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From: vijay@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Vijay Fafat)
Subject: Vedic Maths, Cobra Patel
Organization: University of Engineering, College of Engineering
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 07:11:17 GMT


*Anyone who has done some reading on the book called `Vedic Mathematics'?

*It was a tome and it was a jewel.

*I cant remember the author or the  publisher.  But the uncle who loaned it to
*me did mention that it is a very old book (1950's) and I remember that.

Seetamraju, Uday Bhaskar Sarma
(email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)
**************************************************************************
if you want to know more about me finger me !
**************************************************************************

   Bossu (and I DID get it right this time that you're NOT Jekyll and Hyde
rolled into one!),

    I had read a few pages of this book at IIT(B). The author of the book is
one Mr. Shankaracharya. The book had some really fundoo methods for divison,
multiplication,root-extraction,etc. It also gave the original Sanskrit verses
which described the method. I did try to convert the heavy prose in the text 
into algorithmic form but then it got too heavy. Would be good if somebody more
industrious and diligent and hardworking and sincere and ... (reminds me of my
reco. letters!) person converted it into a more readable form. However, the book
gives NO justification or proof for any method (Were our ancients in the habit 
of doing a Fermat??). I guess one could work backwards and prove them (but still
toss around at night wondering HOW THE HELL DID IT STRIKE THEM?). Comments?

Regards,
   Loose character.

PS : an aside for Jay Cobra Patel : I guess you're not from Bombay. Try visiting
some college and you'll find the notorious "Gujju Jokes" floating around by the
ton. I personally don't care much for them but do think that they summarize the
typical "Gujrathi accent" to a large extent. Jara relax thao bhai   karan ke aa loko to bahu gaanda che! (No, I'm not a Gujju)
From: bkannan@HA07.ENG.UA.EDU (Balaji Kannan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Indian English
Date: 17 Apr 92 17:31:07 GMT



     More P.T Master-English (Vijay.R, please take note)...........

  
   1) Look at the climate man, it's too hot to play.
                  ^^^^^^^
      This slip is  not necessarily occupational .
        
   2) If you talk, I'll kneel down (Always wished he would, but found
                                    out that, that's not what he meant)

   3) Cuckoo, Blaady (Kick you, bloody...)                               


     Balaji Kannan
From: nshankar@diva.Berkeley.EDU (N. K. Shankar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: H-1/H-4 Visas in India: Responses to Query
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:19:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: agate.rvrguINNnbc
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: diva.berkeley.edu

I had posted a query a week back asking for information about
getting H-1 and H-4 visas in India. I got about 6-8 responses.
I thank the responders!! 

My conclusion: If you are going to India and need a
H-1 visa, it seems to be a low-risk to apply for it in India.
The H-4 visa situation is equally good. I have heard/received
info only about positive experiences (since the new rules).
Also, the process appears to be reasonably straightforward.

If you want, I have a file with responses
that I can mail to you. Send mail to
"shankar@hoh-1.att.com" please.

- Shankar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rr2@cec1.wustl.edu (Rajamiyer Ravichandran)
Subject: A joke about mathematicians ( with due respects to them)
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:40:30 GMT



    This joke was told by one of our faculty members in class.

    Two engineers were travelling in a baloon when suddenly a gust
    of wind blew them away to an unknown territory. When the wind
    calmed down they found themselves floating close to the ground
    in a strange country. Then they spotted a guy standing alone
    looking up in the sky. He appeared to be engrossed in some 
    deep thoughts. One of the engineers on the baloon yelled at
    him, " Hey ! you there. Can you tell us where we are ? ".

    The man on the ground thought for quite a while making some
    gesticulations as though he was making some serious calculations.
     Then he replied, " You two are sitting in a baloon at a height
    of 200 meters above the ground". Then one engineer said to the 
    other one, " This guy must be a mathematician ".
    "How can you tell ?", asked his friend.

    " Two reasons. One, he gave an accurate answer and two, the
      answer is totally useless".
Organization: Junior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 11:15:49 -0400 
From: Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh <rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: More on s.c.tamil
	<ps490a11.703478854@cehp13>

Obviously, you are not aware of the certain segments of Tamil history. 
If you read scs-l, you would know the supposed 'design' I have for
greater Eelam. 
Pure nonsense. ON principal and in actuality, I'm opposed to the notion of this
greater Eelam. It's a recipe for bloodshed that will dwarf what has been
spilled so far.  It will be one of those 'historica warl for survival'
on the part of most Sinhalase with the SL Tamils sandwiched in the
middle of the whole affair.
It has happened before....long time ago. I have no intention of wanting
to see such things in my lifetime. I also have no quarrel with the
Sinhalese <people.> So, don't be so righteous next time.

-Suresh









a note: Your writing's style is pretty good.
From: murgesh@sgi.com (Murgesh Navar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: One less ignorant Indian girl
Date: 16 Apr 92 22:25:50 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Apr15.203404.20522@colorado.edu> manu@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Njan) writes:
>In article <sduw4oC00WC0MJ5wUC@andrew.cmu.edu> Pravin Devineni Ratnam <pr0i+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>
>>shouldn't be the only means to have sex. She said that she believed that
>>one needn't marry to have sex. So you don't have to marry just for satisfying
>>your sexual urges.
>
>Well, with AIDS around, it may be a sensible idea to not to have it before
>marriage... I was told about a guy ( supposedly Indian ) who picked
>up a woman from a bar and took her home, and next morning when he woke up
>
	Pick up a partner from a bar OR get married to have sex !!!. The mind
boggles at the depth of your intelect. Sex just happens to be one of the
ingredients of marriage. 

						-murgesh
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From: aksimha@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Arun Simha)
Subject: Re: WHAT DOES THIS HINDI/URDU WORD MEAN.....
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:04:46 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.162357.5649@draco.macsch.com> rot@mickie.id.macsch.com (Rohit Thukral) writes:
>In article <1992Apr13.040416.14015@athena.mit.edu> jmukherj@athena.mit.edu (Jaideep Mukherjee) writes:
>>In article <167C712E93.A0K5719@tamvm1.tamu.edu> A0K5719@tamvm1.tamu.edu writes:
>>>Hi netters, I have come across this word *HAALA* in Haribans Rai Bachchan's
>>>"Madhushala". This could be a hindi/urdu word but looks more like a hindi
>>>word to me. This word has been used in several sentences in the poem and at
>>>each place it seems to have a different meaning/context. For example:
>>> 
>>>chhot se jeevan me kitna pyaar karoon, pee loon HAALA
>>> 
>>>yam (as in yamraj) aaega saqi bankar, saath liye kaali HAALA
>>> 
>>>mere adharon par ho antim, vastu na ganga jal HAALA
>>> 
>>>Does anybody know the meaning??
>>> 
>>>anil
>>
>> There is a similar sounding Bengali word derived from Sanskrit that
>>means poison. I can see this making sense for the first two lines
>>above, but can't figure out how it would fit into the third.
>>
>>Jaideep
>>
>
>I didn't know what "haala" meant, but poison does make sense
>in all three lines. In the third line Bachchan says,
>"Let the last thing on my lips be poison, not water
>from the Ganga". It does make sense in the context of the
>melancholy mood of the first and second lines.
>
>Rohit
>-- 
>#include <StdDisclaimer.h>

 Haala is poison! If I remember my Amar Chitra Katha fundas correctly, it
 was the poison that came out of the "churning the ocean" project undertaken
 by the devas and asuras in collaboration with Vasuki, the snake king! 
 Shiva, swallowed the "haala" and generally turned into a "blue-baby",
 `which is why he's depicted in all paintings, in that colour! So much,
  for ACK fundas :-)

Arun
From: rxh9306@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Part 5 : Who Created the Tigers (LTTE) ?
Date: 7 Apr 92 06:07:03 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology



Who Created the Tigers (LTTE) ?                        (Part 5)


The sinhala parliament members of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
(People's United Front) and the United National Party (UNP), who
were responsible for passing the Parliamentary Law given bellow,
and others like them !



" The "Sinhalese-only" language policy passed into law as the
Official Language Act No.33 of 1956, and reads as follows-
"An Act to prescribe the Sinhala language as the one official
language of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and to enable certain transitory
provisions to be made (Date of Assent: 7 July 1956).


1.  This Act may be cited as the Official Language Act No.33 of
1956.


2.  The Sinhala language shall be the ONE official language of
                                   ^^^^^^^^^
Ceylon (Sri Lanka).  Provided that where the Minister considers it
impracticable to commence the use of ONLY the Sinhala language, for
                                   ^^^^^^^^^
ANY official purpose immediately on the coming into force of this
^^^^^^^^
Act, the language or languages ( Tamil ) hitherto used for that
purpose may be continued to be so used until the necessary change
is effected as early as possible before the expiry of 31 December
1960 and, if such change cannot be effected by administrative
order, regulations may be made under this Act to effect such
change.


3. (I)  The Minister may make such regulations in respect of all
matters for which regulations are authorized by this Act to made
and generally for the purpose of giving effect to the principles
and provisions of this Act.
   (II)  No regulation made under sub-section (1) shall have effect
until it is approved by the Senate and the Housed of
Representatives and notification of such approval is published in
the Gazette. "



(Sri Lanka : The National Question and the  Tamil Liberation
Struggle,  by Satchi Ponnambalam)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: kuntal@orion.cs.umbc.edu (survivor)
Subject: Re: GUJJU JOKES.........  exagerration !!!
Organization: U. of Maryland Baltimore County, Computer Science Department
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 01:39:45 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.195042.1@woods.ulowell.edu> patelsa1@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
>In article <sdr750W00VpgA4Ll9v@andrew.cmu.edu>, ac46+@andrew.cmu.edu (Asad Iqbal) writes:
>> WHAT"S A GUJJU
>> ME
>
>"Gujju" means the people from the state of gujarat, and I heard that they are 
>the most intelligent people from India. It seems true to me because most of 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

patelsaheb ! thodu discount aapo ;-)  aa to atishyokti thaye che !!

>people like to make fun of great people or person in this world (By reffering 
>the joks)

by the same token, our brethren from the state of Punjab should be super 
intelligent geniuses !!


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From: gchacko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (George W Chacko)
Subject: Looking/Testing/Old_School etc.
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 16:28:29 GMT



So, if you've seen one ten-incher, you've seen them all?

I mean, How can you be so stupid?

You're always totally wrong.

Bad mentally retarded fools!

Man, let me tell you something, you rats, the Martians are coming.

Furthermore, you slimebags, a  feminist man ain't  got nothing  in  the
world these days.

It takes  unborn whimpering scumbags like you  to say  that you remind
me of Karl Marx.


Good day


George











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From: atulpule@sebastian.carleton.ca (Ajit Tulpule)
Subject: Oscar - Rohini Hattangadi
Keywords: Oscar
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:28:10 GMT


##From cunews!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!spool.mu.edu!uunet!psinntp!dg-rtp!spsd!swagata Tue Apr  7 16:12:53 EDT 1992
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##>From: swagata@IRVINE.DG.COM (swagata majumdar)
##Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
##Subject: Re: SATYAJIT ROY...GREATEST ACHEIVEMENT
##Message-ID: <1992Apr6.211658.27437@irvine.dg.com>
##Date: 6 Apr 92 21:16:58 GMT
##References: <1992Apr1.113307.1@tesla.njit.edu> <1992Apr3.002639.9639@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU> <11768@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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##Rohini Hattangadi did receive the OSCAR for costume design in
##Gandhi. (not for best actress). If you remember, Gandhi got
##a total of 7(?) OSCARS.
##


I think that Rohini Hattangadi had got an Oscar for best supporting
actress. Someone (I don't know who had got an Oscar for costume
design for the movie Gandhi.).


Ajit Tulpule.




-----------------------------------------------
        Ajit Tulpule

email : atulpule@business.carleton.ca
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: chohan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Harpal Chohan)
Subject: Re: Amnesty Intl. Rept.: police torture
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:48:23 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.135004.18929@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> rps@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (raj.sharma) writes:
>
>> What I find particularly interesting, is the deafening silence which
>> always follows these factual postings. The vocal flamers of AI, studiously
>> ignore these posts, and then it's time for the  next round of AI bashing a
>> few months later.
>> 
>> Evidently, facts are an undesirable hindrance...
>
>
>Or, the undesirable hinderance is a fact.

And, what on earth is that supposed to mean?

-h
From: grx0751@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Marriage and related issues - My view
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:19:46 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

In article <1992Apr14.191234.7929@oakhill.sps.mot.com>, nipa@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Nipa Mehta) writes:
> This is about the Manushi article that the original poster is referring to.  As
> I recall, it stated that the property earned after the marraige, that should
> be owned jointly, and if you are equal partners in the marraige then all the
> things (material or othewise) that result after the marraige should be 
> owned jointly between the two spouses.

	That is not how I remember it; I could be wrong, since as I said, I
	did not have the original article ready when I posted that. You may
	be right.

	Assuming what you say is true - 

	In other words, if the ancestral property of the husband is bequeathed
	to him AFTER the marriage, very often the case, should be divided into
	two after divorce. What gives the right to the woman to ask for the
	husband's property, if she is no longer married to him? My criticism
	still stands.

	Siva Prasad.			(grx0751@uoft02.utoledo.edu)
Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:14287 soc.culture.pakistan:6457
From: J.Ainikkal@massey.ac.nz (J. Ainikkal)
Subject: Re: Lets start a controversial topic
Summary: soc.culture.indian
Keywords: National language of india
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 03:50:24 GMT


>J.Ainikkal@massey.ac.nz (J. Ainikkal) writes:

>>Mr Controversial writes-


>>:Hi Everybody,
>>:
>>:	I am a new reader.  I have got bored by reading so many articles on
>>:	arranged and love marraige. Let's start some new topic.
>>:	My suggestion would be
>>:
>:	"How it would be if we accept hindi as the national language of India"

>
>>"How would it be Mr Controversial, if we not only accept hindi as our national
>>language but also circumcise all Indian males and force them to go to church 
>>every sunday"
>	THEN YOU HAVE TO GO TO MOSQUE
Muslims are not the only people who are circumcised. The Jews are too. 
We do have a few jews in Bombay.
A few African tribes circumcise their males at the age of 21:-( :-/
The reason I asked all Indians to go to church was to gain favour with
my christian brothers and sisters:-)  (A minority group that cannot speak
hindi too well)
Since we have a number of religions practiced by Indians - we also have 
to please them all - not just U.
I know that U are talking about a language and not a religion but
some of us relate the language to the religion. 

Just try looking through my tunnel vision:-)


>I didn't mean that hindi should be forced but something should be
>done so that most of the peoples in India accepts hindi as the 
>national language. 

WHY?   WHY?   WHY?


>For example some special benefits 
>can be given to non-hindi speaking people trying to learn hindi and 
>that sorts of things.Something should be done. It is a matter of 
>shame that we don't have a national language.

Is it really a matter of shame? Just because U are comfortable with Hindi
that does not mean we all are. Have U travelled around India? There is a
different language or dialect spoken in every state. Just 'cause U come 
(I assume) from a hindi speaking state means nothing.

If at all we need to give special benefits it should be to those
who are trying to learn -English, Japanese or German. I'll let U guess why:-)
Let us strive to make our nation a great economic power - not a fundamentalist
state with fanatical leaders. English, Japanese and German makes more sense
to me.

"Have you come here to play Jesus 
 to the lepers in your head"
                           U2
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: mustaq@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Mustaq Hassan Moosa)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: searching for Mohammed Shoaib Farooq
Date: 14 Apr 92 05:47:39 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

I am looking for Mohammed Shoaib Farooq who is somewhere in Oklahoma (prob. Norman)
If anyone knows his add./email add./phone no. kindly send it to me.

thanks

mustaq
--
mustaq@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
From: io80448@maine.maine.edu (Chandu Bhavsar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Green Card Interview at ..........
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:30:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: maine.92104.143055io80448


   A while ago, one io01036@maine.maine.edu who seems to have a problem
wrote the following stuff. He didn't even have the decency to sign his
own name, and made it appear as if I've written it. Please ignore it.
Funny how it is, I see this individual every day; but I never expected
something so ridiculous from him. It beats me to think, why he would
post this trash to the entire world; when he could just talk with me
in person every day. Just goes to show how wrong you can be about what
you think about people you know. Anyway, I requested him to cancel it;
but it seemed he didn't want to do it. So, before it makes it all over
the world and I start getting flame mail; I would like to declare that
I didn't write it.

Chandu

>Date: Sunday, 12 Apr 1992 19:47:42 EDT
>From: <io01036@maine.maine.edu>
>Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
>
>                              Kyoon bey, kya chakkar hai? Logoon
>sey mail maang key, posting wosting key waadey kartey ho?
>yaa chakkar hai?
>
>
>
>
>
>Chandu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gchacko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (George W Chacko)
Subject: Re: Personal e-mail!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 16:44:09 GMT


It's getting easier and easier for me to marshal arguments in favour of
my stand on why some e-mail need not be accorded the privilege of
confidentiality. Case in point. This is from the same cretin whose
polished communication I posted last time.

Vol 2...

||
||From AZV1@PSUVM.PSU.EDU  Sat Apr 11 12:23:30 1992
||Date:    Sat, 11 Apr 92 12:23 EDT
||From: <AZV1@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
||Subject: Continuation of Ho Ho Ho Ho
||To: gchacko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
||Status: OR
||
||
||Hi Chacka (Oops I didn't mean Jackfruit),
||
||                                       Nice to know that my mail to you gets
||priority and is directed by first class mail to the net.So I guess that it is
||only a matter of time before I see this on the net! Anyhow I shall refrain 
||fromhaving a battle of wits with you since I never attack an unarmed person.
||
||GRTBR
||
||P.S.-- Have you come up with any more intelligent (ho ho) ideas such as delet
||ing all mails from me ?
||
||
||
||*************************************************************************
||*************************************************************************
||
||
||EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO MY OPINION
||
||
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||
||KPS1@PSUVM.PSU.EDU                                Penn State University
||
||*************************************************************************
||*************************************************************************
||We are upping our standards......... so up yours.
||                                                  --- Presidential candidate
||
||
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From: jgopalan@HO17.ENG.UA.EDU (Janakiraman Gopalan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Looking for : Neetesh Kumar
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:31:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: ho17.9204090231.AA04565



Hi !

	I am looking for Neetesh Kumar. He worked in CMC
for a year from 1989. He is supposed to be in Wayne State
University.
Please E-mail to me directly.

Thanks in advance
--
janki
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From: vikas@newton.csc.ncsu.edu (Vikas Trehan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: F1->H1->GreenCard. HELP !!!!!!! (REPOST)
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:15:14 GMT
Organization: NCSU Department of Computer Science (newton.csc.ncsu.edu)

Hi There!!
	I had posted this about two days ago. I have recd. requests to
forward the summary to various people but nobody has answered these
questions yet. So I request people who have gone thro' this phase
to post the summary.

Question # 1 :  What are the legal steps involved in changing from 
	      	Practical Training to H1 and then to GreenCard? 
Question # 2 : 	Is there a time period one has to stay on H1 before 
		applying for GreenCard?
Question # 3 : 	Is any of the step affected if one goes directly to H1
		i.e. skipping Practical Training?


Thanks 

Vikas 
(vikas@newton.csc.ncsu.edu)
-- 
        Vikas Trehan 			I too had thoughts of
    N.C State University           	being an intellectual,
  vikas@newton.csc.ncsu.edu             but I found it too
    (919) 859-5289 (H)  		difficult.  -- Albert Schweitzer
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