HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ck@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Chandrasekhar Kambhampati)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Hiterian views of some : Racial Purity!Re: Distortion in Meenan Vishnu Opposed
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:13:33 GMT
Organization: University of Reading


rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh) writes:

>you have a grain of sense concerning your true Tamil identity, the

Oh, so you are a true tamil! But my dear saar, you are a 
Sri-Lankan - whose mother tongue just happens to be tamil! Can you prove
that you guys, from Sri-Lanka are the true tamils! Thank god this
is not true, otherwise the streets of Madras, and the towns and
countryside of TN would be in the same mess as in Sri-Lanka! It needs a
wraped mindset like the LTTE and their apologists to think otherwise!

>I have also seen Brahmins who have typical Tamil features. Their

Big deal! So what has this got to do with the argument! Your argument,
is similar to the Hitlerian view of purity of race! My dear saar, you
are not an anthropologist, now are you! It is plain silly to say you are
the true inheritors of some old lore - you are whistling in the dark!

>and customs. I didn't want to write this. But, I've finally had it!
>Nobody is going to tell me what it really means to be a Tamil. 
>Cowards betraying the Thamil Thai for the sake of personal 'fortunes,'
>upholding the divisive caste system and looking upto Delhi for guidance
>exist in vast numbers among us. Its a curse on Tamils for we have to
>defend our Tamil identity among our own people. No wander we have become
>a laughing stock for many.  A Dravidian party with a Brahaman as their
>chief in power...and enough apologosts to justify it. A terrible toll
>for Tamils indeed. We need a Tamil sangam.

Again, you are making one very big mistake. Your arguments (make a
rather personel criticism) are like those put forward by a first year
undergrad! 
If being a tamil, means to KILL, MAIM, RAPE, BLACKMAIL (Emotional and
otherwise), many true Tamilians will distance themselves from this
concept. On the other hand, LTTE and their apologists bring disreput to
themselves and their cause with their silly notions of racial purity,
which often verges on Hitlerain concepts. Remember what happened to
HItler, Gobbels etc!

Finally, you are a Sri-Lankan - unfortunately for us, whose mother
tongue just happens to be tamil! So its none of your business if
Jayalalitha leads AIDMK or not. Thats for Indians to decide. Bringing
caste etc just shews up your sillines. !

regards and peace
chandrasekhar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: g9221069@cc.uow.edu.au (manik gupta)
Subject: Re: Desi Jokes
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 08:21:02 GMT


1)

Two "pahelwans" were doing shit in the "abhiyaran".

All of a sudden a tiger come in front of them.

Both of them started showing that they are not afraid of the tiger.

So, one 'pehlwan' ask the other ++are you afraid of the tiger?==
Another replied " no "

The first one said == Tau fir apni dhuona, meri kun dhuo te ho?==





2) once a lady goes to the market to buy a purse.

Shopkeeper: What do you want?

Lady: A small purse?

Sk: All purses costs bet 1 to 5 dinar except that one.
(Pointing his finger towards a small purse).

L; How much does that cost?

Sk; 200 Dinar only.

L: why?

sk; it can change its size.

l: how ? show me.

sk: when you rub it, it will become enlarged. it is made up of special
     skin.



More jokes and more fun.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: barakam@infonode.ingr.com (Sreedhar Barakam)
Subject: Who are these anti-India Sikhs? ( was: Re: Solarz lost. Now what?)
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:11:16 GMT

In article <1b1mq2INNljo@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> vivek@ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu) writes:
>Well I do not know about Dan Burton, but Wally Herger is the Congressman 
>from our area here in Chico in Northern California, and he has a sizable
>anti-India Sikh populace in Yuba City, which is bound to get him elected
>even now. I wonder how could India Today mention something like the fact
>that he is facing a tough battle for election here. In fact in the check
>bouncing scandal his name had not even figured and besides he has a good
>amount of support from the hardline anti-Indian community here.
>
>Vivek.

I know there are supporters for Khalistan movement all over the world. I am
curious to know what makes them support this movement.
Most of these supporters in India, are unemployed minority of sikhs who try
to impose their movement on the majority- or so goes my impression so far.
But why do those who are in, say California, support this movement?


Sreedhar Barakam.
From: rajain@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!! ( was Re: Abuse of Usenet Privileges)
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:24:03 GMT

In article <92289.114116U15297@uicvm.uic.edu>, Shyamala Parameswaran <U15297@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
> In article <1bitspINNb9u@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, ravi@maxine.wpi.edu (Ravi Narayan)
> says:
>>
>>In a previous article, U15297@uicvm.uic.edu (Shyamala Parameswaran) said:
>>:- Mr. Ravi Narayan, just a word of warning.
>>
>>:- Your last post provides sufficient grounds for harassment.
>>:- I've saved a copy and will be forwarding it for appropriate action.
>>
>>        oooh!!! i tremble with fear!!!
>>
> =========================================================================
> From: ravi@maxine.wpi.edu (Ravi Narayan)
> Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,wpi.students.desis,alt.rodney-king
> Subject: Re: In article 12815@noose.ecn.purdue.edu, gayathri@ec.ecn.purdue.edu
> Message-ID: <1bieu6INN3i9@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
> 
> 
>         with posts from people like you!!! luckily it will all expire
>         pretty soon! and if you continue to make comments like this, so
>         will you!!!!
> 
> 
>         have a nice day tomorrow. the rest of your life is going to be
>         pretty tough!
> 
> 
> Mr. Ravi Narayan:
> 
> I have been suitably advised by one administrator and another
> consultant that on the basis of the above lines alone, I could
> file charges. Of course, it depends entirely on how you choose
> to respond next.

   My dear Shyamala:

	If you want to, then why not go ahead and DO whatever you are 
	planning to (do) ? What in the $%^& are you WAITING for ??????
	And please....please! understand that THIS is not a "threat"
	<hey guys......we all should be *very* careful in what we say
	 to Shyamala ;) > *I*, for one, love my account too much....to
	lose it (by your complain to *my* SysAdmin) :-)

	 One more thing.....what's the point in posting this on SCI ?
	 That you want all of *us* to know about your "victory" (??)
	 over Ravi ???? 	

 And...

   My dear Ravi (hey! you know Doki personally ?) :

	I think YOU should be ashamed of "threatening" Shyamala's "future
	life".........<"threaten" ?....whaa..t? Me ? When? How? Where ? ..
	now don't look at me w/ those "puppy-dog" eyes !!! ;-) >


> 
> News.admin groups are aware of your being a sysadmin.

 sigggggggggghhhhhhh!!!!  Go ahead....Make *his* day !!!!

> 
> 
> Shyamala Parameswaran

Ciao,

Rajat.
From: akumar@sybase.com (Ashok Kumar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: ** 220/240 POWER CONVERTOR to 110 FOR A LAPTOP **
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:32:53 GMT
Reply-To: akumar@sybase.com (Ashok Kumar)
Organization: Sybase, Inc.



	* NEC LAPTOP POWERSUPPLY FOR INDIA *

	I am planning to travel to New Delhi, India,
	last week of this month. I'll be taking my   
	NEC LAPTOP along with me. This LAPTOP has
	just two 720K floppies and no hard-disk.

	I need your advice, as to the power supply
	I must buy? The Laptop is designed to run
	on 110 and I like to find out if there is
	a power convertor available in New Delhi
	or here which can convert from 220/240
	to 210? Any pointer would be greatly 
	appreciated.

	Thanks in advance,

	-Ashok Kumar

	
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: A Wimbledon Doubt (Re: More about India)
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:22:17 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.

rpsingh@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:

>> If we don't get caught in the wide screen issue of gender bias
>> and angst for equity, the current disparity in the championship
>> payouts, in my opinion, is quite fair! It should however be
>> modified if there are viewership preference changes.
>> 
>> Satya Prabhakar

>I can't agree more. I just have to add one more point. 
> 4. If we were to pay female champion the same, doesn't it require that
>they too play best of five sets rather than three. I don't remember( may
>be I'm ignorant here) them saying that they are ready to play five sets
>if the prize money was same. Is it fair??

You are saying that not only do people deem the quality to be low,
but the quantity is also low! A kinda double whammy for the 
tournament organizers whose aim is to maximize revenues! I concurr!

Prabhakar
From: prem@cs.montana.edu (M.P.Premkumar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Good /Bad,Love /Hate
Keywords: Indians
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:31:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: coe.1992Oct9.193131.23667
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717

In article <1992Oct9.180042.25495@news.acns.nwu.edu> bsind@chinug.acns.nwu.edu (Brijnandan S. Dehiya) writes:
>
>Don't you ever wonder why is it that Indians  indulge in more India 
>bashing than anyone , anywhere else in the world?

Yeah I thought about that and I have never been able figure out exactly why.
But this what I think: 
		
		Most of the Indians who come to foreign countries(USA,
England, Japan, Germany, Dubai, Canada .... ) come out of India simply because
they can't live in India with money and luxury as they could in all these
countries(eg. a non-degree technician working in Dubai can get a color TV,
VCR et all but he/she can't if in India). They come out of India and pretend
they forgot India and her problems. But in reality they are never able to cut
off their ties with India and her problems. They want to get back to India but
money and comfort stop them. In the end they don't ever go back to India giving
reasons to themselves and to others like Indian politics is shit, the government
is inefficient, poverty is high, unemployment is high, treatment of women is
poor, cinema is lousy ............... the list is endless. All this is what
I think counts as India bashing by the Indians.

	While all the reasons like poverty, treatment of women are true they
never ever try to do anything that might help India. Day in and day out they
are just convincing themselves that living in a foreign country is better.


Sincerely yours,
M.P.Premkumar
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wednesday, 14 Oct 1992 22:17:56 CDT
From: Shyamala Parameswaran <U15297@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject:    Abuse of Usenet Privileges

Mr. Ravi Narayan, just a word of warning.

Your last post provides sufficient grounds for
harassment. I've saved a copy and will be
forwarding it for appropriate action.

Shyamala
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rachada@icaen.uiowa.edu (Ramakrishna Chada)
Subject: Re: Iran Radio Confirms Israeli's Role in Kashmir
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:05:33 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa


Article from mns.
In article <1992Oct7.224327.7665@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy) writes:
>
>Source	: News India
>Date	: Oct 9, 1992
>Country	: India
>
>Topics:
>* Iran Radio Confirms Israeli's Role in Kashmir
>* Pilotless target aircraft tested
>
>                             * * * * *
>
>* Iran Radio Confirms Israeli's Role in Kashmir
>
>Special to News India
>
>Washington: The Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in its news
>bulletin on September 29 in Persian language, at 0430 GMT said that the
>Hezbullah Mujhaddin movement of Kashmir had conveyed to it that men
>from MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence service, had entered India-held
>Kashmir.

Is the heading of this report from Mr. Narotham Reddy or is it a part of
the article?. "Confirm" doesn't seem to be an appropriate word. Iran Radio
is only reporting what some muslim fundamentalists possibily told it and
it can only confirm if it has some strong evidence of it. If the strongly
biased Iranian radio made these kind of statements pretending authenticity
and absoluteness, I would not be surprized. However, if it was the article 
poster who added the heading, I would request him to consider its effect on 
the unwary readers who might have these possibly false reports registered
as certain facts on their minds. 

My opinion is that this is only a ploy of the Iranian and kashmiri 
fundamentalists/terrorists to unite the muslims against India.    

Ramakrishna
From: gayathri@ec.ecn.purdue.edu (Gayathri Krishnamurthy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: More about India
Summary: Re:More about India
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:25:06 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.indian
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Oct05.202736.122673@ua1ix.ua.edu>, ngopalas@ha15.eng.ua.edu (Nath S. Gopalaswamy) writes:
> A wholly understandable attitude. No wonder females do not want to go back to 
> India. Another factor is that females here no longer give an opportunity to
> be in physical contact with men. They travel in cars and spacious atmospheres.
> So even if there were eve-teasers here they do not get a chance to make 
> physical contact. Unlike India where people are always in close contact all
> the time.  

Ever seen a female college student go on stage in a Co-ed college in an Indian
town ? Usually, the first thing to greet her would be the loud chorus "Coo !",
issued from some of her esteemed male counterparts. And eve-teasing need not
be necessarily physical. The above is just one example. 

And it's not just eve-teasing either. It's just the whole attitude of repressing
women in as many ways as possible. I'll give you an example for this too.
I had to finish up some writing on a Sunday (this was in '89) and as the TV
in my working women's hostel was blaring away, I sought the peace of one of
the parks near Sankey lake (just below the bridge) in Malleswaram, Bangalore.
15 mins passed in peace while I composed my thoughts and began my writing.
A few mins later, there was this policeman who walked up to me from behind
my bench, and around me - looking at me suspiciously. When I stared back at 
him he asked me what I was doing and I replied - "writing". He looked at me
for a few more moments and then said "Don't do these things here ...". What
the hell, it was a park, open to the public !! And I was just by myself, 
minding my own work, not disturbing anybody ! The next week, I switched 
to the other park - a children's park near the Sankey swimming pool. After 
half an hour, there were some seedy men on the bridge, screaming "What are 
you writing ? Story, eh ? What ? What ?". I ignored them for a while but when 
it went to the extent that I coudn't concentrate, I left the place in disgust. 
It's not just Bangalore alone, it's in all towns in India, as Ms.D'Cruz pointed 
out... The whole attitude seems to be that women should not be left in peace.

Ever wondered why so many "heroes" of Indian movies start courting their 
heroines by teasing them in public, running after them stupidly and giving
them as much trouble as possible ? I really wonder why this is considered
such a "macho" act....and why many such movies become box-office hits. Is
this really part of "Indian culture", then ?

Gayathri.
--
-----------------------------------------
email address :- gayathri@ecn.purdue.edu
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you !!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: jkchan@lynx.cat.syr.edu (J. K. Chan)
Subject: Rent in San Fran
Organization: Syracuse University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 23:54:55 EDT


I am going to move to San Fran., CA in a month or so.  Could someone
tell me which area is comparatively safe and inexpensive to live over there?  
Especially in or near Hercules which is northeast to Richmond.
Any advice or suggestion is appreciated.
  
Please send email to the above address.
Thanks.
-Jim
From: kumarm@topaz.ucq.edu.au
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: testing
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:42:46 AET
Organization: University of Central Queensland, Australia

testing
From: vemuri@informix.com (Sudhakar Vemuri)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Social Security status on H1
Keywords: Social security H1
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:03:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

Hi friends,

One of my friends has recently changed his visa status from  B1 to H1.
Now, this status has to be updated in his Social Security  card  also.
He wants to know the procedure for this.  

He says, the Social Security office is asking for some documents to be
mailed by INS directly to them to change the status on Social Security 
cards. Have any of you faced this? What should be done about this ?

I appreciate your replies.

Thanks

Sudhakar Vemuri  ( vemuri@informix.com )
From: durgesh@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Durgesh Rao)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: ** WANTED: Sharing a hotel room at CIKM-92 **
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:38:23 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: VPI&SU Computer Science Department, Blacksburg, VA

Hi!

I am attending the CIKM-92 at Baltimore in November this year.

I am looking for someone else who is also attending the conf.
between Nov 7 and 10 to share a hotel room and split the bill.

If you are interested, let me know ASAP -- the cutoff date for
making hotel reservations is today -- 9th Oct.

Send me email at: durgesh@csgrad.cs.vt.edu

-- durgesh
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rao@tree.egr.uh.edu (Jagannatha  Rao)
Subject: Looking for Amar Varma, IIT- Bombay, Chem Engg. 1985.
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:32:00 GMT


I am trying to locate my friend Amar Varma of IIT-Bombay, 1985 Chem Engg.  
batch. Last I heard from him, he was working in St. Louis (parent company was  
in Detroit). 

Please drop me a line if you can help.

--
Jagannatha Rao				E-mail:rao@tree.egr.uh.edu
Department of Mechanical Engineering    Tel   :(713) 743-4535
University of Houston                   Fax   :(713) 743-4503
Houston, TX 77204-4792

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: balarama@cae.wisc.edu (Prabhu Balaraman)
Subject: Re: Please ignore, just testing vnews
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 7 Oct 92 09:33:47 CDT

> Just testing my vnews.

  ..and also our sinews.. :-)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: asubr01@nx22.mik.uky.edu (Aswini Kumar Subramanian)
Subject: Re: artificial limb
Keywords: artificial limb
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:38:41 GMT
Distribution: usa

I got responses from some of the netters.
Everyone unanimously suggested that Jaipur technology is the best at
present.
Thanks to everyone who viewed and responded.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: shiva@cse.unl.edu (V. Sivaramakrishnan)
Subject: Looking for Swaminathan from REC Trichy 1984-88.
    I am looking for Swaminathan from REC trichy (Electrical
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:46:54 GMT

shiva.
shiva@cse.unl.edu
From: sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu (Suresh Doki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Can a girl and a guy be just friends
Date: 15 Oct 1992 14:19:08 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxine.wpi.edu

In article no. <sdjfhjds> jhelling@cs.ruu.nl (Jeroen Hellingman) said:
>What do you mean with "just friends"?


mean just become friends



suresh
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From: jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.asean,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: ...Internet in Asia ......
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:38:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: bu.98389
Followup-To: soc.culture.indian
Organization: Boston University Physics Department

In article <1992Oct12.221822.22764@cs.wisc.edu> rcmolden@parmesan.cs.wisc.edu (Robertc. Moldenhauer) writes:
>In article <1992Oct9.210517.18564@cs.wayne.edu> uds@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar) writes:

>>None in Asia !!   What is Asia doing...?
>>If IEEE Spectrum got its data properly sorted, then Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
>                                                                   ^^^^^
>                                                                   |||||

>Umm, unless there's been some major geologic activity that I haven't heard
>about, Egypt is still in Africa.


I hope this isn't some sick joke. Synchronicity perhaps?


Gregg



-- 
Gregg Jaeger    (jaeger@buphy.bu.edu)          VOTE PEROT  VOTE PEROT       
If you thought the Republicans screwed up the country, you can't afford to
see what the Democrats will do!   ->BEWARE OF SLICK-WILLY CLINTON!!<-
From: kanga.caltech.edu!vidya (Vidyasankar Sundaresan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Distortion Brahmanism/Hinduism
Date: 11 Oct 1992 05:03:45 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: pooh.caltech.edu
Originator: vidya@pooh

In article <kat.718647226@wesley> kat@doe.carleton.ca (Kathiravan  
Krishnamurthi) writes:
-        Lots of people get confused by the "Hindu Maya". They  want
- to be identified as Hindus or they are told that they are Hindus.
- here is the catch. If somebody says he/she is a hindu it is the
- vaguest thing in the world. It is equivalent to saying I am a person.
- The so called Hinduism is not just one belief. It consists
- of several local beliefs varying from place to place. There
- is no basis for all the beliefs and practices in the vEdaas or
- Sanskrit. 

Will someone please inform the learned author of this article that  
Sanskrit is a language, not a religion and does not have anything to do  
with belief or non-belief. For that matter there is no basis for the  
beliefs and practices of any religion in the world. 

What's good about Hinduism is precisely the fact that it admits so many  
local variants. You are free to believe in whatever you want to and yet  
remain a Hindu. You are not declared a heretic and burnt on a stake.  
Nobody has the power to issue a fatwa against you for your statements. 
What has kept people confused is not "Hindu Maya", but their own  
individual version of "Maya". People who have no clue what they are  
talking about should at least have the common decency to keep their mouths  
shut. 

-Some people who say vEdaas and Gita talk about hinduism
- should rephrase and say "brahmanism". 
- 
- 
-       Dr Sinha came out of this maaya and said,
- 
-       Brahmanism not equal to hinduism.
- 
- 
- 
-     Thanks,
- 
- Kathiravan
- 
-      
-  

S.Vidyasankar
vidya@cco.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ramasamy@cimnext2.cim.eas.asu.edu (Selvaraj Ramasamy)
Subject: fax, phone numbers US  consulate office Madras
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:38:21 GMT


Hi,

Please mail me if you have Fax number (preferably) or/and telephone number
of Consulate office in Madras.
--
Ramasamy Selvaraj
Research Assistant
Cim Systems Research Center
ERC 522 Arizona State University
Tempe AZ 85287


internet ramasamy@enuxha.eas.asu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: verma@pfeast.enet.dec.com (Virendra Verma)
Subject: Please ignore, just testing vnews
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date:  7 OCT 92 08:54:36    


Just testing my vnews. 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: (Balasundaram)
Subject: fresh thoughts
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 15:59:41 GMT

why did Lal go to russia for a medical treatment or sign an agreement?

if u see MGR do not ' cuban leader of where.

then
bye