HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dcruz@andy.bgsu.edu (Don't Explain!)
Subject: Re: FBI-seized cars ---- worth buying ?
Keywords: Sale, Used cars, FBI, US.
Organization: Bowling Green State Univ.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:11:30 GMT

<1992Oct5.014615.21375@usl.edu> sgs@ucs.usl.edu (Sudhindranath SG) writes:
>In this context, I would like to know the answers to the 
>following questions :

>2. Is there any other kind of difficulty (apart from 
>   the usual maintenance problems) in buying such cars ? (like
>   being charged for some old traffic violations etc. ?).

well just make sure the persons from whom the FBI seized these cars were
killed or in for life ... it would be a nasty situation if a big Mother
F**ker drug dealer showed up at your house one day demanding he get his car
car back ...

>3. Is it worth considering such deals at all ? What are 
>   the reasons (if any) for and against going in for
>   such deals ?

see answer to number 2 above ...
-- 
Conrad D'Cruz (dcruz@bgsu.edu)   | Q: Why are there Blonde jokes?
Student Systems Programmer       | A: So that Brunettes and Red-heads have
Bowling Green State University   |    something to do on weekends!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: godbole@milano.berkeley.edu (Dattaprabodh Godbole)
Subject: Re: NRIs returning -- Can Foreign currency be kept Liquid?
Keywords: Indian Tax Laws, Changes?
Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 00:09:21 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.232433.26004@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c150-bt@po.berkeley.edu (Manish Vij) writes:
>In article <Sep.28.15.11.15.1992.14217@gauss.rutgers.edu> manmetha@gauss.rutgers.edu (Rajesh Malhotra) writes:
>>
>>Fellow Netters,
>>
>>	I have a question about returning NRIs. When one returns to India,
>>the NRI has to declare all the foreign currency and assets overseas, and
>>they have to be converted to Indian currency, correct?
>
>
>My goodness, an Indian immigrant returning to India?  I thought that everybody 
>"gets stuck" in the U.S.  :-)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^

My dear friend:

	I can show you as many examples as you want of NRI's returning back 
	to India and contributing to India's progress.

So please don't generalise the situation. You might be stuck here but thats
not the case with everyone.

>Stuck here,
>
>Manish

-Datta
I hope one day I can see my homeland being "Sare Jahan Se Accha" in a real
sense and I would like to actively contribute in that process.

Jai Bharat !
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil
From: studmffn@watnxt12.ucr.edu (Arvin Taneja)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Sikh/khalsa net
Date: 6 Oct 92 06:58:02 GMT



I was wondering if anybody has any information on how to join the Sikh or  
Khalsa net. Thanks.


Arvind Singh

(@studmffn.watserv.ucr.edu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: mmurali@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Murali Damodaran)
Subject: Re: Nobel Prize & IITs
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 05:26:10 GMT

Talking about facilities, according to the CONVEX supercomputer
Pte Ltd, IIT/K is the only place in the whole of South Asia
and South East Asia having the CONVEX Supercomputer and the
company has classified it as their greatest and best user in
terms of feedback , benchmark testing etc etc..

Talking about facilities in Aero Engg (since that has been my
cup of tea), IIT/K is probably one of the few schools on the surface
of this whole world to have a flight laboratory complete with airplanes
and sailplanes.  She also has a trisonic (subsonic-transonic-supersonic)
wind-tunnel which was designed and built by the staff of IIT/K aero faculty
and many wind tunnels of different sizes and for different flow speed ranges.
And I dare say (from my experience in the US) that some of the American
Aero Schools pale in comparison with IIT/K as far as aero facilities are 
concerned.




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* Nanyang Technological University <> Bitnet  : mdamodaran@ntuvax           *
* Nanyang Avenue, SINGAPORE 2263   <> Phone : 65-799-5599  Fax: 65-791-1859 *
From: trivedi@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Hemang Trivedi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Looking for Gajendra Kamath
Date: 4 Oct 92 18:28:00 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5


Can someone please pass me his e-mail address?
It is urgently required. I think he is at univ of massachusetts
(not at Amherst, not at Lowell)
Thanks
please respond to:
jani@astro.ocis.temple.edu
From: U51935@uicvm.uic.edu (Sesha Talluri)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Sonia And Dual Citizenship (Was Re: Inclusion of child in the pare
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:58:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: uicvm.92274.155816U51935
 <19qv5sINN3ha@overload.lbl.gov> <1992Sep24.175325.23619@informix.com>
 <1992Sep29.232943.5591@usl.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

In article <1992Sep29.232943.5591@usl.edu>, sgs@ucs.usl.edu (Sudhindranath SG)
says:
>
>
>[deleted]
>
>Oh, that indeed is sssssscary... Do we have another Indira Gandhi

Boy are you a BIG S(pu)SSSSSSSYYYYYYYYYYYY      :)

>in the making ?
>
>It might appear to some of us that the Nehru Dynasty has done so much
>damage to our country that things possibly couldn't go worse than what
>they are now. But the Dynasty seems to be having other ideas...
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Man!!! Are you a fortune teller or what???
You seem to know what the book is all about, without reading it
(ofcourse you advice people not to read it, without reading it)
AND...Now you know of their plans.

>HELP !!
>
I hope someone does.....NOT!!!! :)

sesha
>
>-- Sudhi.
From: nmodi@klinzhai.rutgers.edu (Nirav Modi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Bhaiyo tatha baheno....
Keywords: Apni matru bhasha, kids
Date: 2 Oct 92 04:31:52 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

g9221069@cc.uow.edu.au (manik gupta) writes:

>c_lakhan@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (C Lakhani) writes:

>>Maro cchokro chaar varashno cche.  Humna to Angreji vadhare padtu bole 
>>cche.  Mare temne Gujarati sikhadwu cche.  


>Tamare Su kam Tene gujarati sikhdavavoun che.

>Ane Gujarati sikhene gujarti ni paristhiti bagadi mukshe.

>Aek bhasha avde to bahov thai gaun.

>Tamari bhol che ke tame america man cho.

>Gujarat avi jao.

>Gujarati, Surti Gujarati, Kathiyavadi, Kachchi, Amdavadi, Valsdi
>ane biji badhi gujarati boli sikhdavi de shun.

Amdavadi!!!. jo te sikhi jase to pachi biji koi bhasa sikhavani nahi
rahe. 
Avajo tyare.
-Nirav
From: chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Should the government subsidize IITs etc?
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:50:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: emoryu1.1056
Distribution: na
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

The faculty of all IITs were on strike(in 88 or 87)
and bycotted the conducting and correction of JEE exam.
They were demanding more salary(more than UGC scales).
Their claim was that they are puttinfg more efforts than
their counterparts in universities and hence they should
be paid more. That sounded an illogical arguement and I wrote
a letter in "Hindu", saying that in fact the university faculty
put more efforts with little resources. The IIT faculty lead
much better life(like safe and good in-campus housing, good
education for their children and many such things) than university
faculty. I wrote that their demand for more money(w.r.t. univ.
faculty) was not justifiable. Many of the faculty(including my
own supervisor) didn't like my letter and some of them even
looked me down.

I ask SCI readership as to whether its justified to give
more money to IIT faculty compared to their colleagues?
Lets discuss this.

---Sree
From: psahay@eve.wright.edu (Prashant Sahay)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: INDIAN CRICKET TEAM FOR SA/ZIMBABWE TOUR.
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:15:37 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Wright State University



Here is the Indian Cricket team for the SA and Zimbabwe tour:

1. M. Azaharuddin (Capt.)
2. Ravi Shastri
3. W. V. Raman
4. Ajajy Jadeja
5. S. Manj'kar
6. S. Tend'kar
7. Praveen Amre
8. Kiran More (WK)
9. Kapil Dev
10. Manoj Prab'kar
11. J. Srinath
12. S. Banerjee
13. Chetan Sharma
14. V. Raju
15. A. Kumble
16. Vijay Yadav


Good luck to M. Azaharuddin & company......


-Prashant N. Sahay
 Email: psahay@eve.wright.edu
 Dial: (513)426-4916
From: rajain@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Indian NFL 
Date: 5 Oct 92 09:24:26 GMT

In article <1992Oct4.212936.6473@news.clarkson.edu>, rajat@sunny3.che.clarkson.edu (Rajat Kapoor) writes:
> If anything, American Football was meant for Indians...
> 
> 
> A free for all... No matter who has the ball... get the other guy
> down...
> 
> Consider the trend in SCI postings...
> 
> Everybody is at each other's throats, some throttling, some wrestling
> some pounding..., howling, screaming ... 
> 
> Nobody cares for the ball ...,i.e. the topic, its the tackling, and 
> grinding the other guy's ego that is ever more important.
> 
> 
> " Punting ", "Touchdown", and other terms have their own implications.
> 
> Even the roles... Rough quarter-backs, who, the moment they pounce on
> the ball (topic), throw it out of the game, " Now ! Forget the Ball,
> lets get the other Guy...!!"
> 
> Same applies to the Indian Psyche back home...
> 

	One of the better posts I have seen on SCI for a long, loooooong
	time....I, of course, totally agree with you but then if the
	analogy described by you above is correct, then *who* in the 
	hell on SCI is gonna listen :-|~ There are <ahem!> "avenues"
	to "cover" for their posts......

	Speaking of the Indian Psyche back home, do you think it is mere 
	coincidence that just as the politicians in India are using religon 
	as a cover/excuse to perpetuate (sp?) the crime/violence for their
	own benefit,  here on SCI the "people" <the ones who are flamed for 
	their "annoying" posts> run for  "freedom of speech", "I-can-
	write-whatever-shit-I-want-to-hit-"n"-if-you-don't-like-it", "This-
	is-fucking-United-States-of-America-and-no-one-can-"suppress-my-
	freedom-of-expression" kind of excuses !!!! 
	(of course, for the sake of the "SCI gurus" I had better clarify
	that I am *just* comparing the "hide-behind-excuses" attitude
	between our politicians and *some* of the SCI postings) :) 

	Just my $0.02 <or should it be Rs 0.02 > worth :-)

> 
> 
> Rajat Kapoor
> 
> 
> 

  Rajat Jain :-)
From: dxn@juniper.WPI.EDU (Deepak Narain)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: SOME DOKI JOKES
Keywords: jokes
Date: 7 Oct 92 03:29:25 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, WPI
NNTP-Posting-Host: juniper.wpi.edu

From janand@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Jayaraman Anand):
>>P.S. I am just kidding. ;-)
>P.S. I am just kidding. ;-) Really.

What a coincidence!

P.S. I am just kidding ;-) Really. Really.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: krish@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Krishnendu Chakrabarty)
Subject: HSC at the University of Michigan
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 20:04:17 GMT


The activities of the Hindu Students Council, the national forum for Hindu
students, University of Michigan chapter, have restarted!!
 
On Wednesday, September 30, HSC had a session about Swami Vivekananda. The 
discussion centered on what his philosophy offers to people in America. Excerptswere read from the book "The Gift Unopened: A New American Revolution", a  
book about Swami Vivekananda by Eleanor Stark.
 
HSC at the University of Michigan will have weekly discussions on Hindu culture and heritage, including discussions on the Bhagavad Gita, basic teachings of
Hindu Dharma,and other topics relating to Hindu society.
 
For more information about HSC at the University of Michigan, contact:
Gaurav.Dave@um.cc.umich.edu
Sheetal Shah@um.cc.umich.edu
Siva.Hota@um.cc.umich.edu
Swarna.Manian@um.cc.umich.edu
krish@eecs.umich.edu
or phone 313-995-2765
 
For more information about the HSC chapter at your campus, and HSC activities  
in the US and Canada, email to Hindu.Students.Council@um.cc.umich.edu.

-- 

Krish
From: chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: SOME DOKI JOKES
Date: 6 Oct 92 20:48:59 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

lal@cs.arizona.edu (The New Sun) writes:
: What is worse then a Doki in the blender?
: A Doki on the net.
: 
: A. Lal

When I saw the heading, "SOME --- JOKES", I thought I would
be treated with lots of jokes. But, I got dejected by seeing
only one. Please treat me with more.

S.Nimmala

P.S. I am just kidding. ;-)
From: srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: A mail to balajiv@kyoto.fais.com, which bounces
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:24:34 GMT
Reply-To: srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca (K.Srinivasan)
Organization: IREQ, Hydro-Quebec, QC, Canada
Originator: srini@acr

I am forced to post this reply to balajiv@kyoto as the mail seems
to bounce always. Other netters please skip if it is not of your interest.
----------------------------------------------------------
To: balajiv@kyoto.fai.com
Subject: Me and my ilk feels sorry for your still being upset by sct.

>>The title says it all. Since the creation of s.c.t, I have not
>>seen any posting on the above pieces of humorous anecdotes.

>you've actully given the reason for ajay's absence. he got so  disgusted
>with the creation of sct that he decided to stay away from the net.
>maybe if you badly want him back, you and your ilk can initiate the
>dissolution of this group with just as much zest as you showed in its
>creation!!
> balajiv@kyoto

So sorry to hear that you are still so disgusted and not recovered from
the creation of another newsgroup in the internet. Or perhaps it is only
Tamil that upsets you. The others kannada, Malayalam and Telugu, which
also I like, are OK with you, I hope.

Unfortunately, I am not as good at destruction, as at creation.
Also, my 'ilk' of 800 voters, now even more readers, would be
more upset. So my 'ilk' will not initiate the dissolution of sctamil.

My next plan is to create a group for Sanskrit, with as much zest
that I showed in the creation of Tamil group. At present, there are more
postings on Sanskrit in s.c.tamil than in s.c.indian.

I hope you would help us ( and my Sanskrit interested 'ilk', 
not the Tamil interested 'ilk') by not sending your 'No' vote.

The enclosed mail might be of your interest.

Dr. K. Srinivasan  srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca
Sr.Engineer, Hydro Quebec, Quebec.
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From: gt6060a@prism.gatech.edu (Rangaswamy Rajamanickam)
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To: srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca
Subject: Re: What happened to Palyavantheeswaran and his gang?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,soc.culture.indian
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Status: RO

Mahadevan Ramesh is no longer at CMU. He has earned a degree and left
for some place in Midwest (remember Goodbye Pittsburg?)

aRanga
-- 
RAJAMANICKAM,RANGASWAMY
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: saro@evms.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Looking for Kailash Aggarwal, '77 Dalhousie Univ. Graduate
Reply-To: saro@evms.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:50:18 GMT


Kailash Aggarwal, '77 Dalhousie U MS graduate in Social Work,
your friend Rino Long would like to get back in touch with you.
Please contact him at (506) 473-2443 or write to him at
P.O. Box 337, Grand Falls, NB EOJ 1MO, Canada.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gs10@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Gurvinder Singh)
Subject: Re: CORNELL SINGH 
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Distribution: na 
Date: 27 Sep 92 20:03:55 GMT

I will be really happy to help him out here if you send me his address and
telephone number in Ithaca.



gs10

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: uds@parvathi.cs.wayne.edu (Seetamraju)
Subject: Re: Email address for IIFT, NEW DELHI
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 03:09:48 GMT

In article <1102@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala) writes:
>deepak@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (deepak chichili) writes:
>:  INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY,
>: NEW DELHI.
>
>This sounds unfamiliar to me. I heard of I.I.F.Trade, but not this.
>Can some one please send me the details of this Institute

IIFT must stand for Indian Institute of Fashion Technology.  I read about
it long ago in India Today...  I am unable to  recall of any of the above two
institutes  from memory.  My hunch is that they are imaginary...


Seetamraju Udaya Bhaskar Sarma
(email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: tolia@plugflow.ecn.purdue.edu (Anish Arun Tolia)
Subject: Re: More about India
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 20:59:31 GMT

In article <1992Oct3.005330.3347@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ngopalas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Nath Gopalaswamy) writes:
>
>On an interesting note, though on a different matter, some Americans here have
>complained that they cannot take their wives or daughters to India without being
>a little bit apprehensive. It seems almost all female members of their group had
>very bad experiences on Indian markets or buses, they soon learned to take taxis
>and avoid going into even remotely crowded places. This complaint was mainly
>voiced in the north, though cities like Bangalore were also some spots where
>they had trouble. Some were frankly disgusted and wanted to return immediately.
>I wonder how long it is before Embassies start issuing warnings about this 
>behaviour by our randy countrymen :-). 
>
>Nath.
>
>PS Apparently our dear countrymen thought that the ladies were purposely 
>exposing themselves as an invitation. :-)

This is not true. Ask any woman who has lived in Delhi for any period 
of time what happens in DTC busses no matter how conservatively they 
are dressed. The problem lies in the "culture" that either puts 
women on some divine level (the goddess and ma-bahen syndrome) or 
treats them like whores. Something in the Indian male psyche or maybe 
culture prevents them from accepting women as equal human beings. Things
like this are why I hate people who shout all over the net telling everyone
how wonderful Indian culture is....actually a whole lot of it SUCKS.

Anish
From: rupa@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Rupa Sethu Satish)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Is F-1 visa a problem (came on F-2) ?
Date: 27 Sep 92 19:47:43 GMT
Reply-To: rupa@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Rupa Sethu Satish)
Distribution: usa
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: rupa@happy.cc.utexas.edu

Hi Netters!
I need to know how difficult/easy it is to get an F-1 visa in
Bombay. I had come to the U.S.A initially on an F-2 and then converted
to an F-1 status. I still have a year to graduate. 
Any information on this will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Rupa.
From: kortikar@mipos2.intel.com (Aniruddha Kortikar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Do you have an apartment to share in sacremento ?
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:26:13 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA

My friend Mayank Shah, wants to share an apartement with somebody in 
sacremento. He will be working at North 10 Th Street and would like to
share an aprtement with somebody who goes to work near that area or with
someone who stays at near by apartment complexes. He speaks fluent 
Gujrathi and Marathi and Bombay Hindi besides English. 
He is a non smoker and veg by choice though he would not mind sharing an apt 
with someone who eats non-veg . he too occasionally likes fish/chicken :-)

He would like to start sharing an apt as early as he can.

please reply to me at kortikar@mipos2.intel.com (Tel : 408 765 5515)

thanks a lot.

Aniruddha Kortikar (kortikar@mipos2.intel.com)
From: ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sanjoy Ghosh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: IIT Faculty Salaries (Re: Should the government subsidize IITs etc?)
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:25:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: csrd.1992Sep29.222530.21411
Distribution: na
Organization: Univ of Illinois, Center for Supercomputing R&D, Urbana, IL

chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala) writes:

>They were demanding more salary(more than UGC scales).
>Their claim was that they are puttinfg more efforts than
>their counterparts in universities and hence they should
>be paid more. That sounded an illogical arguement and I wrote
>a letter in "Hindu", saying that in fact the university faculty
>put more efforts with little resources. The IIT faculty lead
>much better life(like safe and good in-campus housing, good
>education for their children and many such things) than university
>faculty. I wrote that their demand for more money(w.r.t. univ.
>faculty) was not justifiable. 

To my mind, the point is not so much whether they are getting more.
But whether more is justified, and if so, how much more?  And to 
decide that you have to compare what they get in terms of salary, 
better housing, better schools for their kids, etc. versus what they 
produce, bright and  competent engineers.  In other words, what is 
important is the ratio of what they produce versus what they get.  
Do you have any evidence to show that that ratio is equal for IIT 
profs and non-IIT profs today?

Sanjoy Ghosh
From: dxn@juniper.WPI.EDU (Deepak Narain)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: SOME BABY JOKES
Date: 30 Sep 1992 02:28:59 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, WPI
NNTP-Posting-Host: juniper.wpi.edu

From dikkala@maxine.wpi.edu (Ravikumar Dikkala):
>sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu (Suresh Doki) writes:
>: ......
>: ......
>
>  Sick post
>
>  -Dikkala


Sick flame

--
deepak
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.telugu,wpi.students.desis
From: sista@latech.edu (Ravi K. Sista)
Subject: Re: GOOD BYE!!!!
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 01:26:26 GMT
From: partha@paul.rutgers.edu (the_tramp)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: More about India
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:49:45 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.indian
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I agree with Dinkar, this  dis-respect  for women is spread in all
Indian men from riksaw-pullers to IIT grads ( not a generalisation,
just a ref. to the cream of educated indians, according to  some
recent postings ;), nothing else) equally.....


anyone wondered why this has happened?
Newsgroups: wpi.students.desis,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.telugu
From: gatsby@wam.umd.edu (Ravindra Pillalamarri)
Subject: Re: Kamma's are sick!
Keywords: sick, kammas
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:25:44 GMT

In article <1aajn7INNm4h@bigboote.WPI.EDU> sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu (Suresh Doki) writes:
>
>This is meant in pure jest. Please do not try to read any racist or
>subliminal messages into it.
>
>
[jokes deleted]

	It's this kind of insensitive humor that splits the Telugu community
in such a way as it is splitting today.
	I've heard people say things like this, prefacing their comments with
phrases like "no offense" but the fact is that some things are offensive. 
Simply issuing a disclaimer is not enough.

Ravindra Pillalamarri
gatsby@wam.umd.edu
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