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From: kuntal@mercury.cs.umbc.edu (survivor)
Subject: Re: G.C. Thru Marriage to an American Citizen
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, Computer Science Department
Distribution: soc
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:00:59 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.094210.11656@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> ggyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>I am posting this for a friend of mine who does not have access to the net
>
>
>HI,  I am planning to get married soon and my wife is an american citizen. i
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
					       ^^^^

hey pal ! u got me confused totally !
if u have a wifey, why are u planning to get married again ? bigamy valid, eh ?
;-)

ok, so I am bored and have nuttin' better to do ;-)
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 20:37:26 CDT
From: Jai K. Singh <U11960@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: REQUEST for Dravidian fonts...........

I would like to get any information on Dravidian fonts.   Where can I get
them?  How to use them?  etc....
I would prefer if you can give me e-mail address where I can download
them using ftp if possible.
I really appreciate anybody's help on this matter.
   Thank You!!!!!
---Jai Singh
u11960@uicmv.uic.edu
singh@earth.eecs.uic.edu
singh1@earth.eecs.uic.edu
From: atulpule@sebastian.carleton.ca (Ajit Tulpule)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Sanskrit origin (?) of English words
Keywords: Sanskrit  English
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:47:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: cunews.atulpule.702931675
Organization: Carleton University


Yes, Caspian sea was named after rishi Kashyap, 

and a Professor is none other than Prof-eshwar :-) :-)



Ajit.


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From: j0srin01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Looking for Janakiramaraju Kalinindi
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:16:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: ulkyvx.1992Apr7.111617.1
Organization: University of Louisville


	I am searching for a very close friend of mine who should be
doing his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering somewhere in the Texas. He is
from Madras but was my classmate in Engg. at SSIT, Tumkur, Karnataka.

	His name is Janakiramaraju Kalinindi. If any of you have come across
him or know his whereabouts, pl. email directly to me at :
j0srin01@ulkyvx.bitnet
Thanx in advance.

Jeevesh srinivasamurthy
From: raghu@norway.fishkill.ibm.com (Raghu Hudli)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Unaccompanied minor on Air India
Date: 17 Apr 92 14:39:22 GMT
Reply-To: raghu@vnet.ibm.com
Followup-To: none
Organization: IBM Corp., E. Fishkill, NY

My 10 year old cousin might be travelling by Air India from 
Madras to New York and back next month. I would appreciate
an information regarding the attention unaccompanied minors
get on Air India flights, and also during stop overs.


Raghu Hudli
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Disclaimer: The opinions/views expressed here are mine and my employer
does not necessarily concur with me.
From: mk49+@andrew.cmu.edu (Milind Kandlikar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: INDIAN MEN and MARRIAGE
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:32:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Doctoral student, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Hear, hear. Well Spoken.
From: A0K5719@tamvm1.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: WHAT DOES THIS HINDI/URDU WORD MEAN.....
Date: 13 Apr 92 02:30:59 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University

Hi netters, I have come across this word *HAALA* in Haribans Rai Bachchan's
"Madhushala". This could be a hindi/urdu word but looks more like a hindi
word to me. This word has been used in several sentences in the poem and at
each place it seems to have a different meaning/context. For example:
 
chhot se jeevan me kitna pyaar karoon, pee loon HAALA
 
yam (as in yamraj) aaega saqi bankar, saath liye kaali HAALA
 
mere adharon par ho antim, vastu na ganga jal HAALA
 
Does anybody know the meaning??
 
anil
From: oberoig@topaz.ucq.edu.au
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: looking for Tamim Sheikh.
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:20:35 AET
Organization: University of Central Queensland, Australia


        Netter ,
 
 As i have lost contact with one of my friend from bombay ,
                     Tamim sheikh .

      He is doing his Phd in life science
 any where about please Email me at same address.
 thanks folks

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sanjoy Ghosh)
Subject: Re: Arranged Marriages...
Organization: Univ of Illinois, Center for Supercomputing R&D, Urbana, IL
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 06:20:29 GMT

In article <sdr0hINNs0p@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> praveen@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Praveen Chandra) writes:
>When I read the crap above, it suddenly occured to me that only two classes
>of people could make such observations and analogy.  I was not disappointed to
>find that this dork belonged to one of the classes. Its so pathetic that
>west bengal which has produced some great thinkers, poets and scientists
>also produces dinks like the one above.  Only this dink happens to be 
>straight out of the slums.  
>
>Tell your wife the analogy and see your butt mothballed!

You are not only filthy-mouthed but a racist as well.

Sanjoy Ghosh
ghosh@csrd.uiuc.edu
From: ryanp@india1.eng.sun.com (Paul Ryan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: INDIAN WOMEN & MARRIAGE (INDIANS and MARRIAGE)
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:56:24 GMT
Reply-To: paul.ryan@sun.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp.
NNTP-Posting-Host: india1

In article <1992Apr9.233236.15505@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, svenkata@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sundaresan Venkatachalam) writes:
|> 
|>  There has been a lot of discussion going on about Indian Men and Women and 
|> their attitudes about marriage.  The fact is a majority of the men are still 
|> scared and terrified by the prospect of going the different and the decent way
|> ( Many netters have explained this as: we respect our parents, we do not like
|> going after girls, we can depend on our parent's choices and so many LAME
|> EXCUSES).
|>      It is more than disgusting when I meet Indian males who try to justify the
|> marriages in India by the Name of Culture and the broken family scene of the
|> west. Women are also play an important role in giving life to the system of
|> dowry, mistreatment of the bride etc.. but in a Society in which Feminism is
|> regarded as a sin/crime it is very much possible that this species (after all
|> for 90% of the Indian Men a woman is just a  maens of earning some extra bucks
|> and having sex) has never been allowed  to even think of the other
|> possibilities which would have resulted in the betterment of their status.
|>        Many netters seem to be allergic to feminists....come
|> on guys try to get rid of your idiotic belifs and do accept the fact that WOMEN
|> are as CAPABLE as you. And about Indian Women not impressing you and all that 
|> bull.....you just have not been lucky enough to meet anyone nice.
|>         I sometimes feel that the INDIAN MENTALITY has been
|> tuned to believe over the centuries that nicer aspects of life like "LOVE"
|> are possible only in the silver screen for Amithabs and Kamala Hassans!
|>        -regards,
|>                sundaresan (svenkata@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)


Indian men are such money minded ##$@%. They are such sorry excuses for men.
All indian men should pull out their tongues and then hang themselves in 
shame! Dear God why was I born an indian, If I were born an american, life
would have been sooooooo perfect all my values would have been super... I
would have considered women to be BETTER than men,,, <lament> <lament>

REALIZATION JUST STRUCK, I am an indian. well, I got to go and hang myself.
Maybe in my next life ...

And thanks to all the preachers on the net for having opened my, stupid,
insignificant, lowly, mind.


-- Paul R. Ryan
From: kundu@watson.ibm.com (Sandip Kundu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Need advice on Tax
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:04:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM


A friend of mine graduated in May of 1990 and joined a Research
Laboratory on H-1 visa. He worked for one year and then returned to India
to take up a teaching position at an IIT. Can he take advantage of
the tax treaty ? What form should he file ? Please email any information.


Sandip
From: kulki@cs.toronto.edu (Dattatraya Kulkarni)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Carrying gold: any experience?
Summary: carrying gold to India
Keywords: budget
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:26:05 GMT
Distribution: USA, CANADA
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

I would like to know about your experiences in carrying gold to India 
after the budget. I was reading a local Indian paper sometime back and it 
phrased the rule in a different way:

"governement proposes to allow, RETURNING INDIANS and NRIs to bring
 upto 5kg of gold per passenger with a modest dusty (Rs. 450 per 10gms)
 provided the gold and import duty are financed from foreign exchange
 earned abroad"

As a STUDENT going home for SUMMER, am I allowed to carry gold? 
How do you pay the Rs. 450/10gms duty? By credit card/Travellers cheques/cash?
What is the conversion rate CUSTOMS use, official/market/combined(60-40 rule)?

Any piece of information, albeit what you heard from people you know,
is appreciated. Please send e-mails to kulki@cs.toronto.edu.

Thanks is advance.

-- Kulkarni DH
   Dept of Comp Sc
   Univ of Toronto
From: kuland@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Gita Kulandaiswamy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Posts on Divorce
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:30:49 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.indian
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center


Sylvia D'Cruz writes :

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>>I received another mail message some of the "divorce related" postings:-
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>> From: kuland@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Gita Kulandaiswamy)
>> Subject: Re: Report: The Ghosts of Marriage Past

			< text of mail deleted >  


 			< Some random stuff deleted > 

> Also, the stuff about about "readers are unlikely to face the situation the 
>> articles are talking about". Maybe not personally, but definitely indirectly
>> at work, through friends and so on. One's personal life does come through at
>> times at work.

>>It appears you are going through a "why" phase. Maybe you will get over it. 

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	I chose to send mail and not post a follow-up.

	Obviously, it did not occur to Ms.D'Cruz that I intended that this
	exchange be *private*. And that if one is seized by an urge to post
	one's e-mail to the net, its only decent to strip headers and whatever
 	else, so that anonymity is preserved. 

	If this was intended to turn me off posting to s.c.i for a hundred
	years, guess what, it worked. 

	-- gita 

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: prasanth@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ravi K. Prasanth)
Subject: Re: A puzzle on the negative Harmonic Series
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 08:32:37 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.144547.19974@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, balarama@cae.wisc.edu (Prabhu Balaraman) writes:
> >   =    (1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5 + 1/6 + 1/7 + 1/8 + ...)
>         - (1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + ...)
> >   =    ZERO!! 
>     
>     =  ( 1/n+1 + 1/n+2 + ......), if there are n terms in the 2nd bracket. 
>   There are only half as many terms in the second bracket as in the 
>  first. So things ain't equal 
> 
> -PB

nope. consider 

1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ..... = (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + ...
            			 = 0
1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ..... = 1 - (1 - 1) - (1 - 1) - (1 - 1) -  ...
            			 = 1
try again.

rkp
From: raja@chroma.cps.msu.edu (Narayan S. Raja)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: soc.culture.tamil
Keywords: citizenship
Date: 17 Apr 92 17:51:21 GMT
Reply-To: raja@cps.msu.edu
Organization: Pattern Recognition & Image Processing Lab, MSU


In article <12470@tamsun>, (Chandrasekaran Periannan) writes:

< Raja writes:

 >< (Chandrasekaran Periannan) writes:

<>< 	Tamil is an official language in Singapore and have separate TV and

 >< Now, now, now.  How many TV channels does 
 >< Singapore have?  India?

<  	Well, if you want to go off at a tangent and calculate
< the ratios you have missed the point. 


I don't entirely disagree
with what you're saying.  But
the point is that India has
just ONE t.v. channel.  So it's
meaningless to complain about
``not having a separate Tamil 
channel.''  There ARE no other
channels, tho' this may change
soon in the 4 metros.  Incidentally,
the proposed 2nd. channel is
meant for local language programs.


Narayan Sriranga Raja.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: as@cs.brown.edu (Apratim Sarkar)
Subject: Re: Arranged Marriages...
Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 00:58:30 GMT

In article <sdr0hINNs0p@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, praveen@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Praveen
Chandra) writes: 
|> 
|> >>In article <1992Apr13.055909.24168@csrd.uiuc.edu> ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu
(Sanjoy Ghosh) writes: 

<stuff deleted>

|> 
|> When I read the crap above, it suddenly occured to me that only two classes
|> of people could make such observations and analogy.  I was not disappointed to
|> find that this dork belonged to one of the classes. Its so pathetic that
|> west bengal which has produced some great thinkers, poets and scientists
|> also produces dinks like the one above.  Only this dink happens to be 
|> straight out of the slums.  
|> 
|> Tell your wife the analogy and see your butt mothballed!
|> 
|> -- praveen 
|> 

Extremely bad choice of words; written in extremely bad taste. 
Quite unfortunate, I must say!! 

Apra.
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 14 Apr 1992 14:32:26 CDT
From: Shyamala Parameswaran <U15297@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject:    soc.culture.tamil

I think this is a bad idea. SCI has served as a wonderful receptacle
in fielding discussions of all kinds related to India. True, there
are Tamils in Singapore and Malaysia, Gujaratis in Fiji and parts
of Africa, Punjabis in England and Canada and so on...but citizenship
does not preclude anybody from discussing anything Indian or common
with India. There was some sort of a private tamil email net started
by someone at Georgia Tech. I'd assume that should serve the needs
for those wishing to exclusively discuss tamil, although I agree
with N.S. Raja that such discussions are far more beneficial and
and informative to an interested general readership on SCI.

Shyamala
From: rags@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Raghavan Jayaraman)
Subject: Re: Indians Protest Libyan sanctions
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:56:20 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.204336.11399@ncsu.edu> hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem) writes:
>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.
>
>The Raleigh News and Observer had a picture of this with a caption
>describing Indian Muslims expressing unity with their Muslim brothers in
>Libya!! There couldn't be any other reason to oppose the actions by the
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                
>US, UK and France, could there?
>
>Brad Hernlem

recreation/dole for the day/Imperialism of the western countries.....

raghavan
From: legj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: tests
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:54:31 EDT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Cornell University

just testing like everuone else
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: u8705957@cs.uow.edu.au (Hitesh Sanghvi)
Subject: Does anyone have 'C' code for FEAL ?
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 04:21:21 GMT

Hi there !
	If you have 'C' code written for FEAL or DES,I would appriciate,if
	you can send me a copy.

Thank you very much.

Bye for now,from AUSTRALIA.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ac@apmaths.uwo.ca (alka chandna)
Subject: Re: Bride wanted
Organization: Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 04:29:43 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.214848.8896@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mpg8842@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Madhav  Parthasarathy) wri
tes:

 What's wrong>  about wanting a well-educated or fair or 
good-looking spouse?  To all the people who>  have been denouncing this as 
discrimination, let me ask you a question.  Would you>  be willing to marry 
an ugly person (arranged or otherwise)?  I know I wouldn't.  

my reply:
	I don't have a problem with people posting matrimonials here either, 
but i think that you've missed a fairly significant point in the objections 
made by other posters to the ads.  you've asked, "what's wrong with wanting 
a ... fair .. spouse".  my understanding is that the word "fair", when used 
in this context, refers to the extent of pigmentation in one's skin.  it is 
well known in indian circles that a person (particularly this applies to 
women, although men become victims of this prejudice as well) is considered 
to be more attractive if they are lighter skinned. If this is what is 
being referred to in these matrimonial postings, then YES, I DO HAVE A 
PROBLEM WITH THEM.  
	i was raised in canada, so my fundamental ideas have been shaped and 
moulded *here*.  my first-hand, childhood experiences with racism have 
made me loathe that institution, so much so that i will not turn a blind 
eye to any sacred cows.  discrimination is discrimination, no matter how 
you slice it, and whether or not you brand it as a cultural norm.  
	a fairly painful set of memories from my childhood brands me as 
being "ugly" because i didn't have blonde hair, blue eyes or an acquiline 
nose.  the small-minded hatred which characterizes racism is to be found 
also in the arbitrary ways in which we define beauty.  there's much more to 
the issue of desiring a "fair" bride than a benign personal preference.
	
alka
From: sidnag@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (siddhartha.nag)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Polished Communication ( was...Personal e-mail!)
Date: 11 Apr 92 19:30:15 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Red Hill, NJ

In article <1992Apr11.164409.3950@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> gchacko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (George W Chacko) writes:
>
>It's getting easier and easier for me to marshal arguments in favour of
>my stand on why some e-mail need not be accorded the privilege of
>confidentiality. Case in point. This is from the same cretin whose
>polished communication I posted last time.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well ! since we are letting it all hang out, here's a copy of something 
you posted a while ago on scia, in response to one of my postings.
I'll let the readers decide if it was "polished communication" or    
not.  :^)

Sid
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From cbfsb!att!linac!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!gchacko Thu Apr  9 10:36:59 EDT 1992
Article: 1714 of soc.culture.indian.american
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian.american
From: gchacko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (George W Chacko)
Subject: Re: Help ..... save soc.culture.indian.american
Followup-To: alt.fan.alok.vijayvargia
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:23:44 GMT

(Stuff deleted)

Let me tell you something, you racist, your dog is great.
You make me sick.  You're probably young yourself.
Is it because michael jackson is intellectual that you came to me?
The sexual revolution is over, right?  I couldn't care less about your
disease.
I couldn't care less about your mental problem.  It's a wonderful day.
You sadistic dead dogmatist!  I have many crazy friends.
How do you reconcile problems at school?


George
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: picardo@ces.cwru.edu (Leslie Picardo)
Subject: Re: On the existence of Paramatma
Organization: Computer Engineering and Science, Case Western Reserve University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 05:10:25 GMT



 >In article <9204100347.AA12358@cec1.wustl.edu> sp2@cec1.wustl.edu (Sundara Pandian) writes:
 >
 >
 >    ---- stuff deleted ---
 >
 >    If one can free himself from the worldly thoughts, he has no worries,no
 >    greed, no enmity and attains absolute peace. That is called renunciation.
 >    Absolute happiness. Oneness with the Paramatma -God.
 >
 >    ---- stuff deleted ---
 >    
 >	   The bottomline is that the worldly possessions are unreal. If they are
 >    real, they should be real at all times. When a man sleeps, he has no
 >    conciousness about any of his possessions, his relatives,his enemies or
 >    whatever. He is in a state of happiness. The moment he wakes up, the moment
 >    he attaches himself into the world, he is unhappy. He has worries,anxieties,
 >    tax forms, all kinds of things. The world is real to him. Yet,he is unhappy.

   
    Hmmm, You advocate unconciousness and detachment from reality.
    I knew a few people like that -- they smoked pot. Believe me,
    they had very few worldly possessions and were in a constant state
    of euphoria. 



 		
 
  
   
     

Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:14093 soc.culture.pakistan:6317
From: trivedi@curie.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: Kashmir: some questions?
Date: 12 Apr 92 15:43:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Apr12.154355.11419
Organization: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago.

In article <1992Apr11.172303@IASTATE.EDU> jakhan@IASTATE.EDU (Javed A Khan) writes:
>In article <1992Apr11.213611.26148@menudo.uh.edu>, mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam
>Ghosh) writes:

AG:
>> 	I want some knowledgable netters to shed more light on this.
>> Normally the discussion on Kashmir starts from the war of 1948. But we
>> fail to take into account the histry immediately preceeding...

JK:
>This is true. In fact the Kashmir valley was sold to the Hindu king. (I guess
>they were the Dogras)

At least the guy PAID for it! That's more than what can be said for
most of the Muslim rulers who invaded various parts of the country.
Anybody care to hazard a guess as to how much THEY would owe?   :-)