HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ngopalas@ho09.eng.ua.edu (Nath S. Gopalaswamy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Poor UNIX
Date: 18 Aug 92 02:29:29 GMT
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Originator: ngopalas@ho09.eng.ua.edu

Just idle dabbling on the keyboard produced this :).

$ make love

Make: Do not know how to make love.
	Check that the target is defined in the description file
	and that the dependency files exist.
   Quitting.


Nath.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: madiraju@michaelangelo.vis.citri.EDU.AU (Sharma VR MADIRAJU)
Subject: LOVE etc.,
Originator: madiraju@michaelangelo.vis.citri.EDU.AU
Organization: Department of Computer Sci, University of Melbourne
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 05:40:08 GMT

 Hi Netters    

     I am  always confused  with the following topics 

           Love      Affection     Lust

      Can anybody explain what these are and the difference  


      Thanks  




					Madiraju Sharma
				      
   
=====================================================================

MADIRAJU VR SHARMA
VISION    			      Madiraju@krang.vis.citri.edu.au
Collaborative Information Technology
  Research Institute (CITRI)
723 Swanston Street			Phone  work :+61 3 282 2476
Carlton 
Victoria 3052
Australia  
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: slahiri@jade.tufts.edu (Sandip Lahiri)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Is it correct that ...
Date: 23 Aug 92 15:24:26 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
Originator: slahiri@jade.tufts.edu

In article <1992Aug22.204121.10755@cs.wayne.edu> uds@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar) writes:
>
>I salute all these guys who come up with the most incredible
>topics on SCI...
>
>
>Seetamraju Udaya Bhaskar Sarma
>(email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)
>
>
>
>In article <1992Aug21.195644.28162@jade.tufts.edu> slahiri@jade.tufts.edu (Sandip Lahiri) writes:
>>I do not know whether this is true or not, but there seems to 
>>be a strong belief that masterbation lowers a person's 
>>intelligence level. In our student life this belief was so 
>>widespread that guys used to suffer a kind of mental depression
>>after doing it (just before exams) and as a result their 
>>performance in the exams happened to be less than satisfactory.
>>IMHO the mental depression was the killing factor and not
>>the "thing". That masterbation lowers person's mental faculties
>>is very strongly preached by the "religious books" published by
>>Chaitanya Math. It also describes the persons doing this as "of
>>a lower strata". Is there any scientific explanation of this ?
>>IMHO this is BS. I have my personal records to refute this.
>>
>>Flames, ideas, logic, and plain bs most welcome.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

-Sandip
>>-Sandip
From: sngattan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Sanjay N Gattani)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: 3-D plots, contouring software ?
Date: 21 Aug 1992 00:28:51 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

Hello:

	If I have a data file of x,y,z points,   is there a software
available for IBM compatible PC's that can do contouring?  Thanks in
advance and please send you replies to sngattan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu

								sanjay
	
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: nparkar@seamis1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nuruddin Parkar)
Subject: Re: Query, Immiration
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:42:40 GMT

jsingh@uicadf.csl.uiuc.edu (Jaidip Singh) writes:

>I need my birth-certificate for applying for my Green-card.  The problem is
>that I never had a birth-certificate.  I believe that I would need some kind
>of an affidavit from India.
>	Can someone with experience in a similar situation, please send me 
>some info. about what exactly do I need.  What should the affidavit be like?
>I am traveling to India next month.

>	I'll be extremely grateful for any help.

>Thanking you in anticipation.

>-Avinash 

>-- Please reply to  akag0916@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

Please follow these steps.

1.  Apply for a birth certificate to the muncipality at your birth place.  If
your birth record exists in the birth register, then the muncipality should
issue a copy of birth certificate.  Thus your problem is solved.  If the birth
record does not exist then get a letter saying that your birth record does
not exist in that office, and follow step 2.

2.  Ask your parents (or someone older than you, who was knowledgable about
your birth) to sign affidavit for you.  The affidavit should be signed
in front of a Notary Public (or a First Class Magistrate in India), saying 
The affidavit must contain the information such as Name of a person, Birth
date, Birth Place, Name of parents (including mother's maiden name).

Once the affidavit is signed it is accepted insdead of a birth certificate.
You may get this affidavit signed in the USA.  Also please make sure that
the birth date is valid, i.e. do not use a date like 31st September.  (This
is not a joke,  I have seen such dates in the affidavits)

Nuru Parkar

Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:28183 soc.culture.bangladesh:4488 soc.culture.pakistan:13672
From: ag3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Arun K. Gupta)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: Contradictions in the Quran
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:05:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.keWzLlG00VB50OKUhr
Organization: Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA




Nadeem Malik asks for specific examples of where the Muslim Personal
Law in India needs to be modified. I don't claim to be an expert, and
what I have read may of course, be tainted with political propaganda
as the whole matter has become politicized in India. Nevertheless, here
is what I've gathered.

First and foremost, the Muslim Personal Law in India is not a uniform
code applicable all over India, but rather a hodge-podge of rules with
modifications due to local customs and traditions. Thus, I believe, a
Malabar Muslim who moves to Tamil Nadu is governed by a somewhat
different set of inheritance laws.

Secondly, there are anomalies in the boundaries of the different
Personal laws. To quote a book on this subject: "For example, a
Hindu can make a gift to a Muslim, and that is that. But if a
Muslim makes a gift to a Hindu this transanction is governed by
Muslim law and is revocable. As if the "religious" rule were not
anomalous enough, it has actually been applied in industrial relations
so that it affects the availability of the Hindu employees' bonus."
Similarly, in case of inter-religious marriages, adoption and so
on. These issues need to be settled.

Thirdly, the issue of the content of the laws. Let us leave aside
the issue of the equality of Muslim women under the norms set by
the Indian Constitution; and ask whether they have rights comparable
to those in other Muslim countries. I think the answer is: no. In
the matter of unilateral divorce, in the support a divorced woman
can expect from her ex-husband, custody of children etc. Muslim
countries like Pakistan, Egypt, Tunisia, Iran etc. give their women
more protection than the Indian Muslim women have under the Indian
Muslim personal law.

There are similar discrepancies in the matter of inheritance, I believe,
with other Muslim countries affording more protection to dependent
relatives (rather than closely-related relatives) than in Indian
Law.

-arun gupta
ag3L@andrew.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: uds@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar)
Subject: Re: marathi bulliten board
Reply-To: uds@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar)
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:25:14 GMT

In article <18723@bunny.GTE.COM> s9205@gte.com (Rohit Gupta) writes:
>In article <1992Aug14.185217.14545@newshub.sdsu.edu> sanjay@moho.sdsu.edu (Sanjay Phatak) writes:
[Posting deleted]........
>This posting is grossly abusive and condescending.
> 
>By saying that if anything is to be accomplished in India, it is
>only the Maharashtrian leadership which can do things, is an example
>of the kind of narrow regionalistic outlook that we want to avoid.
>Sanjay Phatak is no better than the Khalistani and Kahmiri militants

I doubt, he is of the same categoory as the separatists.
Perhaps, his ideas are rooted in historical incidents.
Remember, the whole country acknowledges that shivaji and
ghokhale and thilak are not just another bunch of fighers
for the cause of india.  RSS, and co are more entrenched in
maharashtra than anywhere else.  Such people feel ITS THEIR
GOD-INSTRUCTED DUTY TO RESTORE `BHARAT'.  I find nothing
wrong with that.  Clearly, it clashes with your concept of
a `secular and modern' india...

>he is criticizing because he suffers a narrow and false sense of
>regionalistic pride wich is partly responsible for India's woes.
>He should hang his head in shame for displaying his pettiness and
>lack of respect for contributions by non-Maharashtrians to India's development.
> 
> 
>-- Rohit Gupta




Seetamraju Udaya Bhaskar Sarma
(email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rtm1@thumper.bellcore.com (Ravi Masand)
Subject: Motels/Hotels in the Buffalo-Niagra Falls area ??
Reply-To: rtm1@thumper.bellcore.com (Ravi Masand)
Organization: Bellcore
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 01:41:18 GMT



Does anyone know of a hotel/motel in the Buffalo-Niagra falls
area serving Indian/vegetarian food ? If so could you e-mail me
the pertinent information/opinion ?

Thank You
Ravi
rtm1@thumper.bellcore.com
(201)-829-4593
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: cs611a08@umbc5.umbc.edu (cs611a08)
Subject: Requesting list of Temples/ Gurudawaras in N. America
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, Academic Computing Services
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 01:26:47 GMT

           REQUESTING MR. P. SINGH TO MAIL LIST OF TEMPLE/ GURUDHAWARA
         ===============================================================


Dear Mr. Singh,


                Some few weeks back you had under taken HUMBLE task of
collecting list of temples and gurudhawara in USA and Canada.  I lost
your e_mail address and original article.  If you have completed your
task can you please either post it on the network or e_mail it to me

on   cs461a09@umbc5.umbc.edu

        I greatly appreciate your work and much more after seeing lot of
nonesense articles on the net.


You can include this temple under planning stage.

In Baltimore they have planned (not yet finished) a hindu temple the address
is

        The Greater Baltimore Temple
        P. O. Box 28010
        Baltimore, MD 21239


I do not have the address of Krishna Temple (Cambodian peoples) built in
Washington D.C.  Oh boy these people build the temple in 2 years and in
Baltimore we are trying to find land for building temple from last 10 years.


I am sorry for this posting article on the network but I had to get to you
quickly before I lose my account due to completion of semester.

Thanking you in advance,

Avinash Apte.
From: qiqx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Finally a clean joke...
Date: 15 Aug 92 14:53:31 EDT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Cornell University

No offense is meant to any one by the following joke:

Three scientists at the K.I.T.(Khalistani Institute of Terrorism) are mad.
They are Maro Singh, Kato Singh, and Peeto Singh.

Maro Singh: Yaar, yeh Americans Chand pe ja chuke; Russians ne aakash
		me rockets chod diye; aur Indians ne bhi Rakesh Sharma ko
		rocket me bitha diya.  Hame kuch karna chahiye.


Kato Singh: Fikar mat kar yaar.  Hum jo karenge woh abhi tak duniya ke koi
		mard ne nahi kiya.

Maro Singh: Kya?

Kato Singh: Hum Suraj par jayenge!

Maro Singh: Kya idea hai yaar; You are a genius!

Kato Singh: Oh don't mention it.

Peeto Singh: Lekin yaar, ye idea me ek problem hai.

Maro Singh: Kya?

Peeto Singh: Suraj ke lakho mil door se bhi hum jal ke mar jayenge.

Maro Singh: You are right!  Lekin fikar mat kar yaar,
		HUM RAAT KO JAYENGE!
 

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: srangan@rodan.acs.syr.edu (R A N G A N )
Subject: ADDRESSES OF KANNADA SANGHAS/ORGANIZATIONS 
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 13:58:56 EDT

  hi netters,
   
     LOOKING FOR ADDRESSES OF KANNADA SANGHAS ACROSS U.S

     ANY INFORMATION : SEND MAIL TO srangan@mailbox.syr.edu

     THANKS A ZILLION

     srinivasa rangan
     702, East raynor ave.
     Ist floor syracuse N.Y
     13210
     office:(315) 443 3071
     home : (315) 423 7027
From: banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Mr. Ed and the gift horse
Date: 17 Aug 1992 10:37:58 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu

In article <1992Aug16.202441.14619@samba.oit.unc.edu> Veeramany.Sthanumurthy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Veeramany Sthanumurthy) writes:


>Mr. Ed the ever-alert talking horse known throughout the wild west
>for his half-cocked ways, decides to look this gift horse in the mouth.
>
>Who can blame him? His first love was taken away by arranged marriage.
>Next came the viral infection. Sholay burned the stables and he lost 
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>all his family. When he threw the thesaurus he lost his last friend on
>earth. And, now people question his heritage ... the last straw indeed.
>
>Goodbye Mr. Ed ...
>

Oh boy, there we go again!! An amateur microbiologist delving into the
intricacies of a viral infection. Such pure conjecture and coming from
a joker used to "horsing around" on the net!!! What's next Deb Chatterjee
talking about secularism  or Arindam Ghosh renouncing his Bahai faith ?

Notice the ignorance of the posting and the utter disregard for details.
No mention of the virus involved, wether wild type or mutant, the type of
infection caused, the pathology, morphology or histology of the virus and the 
enzymes turned on.

The reference to Sholay is rather crudely interjected and without any relevance
to the remainder of the posting. Coming as it does from a nerd whose life
revolves around the movie, it is somewhat understandable.

And talking about "last straws", has Raghavan tested HIV positive yet? Am I 
observing the proper etiquette on the net in asking this, ahem, delicate 
question?

I really dont want to get you to get all "worked up" although I suspect it
might prove to be the proverbial last straw indeed. Any famous last words
that might want to inflict on us or how about "Help I have fallen and I
cant get up". So much for non pedigree horsing around!!!

Samit


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: cs461a09@umbc5.umbc.edu (cs461a09)
Subject: Secularisim in INDIA and on sci.
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, Academic Computing Services
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 02:23:30 GMT





Subject: Soc.culture.Indian or Islam or Hinduism??
=====================================================
> 


>I think Avinash has taken a very very one-sided view point
>I have seen many postings on here that are so pro-hindu that it is sick
>I am not trying to defend muslims here.  I am only trying to say that we should
>keep out any kind of offensive religious postings off of the net.  I think
>it is a disgrace to our secular country of Bapu that such Hindus and Muslims
>still exist in the world.  So please let us be more responsible and be 
>Indians first; Hindus and Muslims later.

>				Thank you

>Jai Hind from Nirav R. Shah of Cornell University
====================================================================

	I respect opinion of Mr. Shah about secularisim. 

I do not understand his statement "please let us be more responsible and be 
>Indians first; Hindus and Muslims later."

My reply to this statement is it is plain bull shit.  Why is SECULAR (Pro-
muslim) govt. of Mr. V. P. Singh or any other govt. is unwilling to take
referendum in KASHMIR.  If they feel so strongly about SECULARISM then
they are afraid of what?

	Bharat is a very strange country MUSLIMS can be proud of there religion
and do/ say anything they want but still be secular.  If a hindu says anything
he is branded as communal.

	I wonder what we have achieved by independence.  Thank god we have
at least Muslim majority KASHMIR as part of India to call it secular.
PAKISTHAN wants final solution to KASHMIR PROBLEM then in that case we
should have total solution to rest of Indias routine and frequent communal
problem.  IF KASHMIR BREAKS AWAY FROM INDIA (which I personaly believe
that they should have association with any country by there sweet free will)

THEN IN THAT CASE WE HAVE TO TAKE VERY HARSH AND PRACTICAL MEASURES SO THAT
THERE DOES NOT ARISE ANY MORE INCIDENT OF MUSLIMS DEMANDING SEPERATE
COUNTRY OR DISTRICT OR TOWN.

	India NEEDS a strong person like Sardar Vallahabai Patel not persons
like Mr. M. K. Gandhi who was idealistic but not realisitic.

AVINASH

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: raju@cs.UAlberta.CA (Raju Patil)
Subject: PHOTO Hobbyists ..Please Read
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:54:22 GMT

 Hi,

   I am thinking of buying an AF SLR camera, but have not yet decided
 between : CANON ELAN, NIKON 8008s .

   I will be going back to INDIA next summer for GOOD. 
   I was wondering if i can get the 2CRO5 (or is it 2CR5) lithium battery
   (required for CANON Rebel or Elan) in India. If i can atleast get it
   in the major cities, it is fine. Otherwise, the Nikon 8008s, seems better,
   .. it takes 4AA batteries,.. but it is way too expensive.

  Please e-mail responses : raju@cs.ualberta.ca
 Thanks

 Raju

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: subbu@cis.ohio-state.edu (rajesh subbu)
Subject: INDIANS AND SEX
Originator: subbu@tun.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:16:12 GMT


Indians and SEX.

"They have sex in their brains, not where it should be" (pooja bedis words)

Now my words.

I do endorse the words in quotes. I believe Indians in general are hypocritical about sex, just as the americans are in saying "SHOOT" when they actually mean "SHIT".

Any comments and flames very welcome


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: NZSRDA@massey.ac.nz (Henry Barnard)
Subject: INDIAN SCRIPTS FOR PC SYSTEMS
Summary: Are there any systems allowing the use of Indian Scripts on PCs?
Keywords: INDIAN SCRIPTS PC SYSTEMS
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 05:26:06 GMT


I am not a subscriber to this news group and would therefore appreciate
responses by e-mail.

A colleague of mine is a social anthropologist whose field of interest
is India.  He would like information on hardware/software that allows
for Indian scripts on PCs - both screen and printing.  He has some
information on a hardware/software system called GIST but this relates
to the developmental stage of the system and is a little out of date.
Could anyone out there send me more information so that I can pass it
on?

Many thanks

Henry Barnard
Email : NZSRDA@massey.ac.nz

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: godbolep@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject:  looking for ex M.I.T Pune students
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:41:17 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.190306.1@woods.ulowell.edu>, godbolep@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
> hi netters
> 
> i would like to collect and compile addresses of ex M.I.T.students
> (Maharashtra Institute Of technology, Pune)currently staying in U.S.A.
> so please reply, by mentioning following
> 1)name
> 2)address and ph no. in usa
> 3)year of passing and branch
> 4)present status(specilisation,school name etc.)
> 5)email address
> thanks
> Prasanna
> email address godbolep@woods.ulowell.edu
>
From: vprasad@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: On the birth of Andhra Pradesh (was Re: I HATE TAMILS)
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:37:12 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

In article <2A94081D.20417@orion.oac.uci.edu>, dsr@balboa.eng.uci.edu
(D.Sreenivasa Rao) writes:
> 
>     1st October 1953 : Andhra was formed.

	Methinks you are in error here; it must be 1st *November* 1953.
	Don't we celebrate "Andhra Pradesh AvathraNa dinOthsavam" on 
	1st November every year? Or is it that 1st November is the date
	the AP as it is today (including Nizam districts) formed? If the
	latter, did it take just one month for Telangana to join in AP?
	Looking for some more info.

	Siva Prasad.			vprasad@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sandeep@unislc.uucp (Sandeep Kulkarni)
Subject: Re: SOCULTURE.GHATTI OR SOC.CULTURE.MARATHI
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:38:28 GMT

From article <1992Aug13.193444.1@woods.ulowell.edu>, by deshpandv@woods.ulowell.edu:
> In article <1701@hydra.bucknell.edu>, hshah@bucknell.edu (hemesh shah GR) writes:
>> Hi my ghatti brothers and sisters!!
>> 
>>    After trying unsuccessfully to change the name of "BOMBAY" you
>> ghattis are trying to venture into another one of your stupid 
>> ideas.

You know, Gujjus are eternally confused. DOnt waste your time trying to
read sense into their responses. By the way, Mr Hemesh, just lets
see how much of the gujju language you really understand .. translate this
for me !!!
 	"baidi vagar na badha vaya"
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UNISYS Corporation             | Fax   : (801) 594-6708
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