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From: cupadhya@skat.usc.edu (Chintan Upadhyay)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Communications Program in USCLA
Date: 27 Jul 1992 14:52:59 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu

ssr@cypress.com (Bapcha/FPGA) writes:

>In article <1992Jul24.191132.352@talon.ucs.orst.edu> rakhee@ece.orst.edu (Rakhee Gupta) writes:
>>Hi Guys,
>>
>>A friend of mine is planning to apply in USCLA for Master's
>>in Electrical Engg. Her major is Communications.  

>Awww pleeeeze.... call USC USC.... the University of Second Choice,
>                                       ^             ^      ^

What a poor taste of words ! Just shows how intolerant and bigoted a person can be ............

Maybe his posting should be on rec.humor.not-funny , eh ?
Or maybe he is suffering from the Freudian subconscious feelings of repression that he didn't go to USC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


>-- 
>Bapcha - A very bad boy from Cypress Semiconductor
How well he describes himself !

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: swami1@troy.uucp (22535-swaminathan)
Subject: Re: Justice Bains -- Release of....
Reply-To: swami1@troy.UUCP ()
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 13:17:39 GMT

In article <AeP0UZO00VAwQ_b3IX@andrew.cmu.edu> ag3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Arun K. Gupta) writes:
>
>
>The statement by the Committee for the Release of Justice Bains
>makes the claim that none of the peoples of India made a voluntary
>choice to join the Indian Union.
>
>That is total rubbish !
>
>-arun gupta
>ag3L@andrew.cmu.edu

Considering that more than 90% of the Sikhs in India (or their
parents) came as refugees from Pakistan, they sure did not come to
India voluntarily!

Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:25949 soc.culture.tamil:315 alt.culture.kerala:2
From: sramacha@skat.usc.edu (Sudarshan Ramachandran)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.kerala
Subject: Room mate at TORRANCE, CA.
Date: 25 Jul 1992 12:28:28 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu

Hi,

This is for a friend of mine.

Suren is looking for a room mate to share a place in Torrance, CA.
If you are interested, please call him at (213)732-8218.

You may also reply via email to me at sramacha@usc.edu


Thanks.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.tamil,alt.culture.us.asian-indian
From: paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus)
Subject: Re: alt.culture.kerala (r.f.d. kinda thing)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:28:12 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.222813.24173@reed.edu> vganesan@reed.edu (The Phoenix) writes:
>In article <1992Jul21.220752.22710@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> gchacko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (George W Chacko) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul21.205638.6574@colorado.edu> paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus) writes:
>>
>>>   Furthermore with 100% literacy we can presume that the 
>>>   level of discussion will be considerably above the norm 
>>>   for alt groups in general and culture groups in particular. 
>>
>>>        a] The developement of the malayalam language.
>>>        b] The developement of the keralite society.
>>
>>
>>Ha! Hum! Let me bring the level of discussion down for a bit if I
>>might and express my mild dismay at finding the person who proposed
>>the group (with 100% literacy) unfamiliar with the spelling of
>>development. ;-)
>> 
>>George
>>
>
>On a related note, I wonder how you came up with the figure of 
>100% literacy. From what I know in Ernakulam district all people
>between 18 and some upper limit are literate, there really has
>been no study to my knowledge stretching across the whole of
>the state. 
>

1] God, cant even smile without being questioned these days.
   The whole state was declared 100 literate after the missions,
   sometime last year.
    

>From personal exp, I can vouch for atleast two illiterate people
>in palghat ;-)

2] If I was d.c I would say :

			a] Were they your parents ?

   If I was njan I would say :

			b] Yes, northies are making it to the south these days.

	But I am niether of these.
	So:

			c] I am sure they were in good company.


2] 
>
>Maybe Icarus has forgotton Daedulus advice and is trying
>to fly too high ;-)

 		a] Icarus has not "forgotton" his fathers advice.
           Flying too high is the whole point.
>
>The Phoenix(back after Five hundred years of slumber)
>

		a] Looks like ya need some more :-)
>-- 
>  The Greatest burden in the world is to have              The Phoenix
>   a great potential.                                      Reed #252
>                     Linus from "Peanuts"                  Reed College
>                                                         Portland, OR-97202

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil
From: meena@top.cis.syr.edu (Meenakshi Arunachalam)
Subject: Tamil Jokes... from Vikatan!
Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 17:05:47 EDT

here are some Jokes from Ananda vikatan:
***************************************

Doctor: Konjam vaayath thiranga... kaiyya thookunga... kalai
	madakunga...guninga...nimirunga..nadanga!

Patient: Doctor! ithellam mudiyalainnu thane unga kitta vanthen!
-------

Doctor: unga maamiyarukku operation panni pizhaikka vaikkanumna
	20,000 roobay selavagum...

D-i-l: Verum operation panrathoda mattum niruthikka mudiyatha
       Doctor!
-------

Patient: Doctor! valadhu kaal romba valikuthunga..

Doctor: eppalerunthu?

Patient: tablekku keezha neenga en kaalai mithikka arambichathila
	 irunthu...
-------
ethaiyum nerapadi seyyarathuthan enakkup pidikkum.

athukaaga ovvoru naalum rathiri sariya panirendu manikku ezhunthu 
calendar-la irunthu thethiyai kizhikanuma?

-------

ennathu! un table-kku oru saambaar paithiyam vanthirukka?

amaa! alwavukku kooda thotukka saambaar ketu en uyirai vangaran
antha aalu!
--------

veetai suthamaga gaali seythuvittu,
thirudan: adutha murai naan varum pothu beero gaaliya irukkak
	  koodathu... enna?

veetu sonthakaarar: sarippa... kadano kidano vaangi beerovai
                    eppadiyavathu nirappi vaikiren! pothumaa?

----------

vakeel: yosikaama udane unmaiya sollanum...! kanthasami magan
	kuppusamiyai velusami magan munusami, ramasami magan muthusami
	veetuth thotathula kathiyala vetinathai rathinasamy magan 
	kumarasami-aagiya unakkuth theriyumnu solrangale... unmaiya?

koondil iruppavar: appadi illeenga... ramasami magan muthusami
                   thotathula velusami magan munusmai thaan kanthasami
		   magan kuppusamiyai vettinathu-nnu thaan  sollach
		   solliyirukaanga!
-------

enjoy!

-meena
pi. ku: 'typo' iruppin, porutharulga!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ghosh@sp91.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sanjoy Ghosh)
Subject: Re: Regarding RAW-Mossad Nexus to Fight Terrorism
Organization: Univ of Illinois, Center for Supercomputing R&D, Urbana, IL
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 21:09:09 GMT

ngrjn@milton.u.washington.edu (V Nagarajan) writes:

>	This would indeed be good if, thru better intelligence and
>	organization with the Israelis' help, the back of terrorism were
>	broken, the police atrocities were stopped (in Punjab) and 
>	the innocent civilians were spared and were free to resume 
>	their normal lives.

On the other hand, it might also lead to extreme rightwing
Army-backed vigilante death squads in the Chilean fashion.

Ofcourse if what you outline is the guaranteed outcome I am
all for it.

Sanjoy Ghosh
ghosh@csrd.uiuc.edu
From: onf@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (omar.farooq)
Subject: Angola vs. India
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:51:49 GMT

>Article 83762 in soc.culture.indian:
>Subject: Angola vs India
>From: <TXK9@psuvm.psu.edu>
>Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:05:45 EDT
>Organization: Penn State University
>Lines: 5
>
> It was interesting to note that Angola with a population of
>10 million, with 2 indoor courts and 250 serious players in the
>entire country made it to the olympics basketball finals. I wonder when
>India can dream of sending its basketball and vollyball teams to
>olympics.

India and other countries can worry about it when they take care of
more pressing social and economic problems!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rachada@icaen.uiowa.edu (Ramakrishna Chada)
Subject: Re: Regarding RAW-Mossad Nexus to Fight Terrorism
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:18:40 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa

In article <12447@inews.intel.com> rkrithiv@pima.intel.com (Ramamurthy Krithivas) writes:
>From: abdutta@icaen.uiowa.edu (Abhijit Dutta)
>Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.jewish
>>|* RAW-Mossad Nexus Fights Terrorism  
>>|*   It is a very heartening news!  Specially, in view of my  
>>|*   prediction, in the wake of resumption of diplomatic ties
>>|*   between the two countries, about the impending cooperation in
>>|*   the domain of counter-terrorism activities.  
>
>>I'd hope that countries like Pakistan and India would settle their
>>outstanding disputes in the spirit of friendship and respect for the 
>>territorial integrity of each country with the understanding that 
>>war and revenge don't pay, it just goes to weaken the economy and 
>>progress of the countries and the real victims are the common people 
>>and the future generations.
>>-jit
>
>  India has acted quite responsibly, and  therefore does not deserve 
>  the sermon that "respect territorial integrity ... war and revenge
>  does not pay". It is Pakistan and its  army in particular, that is 
>  frothing to settle the score of its defeat/surrender of 1971. 
>
>  Perhaps Pakistan can start displaying some goodwill to India by :: 
>
>   1] Dismantling all terrorists training camps within Pakistan. 
>   2] Stop arming/recruting Afgan mujahdeen and sending them to Kashmir.
>      [* And if it does not do so, India with the help of Mossad 
>         should take appropriate action to PURGE those camps *] 
>
>   3] Changing their history text books, that contain miserably contorted 
>      facts of the past/Hindus/India. 
>      [* Source: India Today *]
>   4] Realizing that 1971 episode was NOT something instigated by India, 
>      but a result of its(Pak's) own action [Genocide]. 
>      [* Unless 3 and 4 are immediately addressed to, Pakistan is going 
>         to churn out generations of poisoned citizens *]
>
>   5] Returning to India the occupied portion of Kashmir[POK]. 
>
>  
>   Till then there is nothing India needs to do special, to extend a 
>   hand  of friendship to Pakistan. It is Pakistan that has to learn 
>   to respect India and understand all the economic fundas, that Mr. 
>   Dutta has suggested in all good intention. 
>
>Krithi. 

Well said, 
All in agreement,

Ramakrishna Chada

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gauri@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Gauri Pavate)
Subject: Re: Amnesty Report on Left Front Govt. in Bengal
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:09:06 GMT

samaddar@siemens.com (Sumitro Samaddar) writes:


>>I don't understand something here. If the Amnesty report is credible, then
>>deaths are occurring in police custody in other places besides West Bengal
>>too. So why point finger only at the Left Front Govt? They may be no better
>>than other parties, but are they significantly worse?

>Going by WB's population ratio (66 million out of 880 million in India),
>they should have about 32 deaths. But once you include exceptions such as
>Punjab and J&K, then the police custody death rate in WB seem even higher.




	On the other hand, police custody deaths may be getting
reported more often in WB than in other states.  Its possible that in 
Punjab and Kashmir, given a politically more repressive atmosphere,
a smaller proportion of all police custody deaths get reported.
If this is indeed the case, then the WB police custody death
rate is actually upwardly biased.

					Gauri.


p.s. The AI report is based only on recorded deaths and it
acknowledges that many police custody deaths go unreported
in many areas.  Possible reasons are that the relatives of
victims may be fearful of repurcussions, or they may be
unaware of legal recourses.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.canada
From: mgundeko@pcserver2.Naitc.Com (Murthy Gundekota)
Subject: Citizen Babies (Re: Ridiculous Health Insurance Policy)
Organization: Somewhere near Chicago
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 16:23:00 GMT

In article <0eOu6nO00WBMQ8D1At@andrew.cmu.edu> pr0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Pravin Devineni Ratnam) writes:
>Also, I have heard of instances
>where people come on tourist visas and have babies. The U.S should have
>a law against granting citizenships to such babaies.

Now that is Ross Perot talking. I think US should withdraw automatic
citizenship to all newborn babies, so we don't have to roll-call
ABCD's but rather say ``Air Born Countryless Desis.'' Take that
acrimony for a purgative and have a nice day. 

But Dev, that's what you are telling the tourists. Damn it, not every
one, except the prudent president, is happy when the INS refused visas
for people with AIDS. I am sure the conservatives like you are not
prognosticating the wrath resulting from the babies born to these AIDS
tourists while in USA, are you?  It gotta be simpler than that. Why
buy trouble when you can't make a buck out of it? A little kid isn't
worth a didley to the capitalists. But then, if the tourists, somehow,
gave birth to a 20 year old engineer with exceptional linear
programming skills, would they be a problem Dave? 

I know you will say, you can't change the rules of the game. Nobody is
born 20 yr. old, not even the chicken.  If I insisted, and peristed,
the answer will be `no.' That is, it's okay to be born or born-again
(like most `qualified' or `technocrat' immigrants), with a set of
useful skills--skills not expressed or rare in the big US of A--the
capitalists can gainfully manage.

By the way, it is not just good old, god-bless America that grants
automatic US citizenship to newborn babies, if you didn't already
know. In fact, it is a convention for every country to grant that
birthday wish for the newborn--``leave me alone from your stupid
politics and boundaries.'' I wish you were a kid Dave. I wish I am a
kid. No body would give a damn if I exercised my birth (god given)
right to shit on the aeroplane seat, as soon as I am born, and then
many many times after that.


Murthy




Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: nparkar@seamis1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nuru Parkar)
Subject: Re: Citizenship required to collect Soc. sec ?
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:50:08 GMT

kseshadr@oracle.uucp (Krishnan Seshadri) writes:

>Is it true that you need US citizenship to be eligible for Soc. sec. when
>the time comes ? I thought the only requirement was that you need to have
>been paying SS for atleast 40 quarters.

>Anyone with more info ? 

>Krishnan  
>======================================================================
>kseshadr@us.oracle.com     

>Voice:       (301) 913-5017


No, you may retain your citizenship (say India) and still collect SS benefits 
when time comes.  The additional requirement is that the recipent must be
legal resident of the united states. i.e. Green card holder or US citizen.
If you are a green card holder and wanted to stay in the United States then
there is no problem, but if you decided to stay in India instead, then
social security administration will send your benefit check directly to
indian address.  But in order to retain your permanent residency (Green card)
you must visit united states once a year, because green card cannot be renewed
out side the united states.

If you are US citizen then it is not necessary to visit United States just to
renew your US passport, because it can be done at any US embassy.  This why
most of the people become US citizen before retirement.

Nuru Parkar

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rkg0644@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rajesh Kumar )
Subject: RE jobs in US
Summary: looking for jobs in US
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 05:19:33 GMT
Keywords: Jobs in US
  I am looking for job right now. I am from IIT/ Kanpur and I have an MBA and 
 a wide variety of computer skills and a lot of programming skills in C and
 Please let me know if you have any information on such job openings.  

Thanks in advance. Please send me e-mail at rkg0644@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
or leave a message at (217)-351-2688 before Aug 2nd; (217)-344-5222 after
Aug 2nd.
Rajesh Kumar
From: sunder@altair.crhc.uiuc.edu (Srinivas Sunder)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Olympics Opening Ceremony
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:29:25 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NNTP-Posting-Host: altair.crhc.uiuc.edu

In article <l7do2tINNeb8@alhena.usc.edu>, sadhal@alhena.usc.edu (Sati Sadhal) writes:
|> 
|> There has been a lot said about the derogatory remarks made by the 
|> news commentator at the Olympics Opening Ceremony. Some netters are
|> coming to the defense of the commentator -- 
|> 	"Oh, he made a mistake"
|> 	"What else do you expect? He does not know any better." 
|> We are foolishly dealing with facts and counting the number of 
|> astro turfs. The whole issue is a rhetorical one. It is the style
|> with which the statement was made, "....but India is SUCH a poor 
|> nation......" that's offensive. Clearly, such a statement would
|> never be made about China, primarily because China is a nuclear
|> power with launch capability. That is the only language that the
|> West understands and respects. Nevertheless, it is our duty to

Bob Costas made a LOT of comments about every single country
that came by. There was some mention of Tiananmen square when the
Chinese team came by, and there is always at least a subliminal
reference to the fact that China is NOT a country where the people
are free, especially when they talk about Chinese athletes being
conditioned by the state almost from birth, seeing their parents
only twice a year, etc. 

Besides, he said that we are a poor country. It might be derogatory
(not as far as I can see), but it is true. In fact, every Indian
politician on the world scene, whether at Rio or at an IMF meeting
says the same thing. Does it become offensive because the person who
says it is not Indian? 

He also said that we don't have astro-turf surfaces. From what I've 
heard on the net, we DO have some astro-turf surfaces, but hardly any 
per capita to qualify as enough. And I am yet to see a good reason for 
WHY we don't have that many astro-turf surfaces. Could it be that we 
really are too poor to afford too many of them? The truth may be bitter, 
but nevertheless it is the truth. No amount of moaning is going to change
that. National pride is no substitute for a fat GDP.

-- 
Srinivas Sunder                                         sunder@crhc.uiuc.edu

If my employer shares these opinions, he deserves them.
********************************************************************************
From: DXS23@psuvm.psu.edu (Deepak Srivastava)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: VHP's Defiance -- view point by Soli J. Sorabjee
Date: 24 Jul 92 14:36:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: psuvm.92206.103653DXS23
Organization: Penn State University

In article <92205.142907DXS23@psuvm.psu.edu>, Deepak Srivastava
<DXS23@psuvm.psu.edu> says:
>
>Times of India 18 July:
>
>view point:     VHP's Defiance  -- Soli J. Sorabjee
>
>
>An independent judiciary is the bullwark of a democracy. Judicial
>review is a basic feature of our Constitution. Destroy independen-
>ce of the judiciary and you destroy the very foundation of the ru-
>le of law and civilised behaviour.
>
>Independence of the judiciary can be subverted in diverse ways. The
>most blatant onslaught on judicial independence is disobedience
>of its judgement and order, all the more reprehensible when such
>action is not owing to an uncontrollable impulse, but the outco-
>me of a deliberate decision and calculated strategy.
>
>Whatever may be the rights and wrongs of the Babri Masjid contro-
>versy, irrespective of the correctness or otherwise of the restr-
>aint order passed by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court,
>the open declaration of defiance of the High Court and burning of
>the effigies of the judges by Mr. Ashok Singhal and his supporters
>are indefensible and frought with grave mischief. The High Court
>has not passed the order ex parte. If any party is dissatisfied wi-
>th the court orders, it may appeal to the Supreme Court. But to
>chalange the authority of courts of the land to adjudicate because
>the order is adverse is amount to taking the law into one's hand.
>And the great danger is that such outrageous instances of lawless
>behaviour can be infectious and may be imitated by others. The con-
>sequence will be chaos.
>
>When Governor Wallace of Arkansas refused to obey the US Supreme
      *****************************
>Court judgement about desegregation of schools the President of
>USA did not hesitate to send in federal troops to maintain the
>authority of the apex court.
>
>The government owes it to the country and to the Constitution not
>to countenance acts which amount to gross contempt of court. The
>test of a civilised nation is the respect it accords to the judi-
>ciery. If the UP government can not ensure compliance with judici-
>al orders, it would be guilty of serious dereliction of its const-
>itutional obligations. Indeed such failure would be perilously cl-
>ose to a breakdown of constitutional machinery in the State. These
>pernicious trends must be suppressed firmly and swiftly. The time
>for pussyfooting is over.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>All typing mistakes are mine.       Deepak
>

People have pointed out that Governer Wallace was of Allabama not
of Arkansas as written above. This mistake was in the original
article in the TOI and I did not edit it.

Deepak
From: g9220348@cc.uow.edu.au (adil shaikh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: SATANIC VERSES
Date: 23 Jul 92 08:00:40 GMT
Organization: University Of Wollongong


In "The Hindu" newspaper's international edition I read that 

a Professor from Jamia Millia Islamia requested the government to 

lift the ban on  the Satanic Verses.

Does anyone know the lattest stand of the govt. ?

I want to post The Satanic Verses to India.

Does the Indian Custom Authority open the book parcel?

The other option to me is to send the book via some person.

So,
Is it a safe way to take the Satanic Verses through immigration check point?

Awaiting the real help.

bye
adil
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