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From: ratan@thebe.rutgers.edu (Santosh Ratan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: PeeJay
Date: 29 Aug 92 10:59:08 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Mr. Singh is travelling by air for the first time. His destination is
some European country. Since he had researched into the matter and had
learned that on the plane they gave food which were of no use, he has
taken some food for himself in a bundle. When the stewardess offers
food, he simply refuses. 
        After a while he starts feeling hungry. So, he opens up the
bundle and starts eating. A German comes and pointing to the rotee he
asks "Mr. Singh, What is that?". 

Mr. Singh:  Roti..... India.

After a while, the German happens to pass by Mr. Singh again. This
time seeing yellow colored hydrollic food, he asks in surprise,"Mr.
Singh, What is that?". 

Mr. Singh:  Daal..... India.

Next time, when the German passes by, he notices some pickle, and
asks, "Mr. Singh, what is this?". 

Mr. Singh:  Pickle..... India.

After about an hour or so, Mr. Singh finished eating his meal. So, he
drank the lassi and managed to make a foul but sinusoidal noise, which
by no means came out of his upper part of the body. The German, out of
curiosity, again asked,"Mr. Singh, what was that?". 

Mr. Singh:  Air..... India.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: mramesh@nyx.cs.du.edu (M Ramesh)
Subject: Re: I will close you by my ices --[ The Tiger Cascade ]
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 22:27:17 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.215742.4017@colorado.edu> paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus) writes:
>In article <1684FF317.R2GAR@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> R2GAR@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU writes:
>>In article <1992Aug26.193904.28259@colorado.edu>
>>paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus) writes:
>> 
>>>
>>>In article <1992Aug26.165258.26997@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mramesh@nyx.cs.du.edu (Murthy Ramesh) writes:
>>>>In article <1992Aug25.205607.23086@colorado.edu> paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus) writes:
>>>>>In article <1684EE14D.R2GAR@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> R2GAR@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU writes:
>>>>>>In article <1992Aug24.205710.14905@colorado.edu>
>>>>>>paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus) writes:
>>>>>>>In article <1684DE746.R2GAR@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> R2GAR@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU writes:
>>>>>>>>In article <l9bd1fINN4av@aludra.usc.edu>
>>>>>>>>sramacha@aludra.usc.edu (Sudarshan Ramachandran) writes:
>>>>>>>>>paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>In article <1992Aug21.173245.13865@ugle.unit.no> youhong@solan.unit.no (User) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>I will close you by my ices.
>>>>>>>>>> I will lose you by my dices.
>>>>>>>>>  I will kill you with my spices.
>>>>>>>    Hi willki, you with mices ?
>>>>>>>    No Vepal, that would be crises.
>>>>>      No pal, begone, that suffices.
>>>>       I car US life's main spices?
>>>        I caress her vain crevices.
>>         I could do without artificial devices.
>          I kudo you with art on what premises ?
           Could you be SCating on thin Ices?

Ramesh
From: anand@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (SHALINI ANAND)
Subject: MBA scholarships/fellowships in the U.S.??
Reply-To: anand@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:18:07 GMT


I am posting this enquiry for a friend who does not have access to the net

---------------------------------------------------------
Can knowledgeable netters give information about the kinds of scholarships/
fellowships offered by schools for doing MBA in the U.S., preferably on the 
East coast. 
-From what i have heard most funding for management courses is at best partial.
 Is it true?
-Is there a certain GMAT score required to get these fellowships?

Please post  any information you can give, either  to the net or to my email 
account

 in%"ANAND@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU"

Thanks in advance.
shalini
From: ravi@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu (Pattalachinti)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: TOP 50 SCHOOLS IN CHEMICAL ENG.,
Date: 28 Aug 92 03:37:42 GMT
Organization: College Of Engg. & Tech., Ohio University. Athens

Please send me the latest ranking of the chemical engineering 
schools in US.   

Thanking u folks in advance,


ravi
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Confused about Indian Babes ...
From: J.Ainikkal@massey.ac.nz (J. Ainikkal)
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 01:58:08 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Keywords: Indian babes
Summary: Indian Womyn
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c


>Well, a survey in India Today six years back showed that though 22 percent of 
>Indian husbands would be shell-shocked if their wives mentioned sex, 68 percent 
>desperately wished they would. That should pretty well summarize the results  
>for you. 

It does summarize the some results (with all the pitfalls of surveys).

>Also, now you know why Indian guys are horny. :) 

How is this conclusion reached? Just 'cause Indian womyn do not mention the 
word 'sex' does not mean they do not a) like having sex, b) make Indian guys
more horny than people (male/female) from other nationalities. Although I
once heard from a 'white' (At times it gets easier to describe using colour
- my apologies) female friend that since Indian males start having sex at a 
'more mature' age, they like 'catching up for lost years'. 

The only difference between Indians and womyn from the West (bash me
for generalizing) is that, Indian womyn do not throw U on the ground,
rip off your clothes and sit on your face (oops - just being crude) - That
does not mean they are less exciting womyn. So there is no reason for 'pity'.


>Pity, but that is the truth.  
 
>Nath. 

John Ainikkal
'Aotearoa' - Land of the long whtie cloud
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.kerala
From: manu@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (K. S. Manu)
Subject: Re: EMAIL ADDRESS OF PANTNAGAR UNIVERSITY WANTED
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 08:10:45 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.074255.3904@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> vkrishna@nyx.cs.du.edu (Vijay Krishna) writes:
>Hello friends,
>
>Does anyone know the email address of dept. of Computer Sc.,
>G.B Pant University of A&T, Pantnagar, India?

Where is Patnagar? What does this have to do with alt.culture.kerala?

>I shall be thankful, if someone could mail it to me at
>vkrishna@nyx.cs.du.edu.

Please take this off alt.culture.kerala if you don't want me to get more
personal....

>Thanks in advance,
>
>V. Krishna
>

Njan
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: swami@tcs.com (Venkates Swaminathan)
Subject: Autonomy for Kashmir?
Organization: Teknekron Communications Systems Inc.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:16:20 GMT

I just read on MNS that PVN Rao is considering granting almost complete
autonomy for Kashmir (except for defence and foreign affairs) because it costs
too much to maintain law & order there.

Do you folks think this ia a good thing?

Swami
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: Veeramany.Sthanumurthy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Veeramany Sthanumurthy)
Subject: Re: Some Comments [RSS : Silent Revolution etc.]
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:59:21 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.034516.29305@colorado.edu> paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus) writes:
>In article <1992Sep2.010809.28769@cs.wayne.edu> uds@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep1.054730.20102@colorado.edu> paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus) writes:

[most of the exchange deleted]

>3] Perhaps this is becoming a dogma for me, but I believe, firmly
>   that the state and the church must not be mixed.
[...]
>4] One net person has once jumped to the conclusion that I must hate
>   religion, because of what I write.
>   Nothing could be further than the truth. 
>   I treat my religion as a personal thing, something as private as 
>   the state of my love life. :-)

Exactly what is missing in this forum (not the smiley), the private
nature of one's religion. Of course, to say that religion is private
is probably heretical (at least, that is the perception I get.) To
be really secular (I don't know about pseudo-secular) calls for some
of the broad-mindedness Sarma garu was talking about (in the portion
I deleted.) It is quite imposssible to detect such a notion in the
fanatical adherents of any religion. I have found that the followers
of the so-called "strong atheism", which is what I think Paul is
referring to (again in the stuff deleted) tend to possess this more
so than the religious types. My *opinion* is that this necessarily
so. However, I am willing to be convinced otherwise.

Any argument along these lines is often quite pointless in the absence
of some basic premisses upon which it is based. Email flames, please.

No offence intended.

Sthan.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Sati is for our good!!
From: <RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Wednesday, 2 Sep 1992 06:44:45 EDT
 nz> <Btwrr9.8Kr@wpi.WPI.EDU><1992Sep2.023517.16948@massey.ac.nz>
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center



         Since everyone is attacking Mr. Doki,  I will say a little bit  of
    relevance.  I will start with two examples.

         Let us  suppose that  in "Body  Heat", Kathleen  Turner opens  her
    mouth  and  goes  "oh,  oh,  oh!".   She  is not actually (most likely)
    experiencing an orgasm.  Similarly, a man sitting cross legged with his
    eyes closed need not be in Samadhi.  This is because the words "orgasm"
    and "Samadhi" do not  refer to what you  see but to what  the person is
    experiencing.  Some people would say, "they are part of the inner world
    of the person", though  there are philosophical difficulties  even with
    this view.  The mind-body problem is still OPEN.

         IF "sati" means the forcible burning of widows, and IF Mr. Doki is
    defending THAT, then he is just out of court - there is no point even
    in attacking him.  Such a position on his part makes no sense at all.

         But is that  what "sati" means?   Sati is an  internal state of  a
    woman and you CANNOT forcibly bring it about!  Let me quote from Apte's
    Sanskrit-English dictionary.

         "(1)  A virtuous or good woman (or wife);  Ku 1.21   (2) A female
    ascetic  (3) N. of the goddess Durga;  Ku 1.21"

         There is no  reference to burning,  forcible or otherwise.   It is
    true that Shiva's first wife who was called Sati, did burn herself  but
    there is nothing to indicate that she was forced.  Moreover, Shiva  was
    not dead and she was not a widow!

         My question  is, which  of Apte's  three meanings  are you  people
    objecting to?  There is nothing to indicate that mother Teresa is not a
    sati - I  would say she  IS. Are saying  that mother Teresa  should not
    exist?

         Or,  are  you,  being  Indian,  using  an Indian word in a Western
    sense?  And if so, WHY?

         Rohit Parikh
From: venugop@athena.cs.uga.edu (my father is a GUN !!!)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Looking Ashwin Amladi.
Date: 31 Aug 92 14:33:10 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens


     This is a request to all the netters from Univ of RHODE ISLAND
     A friend of mine named ASHWIN AMLADI arrived on the 21st of
     this month to the UNIV of RHODE ISLAND to do his MS in Accounting
     Could somebody give him my number and e mail address.
     Thanking you in advance.
     Gopakumar Venugopalan
     706 354 6556
     venugop@athena.cs.uga.edu
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,alt.sex,sci.med,talk.politics.misc,talk.religion.misc,talk.ph
Subject: Re: Does masturbation reduce intelligence? (Was Re: Is it correct th
From: J.Ainikkal@massey.ac.nz (J. Ainikkal)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 02:11:07 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Keywords: puzzling questions
Summary: puzzling questions
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c

Other questions that that puzzle me -

Do bears shit in your toilet?
Can submarines swim? (Well worthy of discussion)
Have U ever seen pigs fly? (excluding Pink Floyd concerts)
Does your shit ever become part of your ceiling?
Did America bomb Iraq to save the world from evil?
.
.
John Ainikkal
'Aotearoa' - Land of the long white cloud
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sarang@saturn.sdsu.edu (Srinath Sarang)
Subject: Indian Recipes...Wanted...
Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:22:38 GMT

Hi Netters,
            Just read sthan's Mumbai recipes...
How about somebody posting good recipes that have been tested out on
hungry starving grad students like me.....and have passed the test...
( I mean the "tested" is still alive after eating....)
I think its time we moved away from cow-bull-sex-religion discussions and
did something useful like : cook eat etc....
I am serious this time : (ignore my signature for this time)
Waiting for the recipes...
Drool .....oooo
Srinath

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rroy@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Raja R Roy)
Subject: Re: why satti is
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 12:21:59 GMT



In article <1992Aug30.181542.20861@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> prasanth@gn.ecn.purdue.ed
u (Ravi K. Prasanth) writes:
>In article <92243.023522RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:
>> 
>>   Many postings on the notion and practice of Sati have ignored  one
>>important fact.  According to Hindu doctrine, self-immolation HAS to be
>>voluntary because taking  the life of  a woman is  a grave sin.   Among
>>sins regarded as worse than ordinary  killing are the killing of a  cow
>>(gau-hatya)   brahmin   (brahma-hatya),   king (raja-hatya)   child
>>(bal-hatya) and woman (stree-hatya).
>>
>
>On the contrary, Hindu belief is that no act is inherently good or
>bad. 
>
>>   Some people who are familiar with the Mahabharata (I know I should
>>not take this familiarity for granted!) or have at least seen the movie
>>by  Peter  Brooke  might  remember  the following incident.  During the
>>battle  of  Mahabharata,  Bhishma  turns  out  to be invincible and the
>>Pandavas have a problem.  Then they remember Shrikhandi.  Shrikhandi is
>>actually a girl, but has been  brought up by her father (wishing  for a
>>son)  as  a  boy.   Bhishma  knows  this.  So  Arjuna,  accompanied by
>>Shrikhandi attcks Bhishma.  Bhishma knows that Shrikhandi is actually a
>>woman and will not shoot back lest an arrow hit her.  At the end of the
>>day, Bhishma is  completely pierced with  arrows and falls  back in his
>>chariot but his body does not touch the ground since there are too many
>>arrows sticking out.
>> 
>
>Dronacharya was killed. King Duryodhana was killed. And above all,
>Bhishma was killed. What you have stated earlier isn't correct.
>Same goes for Ramayana.
>
>> 
>>    The moral that one cannot kill a  woman if one is a good Hindu  is
>> quite  obvious  here.
>> 
>
>In case you haven't heard the story about Parashurama, allow me to 
>tell you that he killed his own mother. What do you mean by a "good
>Hindu" ?

       The case of Parshuram is an exception. He was ordered by his father
to do so and he did. A case of whom should one be devoted to - mother
or father.





>
>>    We have to remember that  Westerners have a psychological need  to
>>feel superior to non-Westerners.  Thus small things that are wrong with
>>Eastern cultures are over-emphasised and big things wrong with  Western
>>culture are quietly  passed over!  Shall  we talk about  the bombing of
>>Hiroshima  and  Nagasaki?   Or  shall  we  talk  about  the massacre at
>>Jallian-walla Bagh?  Your choice.
>> 
>
>Westerners may have a psychological need to feel superior to 
>non-Westerners. They may even be superior. But that is immaterial.
>Sati is the problem (and a not a small thing as you seem to suggest).
>Are you willing to accept that ? Showing that Westerners are 
>equally barbarous is not going to help prevent Sati (IMO).
>
>>          Rohit Parikh
>

   I don't see how sati is a problem. There is no sati practice
 going on. It happens once in a decade. 

  Raja




>RKP
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From: misra@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Boo!)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,alt.culture.kerala
Subject: Re: EMAIL ADDRESS OF PANTNAGAR UNIVERSITY WANTED
Date: 3 Sep 1992 10:33:57 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

manu@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (K. S. Manu) writes:
>Then why don't you post it to, say, rec.humor? (I guess you CAN do that,
>but then you might get your butt flamed... which is what I might consider
>doing if the original poster doesn't withdraw his post from ack)

	I think you are taking this a bit too far. what does rec.humor have 
to do with india? But kerala is part of india, I dont see any reason
why the query is not valid on ACK and these threats you make about flaming..
please.. not on *public* nets.. if you people feel like dictators find 
a banana republic somewhere and try it there or else *moderate* this group!
if you dont want to take that responsibility then you will just have to 
live with post which *you* think are invalid.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: Veeramany.Sthanumurthy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Veeramany Sthanumurthy)
Subject: Re: A brief, nostalgic history of SCI ! (Was : Re: Swastik(a))
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:58:51 GMT

In article <17k3g1INNs19@overload.lbl.gov> prem@prem.lbl.gov (Shirdi R. Prem) writes:
>	another "sending money to India" or "islam vs. hinduism" or 
>	"Imran vs. Kapil" or "x+1 syndrome" or "sc/st reservation"
>	or "Sridevi vs. some_babe" or some such thing  degenerate 

I guess nobody really cares for the FAQ file - maybe it should
be in several parts.

>	(Anyone have Asjeet's epic "Shaadi- Parts 1 and 2 ??)

I have a lamba file which has something on arranged marriage -
Part 2, I think. Is that what you mean? [Can't post anything 
without permission.]

Sthan.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.telugu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Sati is for our good!!
From: J.Ainikkal@massey.ac.nz (J. Ainikkal)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 02:06:08 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Keywords: acceptance without questioning? An indication of ignorance
Summary: A change in sig.
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>I don't follow a shit of what you have said so far. 
>could you explain it to me in more detail please. 

If I could get hold of your parents I would make the attempt. 
 
>thanking you  
 
Do not get presumptious about me attempting to expose U to my
point of view.
 
>yours sincerely 
 
 
>Suresh 

I wonder why U changed your signature (just brings about a
smile:)? Wish I could make U realise your other prejudices as
easily too.

John Ainikkal
'Aotearoa' - Land of the long white cloud
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: nsridhar@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Natarajan Sridhar)
Subject: Re: Yetanudder conundrum ... pun oriented !
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:35:12 GMT

Here are the top 10 morals as received (reproduced w/o permission
from original authors). If your head reels upon reading some of
them, don't worry. I don't think they are supposed to make 
sense, anyway ...

[10]  Don't keep shears at home
[9]   Tie your wife to her bed before you go to sleep
[8]   Don't live in a town where there is a young washerman
[7]   Always carry money when you want to see Murthy
[6]   Don't buy garlic bread
[5]   Shiva doesn't accept American Express, so carry Visa.
      Don't leave home without it
[4]   I better beware of raveena from now on
[3]   Never propitiate chikna deities
[2]   Cashes to ashes, dust to dust  

And (Anton, can I have a drum roll, please ?), the #1 moral of
the story is:



[1]   A BENNY SHAVED IS A BENNY URNED !!


**sridhar**

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,alt.culture.us.asian-indian
From: Veeramany.Sthanumurthy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Veeramany Sthanumurthy)
Subject: Communication II-IA and other stuff
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 19:41:03 GMT

This has reference to the thread started by Kris Popat. There
have been a few postings on the thread some substantial and
others whining. This post of a more rambling nature and so
a bit off that thread.

In general, while talking to/with/at people one tends to use
whatever ideas/words appropriate//otherwise for the occasion.
Usually, practicality is the reason underlying any such choice.
For any communication to be effective, it helps to reduce 
misunderstanding. So, IMHO, any claim about using uniform
vocabulary to communicate with every member of any amorphous
group we tend to come across, is quite suspect.

Specifically with respect to the Indian-Americans, there is
probably at least two-fold level of complexity (confusion
multiplied by two) since any subculture (Tamil, Bengali, 
Gujarati for eg. - on whatever basis, say name/region association) 
the said IA may be expected to belong may  be proven wrong. When 
the said interaction takes place over a medium without visual
cues there are further complications. Add to this the gender 
perception and assorted generalizations on either side, and we 
have the potential for quite an explosive mix.

My own first interaction with an IA was a very enjoyable experience.
Perhaps, such obvious power imbalances as PIGS/Salaryperson, walker/
driver, accented/American English speaker etc. helped load the odds
against me. :-) Suffice to say that the IA's genuine good nature and
inclination to help a lost soul led to a lasting friendship. Maybe
this has helped color my opinions of the group positively. Of course, 
the postings by assorted individuals on SCI haven't managed to distort 
such perceptions much, though not for lack of trying. Other experiences
have spanned the spectrum, as usual.

[Having completely lost track of what the subject was I will end with
reference to something I read on SCI a long time ago - it may have 
been a movie review or a description]

The protagonist was quite a simple individual - with his (male, of 
course) simple-minded perspective on life clouded by the moral vanes 
of his society (Indian, I think.) Displaced in an alien society, he is 
forced to confront the "flaws" of his "home" culture. (Quotes are
used advisedly, not to deny the truth or falsity of either term.) I
am not sure about much of the rest of the movie, maybe one of those
old SCI-hands can elaborate.

The point is made quite simply. However, how it gets across is not
quite so straight or simple. Communications in SCI by kindred souls
are treated kindly, others not so kindly. I guess, similar exchanges
take place in other venues.

Sthan.
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