - Negro, Nigger, African-American, or Black.
It would have been difficult to communicate without categorizing.
While I would refrain from using the term Nigger (due to its
derogatory connotations) I found no problem in using  the term
'black'. Often the 'white' person is referred to as the 'white'
person. Again I might be behind the times and should have used
the term African-American. My apologies.

 
>Categorization is prejudice. Why should we think of people as 
>whites, blacks, shuudras and brahmins ? Show me a person who 
>says "I am a brahmin" and I will show you a person blinded by 
>prejudice.  

We can argue that all we are (U and I) is a bunch of prejudices
handed down to us by society (Part of my signature:). What we can
do about it is a different question. Categorization is important
- the prejudice that comes with categorization should not be
derogatory or detrimental to any human or other form. Its when
prejudices get 'unfair' that they get 'unhealthy'.

 
>The Hindu caste system is "divinely inspired". Not many hindus 
>have the guts to stand up and say that it is wrong and mean it. 
>IMO, the present state of affairs will stay (forever). 
 
I hope not.

John Ainikkal  
I think - Therefore I am.  (My thinking process was created by
society)
'Aotearoa' - Land of the long white cloud  
Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:37930 soc.culture.indian.telugu:1171
From: sdoki@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Suresh Doki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.telugu
Subject: Re: Hey Doki (was Re: Newsgroup monopolized by riffraff?)
Date: 22 Nov 1992 22:15:07 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

 rajain@scotty.ecs.umass.edu (Rajat Jain) writes:

>	You gotta be kidding dooooode :-)
>	Hey something wrong with you these days ? What happened to allll
>	that crazy stuff ? Ran out of gas, eh ?  Or caved into the pressure
>	from the SCI-eggheads ?

caving in? nonsense! i am just not in the mood today....... i have a
headache. i plan to take over SCI again after a couple of months. 

suresh

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: Chaw@cs.Stanford.edu (Sudarshan S. Chawathe)  
Subject: Re: Dall
Originator: chaw@Pluto.Stanford.EDU
X-Disclaimer: Blame it on the cat.
Reply-To: Chaw@cs.Stanford.edu (Sudarshan S. Chawathe)  
Fcc: log/outgoing
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: 23 Nov 92 22:34:40 GMT

edo2877@usl.edu (Ott Edward D) writes:

[recipe for generic dal]

>-   Then simply mix the two lots to form a rather unpleasant-looking
>    gunge.

Add some haldi (turmeric) powder to improve its cosmetic value (and
taste too)!

_________________________________________________________________________
Chaw@cs.Stanford.edu                                         tat tvam asi

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: uds@trace.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar)
Subject: Re: Excluding men
Reply-To: uds@trace.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar)
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:35:54 GMT


does the indian-women mailing list mean that the sci football field is now
safe for the rampaging MCPs and their jokes...  I got a couple of MCP jokes,
but held back seeing that the ladies onthe net dont like it at all...


Seetamraju Udaya Bhaskar Sarma
(email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)
From: shirish@sequoiasequoia.com (Shirish Jamthe)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Price of gold in India and the Custom Duty for taking gold to India
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:14:30 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

damania@src.honeywell.com (Bhavesh Damania) writes:
: 
: Does anybody know the current price of gold in India and the custom duty which is 
: imposed on NRIs taking gold back to India. Do you also have to pay the duty if you
: plan to make ornaments in India and bring it back with you.
: 
: TIA
: 
: -- 
: Bhavesh Damania                          Phone: (612) 951-7324
: Honeywell Systems and Research Center    Fax:   (612) 951-7438
: 3660 Technology Drive, MN 65-2100        Internet: damania@src.honeywell.com
: Minneapolis, MN 55418.

--
Current price of gold in india (according to India Abroad (14/11/92) ) is Rs 4029 per tola (10 gm.).
The duty for taking gold in india is Rs 300 per tola. Limit is 5kg.
But you can take ornaments upto Rs 10,000 (if you are male. females can take upto Rs. 20,000)
as you own ornaments. You don't have to pay duty on this.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shirish Jamthe
Sequoia Systems Inc.
(508) 460-6825 (Res.)
(508) 480-0800 ext. 1670 (Off.)


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil
From: narayana@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Kuram T Narayana)
Subject: Re: Indian civilization being oldest
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:19:08 GMT


This is in response to a recent post of Selvakumar.


Nothing that I said in my post rerading the scietnific 
credibility of his postings has been contradicted by him.
Indeed he admits that the anal.ytical basis of his work
is largely unscientific. He alludes to the theory that
the luinguistics people conduct their work in such way!
If they base assessments of history in the unprofessional way
that sselvakumar conducts his discourses, then there can
only be that much substance to his claims.

I specifically asked him to justify through acknowledged means
all his quantitative measures. He did not do it. 

That racism was rampant in his posts was completely evident
from the posts themselves. He is the first one to up the
ante, and callthe posting of Girish Bonde  (on the archelogical
find) as inspired by racist considerations. Because the guy posts
racist material and gets away with it, I placed the correct perspective
on his posts and rightly called him "the dravidian racist"
which he is.


With regard to Vidyanath Rao's posts being unprofessional, I
am sure that rao is capable of damning this guy and his 
none too reliable sources.

Finally, keep Telugu's of from your Dravidian smut. I said to
you once, what an ordinary Telugu would answer you on the 
streets of AP. I will repeat "Poda! vayi mootchuko Poda!".
Keep it off. You can drag your Tamil through the Gutter.
That is your right. 

Finally try to learm some south Indian history. May be Tamil
scholars are ignorant about the Sathavahanas, Hoysalas, Chalukyas,
Vatakaras,Vijayanagaram empire etc. Learn a little bit. Any high school
book will teach you.

....kt