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From: rr2@cec2.wustl.edu (Rajamiyer Ravichandran)
Subject: Pakistanis ans Siks ensured the defeat of Solarz
Keywords: None
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:42:22 GMT


Hi folks:

According to the recent News India, several Pakistani and Sikh
businessmen, cabbie drivers etc. worked hard to ensure the defeat
of Steve Solarz in the recent New York primaries. It is felt that
India lost a friend in the U.S congress who can lobby against the
anti-India bills put forth by persons like Dan Burton. However, if
what appeared in the media is true, Bill Clinton is likely to
appoint Solarz as his secretary of state if elected. In that case
India will have a friend in a more powerful position that in Congress.
He may even initiate steps towards signing of an extradition treaty
like the one just signed with U.K. I am not sure whether there is an
extradition treaty WIth U.S.A at this time. 
The same news paper also reported that already the U.K. based 
militants started looking for other safe havens such as Canada and
Venezula.   

Any way, all for good.

regards
ravi (NOT mera bharat mahaan)


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: kavuri@lips1.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri )
Subject: Re: Can a girl and a guy be just friends
Keywords: FRIENDS
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:52:07 GMT

In article <7674@monmouth.edu>, b2259@moncol.monmouth.edu (RANI BALASUBRAMANYAM) writes:
> In article <71048@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt9911a@prism.gatech.EDU :-)) (SMILE :-) writes:
> >             I wanted to start a new thread ( I think this topic might have
> > been beaten to death before). Can a girl and a guy be just 
> > be friends or is it true what people say in India " A girl and a guy
> > can never be just friends". 
> > 
> > Sundar 
> 
> AN EMPHATIC YES!!!
> 
> I liked one of the follow ups(defdefining friendship) to this posting 
> True Frienship is made out of Sacrifices and not Compromises in any 
> sense.  A friend is a person you like, trust and try to understand.

This can indeed happen .... provided both the people are blind.
By saying that true friendships are made out of sacrifices, you have
 alienated me from most of the world I know.  I don't think I like
 that.  For that matter, I may not even want to limit with "trust and
  understanding".  

How about just a cup o' coffee at McDonald's (YUK $%^&**) and talk 
 about junk ...like movies, ...SCI ...
Even that will do I guess.

To ask for trust AND understanding AND sacrifices AND compromises 
 AND ...


Hey... hang on.  Don't people lighten up any more in the world ?

Be friends just to have company, and yak and yak ..

> 
> Rani



  Surya Kavuri
From: vemuri@informix.com (Sudhakar Vemuri)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Humurous Incidents involing desis ....and not so humourous.
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:44:08 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <1992Oct12.023423.1467@menudo.uh.edu> eleeafj@menudo.uh.edu (P. Narendra) writes:
>
> Indians, man, indian mentality wont change.  Otherday I was talking to an 
> AT&T operator and she told me how only Indians ask for credit for misdialled
> numbers.  How most of the calls are made to India using illegal calling card
> numbers. Result: AT&T is not going to bear the losses, and that's why India
> calls have the highest rate per min.
>

AT&T charges to India are higher because P&T in India charges one of the 
highest in the world. It has nothing to do with we Indians misusing the 
facility of misdialled numbers. I was told AT&T maintains a database of 
numbers that request the credit and AT&T may refuse the credit if the same
client requests for credit very often.

If you compare, even Sprint and MCI also charge the highest according to
their rates.

Sudhakar Vemuri
From: gkgst1+@pitt.edu (Gyanesh K Gupta)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Job Search Strategy ? Please email me your comments !
Date: 9 Oct 92 03:09:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: blue.7115
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: gkgst1@unixd1.cis.pitt.edu


This is a serious posting, I apologize to any person out there who
thinks that this posting doesnot belong to SCI. But I am sure a lot of
us would be interested in the content of the present posting.
I WOULD APPRECIATE any helpful response ! Please email me your comments!
=========================================================================
Hi,

I would like to know if someone out there has any compiled list for the
companies which are NOT RELUCTANT in hiring foriegn student who are here
on student visa. I would be interested in getting a copy of it. If
any such list does not exist, then I would be interested in compiling
such list which we probably can add later on to FAQ list which already
exist. It would be nice to see if we can get people to respond who has
recently got a job and I would particularly be interested in knowing their
experience and any helpful hints they can provide for job finding
strategy. 

I would be graduating in near future ( ph. d. in mech. engr. ) I would
also like to know from fellow students in Mech. engr. from different
universities if their is any vacancy for any faculty position  in their
respective universities. I know there are a lot of universities which
dont hire their own graduate. University of Pittsburgh is one such 
univ. although there are FIVE VACANCIES for faculty position in MECH.
ENGR. DEPT. so if someone who is graduating soon, is interested in such
a position, let me know, I can help him forward his resume to the MOST
HELPFUL person ( in his field ! ). I would appreciate any such help from
other students for myself !!!!

Gyanesh
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gagrawal@cs.tamu.edu (Gopal Agrawal)
Subject: Re: MORE ABOUT INDIA / INDIAN WOMEN ARE TREATED FAR BETTER THAN HERE.
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 05:21:01 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.022728.152@ncsu.edu> hdeshma@eos.ncsu.edu (HARSHAVARDHAN  DESHMANE) writes:
>In article <1992Oct08.013505.110934@ua1ix.ua.edu> ngopalas@ha02.eng.ua.edu (Nath S. Gopalaswamy) writes:
>
>>on the woman's behalf. In Calcutta, in BROAD DAYLIGHT, in the presence of
>>hundreds of commuters, a girl is raped by some goons, just because she compl
>>ained against the unwelcome attention of the hoods. Again, nothing is done by
>>the police. Again in BOMBAY, a girl is BURNT alive by some sickos when she is
>>sitting down to take her exams for her X standard, the police are yet to 
>>charge the men involved with murder. If these can happen in broad daylight then
>
>again ..details/sources please..this could have other motives, and may not
>be crimes committed against unknowns, just because they are women..
>doesnt justify it, but there are lunatic humans as well..
>

The calcutta incident was discussed for quite some time (first source 
was  Debchat) on sci and there were similar letters of disgust in TOI too.
The second incident is quite true but it may have happened in Pune rather 
than in Bombay. I believe Sulphuric Acid was thrown on her face. Again,
it was reported in most newspapers.

regards,
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Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:33590 soc.culture.indian.telugu:502
From: dxn@juniper.WPI.EDU (Deepak Narain)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.telugu
Subject: Re: Looking 4: Satish K. Reddy (In Canada) (From Secunderabad)
Date: 12 Oct 1992 02:26:26 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, WPI
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: juniper.wpi.edu

From reddy@cis.njit.edu (reddy):
>
>
>	Hi()
>	{
>	if (you know a guy named, Satish K. Reddy (Tall, Slim) who is supposed 
>	    2 be in CANADA. And he is from Secunderabad, AP, India..)
>
>	then (Please inform me : Just type "r" to reply, Thanx!!)
>
>	else (Please ignore)
>	};

>#include "std_disclaimer.h"


I had to compile this post to see what happened.  Here's the 
output from gcc:

-----
Script started on Sun Oct 11 22:21:02 1992
junk-box% gcc -c junk.c
junk.c:10: std_disclaimer.h: No such file or directory
junk.c: In function `Hi':
junk.c:3: `you' undeclared (first use this function)
junk.c:3: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
junk.c:3: for each function it appears in.)
junk.c:3: parse error before `know'
junk.c:4: parse error at `..'
junk-box% exit
exit

script done on Sun Oct 11 22:21:42 1992
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: uds@trace.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Sardar Sarovar Project - An Overview - 7/7
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:45:34 GMT
Reply-To: uds@trace.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar)
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit

In article <Oct.14.10.50.36.1992.22463@ruphys.rutgers.edu> atish@ruphys.rutgers.edu (Atish Dabholkar) writes:
>It seems to me, however, that many of
>the leading opponents of the project such as Medha Patkar or Baba 
>Amte are opposed to it at a more basic philosophical level.
>The principle underlying their position seems to be a broad
>opposition to all large scale projects with a Gandhian emphasis
>on `small is beautiful'. 

baaba amtE opposed the project because of the environmental and social
destruction it causes.  Later, when he saw the possibility of ecenomic
revival of the impoverished districts of MP and guj, he unconditionally
withdrew his resistance to it.  He has since been neutral for atleast a
year now.  And if my memory is good, smt. mEdha paTkar opposes not on
gandhian economic principles (may be she added such reasons later),
but more because of her cynicism regarding the govt's actions.  The
govt proposes to `reconstruct' the forests and suitably compensate
the displaced.  Now I will never believe that.  She doesnt too.
You have no idea as how much pristine forest will be destroyed.
I feel U wont find fortests on narmada banks for atleast 30 yrs
(assuming the C.Govt sticks to its word) -- or never.  environmentally
things will only go for the worse.  But for the govt functioning, I have
no objections to the project.

And the damn dams will be silted in 15 yrs.  Come to think of that !


Seetamraju Udaya Bhaskar Sarma
(email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)
From: ghayalm@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Manoj Ghayalod)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Muslims will start an Armed Rebellion
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:54:35 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

In article <1992Oct15.082804@IASTATE.EDU> jakhan@IASTATE.EDU (Javed Ahmed Khan) writes:
>This is in response to the article posted by indu@iss700.Columbia.NCR.COM ()
>with the above title:
>
>The only way to rid India of these and other cancerous organisations is to 
>prevent conditions from developing which cause these organisations to take
>root.
>We could also decide to ban these organisations; but the concensus should be
>to ban *all* such organisations. The likely candidates for such a step would
>be:
>IUML,Akali Dal,BJP,RSS,ISS,Adam Sena,Shiv Sena,MCC,PWG,........and the list
>goes
>on. Oh and how did I forget organisations like the BMAC & the VHP.
>
>What do you say ?
>
>--Javed.

I agree with Javed.  I have seen Bal Thakre's speeches in Pune.  They
are as inflammatory or even more than the one made by the ISS chief.
Most Hindu fundamentalists say this is a reaction to the muslim
fundamentalism, maybe it is the other way around.


Manoj
From: sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu (Suresh Doki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Places to Suggest for Honey Moon .
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:01:33 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxine.wpi.edu

(HARSHAVARDHAN  DESHMANE) said:

>disgusted,

 i have seen this before ....... quite a few times.

>-harsh



suresh
From: sdoki@maxine.ne.n.edu (Suresh Doki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: SOME DOKI JOKES
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:42:10 GMT
Orgm: m: Worcester ?  Shtechnic Institute

was red6.204042.23752@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1992Oct6.213816.5138@cis.o)
Dats and h7.183035.10763@velaelaekland.edu>
N writes:
> Hesu.et: RDRDRpi.edu
-Amds: jokes

jayaram anand said:

>what's worse than people who are kidding ?
>ce
h who arHa^sure whether they are kidding or not .
>P.S. I re bot ot oing. Really.
>J Anand.


hey why don't you give up?


its high time you do it.



suresh
sh
sews 1210
From: df
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: skantam@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Sridhar Kantamneni)
Subject: Looking For Sudhakar Patibandla
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:33:10 GMT
Organization: Illinois State University

Hi sudhakar if you read this message please respond to my address.
From: shubu@cs.wisc.edu (Shubhendu Mukherjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Nobel Prize & IITs
Date: 10 Oct 92 15:52:25 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin @ Madison, CS Dept.


>>>>> In article <1992Oct9.220716.6560@news.Hawaii.Edu>, venki@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu (N. Venkateswaran) writes:

>>>>> In article <SHUBU.92Oct6172458@green.cs.wisc.edu> shubu@cs.wisc.edu (Shubhendu Mukherjee) writes:

SSM> And Sanjeev Arora, Rajeev Motwani, and Madhu Sudan - whose achievement 
SSM> had been quoted in NYT (a couple of months back) as one of the milestones 
SSM> in Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematics.  All these guys are 
SSM> ex-IITians (well, Arora left IITK in his 3rd year).  

NV> Sometime in 1985, TIME had Molly Ringwald on the cover and a whole
NV> lot of praiseworthy words inside. I wonder where she is now?

NV> NYT had carried major reports on breakthorughs in Cold Fusion. 

NV> People magazine has an annual "sexiest man alive" competition which
NV> was once won by Mr. City-of-Joy Swayze.

NV> Oh, and by the way Shubu I have some land in Florida. Interested?

NV> -Confucius say "a fool and his ego make best friends".

Sometimes modesty just doesn't pay off.  Once my father was asked by
the American Consul-General in Calcutta, "You can get a green card and 
stay in USA anytime you want to, then why don't settle there?"  Pat came 
my father's reply, "What would have an American said if you had asked him to 
settle in some other country.  After all, India is my motherland."

N.V. - you are making a mistake.  Sometimes, you have to set the record
straight.   Guys like Abhinav and Rakesh Patel aren't just ignorant of the
IITs, but also they are actively trying to degrade it.  IMHO, no sane person 
will take this face down.  (What would you have done if someone stepped on 
your mother's picture deliberately?)  It's a matter of pride, a matter of 
personal satisfaction and achievement.  

There is a Bengali newspaper called "AnandoBazaar" and in the opinion 
of many it publishes mostly crap.  However, it did publish that Mother Teresa
had won the Nobel Prize.  Does that tarnish Mother Teresa's achievement?
I think you should have gone through the NYT article on Sanjeev Arora et al
before coming out with this statement, because NYT had extensively quoted
experts and well-known researchers in the area about their achievement.

Luck!
-Shubu

P.S.: Confucius also says - "Look before you leap."







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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ram@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Ram Devanathan)
Subject: Re: Mrs. Last Name ( Re: A Feminist Problem )
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:49:01 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.004853.9572@opencon.com> giand@opencon.com (Deepak S. Gianchandani) writes:
   (muchas deletas)
>Remember, that in Hinduism, that a girls life begins after her marriage.
>Deepak S. Gianchandani           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>E-mail:giand@opencon.com

Is that why baby girls are, sometimes, killed in India? Since they are not
married, they are technically dead. What's the harm in killing them?
P.S: This is not a flame.
ram@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
From: ravi@maxine.wpi.edu (Ravi Narayan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,wpi.students.desis
Subject: Re: SPIC-MACAY
Keywords: t-shirts/sweat shirts
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:02:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: bigboote.1bne55INN5m5
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxine.wpi.edu

In a previous article, (Nagendra Palle) said:
:- 
:- The SPIC-MACAY chapter at the University of Illinois
:- at Urbana-Champaign is selling t-shirts and sweat-shirts
:- 

	hmmm! and i always thought they were into all kind of culturally
	uplifting stuff... shouldn't they be out there dancing and
	singing bhajans or something?

:- it also bears the SPIC-MACAY eye symbol. It has four colours
:- - green, gold, scarlet red and black.

	sounds like a SPIC-MACAY Visa card!!! ;)

:- It does not have
:- any mention of University of Illinois on it. 

	and thats good?

	just a thought... please don't flame me.

	peace,

	- ravi

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: mnarayan@bmerh484.bnr.ca (Brian Larmour)
Subject: Re: Can a girl and a guy be just friends
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:08:33 GMT


... Not without SEX in mind.

--------------------
MAN=Malur A. Narayan
"There will always be a tree in the white house, but after this year, there may
not be a BUSH !!!"

And yes ... my opinions are my business not my company's.
From: bhatnagr@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Raj Bhatnagar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Muslims will start an Armed Rebellion
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:16:25 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

In article <2ADD9D6E.22754@news.service.uci.edu> sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu (M. Sundaramoorthy) writes:


>	It is the ill-concieved notion by RSS of making India an Hindu
                                                                 ~~~~~~
>	theocratic state that results in this kind of reaction from other
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

That is an impossibility. Hindu, even if you limit the word to
its religious connotation, admits of diversity as a basic axiom.
And a theocracy of diversists(?) - sounds like a very liberal place
to me.

>M. Sundaramoorthy


---raj
From: rangana@cs.uwindsor.ca (RANGANATHAN A            )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: In article 12815@noose.ecn.purdue.edu, gayathri@ec.ecn.purdue.edu (Gayathri Krishnamurthy) writes:
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:37:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: newsserv.1667

In article <1992Oct7.194939.28465@hubcap.clemson.edu>, svangav@eng.clemson.edu (sreedhar vangavolu) writes:
> >
> 	You forgot to add something else. Our heroine LOVES that situation
> 	and encorages (in most cases) our hero to do that. 
> 
 Well, you forgot to add something else. Haven't you realised that the directors, producers and distributors of such films are men ? 
And they are just glamourizing their fantasies and the Indian male junta decides that's what they want?? 
You are saying that a women(the heroine)  means 'Yes' even when she says 'No'.
 
Arathi
From: hsgupta@panther.ecn.uoknor.edu (Hari Shankar Gupta)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Need apt. to share with in Santa Ana area, Orange County
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:31:05 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

Hi Friends of the Net !

I wantto share an apt. with someone in Santa Ana beginning Nov., this year.
This place in Orange County, CA.  If you know someone, can you ask them to contact me.  I do not have a apt. but can get one if someone is willing to share

Thanks

Have a good day !

Hari Gupta

405-325-9975

hsgupta@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
From: vivek@ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Who are these anti-India Sikhs? ( was: Re: Solarz lost. Now what?)
Date: 10 Oct 1992 02:54:14 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

In article <1992Oct9.171116.16884@infonode.ingr.com> barakam@infonode.ingr.com (Sreedhar Barakam) writes:
>In article <1b1mq2INNljo@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> vivek@ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu) writes:
>>Well I do not know about Dan Burton, but Wally Herger is the Congressman 
>>from our area here in Chico in Northern California, and he has a sizable
>>anti-India Sikh populace in Yuba City, which is bound to get him elected
>>even now. I wonder how could India Today mention something like the fact
>>that he is facing a tough battle for election here. In fact in the check
>>bouncing scandal his name had not even figured and besides he has a good
>>amount of support from the hardline anti-Indian community here.
>>
>>Vivek.
>
>I know there are supporters for Khalistan movement all over the world. I am
>curious to know what makes them support this movement.
>Most of these supporters in India, are unemployed minority of sikhs who try
>to impose their movement on the majority- or so goes my impression so far.
>But why do those who are in, say California, support this movement?
>
>
>Sreedhar Barakam.

These anti-India Sikh populace is responsible for the single largest
contributions coming to the Khalistani terrorist movement apart from
contributions coming from Canada, and the U.K..

The community here is essentially a farming community,  and to their
credit, they have converted the almost arid desert of Yuba City,  in
Northern California into a vast agricultural treasure. Though I must
add, that not all the Sikhs here in Yuba City are pro-Khalistani,  &
many are indeed pro-Indian, but the majority of about 95% are indeed
anti-Indian.

Regards,
Vivek.

-- 
vivek@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu),
Research Assistant, Systems Engineering Lab., Dept. Of Computer Science, 
School Of Engineering, Computer Science And Technology,
California State University, Chico, California.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: fall210@cse.unl.edu ()
Subject: looking for V.K.Sekhar of HAL BANGalore
Summary: If anybody knows pl reply iermindu@engvms.unl.edu
Keywords: Gopal Indurkhya
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 17:40:13 GMT

If anybody know V.K.Sekhar of HAL Helicopter Design bureau ,pl reply
at iermindu@engvms.unl.edu or fall210@cse.unl.edu
Thanks...Gopal