HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ghosal@tesla.bellcore.com (Dipak Ghosal 21371)
Subject: Renting Video Cameras/ Camcorders in Calcutta, India
Keywords: Video Cameras/ Camcorders
Reply-To: kumarr@fshvmx.vnet.ibm.com
Organization: Network Technology Research Lab, Bellcore
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 22:19:55 GMT

Hi

       Does anyone know if one can rent Camcorders/ Video Cameras in Calcutta
for personal use. If so, from where and approximately how much does it
cost to rent per day.

        Can one do this in Bombay also ? I would appreciate any information.
Please send replies to my EMAIL address written below. Note, I am sending
this note from a friends account.

Thanks 

Rakesh (Teddy) Kumar

EMAIL address: kumarr@fshvmx.vnet.ibm.com
From: sdoki@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Suresh Doki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,wpi.students.desis
Subject: nothin
Date: 15 Nov 92 20:19:04 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu



re hi




suresh
From: prem@prem.lbl.gov (R. Shirdi Prem)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Dope Addicts in New Delhi ?? (Re: Nov 19 ----)
Date: 20 Nov 1992 00:32:11 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Reply-To: prem@prem.lbl.gov (R. Shirdi Prem)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.140.191

>In article <1992Nov19.180321.8684@usl.edu> sgs1679@usl.edu (Sudhindranath Sira G) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I wonder how many of us remember that today, Nov 19th,
>is National Integration Day, back home in India.
>
>And ironically, today is also the former Prime Minister 
>Indira Gandhi's birthday.

	It ain't no coincidence. In some glorious hallucination, 
	some joker in New Delhi saw some connection between that 
	dame and National Integration.

	Shows you why acid isn't good for you!!

	Maybe some other dope will now name August 20 a 
	"Foreign Policy and Friendship With Neighbours Day". 
	
	-- For those of you who don't know,
	    August 20th is the birthday of that other great nincompoop, 
	    whose government had achieved the dubious distinction of 
	    being on bad terms with all its neighbours in a (thankfully) 
	    short five year span.

	-- For those of you who don't care,
	    you are probably happier that way.

	Prem!

>Regards,
>
>--Sudhi.

 ==============================================================================
 ==  In support of the UCB grad students strike, there will be no sig today. ==
 ==============================================================================
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: vilok@bmerh322.bnr.ca (Vilok Kusumakar)
Subject: Re: ** 220V/50Hz -> 110V/60Hz Info ? **
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 19:13:40 GMT

In article <17971@autodesk.COM> vittal@Autodesk.COM (Vittalbabu Srinivasan) writes:
>
>Fellow netters,
>
>A friend of mine is relocating to India. He is carrying a
>lot of 110V/60Hz US appliances like (1) 1000W Microwave oven
>(2) 2in1 (3) CD player (4) Blender/Mixer (5) Telephone (6) Lamps.
>
>Can any of you suggest how these appliances would work in India ?
>
>Indian stores around the Bay area do sell transformers that step
>220V down to 110V so some of these apps would work. But then there
>are some of them like the CD player (I do not know if this really 
>frequency based) which could be sensitive to frequency. SO DO YOU
>KNOW IF anybody here in the US of India sell frequency converters
>that step up from India's 50Hz to 60Hz ? How much do they cost ?
>Where can one get these ? So let us say that the CD player and the 
>Microwave oven are frequency sensitive. Here we have the CD player
>with a low power requirement and the oven which draws higher power.
>So how does one run these appliances in India ? What kind of gadgetry
>would be needed and who offers it and from where ?
>

As far as I have investigated, the adapter come with a wattage written on 
them. A 220 to 110 Volt adapter for 1000Watt sells at Radio shack for
$20. A 2000W adapter sells for $40. These adapters only convert voltage
and will be fine for products using heating plate or motors which do not
rely on frequencey like Iron, blow dryer, Blender/Mixer etc.

There are adpaters which also convert frequcey but they cost a lot more $60 
to $120. CD player, 2in1, Microwave oven should work with these
adapters. I am currently investigating the possibility of getting these adapters
made in India from a eletrician. 

For telephones you don't need anything. Most of the cordless work at
9V DC. so you can buy a 220 to 9V DC adapter in India for Rs. 75.

Correct me if I am wrong somewhere. My investigation is continuing.

Please post a summary.

>
---------------
Vilok Kusumakar                    OSI Protocols for tomorrow......
vilok@bnr.ca                       Bell-Northern Research, Ltd.
Phone: (613) 763-2273              P.O. Box 3511, Station C 
Fax:   (613) 765-4777              Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 4H7
From: garyd@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Gary Deol)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: re:Khalistan
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 23:07:58 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #2, Edmonton, AB, Canada

A reply to a message written by the idiot: mkatyal@opie.bgsu.edu
 
>Do you want us Hindus to again kick your ugly butts as in 1984? 
             ^^^^^^^^^
             /\ Remember this statement when the next time
                a Hindu asks me `did you ask ALL Hindus'.
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^
 
  Oh you guys must have felt SO PROUD having to use over a dozen army 
units to attack Bhindranwale's estimated 300-400 men, and even
then they were kicking your ass until you guys in a last ditch effort
decided to bring in Tanks, and Gun boat helicopters (were the Nuclear 
war heads ready to?), whatever happened to chivalry (let me take that 
back after all this is Hindus we are talking about).  The Indian 
military had over a thousand casualties, so to make other Hindus feel 
it was a great military victory they went and killed a few thousand 
innocent people who had went there to pray!  Quoting a few army 
jewans in 1984 "this was the tuffest battle I have ever fought".   
 
 
  We may have lost that battle but the war isn't over, next time we 
meet I assure you the odds (instead of 1000 trained soliders 
to 1 Sikh) and weapons (they mostly had rifles compared to Indian 
troops fully automatic machine guns and rocket launchers) will be 
much fair (we are already buying and stockpiling (no country shall me
mentioned :^) the latest in high tech weapons and training Sikhs) and 
then we will see who prevails! 
 
 
  General Shubeg Singh must of been this centuries greatest 
strategist because every single trap that he had laid, the Indian 
gov't army (the very one that boasts that it is the fourth strongest 
in the world) fell for, and you guys want to go fight Pakistan, does 
the term blood bath mean anything to you?
 

Gary Deol              garyd@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: Bank of India's Indiacheck for expatriates
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:00:51 GMT


Banks Speedy Money

Check this one out. Bank of India's Indiacheck helps expatriates remit
savings speedily back home. Available in denominations between Rs 500
and Rs 10,000 from authorized agents in foreign countries, Indiacheck
is valid for six months and is payable at over 2,300 BOI branches.
                                                          India Today

                              * E N D *
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ashwath@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ashwath Ram)
Subject: Re: Premarital Sex - Is It OK?
Keywords: sex, marriage
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:33:47 GMT

In article <9717@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> cmhst6+@pitt.edu (Chris M Hunsicker) writes:
>
>To All:
>
>I am engaged and am going to be married in about 9 months. My finacee &
>I are really growing impatient and would REALLY REALLY like to jump each
>others bones! Should we do this, is it ok to, before we get married?
>Should we be worried about the consequences of our actions, mentally or
>otherwise? Note that we can't get married any earlier because our
>parents want us to get married at that paricular date. 
>
>You replies will decide for us!! Any hints as to sneaking around would
>also be greatly apreciated!
>
>	-Atul Grover ( A man whose glands are about to bust... )


[posted for Nitin Khanna; send replies to nitin@ecn.purdue.edu]

Hey pal,

Why are you asking the whole world permission to make love
to your fiancee?  Any hints as to sneaking around?; what does
this mean, do you wnat to sneak around with your finace
or behind her back.

I cant believe that a man who would ask half the indian
population in the states permission to "jump his 
fiance's bones" even has glands !!

Nitin Khanna

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: aa@iti.org (Aayush Asthana)
Subject: Re: HOW WE TIP IN RESTAURANTS: A Correction
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:23:32 GMT

					{A CORRECTION}
*I* aa@iti.org (Aayush Asthana) write:

>gupta@cse.uta.edu (Arun Gupta) writes:

>>    There has been several articles on the above topic recently. Let me put in
>>my 2 cents worth: I feel that tipping and bribes are one and the same thing. If

>As a CUSTOMARY act, yes, they are the same -- for example, a bribe
>can be given or expected before or after the sought after outcome
>and in many places (for eg. India, 3rd world) has become a way of
>life in many spheres of activity.  It has become a practice followed
>as a matter of course or habit.  A tip is also a customary act.

>But there are some subtle differences...

>>one needs something done, one bribes; if one needs good service, one tips.
>>However the difference is that one pays the bribe before the job and one tips
>>after the service (the server is not sure if the bribe will be offered after
>>the service is performed).

>Actually the time factor serves to confuse the issue.  Everyone (I
>hope) knows that a tip is expected as a matter of course in a
>restaurant but there may be room for doubt as to the exact sum
>before the event.  But the distinction does not rest on time, as a
>bribe materialize later (hold this thought).   
      ^
----> may not     
		{rest same}

>A difference arises from how much a CUSTOMARY act deviates from
>being a NORM.  Remember a norm is usually a standard or `normal'
>behavior.  In that respect, a bribe has negative attributes (by
>definition) and is not considered a `norm.'  However, a tip is both
>a customary practice and accepted as a norm by most people.  Now if
>the majority of Indians (or for that matter others) were to take
>this and turn it into an unacceptable (to the group) practice, the
>customary practice would soon turn into (in the eyes of the
>group/society) extortion.

>Back to the thought on bribes not materializing; power is an
>important determinant of this: if there is a power shift, a bribe
>may reverse it's direction -- this aspect is yet another distinction
>from being a tip but not a very strong one (as there's a tautology
>involved bribe=money, tip=money, power may/may not = money).

>>    Comments anyone?

>Good stuff...

>[] Regards,   | Industrial    :      _________ ___________ ___________
>Aayush Asthana| Technology    :    /___   ___//___    ___//___    ___/
>aa@iti.org    | Institute     :   ____/  /___    /  /    ____/  /____ 
>(313) 769-4652| Ann Arbor, MI :  /__________/   /__/    /___________/
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: vinodm@ece.scarolina.edu (Marur Vinod)
Subject: Re: KASHMIR MOTION IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date: 16 Nov 92 03:13:57 GMT

I.Buchh@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Irshad Buchh) writes:



>London, Nov 2 (KPI):

>Mr. Roger Godsiff, Labour MP and Chairman of the All Party British Kashmir 
........

I don't know how the person who posted this article feels. But I do think
what I feel is definitely what most Indians are currently feeling.
	Any Britisher who feels that he/she has any unfinished business in
our sub-continent is correct in one respect - a lot needs to be done in terms
of paying back all that they plundered during their reign in India. It is so 
very amusing to hear them talk about equality and non-discrimination or to
carefuly analyze their reactions during WW2. While racism was being practiced
on one hand they were ever ready to ostracize Hitler for doing the same.
	In fact I  feel that all they were opposing is a violation of their
uniqueness in practicing Racila Discrimination. The only nation which had any
moral stature among the Allies was the U.S.. In fact, it would be really ideal
if there existed some way to make the Brits. pay for the mess they've created
in our country. And I don't even feel grateful to the likes of Mountbatten - 
for giving India frredom was certainly no great gesture - they were beaten 
badly and they knew it.
	And as far as their policy on any matter goes - well they can take it
and shove it where the sun don't shine - they are in a mess themselves, and
what some hare-brained desperado MP sitting in Britain feels is unlikely to
make any ripples except for discussion by fools like us on this net (yours
truly included).          
	To end - here's hoping the sun never shine on the scumbags called
JKLF.

Vinod Marur.
All std. discalimers apply.

--
Vinod R. Marur . E-Mail :vinodm@ohm.ece.scarolina.edu
Why am I called irrational while you're called individualistic?!
 ******************************************************************************
From: aks20@ccc.amdahl.com (Anil K. Sahai)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Phone number of US consulate in Madras
Date: 19 Nov 92 19:37:59 GMT
Reply-To: aks20@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Anil K. Sahai)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

I am looking for the FAX number of US consulate in Madras.

I have tried State Department but in vain.

If someone can please let me know, it will be very helpful.


Thanks..

Please send me an e-mail at: aks20@spg.amdahlcom     or
                             zombie@spica.ucsc.edu


-- anil
From: chitta@cs.umd.edu (Chitta R. Baral)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Health Insurance for elderly parents
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:52:21 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742


This is for a friend of mine.

My friend is a citizen here. His mom just became a resident of US
(sponsered by him). He is not able to find a health insurance company
that would insure his mom, because of her age. Unlike some
other states Texas does not have a compulosry health insurance
program. 

I would appreciate it very much if anyone has some suggestions
for my friend. thankyou very much in advance.



Chitta Baral
chitta@cs.ep.utexas.edu
Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:37103 soc.culture.indian.telugu:1033
From: sdoki@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Suresh Doki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.telugu,wpi.students.desis
Subject: Re: OM SHANTI!!!!!! SHANTI!!!, WHERE IS NET POLICE ?
Date: 15 Nov 1992 20:33:47 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

One well wisher for SCI arastogi@nyx.cs.du.edu (D Murari) writes:

>Hello netters,

>My sincere advise to Samit and Sreehari: why don't you
>post your articles to alt.sex or alt.pornography?

sure do but also crosspost to SCI and SCIT. i read just these two
groups. 

>I feel  ffended by these posts and I think   
>our fellow netters also think the same.
>A well wisher for soc.culture.indian!

another well wisher for SCI


suresh
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: INDIAN CULTURE - Subservient
From: <RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 16 Nov 1992 18:01:11 EST
 <92321.025537RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET><1992Nov16.175922.1308@csrd.uiuc.edu>
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

-
->And we
->can recover once more the great creativity of the Indian mind.
-
-You mean the Indian-American mind.  How is your accomplishments here
-enriching the minds of the peasants of Rajasthan.  Would love to be
-corrected on this.
-
-Sanjoy Ghosh

   You are quite right on one score - but one needs to distinguish between
culture and country.  There is nothing to prevent Indian-Americans from
appreciating and preserving their culture, though you are quite right
that that will make no direct contribution to the peasants of Rajasthan.
But culture and social welfare are distinct issues.  Kalidasa made enormous
contributions to Indian culture, but I am not sure he contributed much to
the life of the peasants of Rajasthan.  Not that their life is NOT an
important issue, but it is an issue of social welfare, quite distinct
from the issue of Indian culture.

Rohit Parikh
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: iyengas@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Satya Iyengar)
Subject: Indian civilization.......
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:17:52 GMT

    
Hey guys,

when you guys are having a discussion about Ancient Indian civilization
wouldn't it be better for you to be a bit more civilized and use refined
language.

  Satya
 "The extinguisher"
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi)
Subject: Re: What do American students think of India/Indians ?
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Distribution: soc.culture.indian
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:09:22 GMT

In my haste to point out to Rajib that we should be careful in using the net,
I forgot to mention that I do side with Rajib's point of view.
The original poster who had carried out the
survey could have done it by telling them that he is doing it for SCI (which
is as hokey a name as the Inter cultural thingy he mentioned).

Anil

-- 
Sathsangatve    nissangatvam   From good company to no company
Nissangatve      nirmohatvam   From no company to lack of desire
Nirmohatve    nischalatatvam   From lack of desire to concentration of mind
Nischalatatve  jeevanmuktihi   From concentration of mind to liberation of life
From: fafat@phakt.usc.edu (Vijay Fafat)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: NO SUCH MAILS PLEASE-- REF--RESPECT FOR FEMALES
Date: 21 Nov 1992 11:59:38 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

In article <1992Nov20.193612.6487@gw.wmich.edu> x92nath@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>HI READER
>
>THIS IS FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE USING OBSCENE WRITING IN THE NETWORK
>THAT IF THEY HAVE ANY PERSONAL FIGHT THEY CAN CONTAVT WITH EACH OTHER
>ON EMAIL OR GET EACH OTHER PHONE NUMBER AND FIGHT.  IT IS BEING READ BY 
>MANY PEOPLE AND PERSONAL FIGHTS LIKE IT OCCURED IN RESPECT FOR FEMALES
>SHOULD BE STRICTLY AVOIDED.  NOBODY IS HERE TO READ YOUR BULLSIT EMAILS
>
>SHAMBHU.

	
	Ram Lak^han's  littil babloo brother has arrived ...










Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: bhat@cs.columbia.edu (Dinkar Bhat)
Subject: Re: MOLCOM X, A TRUE REVOLUTIONIST.
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:54:11 GMT

In article <1478@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala) writes:
>bhat@cs.columbia.edu (Dinkar Bhat) writes:
>: In article <1466@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala) writes:
>: >prem@prem.lbl.gov (R. Shirdi Prem) writes:
>: >: In article <1443@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala) writes:
>: >: >Hay guys/gals, the movie "Molcom X" is getting released
>: >: >tomorrow, and my suggestion to all is to take a 
>: >: 
>: >: 	No offense, but what about "Molcom" parts I thru IX ??
>: >
>: >Without going into details, let me briefly state that its not
>: >number "ten", but "Ex". Molcom Little wanted to shed his last
>: >name, 'cze it showed to the world that he was "little"(to whites).
>: >He changed his name to "Molcom Ex", symbolizing, Ex-smoker, Ex-drug
>: >peddler, Ex-everything. For more details, either read his
>: >autobiography(as told to Mr Healey OR watch Spike Lee's recent
>: >movie)
>: >: 
>: >: 	Prem!
>: >
>: >__SN
>: 
>: THERE AIN'T NO "MOLCOM" AND THERE AIN'T NO "HEALEY".
>
>YES, THE CORRECT ONES ARE, "MALCOM" AND "ALEX HALEY". Is it okay
>now??
>: 
>: Dinkar.

Ok I will give it to you, it is "Malcolm X" and "Alex Hailey".

Peace.
Dinkar.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: atulpule@sebastian.carleton.ca (Ajit Tulpule)
Subject: Re: Nov 19 ---- National Integration Day.
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:19:23 GMT

In <1992Nov19.180321.8684@usl.edu> sgs1679@usl.edu (Sudhindranath Sira G) writes:

>Hi,

>I wonder how many of us remember that today, Nov 19th,
>is National Integration Day, back home in India.

>And ironically, today is also the former Prime Minister 
     ^^^^^^^^^^
>Indira Gandhi's birthday.

Nothing ironic about this. It's National Integration Day today
*because* it is Indira Gandhi's birth anniversary (after some person
is dead, one uses the words birth anniversary instead of birthday).
This day (Nov 19) was declared to be the National Integration Day, after
the assasination of Indira Gandhi. It was the (then) President of India
Gyani Zail Singh who declared this day as the National Integration Day.

Ajit.
 
-----------------------------------------------
Ajit Tulpule

School of Business
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1S 5B6

email : atulpule@business.carleton.ca
-----------------------------------------------


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: prasad@cis.ksu.edu (Baba C Prasad)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: GATE Exam in India: Details wanted
Date: 21 Nov 1992 17:12:00 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University, Dept. of Computing and Information Sciences
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: altair.cis.ksu.edu


Hi:
 I'm trying to get some statistics of the GATE exam that's given in
India. 
Who has to take them? 
How many students take the test every year?
Is the score a percentile like the GRE? 
What are the subjects in which it is offered. 

I'd appreciate your responses to this e-mail address with any additional
information.

Thanks in advance.

--baba prasad.

-- 
--prasad

---------------------------------------------------
Baba Prasad
From: mursha@cco.caltech.edu (Murali Shurmat)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: clothes to India/info wanted
Summary: info wanted on organizations collecting clothes for sending to India
Keywords: charity organizations, clothes
Date: 17 Nov 92 06:42:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: gap.1ea49eINNcou
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

I would like to find out about any organizations in the US that would accept donations
of clothes, to be distributed in India.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.telugu,wpi.students.desis