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From: Janakiraman.Gopalan@HO09.ENG.UA.EDU
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Looking for : G. Balakrishnan
Date: 11 Apr 92 19:44:23 GMT
Reply-To: jgopalan@buster.eng.ua.edu


Hi!
	I am looking for G.Balakrishnan who passed out in 1986
from VJTI Bombay. He did his schooling in Vani Vidyalaya, Mulund,
Bombay. 
	Please E-mail to jgopalan@buster.eng.ua.edu

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Organization: Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.bangladesh
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 12:02:58 -0400 
From: "Arun K. Gupta" <ag3l+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Forgeries of Hindu Texts


As mentioned, Benjamin Walker's `Hindu World' is an encylopedic
work. Here are some more excerpts:

(from the article on the Rig Veda and its oral transmission):

Twenty one recensions of the Rig Veda, representing the rituals
of different schools and even different families are known to
tradition. The Charana-vyuha (exposition of schools) a supplementary
work of the sutra period, mentions five sakhas, or branches of
the Rig Veda, representing the chief five schools based on the
different recensions. These were (i) the Sakala, the only recension
that has been preserved (2) Vashkala which incorporated
some additional hymns named after a non-Aryan teacher
(3) Asvalayana, which recognized as canonical the group
of eleven Valakhilya hymns (4) Sankhayana which also
recognized the Valakhilya but not all the eleven hymns,
and (5) Mandukeya, the recension recognized by this
school is not known.

Fragments of some of these recensions (e.g. Vashkala)
have been inserted into the present mandalas, but all
the remainder are lost or forgotten...
From the article on `sakhas': (branch of Vedic learning)

Numerous schools of Vedic study existed in the ancient past
before the present compilations of the texts came to be
regarded as fixed, and as numerous were the variant readings
promulgated by them. These schools were called sakhas, each
school being founded on a particular version of the Vedic
text or on varying recensions of the identical text as taught
by different teachers, or handed down by a particular family,
or used in a particular locality....But the greater part of
these is lost and an number of recensions of the samhitas
are only known by the names of the sages or families with
whom they were associated....

At a certain stage the need was felt for reconciling the traditions
and collating the conflicting opinions and this task was undertaken
by various scholars and schools.Even in the final samhitas (collections)
as they have come down to us we find overlapping and contradictory
viewpoints with regard to text, pronunciation and accent.Masses of
material have been effaced and much that remains is redundant, tendentious
and amorphous....

The oldest treatises on the grammar and phonetics pertaining to the
various sakhas of the Vedas are known as pratisakhya...have helped
considerably to preserve the Vedas from greater mutilation
and corruption. There are four such treatises extant...


-arun gupta
ag3L@andrew.cmu.edu
Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:14213 soc.culture.pakistan:6393
From: sachdev@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (gundeep sachdev)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Share some experiences ........
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:19:15 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Purdue University

Dearest guys and dolls,

To help some new people coming into the country in the next few years
I am compiling a list of some do's and dont's. Take some time to share 
your funny/dangerous/akward/etc  experiences.

List anything you feel a newcommer should know and send me copy.
Please do not fill the net with your replies. I will compile one single
list and post it on the net before every new semester starts. If the
list proves to be useful we can make it available on some ftp site.



Few examples :

I once walked into my college's business office and asked for a
rubber. What I wanted was an eraser. They thought I came to shop for
a Condom. You can picture the rest from here.

I once called someone  and he asked me to call him back. So after a few
minutes I did call back. This is how the conversation went - 
. "Hi, I just rang you up and you asked me to ring back after some time"
.. "You did what"
. "I just rung you up and you asked me to ring back after some time"
.. "You did what"
. "I just rung you up and you asked me to ring back after some time"
.. "You did what"
 >> Get it. You Ring up a Sale and Call a person. In USA you DON'T
 Ring up a person.

So, take some time out and share some stuff like this with us. More
latter ....................


-- 
Gundeep Sachdev
Department of Computer Sciences
Purdue University.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gchacko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (George W Chacko)
Subject: Re: soc.culture.tamil
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 16:03:34 GMT

In article <1992Apr17.153503.19573@ncsa.uiuc.edu> vijay@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Vijay Rangarajan) writes:
>In article <92107.215156U15297@uicvm.uic.edu> Shyamala Parameswaran <U15297@uicvm.uic.edu> 

>writes in 60 lines what can be compressed in one line as:
>"If Mrs. Gandhi says no, no it will be" :-)
>
>No email is solicited, I am going to forward any email I get to George :-)
>(sorry G, you know I'm kidding).

Any e-mail from you gets forwarded to Ram.Lakhan@crhl.bsl.ohio-state.edu 
who has instructions to post it on  :-)

George


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: udcrusd@meaddata.com (Sylvia D'Cruz)
Subject: News: Indian iron project planned
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 14:45:01 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.indian

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

                 Copyright 1992 The Financial Times Limited;
                                Financial Times

                            April  2, 1992, Thursday

Indian iron project planned

By GITA PIRAMAL

BOMBAY

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    MUKAND, the Bombay-based subsidiary of Bajaj -  India's  fourth largest
group - is ready to set up a sponge iron plant in Maharashtra state in a joint
venture with Bharat Forge, part of the Pune-based Kalyani iron and steel group.

    The companies are engaged in talks aimed at reaching an agreement on
building a Rs6.5bn (Dollars 225.6m) plant producing 800,000 tonnes of hot
briquetted iron a year.

    Mukand already operates the largest electric arc furnace in  India,  while
Bharat Forge has the largest forge in the country's private sector.

    The groups are among the largest buyers of sponge iron and scrap in  India.
Once the new plant comes on stream, at least 70 per cent of its capacity will
service the raw material needs of the companies.

    The new facility is expected to be a setback for the growth plans of Essar
Gujarat, the Ruia group company which was hoping to supply Mukand with at least
half the capacity of its huge new sponge iron plant at Hazira.

    The joint venture also puts a question mark over other plans by the
companies. Earlier, both Mukand and Bharat Forge announced ambitious plans to
build large integrated steel plants. These may well now be shelved.

    Meanwhile, Indian government studies anticipate a six-fold rise in sponge
iron production over the next three years.
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Bldg. VI, 9595 Springboro Pike                          udcrusd@meaddata.com
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Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:13672 alt.config:2829 soc.culture.indian.american:1700
From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,alt.config,soc.culture.indian.american
Subject: RFD: alt.personals.india
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:39:14 GMT
Followup-To: alt.config
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe

Followups set to alt.config.

[I wish to caution you that I have adapted this RFD from a similar one
which was drafted for a mainstream Usenet group. Sorry for any errors
arising from that.]

NAMES:  

  alt.personals.india

STATUS:  

  Unmoderated 

CHARTERS :  

   alt.personals.india is an unmoderated group to be created for the 
   discussion, promotion and exchange of ideas on all aspects of Indian
   way of finding partners. Since this is spoiling the discussions and
   creating quite a flame fest a.p.i is the best place for it. And
   since this proposal is unlikely to cross all hurdles successfully for
   being created under the mainstream Usenet hierarchies, alt would be
   an ideal place for it.

   Appropriate topics for alt.personal.india will include:

   * Posting of requests for new partners (the indian way)
   * Flames of arranged marriages vs love marriages if desired.
   * Any other things which may be deemed personal by folks on
     soc.culture.indian.
   * You want it...We got it...

NOTES:

  The discussion period is likely to continue for a week or at the
  most 2 weeks on alt.config or soc.culture.indian as appropriate. Or
  if you would like - soc.culture.indian.american :-)

  This is a SERIOUS proposal (not the puke.puke.puke stuff). 

Sridhar.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: vijay@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Vijay Rangarajan)
Subject: Re: From an Indian Independent Woman
Originator: vijay@newton.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 18:52:32 GMT

In article <ibcgca.703533331@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> ibcgca@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Gloria Aichel) writes:

 (psycho-babble deleted)

>:write
>:quit
>:write
>?write
>?quit
>
>B
>e

Master esoteric minds we will, but we can never get the hang of this 
damn editor, eh ? :-)

Vijay.
From: ratan@ring8.rutgers.edu (Santosh Ratan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Indians Protest Libyan sanctions
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:58:59 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <92107.100740TAZ@psuvm.psu.edu>, TAZ@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> This morning's newspaper had a picture of people burning G. Bush's effigy
> in front of Jama Masjid in New Delhi to protest the sanctions against Libya.
> They were carrying signs of 'Down with US, UK and France'. I wonder if this is
> why India rather abstained from the vote in the security council.


Why are pjeople mad at Bush, or UK, or France? 
Wasn't it decided by the UNO? If a nation (e.g., India) is a member of such
organization then that nation is equally responsible for whatever
decision is made by the organization. Why are people so ignorant?
From: fotedar@gothamcity.uucp (Sunil Fotedar [MDSSC])
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Devanagri font on Mac
Date: 10 Apr 1992 21:49:27 GMT
Organization: Software Technology Branch - NASA/Johnson Space Center

Hi netters,
The other day I got Devnagri font for Mac as per instructions on the net from
Univ of Mich site using anonymous ftp. I decoded the file "indianfonts.sit.hqx"
to "indianfonts.sit" successfully using stuffit program on the Mac. The version
of the stuffit program I have on the Mac would not unstuff the file to
"indianfonts". That's where I run into problems. If anyone has a working
copy of the file, ready to be loaded into the system using font/DA mover 
application, please let me know at the following address:
fotedar@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov
I will send you my mailing address to the person who responds. I will
re-imburse the person for the disk and the postage. Thanks to the
person who is that kind to go through this trouble.
Sincerely,
Sunil (Most Desperate) Fotedar
.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
From: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam Ghosh)
Subject: Kashmir--India's Vietnam
Reply-To: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 00:53:04 GMT

Any body who is interested in a neural rendering of the partition (i.e. free
from all the big conspiracy theories) will find this book invaluable. The
following is a personal comment made by Hudson and should not be taken to
judge the brilliant objectivity he uses to render the actual events. I am
quoting this as I tend to agree with him on the observation.

From The Great Divide: Britain-India-Pakistan by H.V.Hudson (1985)
There is in some ways a strange likeness between Kashmir and Vietnam, with
India playing in one place the role of the United States in the other. The
differences of course, are obvious. Kashmir is on India's most vulnerable
frontier, Vietnam is an ocean's breadth from America. The Kashmiris are racially
Indians, in the sense in which the term wasused before the division into India
and Pakistan. No global ideology, whether of communism or anticommunism, is
involved in the Kashmir conflict. The status India claimed was that of a 
sovereign not an ally. And there are other manifest contrasts. Nevertheless,
certain parallels are remarkable:the rightous and lawful response to an appeal
for help; the pressure for escalation, as the initial military objectives are
not securely achieved; the constant harassing of rear areas and occupied
territory by guerillas, both local and invading; the state of actual undeclared
war, with a third party also intervening in what it considers a just and 
democratic cause; the deadlock and stagnation and the drain not only of life
and resources but also of international reputation and political 
self-confidence; the intense commitment of a national public to a patriotic 
purpose; the disillusionment with a more sceptical world opinion; the appeal
to a domino theory--"if we give way here, we shall be next defeated there, and
there, so we must stand to the last"; the equal intransigence on the other side;
the ever more meaningless promise of 'free elections' or a 'plebiscite' only
when the incursor withdraws; the importance of outside powers and international
organs. Historians may compare the two episodes and give thanks that in fact 
India was not a United States nor Pakistan a China.

My comments:
In course of the last seven years this analysis seems even more meaningful and
India's continuing attempts to achieve a military solution fruitless. The battle
with communism was not won in the fields of Vietnam. So I think it's time for
even those who consider defending Kashmir as victory over Pakistan idea to
back off. Somebody commented on Indians having the ability to carry two
conflicting ideas in the head. I doubt how many who support the present Kashmir
policy supports US role in Vietnam.
Arindam

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: va1@cec1.wustl.edu (Vikas Awasthi)
Subject: Re: Kiskisko dundiye, kiskisko royea ...
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 21:29:38 GMT

The line that follows ( according to my version )

aaram badi cheez hai, muh dhak ke soyea.

Any more versions ?

Vikas


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rr2@cec1.wustl.edu (Rajamiyer Ravichandran)
Subject: Re: Novelist Sujatha ( Ganesh & Vasanth Dialogue)
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:21:10 GMT

Srinivsan Anand asked for Ganesh : Vasanth dialogue. Here is one I remember 
from his novel "kolaiudhir kaalam".

Ganesh and Vasanth visit a chinese restaurant during the course

of an investigation. While Ganesh is seriously thinking about the case,
Vasanth looks around the chinese waitresses and comments like this.

"Boss, I was told, for these chinese girls "it" is horizontal. Is that
truse ?. "

Ganesh doesn't ask what does that "it" refers to. Instead, he talks
about the case in hand.


ravI
From: pankaj@bass.bu.edu (Pankaj Tyagi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Info regarding visitors visa to F1
Date: 7 Apr 92 09:20:55 GMT
Reply-To: pankaj@bass.bu.edu (Pankaj Tyagi)
Followup-To: soc.culture.indian
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boston University

Hi all,
	I am posting this query for a friend of mine. Net.Visa.gurus
please help !!!

	A friend of mine has come to US on July 1991. Since then he
has been studying at a bay area school in the 12th std. He is
graduating in may. He applied and got an extension on his visitors
visa last Dec for 6 months and now his visa expires by July 1992.

	He has already got admission from a couple of 2 year colleges
in the bay are and he will recieve I20 from them.

***	The question is, how can he convert his visa status to the
required visa? Does he have to convert to 

	1] F1
	2] J1

	Or what ever.

***	Second question is: does he have to leave the country to get
his visa. Can he get it from US or he has to go back to India.


*** 	Third Question: Is it important that to have an admission in
a four year program or will a two year program suffice.


	Your help is much appreciated.

Pankaj
pankaj@pub2.bu.edu
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From: mk0e@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MAHEENDRA BABURAO KASMALKAR)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Response to INDIAN MEN and MARRIAGE
Date: 11 Apr 92 11:01:16 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


>I appreciate the candid response from a few of you.
>Am glad that atleast a few were HONEST enough to
>agree with what I said. In this context, and in response

Come on , only those who agree with you are HONEST ?


>attitude  of men. In a few words, arranged marriages
>are just more like BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS rather than
>the sensitive and beautiful relationship a marriage
>is supposed to signify. Most people prefer following this
>due to being conventional (and repeat !) not daring
>enough to try something new.
>

I won't go for a love marriage just to try "something new" . Marriage is not
some new flavor at Friendly's . I will go for love marriage if I find someone
suitable for me myself. If , after persistant attempts , no damsel gives a
damn to me , I will have to go for an arranged marriage .


>ESCAPIST LETHARGIC attitude to this issue. So what's the
>difference in buying a car and getting a wife (another
>commodity which comes with BONUS !!).
>

Do you really believe that there is no love whatsoever between a couple
married through arranged marriage ? The difference between buying a car and
getting a wife is that when you buy a car , the car does not have a choice to
accept /reject you . But in a marriage , the girl has a choice, too . I know
this is a very idealistic statement . In the circumtances in India today ,
when a father is so eager to get his daughter married off , the opinions of
the girl are usually neglected. But this is a fault of the male dominated
society that we have , not of the arranged marriage system . May be my
opinions are influenced by the liberal atmosphere I was brought up in , but I
think that in an arranged marriage , too , both the girl and the boy have a
chance to choose . I know many ( actually not many , but definitely some )
girls who have rejected dozens of guys each !

A valid objection against arranged marriage is that there is no way to know a
person ( with whom you are supposed to live the rest of your life ) well in a
meeting that lasts at the most for an hour. This is the reason why I don't like
the concept of an arranged marriage . Not because it's not "something new " or
because it's the done thing .


>
>                                       -New User (newuser@cc.gatech.edu)
>

Kassu
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 03:47:54 -0400 
From: Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh <rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: News Flash!

An important announcement:

A new news group been formed at the urge of millions:
netnews.alt.ltte.gun-culture as of Saturday midnight.

And I've been summarily executed (oops!) ..I mean selected to moderate
this to-be-energetic news group. I swear by word of Allah, to do my best to 
to get the ball moving in this group. 

A mountain of work is to be done.
I need all your cooperatiuon....NO death threats allowed against anyone!
But, you can criticize, defame, issue non-fatal threats and make or do
anything as permitted by me.  All JVP, BJP members and Sena's followers
welcome to this new outlet as long as they take an oath of pro-Tamil
allegiance. Being opposed to the 'Islamic Bomb,' I cannot allow any
Islamic Jihad members to infiltrate. PLO and IRA most welcome. P.L.O has
been given an honorary seat at the Presidiem of moderators at the urge
of Hon. Presdident Premadasa.  Anoymous users welcome too.

Thanks for the help.
Rajith
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.american
From: golconda@rtsg.mot.com (John R. Golconda)
Subject: Re: NEED MOTOROLA 680XX Microproc. REFRENCE CARD........................
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 21:49:55 GMT

In article <1992Apr3.155617.20499@njitgw.njit.edu> njl5453@hertz.njit.edu (  Nitin J. Lad  EE) writes:
>
>Hello....
>
>Does anyone know where I can get referenc cards
>for following Motorola uPs in New Jersey or New York City area:
>
>	MC 68000
>	MC 68020
>	MC 68030
>	MC 68040
>


	Try writing to 

		Motorola Literature Distribution
		P.O.Box 20192
		Phoenix, AZ 85036

== John G.