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From: kavuri@lips.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri )
Subject: NEED HELP ON H1 PROBLEM  :  URGENT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 17:20:43 GMT


     URGENT NEED OF ADVISE ON A H1 VISA PROBLEM
     ------------------------------------------

   Hi,

     One of my friends has been working as a post-doc for the last 3 years.
   He wanted to change his visa status from J1 to H1 before the 3 year limit 
   on his J-visa expired. He got the 'No Obligation Certificates' from
   USIA(U.S. Information Agency) and INS. At that time he wanted to 
  change his visa status from J1 to H1. He was told by his Foreign Students 
  Office(FSO) that the  process for H1 had become *lengthy* according to the 
  new regulations and also INS had put a temporary *freeze* on accepting new 
  H1 petitions. Because of the possible delay, he was suggested by his FSO 
  to apply for J-extension, before the expiry of his I-94, for an additional 
  6 months.  
  
       In the meantime his FSO was doing the required paper work(advertising 
  the job, labor attestation etc.) for the H1 petition and the papers are now
  ready to go to the INS.

THE PROBLEM
----------
  The problem now is USIA is not willing to give him extension of his J-visa 
  as they have already issued the waivers for the 2 year home residency.
  
  Without J-extension, he will be out of status and INS will not give him 
  H1 status. He is now asked to apply for the H1 status/visa from outside U.S.

Questions
--------- 

  My questions to visa gurus are:

  o Is it possible to adjust the status within the U.S.?

  o If his H1 petition is approved by INS, how risky is collecting the H1 
    status in India or in a third country?        

  o He plans to go to the consulate in Bombay. What are the chances of getting
    a visa there? Does the consulate consider the fact that he is on a 
    continuing program  and issue him a visa?
    What kind of letters/documents he should take with him? 

 o  Are there any other alternatives/consulates he should try?

    He wants to leave/take his personal stuff based on the probability of
    getting  a H1 visa in Bombay. I would appreciate any suggestions from 
    the netters.



    Surya Kavuri


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.american
From: sgs1679@usl.edu (Sudhindranath Sira G)
Subject: Re: Arranged Marriages
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:11:28 GMT


It is disturbing to find that quite a few of the netters who 
have supported the arranged marriage system, make the following 
ASSUMPTIONS about those who oppose the system:

  1. They are eager to get "westernized".
  2. They think that everything is fine with the West and
     everything is wrong with India.
  3. They are ungrateful to their motherland and contemptuous about 
     its culture.
  4. They are rebels who react without thinking.
  5. They are selfish, and disrespectful to their parents and 
     their families.
  6. They advocate homosexuality, AIDS etc.

WHY? OH, WHY?

Sira Gopinath Sudhindranath.
(sudhi@usl.edu)
From: tss20391@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rajesh Suryanarayanan)
Subject: Re: Telnet to TIFR
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:29:13 GMT

srinivas@csa3.lbl.gov (SRINIVAS KRISHNAGOPAL) writes:

> Does anyone know if its possible to TELNET to computers at TIFR? It works for
>NCST (shakti.ernet.in) but the address "tifrvax.ernet.in" is unrecognised, at
>least by the local server. If someone had suceeded in logging on to TIFRVAX,
>could you please email me the IP number.

>-- Srinivas Krishnagopal.

The reason you may not be able to connect to the TIFR machine is (probably)
because the machine is not on Internet. The network at the TIFR end could be
an internet, meaning it is a network consisting of different machines, i.e.
they are physically connected but don't have internet node addresses assigned,
simply because it can't be done. If the machine you are talking about, shakti
is maintained properly, i.e., if it is a good name-server, you might try :      

	nslookup -h <hostname> <machine_for_which_IP_number_needed>

(if the TIFR machine is really on Internet ...)
(if you have nslookup installed ... ; Look at man pages for more info ...)

and then try :
			telnet raw_IP_number 

I hadn't read your complete note before, but here's a comment about your
statement about the local server. Your local name server probably has a 
copy of entries in a "real name-server" like sri-nic.arpa (I think !)
and I know for a fact that sri-nic knows only about shakti and sangam. If
you don't have nslookup installed on your machine, then your best bet is
to write postmaster@tifr.ernet.in (if that is allowed) to get the raw
ip number for the machine, if the machine you are speaking about is, indeed,
a Internet node and then "telnet <raw_ip>"

I hope this helps you ...


Good Luck
Rajesh Subrahmanyan
URH 166 Daniels Hall
1010 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone (217)-332-2425
From: shubu@cs.utexas.edu (Shubhendu Sekhar Mukherjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Sajda (Jagjit-Lata)'s Lyrics
Date: 10 Apr 1992 16:34:35 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: estoril.cs.utexas.edu
Keywords: sajda jagjit lata lyrics

Could someone send me the lyrics of Jagjit Singh and Lata Mangeshkar's 
latest album - Sajda?

-Shubu
-- 
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Shubhendu Sekhar Mukherjee         University of Texas @ Austin, C.Sc.
e-mail:shubu@cs.utexas.edu     [W]:(512) 471-9586   [H]:(512) 467-2653
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From: rajesht@bonzo
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Test Please ignore !!
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:11:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM, Austin



TEST ....


TEST ....
From: gt6060a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rangaswamy Rajamanickam)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: soc.culture.tamil
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:33:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: hydra.54827
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

A few readers have suggested that topics which are of interest to
Tamils are enjoyed by many others in sci too. Others have 
claimed that they are more interested in articles pertaining
to tamil culture, literature etc and have trouble wading through
sci to find them.

If that were a major source of difference, a solution exists.
One can simply post on sct and cross-post to sci for a larger
audience.

I would support the formation of soc.culture.tamil if I am 
convinced during the future discussions that the motive of
the majority of supporters was to discuss the tamil culture
uncluttered by other topics. If I feel that it would
degenerate into a 'us .vs. them' group, I would not support it.
However, if I am not convinced in either direction, I would
give the benefit of doubt to the supporters of formation and
vote 'yes'. I think this will be the only fair thing to do.

-- 
RAJAMANICKAM,RANGASWAMY
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt6060a
Internet: gt6060a@prism.gatech.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ram@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Ram Devanathan)
Subject: Re: More on TN chief
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 18:14:08 GMT

In article <0drMGPW00VopQ=E1FM@andrew.cmu.edu> rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh) writes:
> TN chief Jeyalalitha isn't just getting under LTTE's skin...
>....   Her tactics are going to
>push the ones in Tamil Nadu, who are discontent with her, to radicalism.
>In brief, her strong anti-LTTE  and Tamil refugees stand makes her more
>anti Tamil than any Sinhala politician.  
>any move to crush LTTE tantamounts to trampling on Tamils' inalianable
>rights to set their own future.  That is,
>a war against LTTE is a war against the Tamils of Sri Lanka.
>-------Suresh   ----------
>Someone who believes in the Tamils' right to decide their own future on
>their soil.  
       Let the Sri Lankan Tamils decide their fate on their OWN soil. 
They created their own problems when some of them started shooting
civilians, looting weddings and assassinating political leaders in the
land that had given them refuge. It is heartening to note that
Jayalalitha is taking a tough stand against the LTTE. Crushing the
LTTE is a welcome step that will improve the quality of life for the
Indian Tamils. The SriLankan Tamils cannot claim TamilNadu as their soil.
They are refugees and they better realise that before running amuck
with guns and ammo.
From: gupta@hougen.seas.ucla.edu (Ashish Gupta)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Tale of two yogi
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:33:04 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles

In article <1992Apr11.142508.48864@ccvax.ucd.ie> bharat@ccvax.ucd.ie writes:

>i read the article/report regarding the meeting with maharshi mahesh yogi.

[and went on to write an article on him, that this follow up doesn't include
even partially]

>... He owns a
>big palace, and a ship in switzerland. Regarding his ...
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Just the first and most useful thing to own when you are in Switzerland!

>That's true that his thinking is not 'very deep'. ...
                                       ^^^^^^^^^
In deep waters, surely!

>- Bharat
>		*(One who is the fittest, is the one who survives)*

--
Ashish.

I know one time when procrastination is useful... the brink of war.
From: sunder@altair.crhc.uiuc.edu (Srinivas Sunder)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Hung Parliament in the Mother Country : -)
Date: 10 Apr 1992 01:47:56 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: altair.crhc.uiuc.edu

In article <1992Apr9.235430.19819@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, aksimha@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Arun Simha) writes:
|> 
|>    I'm not sure if this is relevent in SCI, but I'm going ahead anyway :-)
|>    Heard it on the BBC that a hung parliament is likely in Britain, judging
|>    from exit polls. It is highly unclear and rather debatable, that Labour/
|>    Conservative will win the highest number of seats. (6.00p.m CST news)
|>    Labour seems to be committed to an increase in taxes mainly to improve
|>    the oft-beaten health care system, whereas the Tories have promised to
|>    reduce taxes (HA!). PM John Major blamed the global financial crisis as
|>    the cause for the ravaged economy.
|>     An Aside :- The Beeb reporter said that the "Afro-Carribean" candidate
|>                 in Cheltenham lost. Voila. Political correctness in Britain,
|>                 too? (All- Right!!!!!!)
|> 
|> Arun Simha

I'm quoting Bala@ATT here.

I was told that the Tories are projected (by the Beeb) to take it by a
3-seat majority, which means we have the Tories around for another 5 years.
Also, the Afro-Caribbean Candidate in Cheltenham was a Conservative, in a
normally safe Conservative constituency, but lost to the LDP anyway. Reason?
A lot of Tories crossed party lines to vote LDP, despite the fact that the
LDP candidate never raised the race-issue. Furthermore, when the candidate
was selected last month, a lot of the openly racist "conservatives" resigned
from the Party. Just goes to show you that racism is alive and well in the
British Empire (or what's left of it).

-srinivas
From: aakhtar@vax.clarku.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: RE: Citizenship Exam Questions [Cheat Sheet]
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:30:10 GMT
Organization: Clark University

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: st13d@Elroy.UH.EDU (Ashish Parikh)
Subject: Lost Passport
Reply-To: st13d@Elroy.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:49:19 GMT


A friend of mine has lost her passport.
What are the procedures to obtain a duplicate one?
If you know anything about these, please email me.
Internet: st13d@jetson.uh.edu

Thanks, 

Ashish.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tuesday, 14 Apr 1992 17:04:15 MST
From: <ASRIN@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.college.grad,soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: university of illinois at chicago students - respond

hI there

I am planning to come to uic this summer to do my m.s in elec. engg. and comp.
sc. I wanted some of you guys in uic to inform me about the conditions there.
I would certainly appreciate if you could contact me.

raju
From: pvr@rice.edu (Narasimha Pvr)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: The Hindu Population in USA
Date: 7 Apr 1992 03:20:23 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

In article <1992Apr7.070841.21703@wpi.WPI.EDU>, ankur@wpi.WPI.EDU (Ankur Bhikhu Patel) writes:

> >In article <1992Apr3.083602.31214@wpi.WPI.EDU> ankur@wpi.WPI.EDU (Ankur Bhikhu Patel) writes:

> >>Donno about the whole Hindu population, but according to a newsletter of
> >>the Organization of North American Gujarati Associations (1990), the 
> >>population of Gujaratis in the states that have structured Gujju communities
> >>was estimated at 120,000 + .  I think that this figure only considered GC

> >>So, I think it's a safe bet that the total Hindu population in US would be
> >>atleast 250,000 + (assuming there is 1 non-Gujju Hindu per 1 Gujju) in 1990.


I am reproducing an article from soc.culture.indian.american (by
alok.vijayavargia) which answers the question to some extent.

-----------------(Start)

Article: 538 of soc.culture.indian.american

In article <1992Jan25.214734.13811@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, agg6661@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (
Anita  Govindjee) writes:
> Does anyone know where the largest communities of Indians (from India)
> are in the US?  how big are the communities?  how active?  my impressions

> - Anita



Indian-American community has a total strength of 1 million approximately.
Largest concentration is in the Tri-State (NY, NJ, CT) area. NY city
itself has about 100,000, NJ state has about the same number (100K),
CT has about 50000. Chicago area has another major concentration exceeding
100K. Houston has over 50000. California has over 250000 in various parts.
Southeast has another 100000 with about 30000 in Atlanta, 30000 in Florida
and rest scattered around in Southeast.

This totals around 750,000. Rest are scattered in Midwest, Pennsylvania,
Colorado and other areas.

- Alok

P.S. - All numbers are approximate.
(Source: various articles in Indian-American newspapers)

-----------------(End)

--------
PVR Narasimha Rao
Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:14244 soc.culture.bangladesh:2378 soc.culture.pakistan:6402
From: misra@festus.ksu.ksu.edu (Boo!)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: Piddlers on the Roof
Date: 13 Apr 1992 14:42:51 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: festus.ksu.ksu.edu

In article <Ydu8WGC00VB=58yltY@andrew.cmu.edu> "Arun K. Gupta" <ag3l+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
>
>As far as the writers in the "Muslim Situation in India"
>cleverly targetting their audience -- I came across the
>book in an obscure corner of the library only because I
>was in an argument (with a Pakistani) and seeking data
>to justify my claim that there are substantial numbers
>of Muslims in the Indian Armed Forces. [incidentally

	Did you ask him how many hindus there are in the 
Pakistani armed forces? But i guess it doesnt matter
since it is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Humm..


>I'm also very aware of just how many Hindus I'm annoying
>by posting these articles. And frankly, I don't give a
>damn !

	Oh.. i see.. just because someone posts a counter to the 
articles, suddenly they are annoyed. Humm.. No, i dont think so./

>
>-arun gupta
>ag3L@andrew.cmu.edu
From: sgs1679@usl.edu (Sudhindranath Sira G)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Daylight Savings Time ---- Any advantage ?
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:10:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: usl.1992Apr8.161001.8784
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana

I want to know whether there is any advantage in switching
from the Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time during
summer. Could any enlightened soul kindly explain ?

Thanks.

Sira Gopinath Sudhindranath.
(sudhi@usl.edu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: uds@parvathi.cs.wayne.edu (Seetamraju)
Subject: Re: VLSI DESIGN CONF. IN INDIA.
Organization: Wayne State University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:39:41 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.122226.7010@uoft02.utoledo.edu> grx1473@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
>INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VLSI DESIGN IN INDIA.
>
>BE TO SET UP SILICON WAFER UNIT
>B'LORE - Bharat Electronics is setting up a 5-inch wafer fabrication
>facility to manufacture state of the art integrated circuits in technical
>collaboration with SGS Thomson Microelectronics of Singapore.
>
>India is making significant advances in VLSI design and fabrication.
...
>
Indian Industries are NOT making any significant push towards VLSI engineering.
You have heard of Cadence, TI, and HP-India, but all these are S/W oriented
projects / collaborations ---  CAD design tools or layout.

I haven't heard of any manufacturing units, that indulge in frontier VLSI
technology.  Good ol' SemiC complex in Punjab was the best we ever got to be.

The fact that design engineers in India are {\em Designing/making layouts}
{\bf without any practical knowledge of actual fabrication process} is a 
good indicator of the fact that, not much significant DEVELOPMENT activity goes
on.  There is not much feedback (from the foundries) to the poor guys.
In fact, it wouldnt be surprising if the universities here are more in the
forefront than all the transplanted divisions in India.

Seetamraju, Uday Bhaskar Sarma
(email : seetam @ ss0 . eng . wayne . edu)
From: fca00@chennai.ccc.amdahl.com (A. Francis Chandran)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Sanskrit
Keywords: September, October
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:51:13 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Apr16.174105.12465@wam.umd.edu> ninad@next13epsl.wam.umd.edu (Ninad Krishna Jog) writes:
>
>The months September through December were the 7th-10th months of the 
>year, until some Roman Emperor added January and February.

     Actually July and August were added later (not Jan & Feb)
     July was named after Julius Caesar and August after 
     Augustus Caesar.

     And January was named after the Roman God Janus and
     is not from some Sanskrit word as some other netter had 
     previously mentioned. 


>
>Ninad
>--
>Curiousity kills the cat, so he'd better be a smart bunny and 
>flee before getting bitten by a Trojan horse.


                                                francis.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: manu@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Njan)
Subject: Re: Mistreatment of Indians by Northwest Airlines -- Reply from Northwest
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 06:41:42 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.173305.606@odin.corp.sgi.com> murgesh@sgi.com (Murgesh Navar) writes:
>
>	What !!. Is this some kind of collective responsibility deal ?. I am
>responsible for just myself and not other Indians, Asians or whatever. If I
>was a half-intelligent 	manager at Northwest I would first of all seperate
>out the Indian passport holders who would have a proclivity to indulge in the
>destruction of documents from those that don't. I for example have no motivation,

And may I ask how one go about doing that? Anyway, it's nice to know there
is ONE indian in this country who ( probably has a gc ) has no intentions
of throwing away his passport.

Njan
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: prasad@seas.smu.edu (Nageswara G. Prasad)
Subject: Re: CITY OF JOY ( Movie with Indian Actors )
Keywords: Movie, indian
Organization: SMU School Of Engineering and Applied Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:44:35 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.83613.20991@ms.uky.edu> naveen@ms.uky.edu (Naveen Goud) writes:
>Hi Guys,
>
>Yesterday I saw the commercial of the movie , CITY OF JOY on the FOX television
>network. I think it is supposed to release soon probably next week or so.
>
>The reason I am interested in is there are some indian actors in it.
>The main character is Patrick Swayze, and among the Indian actors I saw (in the
>commercial) Ms. Shabana Azmi, Mr. Amrish Puri. I think this film may have been
>shot in India or in indian sub-continent. 
>
>If any of you guys have known anything about this movie please post it on the 
>net for me and others who may want to know about it.
>
>Thanks ,
>
>- Naveen
>
>Naveen Goud         --- naveen@ms.uky.edu, naveen@ukma.BITNET 
>Dept. of Computer Science , University of Kentucky , Lexington, KY 40506 
          There have already been excellent reviews on the net about this
movie. This film was shown yesterday in our school as a "sneak preview"
and most of the grad desis have seen it. 
           It was a joy to see the movie. Though some may feel that it
gives a wrong side of the life in India and feel embarrased to associate
with it(as I have heard some guys saying). I feel it is an excellent 
potrayal of the life in the cities in India (and especially Calcutta).
The life in the poor localities of the city is depicted stunningly
original. The clarity of the film seems glaringly real. Patrick Swauze,
Amrish Puri and Shabana have done an excellent job to say the very least.
           I don't understand why the Government tried to stop(or hinder)
the shooting of the film. The novel was a hit long before. Didn't they
read it before deciding. Anyway I didn't find anything objectionable in
the film.
         I would definitely say that the film is (doubly)worth a see.

-Prasad
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian