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From: acha@CS.CMU.EDU (Anurag Acharya)
Subject: Cultural show in Pittsburgh (benefits Gurukul)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 23:12:00 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Distribution: usa
Originator: acha@DRAVIDO.SOAR.CS.CMU.EDU



    Mayur and the Pittsburgh chapter of Gurukul Present 

	             Mehfil

         An Indian cultural entertainment show
 
       Skibo Ballroom, April 24, 1992, 7 pm - 10 pm
      Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213
        
	   
The show features Indian classical music (sarod), ghazals, Indian classical 
dance (Kuchipudi), folk dances, contemporary Indian music (Anamika -- in 
their farewell performance) and rock music (Raj Thunder and the New Delhi 
Sandwiches). Anamika and Raj Thunder are CMU music groups.

Tickets are $4. All proceeds benefit Gurukul a local organization that
supports a grassroot education and development effort in rural India.

Tickets are available from:

Skibo Information Desk 					268-2107
Kapoor's Indian Imports (Craig Street)			621-1800
Bombay Emporium (Craft Street)				682-4965
International Bazaar (Rt 22, Monroeville)		373-7171
Star of India (Craig)					681-5700
Taste of India (Penn)					681-7700
Darbar (Center)						687-0515
Vegetarian Delight (Old Wm Penn Hway Penn Hills)	372-7404
Asha Giridharan						621-4335
Priya Sundarajan (Duquesne University)			434-5657 (office)
							682-5090 (home)
Akshay Goel (University of Pittsburgh)			648-1230 (office)
							363-8770 (home)

For more information contact: Asha Giridharan (412) 621-4335
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: banarji@unixg.ubc.ca (Ajai Banarji)
Subject: Mazda Industries-Thanks!
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 21:42:36 GMT

		MAZDA INDUSTRIES-THANKS

  This is to thank the numerous people who sent messages regarding the
quotation of Mazda Industries.
  Incidentally, I had bought it at par in the mid-80s :-)
From: arunk@cs.utexas.edu (Arun Kandappan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: soc.culture.tamil
Date: 17 Apr 1992 08:48:41 -0500
Organization: University of Texas at Austin
Distribution: usa
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In article <92107.215156U15297@uicvm.uic.edu> Shyamala Parameswaran <U15297@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>
>Krishna Lunch Home in Matunga or Idi-Appam at Sarvana
				  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>Bhavan at K.K.Nagar? Tamil culture is very gastronomic


	Never tried it there. Would you recommend it ?

	Arun
-- 
Arun Kandappan                                  arunk@cs.utexas.edu
512+345-1616   EE Dept, UT at Austin TX 78712   uunet!cs.utexas.edu!arunk
From: mainkar@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Abhay Mainkar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Tasty Test
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:25:03 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


This is a story with a morale and is posted in place of a normal
statement : " This is a test. Please ignore. " Anyway, this too may be
ignored.


Story :

This is a story of a non-conforming swallow which decided not to fly
southwards for winter. But as the winter became very cold, it
reluctantly started flying south. Soon ice began to form on its wings
and then at one stage, unable to fly, it fell in a barnyard frozen
still. Just then a cow passed by and dropped its waste on the little
swallow. The swallow thought that it was ` The End ' but the warmth in
the dung defrosted its wings and now warm and happy, able to breathe,
it started to chirp. Just then a large tomcat passing by heard the
chirping, found out where it was coming from, clawed away the dung and
swallowed the swallow.


Morale :

Everyone who shits on you is not necessarily your enemy, everyone who
gets you out of shit is not necessarily your friend so if you are warm
and happy in a pile of shit, keep your mouth shut.



Does this apply to some people around here ?  ( may be to me, too. )
From: thiyagarajan@mims.enet.dec.com (My name is...)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: More on TN chief
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:49:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


>any serius fallout in this regard. Things may be too out of hand by
>then.   If she seeks personal enmity with the Tigers, then let the dice
>roll!        
> 

I think we may have to repeat many times about our 'allergy' to LTTE tigers.
Let the dic roll in Sri-lanka and screw all tamilians there. Not in Tamil Nadu

I think LTTE should be completely eliminated in Tamil Nadu, then only peace
will prevail. They have screwed around in Tamil nadu for a long time. LTTE is
the enemy of Tamil people not only in Sri-lanka but also in Tamil Nadu

I pray to God that these assholes be wiped out!

Thiyagarajan
From: ash@mlacus.oz.au (Ash Nallawalla)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Cities/Religion...etc (NRI's, READ, EVEN IF YOU DON'T CARE !)
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:24:10 GMT
Organization: Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Melbourne

nagabhus@koh-sun5.usc.edu (Vasuki N) writes:

>our cultural heritage ? When I visited the famous Beloor temple ( near
>Hassan in Karnataka ), I was apalled at the lack of any scientific
>preservation. For miniature sculpures, Beloor Temple is considered as one of
>the best in the world, even by western scholars. Atleast that should
>make our concerned janta to think and act ( What a pity, the intellectual
>poverty is so predominant that we need somebody else to recognize things
>valuable in our culture!, not that they shouldn't ). The sculptures inside the 
>main dome were covered with moss which might lead to further deterioration. 

I think our monument preservers (whatever they are called) are all busy
fixing Angkor Wat in Cambodia. That's a trip to "phoren", you see.
I say that tongue-in-cheek.  The way to get specific action there would
be to ask National Geographic or a British World in Action TV crew.

My guess is that the relevant body for these matters is the Archaelogical
Survey of India, who ought to have a register of all these monuments. They
probably know the problems of decay etc, but everyone has budget problems.

What is more likely to work is a "Concert for Bangladesh" style event,
but bear in mind that globally there are "more important" monuments
to consider, so such an effort would have to be held in India.

Just some pessimistic thoughts.

PS Please don't send me email re job/immigration opportunities in
Australia.  I get a few every time I post something.  The recession is
still in force although it seems to be declining.
-- 
=============================================================================
Ash Nallawalla		Tel: +61 3 550-1638 BH; Fax +61 3 742-4566 
ZL4LM/VK3CIT		Postal: P.O. Box 539, Werribee VIC 3030, Australia
ash@mlacus.oz.au        Contact me if you belong to a PC User Group!
From: sridhar@cluster.cs.su.oz.au (Sridhar S Iyer)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Piddlers on the Roof
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:52:07 GMT
Reply-To: sridhar@cluster.cs.su.oz.au (Sridhar S Iyer)
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia

> ag3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Arun K. Gupta) writes...

> 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 !

I have read quite a few interesting articles of Arun K. Gupta.
Great stuff, and I hope he keeps up the good work.
Certainly I have not found anything in his articles to be annoyed about.

Sridhar
From: rmv@ukc.ac.uk (RAJ)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: soc.culture.tamil
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:56:47 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.


                   There is a clear evidense     of support  for 
soc.culture.tamil . So why not start acting ? 
       I heard many netters talking about some "votes" . Can any one
tell me where & when should I send my "vote"  ?

                         I  have no  idea about this "voting" system .
So please send me ( or to  soc.culture.indian ) the details .



                     raj
From: gyanesh@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Gyanesh K Gupta)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Response to INDIAN MEN and MARRIAGE
Date: 12 Apr 92 00:11:37 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Computing & Information Services

>sagar@davinci.concordia.ca (Sagar Naik) writes:

Well put together response.. I agree with you..completely !!!!

Talking about CONTRACT signing, what about preNEPTUAL agreement a lot of
americans sign ? These are the people who have dated each other for years, 
these are the people who have lived together, in some instances for years 
and sometime you see they have kids also and yet when they get married 
they sign PRENEPTUAL agreement ? why ? If those guys love each other so much,
then why is it necessary ? or they already have doubts about each others
sincerity ?????? Why, couldn't they make up their mind in those years
when they dated each other.. ? or is this the idea of love marriage for
an IIW ? what does an IIW think about that..isn't it (Preneptual agreement)
like siging a BUSINESS contract ? 

Gyanesh
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
From: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam Ghosh)
Subject: Kashmir:some questions?
Reply-To: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 21:36:11 GMT

	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. Kashmir, Jammu
and Ladakh were three different regions with different history. Kashmir was
overrun first by the Khalsa empire in 1819 and then the Hindu kings of Jammu,
in 1847. Their rule was never recognized to be legitimate by the local populace,
not to speak of the imbecile Hari Singh. So how can he take such an important
decision which will affect the rest of the Kashmiris for all their future. It's
like the British, deciding that India should unite with say USSR, in face of
the Japanese threat. Can the proponents who denies Kashmir the right to 
independence illustrate how Hari Singh got the right to decide on the behalf of
the Kashmiris?
Note that Kashmir was always independent and fought hard to remain independent
in face of the Mughal rule. And there is no evidence that the majority of the
Kashmiris want to unite with Pakistan. So Pakistan need to do some
soul-searching wrt Azad Kashmir as well.
Go on, flame me both the Indian and Pakistan chauvinists. I will take note of
only logical arguments. I am an Indian, if somebody wants to know. My personal
preference is an economic fedaration of all the South-asian nations with
transparent boundaries.
					Arindam
From: ighosh@vlsi.ICS.UCI.EDU
Subject: Re: Final note....?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:00:23 GMT


 > How many of you are aware that India Today's or any Indian reporter had
 > to go with the IPKF escort during the time of fighting? They were
 > restricted in what they can see, hear and report. THIS IS NOT A LIE.

 This is a load of bullsh*t.

 I remember reading an India Today cover story in which one of their reporters
 accompanied a band of Tigers. In fact, he witnessed an ambush of an IPKF
 patrol by those LTTE men. (He said that he felt very uncomfortable being in
 such a position and witnessing the massacre of Indian soldiers.)

 Does'nt someone else remember that issue of India Today ? ( I think it had
 the photos of dead IPKF soldiers on its cover.)

 If the rest of the "facts" quoted by this guy are as reliable as this one
 ("India Today reporters went only with IPKF escorts during the fighting"), we
 should'nt bother trying to reason with him.

 Most probably, he has already been brain-washed by those bloodthirsty LTTE
 thugs (who had no qualms about murdering even their fellow Tamil rebels, just
 because they belonged to another rebel outfit).

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: Mohan Shah <mbshah@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: The World and Sanskrit (Re: On the existence of Paramatma)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 09:46:33 -0500

In article <1992Apr9.135252.304@ncsa.uiuc.edu> podurys@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Podury Satyanarayan) writes:
>
>Interesting Sanskrit language origin of some English words:
>Jesus:  "isha", meaning God in Sanskrit.  I believe, in Germany, the letter
>         'J' is pronounced as 'I'.  So, 'Jesus' would be pronounced as
>         'Isus'.  The similarity is apparent.  (Any knowledgeable netter out 

>Also, is there a word 'brua', or 'bhruva' in Sanskrit?  I believe it
>means 'language', or some similar meaning.  If it does, then there is
>another interesting word-derivation.  The word 'hebrew' means 'shiva brua',
>or 'shiva's language'.  Now, I was told by this philosopher (indian), that
>Jewism is basically a religion following a reincarnation of Shiva.  In the
>middle-east and the Europian continent, people pronounce 's' as 'h'.
>Therefore, 'shiva (or siva)' would be pronounced as 'hiva'. (Another
>example of this, Sindhustan is pronounced as Hindustan).
>
>called 'Kiva'. (I know this because of a software package by this name
>that I have used in the past).  Now, 'Kiva' means an oblong stone, half
>buried in the ground, and used by the natives in some religious ceremonies.
>Does the object sound familiar?  I think it represents the 'sivalinga', 
>which for us represents Shiva(siva).  Let's look at this word 'Kiva'
>from another angle.  In English, sometimes the letter 'c' is pronounced
>as the letter 'k'.  As in 'cat', catch'.  There are other times when it
>is pronounced as 's'. As in 'century', certain'.  So, if we write the
>word 'Siva' as 'Civa', some people may pronounce 'Civa' as 'Siva',
>while others, not knowing the origin of the word, may pronounce
>'Civa' as 'Kiva'!  In whatever way one may pronounce the word, it
>still seems to represent an object similar to the sivalinga.  This
>seems to show, albiet very weakly, the the presence/influence of
>Siva/Hinduism on this continent.
>satya podury

One more forgotten point : Before coming of the Islam, all over
Middle East 'shivalingas' were worshipped. A passing reference to 
this can be found in "The Wonder that was India" by Basham A.N.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: New Netter 
Subject: TEST
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0730
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 21:25:29 GMT

Test TEST test !!!
					
					-New User (newuser@cc.gatech.edu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: pnayak@cs.umn.edu (Prafull D. Nayak)
Subject: ** APARTMENT FOR SALE, BANDRA(WEST), BOMBAY ***
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 19:43:11 GMT


Apartment for sale. Area 425 sqft. 2nd Floor facing south west.
Self contained. Excellent location and neighbourhood. Best schools,
theatres, Market and shopping. Easy access to public transportation.
Close to Seashore. Cosmopolitan building. Email for price which
is negotiable or contact (408)-867-9436.
From: ssr@cypress.com (Bapcha / PROM)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Indian Men, Arranged Marriages : A NEGLECTED POINT
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:15:42 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose, CA

In article <1992Apr12.224328.28713@news.nd.edu> dkulkarn@vivaldi.helios.nd.edu (Dinesh Kulkarni) writes:
>
> A point that is OFTEN forgotten -
>
>Given the choice, most guys would like to choose their partners outside
>of the institution of arranged marriage. However, the extremely skewed
>sex ratio (40:1 should not be an exaggeration) among "Indian born and 

This assumes that all Indian males are looking only for Indian
women..... which is kinda pathetic.... my sweetie is Indian,
but that had nothing to do with the reason for my choosing
her.


-- 
Bapcha - A very bad boy from Cypress Semiconductor
3901 N.  First Strasse
San Jose,  CA 95134, 408-943-4866
From: anantk@pollux.usc.edu (Anant Kumar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: New Gujju joke
Date: 10 Apr 1992 01:04:43 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: anantk@pollux.usc.edu (Anant Kumar)
NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu


In article <19537@chopin.udel.edu>, cobra@chopin.udel.edu (Jay Bhartkumar Patel) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr09.234610.6556@sdd.hp.com>, rahul@sdd.hp.com (Rahul Bhargava (Temp)) writes:
|> > 
|> > No offense to Gujurati Bhai & Bhens.
|> > 
|> >  Ques> Which Ice Cream shop does a Gujju frequent in U.S of A. ?
|> > ^L
|> >  Ans> You guessed it. Ben & Jerry.
|> 
|>  No offense taken.
|> 
|>  Do you mind explaining this?
|> 
|>  How the hell did you think of this?
|> 
|>  Don't tell me you've lost originality.


Jay bhai here seems to be suffering from a rather deepseated complex.
every single gujju joke on the group seems to be followed by a note from
Jay bhai proclaiming that he is proud to be a gujju/ he does not take offense

BUT he does not see any humor in the joke either. 

what more can i say? 

kem chhe jay bhai? thoda relax karo.
-anant
From: thssrkr@iitmax.iit.edu (Raghunath K Rao)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIP. COMPUTER VISION/IMAGE PROC.
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:35:24 GMT
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology


There is a graduate assistantship available for M.S/Ph.D candidates
for the Fall'92 semester in the Computer Vision and Neural Networks 
Lab, ECE Dept., Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. 

Current Research: 
1. Signal Representation using Wavelets
2. Pattern and Object Recognition
3. Image Compression
4. Probabilistic Models of Vision
5. Neural Networks for Image Representation and Recognition 

We are seeking only candidates with excellent qualifications.  
Interested candidates, please reply via EMAIL and send an ASCII resume 
to me at the following address : 

    thssrkr@iitmax.iit.edu

IMPORTANT: GRE and TOEFL (where applicable) scores.



K. Raghunath Rao
Organization: Masters student, Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 14:17:35 -0400 
From: Sudha Neelakantan <sn00+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re:CITY OF JOY:my opinion

Excerpts From Captions of netnews.soc.culture.indian:
16-Apr-92  CITY OF JOY:my opinion         Jyothi Rengarajan@andrew (2928)   
> 
>   I sat through Roland Joffe's City of Joy at Pittsburgh and felt anger
>and irritation among other things. It is, not surprisingly, a
>condescending, patronising and self-important depiction, loosely based
>on Lapiere's novel of the same name.

I didn't watch the movie precisely because given the topic and knowing
that it was another foreign picture of what is after all an alien
culture,
I knew that the result would be a biased viewpoint.

The only way I might have thought it wouldn't be culturally biased would
be if he was just saying all the things that I thought might be the PC
viewpoint about how one should go in and change things and all that
garbage.  

maybe not even then, I don't have much sympathy for nor can I give
credence to  actors and crew who wouldn't even eat ethnic cuisine but
had food flown in.  I don't think they could really have anything
worthwhile to say if they couldn't even live the life of the privileged
in India.  How could they possibly characterize those who are even so
disparate in lifestyle from the privileged.

Other top reasons I wouldn't watch the movie are 
a] I have a closed mind
b] considering that most of us here in this country and especially those
of us with access to the bboards are likely to have come from the
privileged classes in India and I think all of us are
trained/conditioned to look at poverty as a necessary evil, so I would
personally like to ignore it as such 
c] I don't really want to sit through a guilt trip
d] I came to this country to leave behind all of that stuff in my
backyard and don't really want to pay(or have a date pay[I would have
that same consideration for a date] considering that I got responses
from this bboard that women are out to bankrupt men) to have the same
things stare me in the face again :-)




Sudha

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<*>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 Sudha K. Neelakantan     < Clouds come floating into my life,  
       School of           \ no longer to carry rain or usher storm  
 Urban & Public Affairs     \ but to add color to my sunset sky.
    Carnegie Mellon          >    - Rabindranath Tagore -
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<*>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: "Vinay K. Kansal" <kansal@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: *** LOOKING FOR SUMMER SUBLET IN WASHINGTON, DC ( JUN 1 - AUG31)***
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 03:47:20 GMT


I shall be joining the World Bank as a summer intern for three months beginning
Jun 1. 

I am looking for a cheap summer sublet ( around $300 per month) for the above
stated period. I would prefer the apartment / house to be reasonably close
to the world bank.

I am a vegetarian and if you are looking for a vegetarian sublessee, it is a 
great opportunity for you. 

Interested parties may please contact me at

Kansal@copper.ucs.indiana.edu

Tel #  (812)-857-6661  (h)
       (812)-855-9714  (o)


Please send me your complete e-mail address  and  Tel #.

thanks.
From: ramaseshad@icaen.uiowa.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re:Novelist Sujatha
Date: 17 Apr 92 06:27:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa
Originator: ramaseshad@f_ime01

From ns-mx!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!igor.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!blrv1.verifone.com Thu Apr 16 10:55:11 CDT 1992
Article: 722 of misc.news.southasia
From: praveen@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Praveen Chandra)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Arranged Marriages...
Date: 14 Apr 1992 00:36:17 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu


>>In article <1992Apr13.055909.24168@csrd.uiuc.edu> ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sanjoy Ghosh) writes:
>>>I don't see why divorce should be necessarily considered a failure.
>>>To use a rather crude analogy, when I upgrade from a 286 PC to a
>>>386 PC, I don't consider the 286 PC a failure.  In fact it might
>>>have been the greatest thing around when I bought it.  But ten 
>>>years later it is time for a change.  I think divorce particularly
>>>in an advanced society should be seen in this light.

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 


   
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