HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam Ghosh)
Subject: Re: Secularisim in INDIA and on sci.
Reply-To: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 02:37:35 GMT

>keep out any kind of offensive religious postings off of the net.  I think
>>it is a disgrace to our secular country of Bapu that such Hindus and Muslims
>>still exist in the world.  So please let us be more responsible and be 
>>Indians first; Hindus and Muslims later.
The crux of the problem is why can't one be proud of one's religion and
post about it without attacking another's?
This problem is at the hurt of India's trouble today.
The moment Muslims say we are proud to be Muslims: Hindus cry Hinduism under
seige?
The moment Hindus say we are proud of our religion: Muslims cry Islam under
seige?

probably both these groups are afraid that there are so many similarities
in the religions that if both start proudly proclaiming their religion the
lies about dissimilarities will become clear

Love
Arindam

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: singh@terminus.gatech.edu (Ranu Singh)
Subject: Information about Bangkok
Organization: College of Computing
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:21:15 GMT

My brother will go to India in October and will stop in Bangkok on the 
way. He'll probabely be there for upto a day.Is it a good place to buy
electronic equipment for taking to India ? The info I am seeking is :

1) Name of reliable shop to buy AC, TV, VCR, Computer printer etc in Bangkok.
2) Its Distance from Airport.
3) Mode of transport to use.
4) How to pay them : USD/ Bangkok currency.
5) Where should one convert the currency ?
6) How should one ship them ?(Do the shops have shipping facilities, i.e
   Will they ship it for u?)

 Also, I am trying to find out the email address of Prof S. Ali at Asian
 Institute of Technology at Bangkok. He is in the Computer Science 
 Deptt. Any help would be much appreciated. Pls email/post replies.

 Thankx in advance,

	-Ranu Singh
From: banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Prolific posters of the last fortnight....
Date: 14 Aug 1992 07:43:01 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu

In article <1992Aug14.012753.25551@samba.oit.unc.edu> Veeramany.Sthanumurthy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Veeramany Sthanumurthy) writes:

[stuff deleted]

>>You have the makings of a gargantuan geek,
>>Even though your postings are utterly meek,
>>and of reasoning flawed and weak.
>>
>>Every time you use your bird brains and beak,
>>to post articles on this net with a foul reek,
>>and that too in languages other than Greek,
>>it inevitably causes me to go eeks.....
>>
>>From the most unlikely quarters you seek support,
>>where there is none, you try to establish rapport,
>>Makes me suspect if you are a wimp,
>>Your place is not on the net, but on a extraterrestial blimp.
>>
>>
>>Samit
>>
>>




>
>Sit Ubu sit .. Good dog!
>



Aha the borrowed advertising cliche from a Hollywoood company.

The end to the creative process...what a waste, alas what a humanoid he might
have been despite his deficiencies and shortcomings.

Well if not human, I can at least treat him as a lamp post and......

Samit
From: pr0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Pravin Devineni Ratnam)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Don't fly on Air India
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:15:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.QeYKVR600iUyA4qTNC
	<1992Aug14.194215.8511@research.nj.nec.com>
Organization: Senior, IM - MCS/CIT Track, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I had to sit in the smoking section  twice despite specifically asking
for the non-smoking section. Also, I keep getting seated in the section
where the majority of the movies are those unbearable Hindi movies.


Also, I was once told that my name was not on the reservation list. I
was told that I could not check in. It wasn't even crowded at that time.
So I asked to doubl;e check since the computer could be wrong. Despite
looking at my ticket, he refused to put any extra effort into fixing the
matter. I calmly went to the next counter and got my reservation
confirmed.


I did not have too much of a problem with the stewardesses. The food is
not so bad. 

My main problem is with Bombay airport. It is one of the worst
international airports I have ever seen. Madras is pretty bad too. But
the staff in Madras is more courteous.
From: sanjay@putnam.Berkeley.EDU (Sanjay Shrivastava)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Information on International Business program
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:03:25 GMT
Reply-To: sanjay@putnam.Berkeley.EDU (Sanjay Shrivastava)

A friend of mine back in India wanted to know if there's an
International Business program at either Univ. of Pittsburg or CMU.
Could someone from either of these Univs. kindly send me mail as to whom
to get in touch with (the address or preferably the ph. #) at these Univs.

thanks in advance...

Sanjay.
From: slbxk@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Friendship Club
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:35:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: cc.1992Aug19.153531.58263
Organization: Utah State University



                   FRIENDSHIP CLUB

                   From the Editor
           -------------------------------


Dear friends,

     We are all far away from home, home town, home city, home
motherland. We each have the same dreams, dreaming about pursuing
a higher degree in education, accomplishing a wonderful task in
our own life, getting a satisfying job, climbing to a higher
class in life... But we feel lonely, terribly lonely, we need
friends, and love. Loneliness is like a killer, threatening us
every friday evening, saturday, sunday, holidays, even in daily
life. Why not let us gather together to get rid of loneliness, to
find ourselves companionship, to enjoy love or friendship! Let's
provide ourselves to the society and meet many people and choose
the one we want to be with, the one we love, but we have not met
yet.

     Good luck to all of you, dear friends!



                                       Editor


     P.S.

     For APPLICATION FORM please write to:

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     Or send inquiring by E-mail.
From: vkprasad@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Going to a Wedding
Date: 15 Aug 92 00:59:41 EDT
Organization: Univ of Miami IR

In article <1992Aug14.071018.12241@mercury.cair.du.edu>, rkannan@diana.cair.du.edu (Rajgopal Kannan) writes:
> In article <75880004@hpldsla.sid.hp.com> jdansky@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Jeri Dansky) writes:
>>I'm (hopefully) about to go to a wedding in India, and I'm hoping the
>>readers of this newsgroup can answer a few questions for me.
>>
>>The wedding invitation says it's the wedding of Sow. Meera with
>>Chi. Sriram.  What do "Sow." and "Chi." mean?
>>
>  Chi is a euphemism for disgusting and Sow is a reminder of the traditional
>  belief that women are some form of cattle :-)
>  or it may be that since the Indian male can't be called a swine so....
> 
>>Thanks for any help,
>>
>>Jeri Dansky
>>jeri@spd.hp.com
> 

hi pal!
for some reason, u seem to be pretty pissed with urself. when someone from
another country is asking for some genuine help, i guess we would be giving a
better picture of ourself by replying in a sensible manner.
i do understand that u must be a culturally advanced person who dosen't
believe in the traditions of indian marriage. but i would appreciate it if
u find another occasion/topic to display ur talents/frustations/knowledge.

hope u will cheer up soon...

best wishes

prasad
From: gopal@tamsun.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: On the birth of Andhra Pradesh (was Re: I HATE TAMILS)
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:39:24 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station

In article <1992Aug21.151153.9628@uoft02.utoledo.edu> vprasad@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
>In article <918@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>, chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala)
>writes:
>> Was it a mistake not to include Madras(Chennapatnam) in
>> Andhra Pradesh? Many feel, taking into consideration the 
>> geographic and linguistic factors, that Madras should have
>> gone to A.P. during the formation of the states. Any comments?
>
  (deleted a detailed explanation giving reasons why Madras went to Tamil Nadu)

 You are mistaken here and I think most of the Andhras on this issue.Madras 
'had' a Telugu majority only till the early part of the century i.e upto 
World War I. What happened after that was a slowly executed subtle process of
increasing the tamil population in the city.This was done by including more
of South Madras within the municipality limits and not doing the corresponding
thing to North Madras.More and more people(majority of whom were tamilians)
settled in South Madras and by 1945 more people gave their mother tongue as
Tamil in the census thus saying that tamils were in a majority in Madras.
A detailed understanding of this can be got from reading the Madras Gazette
which was edited by C.D.Maclean(I do not remember the exact title).It infacts
traces the population changes in the city over the centuries and has a host
of information about Madras.This was recently reprinted by Asia Publishing
House. It was available in the IITM library where I read it.
There are many maps showing the city limits over the various centuries which
give a good indication of how more and more areas of present South Madras were
included in the municipality in the early decades of the century.
But I feel there is no point in raking up the issue now as what is past is past
and it will give rise to emotional feelings among people

Gopal
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: cheap airfares dec92
From: msharma@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 16 Aug 92 18:33:09 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University

Does anyone have a cheap fare for Delhi/Cal this Dec. Any info in this regard
would be appreciated [preferrably through London/Europe].
Neeraj Shah- Wesleyan
Milind Sharma- Vassar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: raju@equinox.b30.ingr.com (Raju Sayyaparaju)
Subject: Multiple Entry Visa while on practical Training
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:55:01 GMT

Hi Netters.

I would be very greatful if any of you could kindly answer the question
that I have.

The question is:

Is the multiple entry on F1 valid while one is on practical training?

One of my friends is on practical training and his I20 expires in dec'92.
He has his practical training through jun'93. He also has a five year mul-
tiple entry visa on F-1. But, he is not sure if he could use his multiple-
entry while he is on practical training. Or is it posiible to get a mult-
iple entry for the practical training period?

Please reply to:
raju@equinox.b30.ingr.com

regards,
Raju (Bhaskar Raju Sayyaparaju)


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: cobra@chopin.udel.edu (Jay Bhartkumar Patel)
Subject: Re: Indian babes ....
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 17:38:45 GMT

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


    No way dude.    

    KING COBRA

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.bangladesh
From: A.Qadir@massey.ac.nz (A. Qadir)
Subject: Re: THE VISION OF WORLD PEACE
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 03:00:06 GMT

Bring your father to read all this "BULL SHIT"
From: vivek@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Vivek M. Sawant )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: SOC.CULTURE.MARATHI
Keywords: GHATTIS, MAHARASTRIAN SUPERIORITY
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:53:16 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana


In recent past, two articles: one with references to GHATTIS and other
about MAHARASTRIAN SUPERIORITY in solving the problems or whatever, have
successfully distracted the attention of the netters from the mail issue
of creating SOC.CULTURE.MARATHI.

Can I request all of those who are interested in creation of this
newsgroup to get back to the vital issue?

Thank you.

_viv

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From: devkumar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Devakumar Sreevijayan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: A plaintive cry of "HELP!!" is uttered.
Summary: Spinach Dish Recipe Request
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:14:06 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX


Help!!

A friend of mine is leaving town for good and we are throwing a farewell
party. She likes Indian food a lot and is known to be very partial to the
Spinach and Home-made Cheese in Creamy Sauce thingy (Saag Paneer?). So I 
think I will do the right thing by country and cuisine and Saag it out this
coming Saturday. So be a dear (or darling, no point arguing these things),
cry Spinach and let slip the Saags of Paneer. 
      Authenticity may be sacrificed for ease, but I would like to make the
best approximation possible. To the petulant panjandrums of the net, who
might ask me to leg it to the library, I say desist: I have already done
the rounds and drawn a blank. Madhur Jaffrey and Yamuna Devi are out
circulating, while Santha Rama Rau remains singularly mum (this family
values thing is going too far) on Saag, while muttering something about
paneer. 

Dev
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: x92nath@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Astrology, India and Nosterdumus ?
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:41:53 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

Hi Readers,

	Do you believe in Astrology ?  There was an article, I read about
a French Astrologer and it is said that I all his predictions made sofar
are true till this date.  His predictions about Earthquake in California,
murder of Indira Gandhi etc, are one of them. 

It further says that in future India will become a world power and its forces
will reach upto Effil Tower in Paris.  It also mentioned that at that time
there was no Effil Tower at Paris.

Has anyone read about this ?  Is this book by Nosterdumus available ?
Thanks
From: bhatnaga@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: U2 tix Aug 20th,Foxboro St.,Boston.
Date: 14 Aug 92 12:49:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: ecs.18244.2a8babee


Hi all of you U2 fans out there,

I have great news for you.I have four front row seats(10 feet from the

stage) for the U2 concert at Foxboro Stadium,Boston on Aug 20th.

Interested parties please contact me at 413-549-7912.I can Federal

Express the tickets to you as soon as possible.This is your only chance

to get tickets for this sold out show.

Maneesh Bhatnagar,

UMASS,Amherst.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gala@d3c700.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (gala)
Subject: Transit visas to LONDON
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:37:06 GMT


Hi Netters:

I am planning to travel to india sometime in october. My travel plans force me to
spend about 18 hours in London. I wonder how difficult it is to get a transit
visa at the airport. Not that it matters but I have permament residency.

Any news in this regard will help!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks

Gala

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gchacko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (George W Chacko)
Subject: Re: Curious observation.
Keywords: Is it just me amd why not HE?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:22:30 GMT

In article <susanc.714237418@keckiris> susanc@rice.edu (susan chacko) writes:

>While this is certainly a possibility, it doesn't entirely explain
>the prevalence of trousers and shirts in India, where airconditioning
>is hardly standard. 

Like most valid hypotheses, approximations are factored in and
complete explanations are not offered. Perhaps the winds of change
have blown in India for long enough addressing both social and
evaporative issues?

>Ethnicity, imho, is intrinsic, and external appearance is quite
>irrelevant. Kipling asked if the leopard could change his spots. It
>might be more appropriate to ask if he would be any less of a leopard
>if he changed them.

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

>On a related note, I have always felt rather sorry for the limited
>clothing options available to men. After all, we can pick up a 
>kurta-pyjama or a lungi and appear in public without creating much 
>excitement, even in India. 

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. 

>And you poor guys are restricted to trousers and shirts, year in,
>year out. It must get boring occasionally. But perhaps women are so
>used to the wide world of choice, (if only in clothing) that these
>restrictions seem claustrophobic only in comparison with their own
>freedom?

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.

George
From: banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: India successfully launches missile
Date: 21 Aug 1992 15:54:42 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu

In article <1992Aug21.180331.18931@news2.cis.umn.edu> crick@tsp.med.umn.edu (Ed Crick (CD)) writes:
>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.
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^

Even at the risk of speaking for Deb Chat ( debmenacing at best), his
preferred order of successful Agni missle launches would be:

Jyoti Basu (commie) followed by the followers of Islam and then the
obfuscators which necessarily includes every else left standing and
demanding an explanation to what hit 'em.

>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.


Success on a SCI scale would include Agni (aka flame) threats to shoot down 
any proposals to further splinter SCI and of course the counter threat in the
form of a strong missile deterent. Infact this could become the forebearer
to a new form of SCI speak:

I will flame you ......I will Agni you.
I will add you to my global kill file.....I will Prithvi you.
I will counter all your Muslim propaganda in kind.... I will Trishul you.
I will pronounce you a lowlife...... I will Nag you.


Samit
 


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: 57mamtani@cuavax.dnet.cua.edu
Subject: more info on ASEI
Organization: The Catholic University of America
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:12:19 GMT

Hi all,

Since my posting about the ASEI national annual convention, I have got a 
lot of inquires about further info on the association.  To those who 
have asked, and others, here is the person to contact if you have any 
questions, or want to become a member:

Dr Chandrika Prasad
11101 Fruitwood Drive
Bowie, MD 20720

(301) 464-5042   (H)
(703)471-8383    (W)

Arun Mamtani
From: guptar@ucs.orst.edu (gupta rakesh forest products)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: contact at univ. of TOLEDO
Date: 13 Aug 1992 12:38:06 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



Hi

I would like to get in touch with someone at Univ. of Toledo.  My
brother-in-law, Mukul Gupta (fron IIT-D) will be joining civil eng. (environ.)
this fall. I would like to know about housing and general stuff.         
Is there India Association who helps incoming students for temporary
accomodation and other things?

thanks

rakesh gupta
GUPTAR@UCS.ORST.EDU


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sundarm@ecf.toronto.edu (SUNDARAM Ashok N.e.)
Subject: ATTENTION PSG TECH 86-90 BATCH
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:37:29 GMT

Hello folks,
		Ashok Sundaram on this end. I am now at the University of
Toronto. I am trying regain contact with our batchmates in North America.
I would appreciate hearing from all of you. Please email me at:
		sundarm@ecf.toronto.edu

	I will compile a list of all responses and post on this newsgroup.

	Please ask any others you are in touch with to respond. Thank you,

Ashok
From: bkannan@ha06.eng.ua.edu (Balaji Kannan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: On the birth of Andhra Pradesh (was Re: I HATE TAMILS)
Date: 21 Aug 1992 16:52:21 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



>      I do not know what made Telugus concede the demand for Madras - people
>      claim that Tirupathi was conceded in exchange for Madras, but from what

              Something the Kashmiris are justified in asking
              themselves today. [vis-a-vis India]

>      I recall, Tirupathi was also Telugu majority area, and hence should
>      have been in Andhra anyway. It doesn't strike me as an even deal.

              What do you want to do about it?
              Tomorrow, if Hyderabad becomes a Tamil majority area, would
              you give it away to T.N. Because morally, it should not
              belong to Andhra then.

>       I too echo seetamraju's feelings that Madras should have belonged
>       morally to Andhra Pradesh. Sreenivasa Rao garu seems to be well versed


              What do you want to do about it?  Morally, the Dravidians
              [O.K I'll stick to Tamizhs] should not feel a part of India.
              [to be ruled by North Indians]

              Morally, Brahmins have no business in Dravidaland.
              Rather looking at it today, I would say morally Telugus
              had no business to enter Madras. Morally, they should not
              have been given a safe haven in what is T.N today.
              
              Nor should they be allowed to enter Madras[T.N] in the future
              because they'd become a Majority.

              Morally, a united India should not even exist today.

>        with the facts of this lingustic division; if he has more information
>        on this, I request him to please share it with us.

>        Siva Prasad                             vprasad@uoft02.utoledo.edu



           Balaji Kannan 
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