HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: vganesan@reed.edu (The Phoenix)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Calling Fellow GCTiians !
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:57:56 GMT
Distribution: world, srikanth@ecn.purdue.edu
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon

In article <1992Sep14.163524.15021@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> srikanth@ecn.purdue.edu (Ayikudy K Srikanth) writes:
>Hi,
>
>  I am Srikanth and I graduated from Govt. College of Technology,Coimbatore in  1992. I would like to contact other GCTiians of the same batch or otherwise. If any of u can help me in this I'll be very grateful.

Ah! now that Srikanth is here, he will probably start another "Confluence"
for our GCT janata, anyway nice to know that even Srikanth isn't immune to
the "I-have-got-my-bachelors-now-I-need-to-go-to-the-USA-earn-my-masters-
degree-get-a-job-buy-a-Honda-accord-marry-a-indian-girl-and-post-a-looking
-for-message-on-SCI" virus. Perhaps ed has to analyse this virus from 
now on.

The Phoenix


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I loved not yet, yet I loved to love I sought what I might love,
in love with loving.                     
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: news@ugle.unit.no (Uma M Subramaniyam)
Subject: take money like kiLinossi bank rob
Followup-To: m
Keywords: peace
Organization: Norwegian Institue of Technology
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 16:02:02 GMT

paadu paada vaa paaddu kEkka vaa paadam solla vaa paRanthu sella vaa
paal nilaavaip pOla nIyu paavai allavaa
unnaip paartthu naanum ENGki niRkum kaaLai allavaa

bye bye
From: lssk@lut.ac.uk (S Karnavar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: ONAM
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:02:30 GMT
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.


                                                                                                          ONAM FELICITATIONS


                   Remember Pookkalam, Thrikkakkarappan,
                   Onasadya, Oonjal, Kaikottikkali, Kilithattu,
                   Onappanthukali, Thumbithullal, Onanilavu, and
                   the great Mahabali with his pot-belly and Olakkuda 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
From: parihar@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Pramod Parihar)
Subject: test
Keywords: test
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:43:08 GMT

I AM POSTING THIS BIT OF CLUTTER ON THE NET BECAUSE SOME
'chokri' ASKED ME HOW TO POST STUFF ON THE NET.


ARN'T MEN SUCKERS ????


PRAMOD.

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From: shubu@cs.wisc.edu (Shubhendu Mukherjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Madhuri Dixit
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:25:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin @ Madison, CS Dept.


I just received this mail from India:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: rahima@cmch.ernet.in (SKRahima)
Message-Id: <9207151730.AA04857@cmcserv>
To: shubu@cs.wisc.edu
Status: OR

*** EOOH ***
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 17:30:12 GMT
From: rahima@cmch.ernet.in (SKRahima)
To: shubu@cs.wisc.edu

...

Madhuri Dixit has been admitted for an M.S. to the Dept. of C.Sc. at the 
University of Texas at Austin from Jan. 1992.  She has been awarded a 
Teaching Assistantship.  However, she is still waiting to hear from a couple
of other institutions like Carnegie-Mellon and Stanford.  She
might not join this Spring and might defer her admission to next Fall.  
...
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sl13m@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: HELP ,  NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY , LAS CRUCES.
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:15:12 MDT
Organization: Utah State University




 Hi    Friends,

              One of my friend  Parag A. Parikh (from Ahmedabad)  came to

 New Mexico State  University, Las Cruces.  I am not able to contact him.

If anyone of you have any information regarding him, his phone number or

E.mail add., please let me know at my E.mail add.

Thanks in advance.

-Kaushal Shah.

E.mail :  SL13M@CC.USU.EDU
From: achowdhu@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Arunabh Ashit Chowdhuri)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Looking for Jaideep Bhattacharya (Angelo State University-Calif)
Date: 4 Sep 92 21:21:00 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio


hi,
	Could someone convey the following message to Jaideeep Bhattacharya ?
	He (Jaideep) is required to call his uncle at the number given below, at 	the earliest. The number is  (512)-679-6407. 
	Thanking the person who forwards this message to Jaideep.
						Arunabh Chowdhuri

						achowdhu@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
From: girishh@topaz.ucq.edu.au (Girish .H.S. Rajan.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: ACCOMODATION AT TOWNSVILLE AUSTRALIA!!!
Date: 8 Sep 92 20:42:32 AET
Organization: University of Central Queensland, Australia


Hi Nettors!

This is for Indian students studying at James Cook University at Townsville

Queensland Australia.....

G'day Guys......

I am looking out for accomodation for a few  days at Townsville from 19th
to 23rd sept. I would request students staying at Townsville to write back
if there is a possibility of staying with them.  Shall volunteer to reciprocate
if there is any necessity for u to stay in Rockhampton. Please reply to 

girishh@topaz.ucq.edu.au

Thanx in advance.:-)

Girish....
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: spatri@iastate.edu (Srinivas Patri)
Subject: Looking for Vamsikrishna Ayyagari at Texas Tech U,Lubbock,Texas
Keywords: Vamsi from Hyderabad at Texas Tech U,Lubbock
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:50:12 GMT


I am looking for Vamsikrishna at Texas Tech University,Lubbock.He is working 
towards his M.S.in Mechanical Engineering.If anyone out there knows his e-mail
address,please let me know.

Hey,Vamsi,if you get to read this,respond immediately!
My e-mail address is spatri@iastate.edu

Thanks

Patri
From: prem@prem.lbl.gov (Shirdi R. Prem)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: DESI FEMALE Looking for Match!
Date: 11 Sep 1992 01:38:20 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Distribution: soc
Reply-To: prem@prem.lbl.gov (Shirdi R. Prem)
NNTP-Posting-Host: prem.lbl.gov
Keywords: DESI MATCH

In article <1992Sep10.194440.21822@ecst.csuchico.edu> vivek@ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu) writes:

>Well, there is news for you. The "finger" command is of no use here. All that
>has to be done to change the username is "chfn <login>", and the utility asks
>for the full name etc. These parameters can be changed at the discretion of a
>individual user. Here except the login name, everything else can be changed.

	So............... ??

	Anyway, chfn wasn't "news" for me..... I am only trying to improve 
	my score on the prolific posters list...    :^)

	And, if the "finger" command fails to give you the real name, do
	you know what I would do next........... Anyways, I think that 
	would be more appropriate on a networking newsgroup, not s.c.i.

	Prem!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: irshad@moby.micro.umn.edu (Irshad A. Mohammad)
Subject: F1 to H1 question
Organization: University of Minnesota CIS
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:29:05 GMT

Hai H-1/GC guroos out there,

I have a question for you.
I am currenlty on F-1, and just got a full time job.
I still have another quarter of school left.

At this point, can I apply for a H-1?
If so, what are the rules and procedures?

Your responses will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot in advance,

Bye,
Irshad.

Email: irshad@mermaid.micro.umn.edu
       mohammad@cs.umn.edu
Phone: (612)-673-9213 (collect calls honoured!)
       (612)-557-9005 (work)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: vijbal@auto-trol.com (Vijay Balasubramanian)
Subject: Re: SALMAN RUSHDIE
Organization: Auto-trol Technology Corporation, Denver, CO 80241.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:40:26 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.074711.9736@colorado.edu> manu@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (K. S. Manu) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.203603.10289@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> banerjee@spot.Colorado.EDU (akb) writes:
>>Boulder is a sleepy little town at the foot of the Rockies (though
>>the natives tend to have a somewhat more grandiose opinion) and it
>
>Not just the natives.. even the NY Times thinks so....
>
>Boy, if you think of Boulder as a sleepy town, wait till you get to Fort
>Collins!
>
>Njan

Boy, if you think of Fort Collins as a sleepy town, wait till you get to Ault!

Vijay


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sinha@n3.math.umn.edu (Samarendra Sinha)
Subject: Looking for Arup Majumdar in Rochester, NY
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:26:07 GMT

  I have heard that he is working somewhere in Rochester, NY. Any information  
about him would be appreciated. Thanks.
-Samarendra (sinha@s6.math.umn.edu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gollapud@zax.eda.teradyne.com (Prmod Gollapudi)
Subject: Re: Why can't Indian pigs have nore white brain
Keywords: plot
Organization: Teradyne, Inc. Boston MA
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:43:41 GMT



>  Article: 56045 of soc.culture.indian
>  Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
>  From: news@ugle.unit.no (Deep Third Sand)
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	   NICE TRY !!!!

>  Subject: Why can't Indian pigs have nore white brain
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>  Message-ID: <1992Sep14.145149.17512@ugle.unit.no>
>  Followup-To: rain
>  Keywords: plot
>  Sender: thaya@solan.unit.no (Thayanantha Balasundaram)
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

   YETTANNUDER WISE ASS !!!!                       
   Take your bird brain elsewhere, kid.   =:^{
From: pvs8496@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: looking for Ketan Mehta (MIT)
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:52:26 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

Hi,
I am looking for a Ketan Mehta (Mamoo) from Bombay, who came to the 
States to do his Master's in Chemical Engineering, I believe somewhere 
in Pittsburgh(??). He did his bachelor's from MIT Manipal in 1991.

If anybody who knows him happens to read this, please either pass onto him
my phone nos.

201 596 8445 (w)
201 792 2910 (h) or my e-mail a/c  pvs8496@tesla.njit.edu 
or both!



thank you
 uttam shanbhag
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,talk.abortion
From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
Subject: Re: Arrogant Indians and Susan Forgach
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date:  9 Sep 92 20:46:34 GMT

In <92252.105030RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:


>-
>-The point is that Bush and Quayle are playing politics with this
>-issueby taking a fundamentalist conservative position while hedging
>-it with exception clauses.
>-
>-I think an absolute pro-life stand, though guided by sound reasoning and
>-subjective assumptions, leads to bizarre situations: a twelve year-old,
>-raped by a bunch of hooligans, being forced to give birth to the
>-child or face the electric chair for first degree murder.

Trouble with your reasoning: there never was such an absolute pro-lifer
on this net, and I don't think any pro-lifer ever advocated such a thing
in public.  U.S. laws against abortion-as-manslaughter-or-murder
 targeted the abortionist, not
the mother.  Was it any different in India?

>- And we have
>-the audacity to think Islamic law is barbaric!

Islamic law is a reality, the law you envision is your fantasy. [However,
not being an expert on Islamic law, I wish to dissociate myself from your
above sentence.  There have been some barbaric Islamic laws, but I would
not want to generalize any further than this statement.]

>-Satya Prabhakar

>I completely agree with all this.  However, when the extreme positions on
>one side are severely and repeatedly criticised, and all positions on the
>other side are tacitly approved by NOT being criticised, then I smell a
>rat!  My question again, what is your opinion on the mother who takes
>cocaine a few hours before labour, the child is harmed and the Conn.
>high court says, "sorry, but no `person' was harmed", because the harm took
>place while it was still in the womb. To be credible, criticism must be even
>sided.

And have something to do with the position you are criticizing.

>Rohit Parikh

Peter Nyikos


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sridhar@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Subject: [soc.culture.indian] FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS - Weekly Reminder
Followup-To: poster
Originator: sridhar@homecheese.VAR.ASU.EDU
Keywords: FAQ faq
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 08:47:55 GMT

Use searching capability of your newsreader to search for the
following Subject on soc.culture.indian or news.answers.

From: vikas@deolali.Eng.Sun.COM (Vikas Deolaliker)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,news.answers
Subject: [soc.culture.indian] FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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From: ngopala3@ua1ix.ua.edu (Ms. Nitya Feldstein)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Abortion rights
Date: 7 Sep 1992 00:25:57 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


A touchy subject. And one that has tempers flaring on both
sides. I was watching an ad on Tv just the other day, one
that shows so many little cute children, and ends with a 
message "Life, what a beautiful choice." The feelings of 
betrayal and rejection that an abandoned child feels does
not factor in the pro-lifers' equation. If abortion is to
be banned, then consequently it must also be made illegal
to abandon such unaborted children. Otherwise banning abortion 
is meaningless. What about the right of the child to love
and family life? Narrowminded religious beliefs aside, even
common sense should make it evident that one should not
create something that one cannot provide for.
And speaking of rights of mute organisms, what about animal
rights, why slaughter them for food when plants will do just
fine? Why wear leather shoes and silk sarees? Where does one
draw the line? My set of morals may not match other's, leave
alone religious beliefs. One does not have to tell a woman
that aborting a foetus is wrong, circumstances compel her to,
it is probably the most agonizing decision in her life.


Nitya.
From: banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Kashmir Campaign
Date: 4 Sep 1992 15:30:38 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu

     [junk poem deleted]
>>
>>Bye
>>Adil
>
>Adil, I think you are an Indian.  Do you have any suggestions for
>Kashmir?  According to me Kashmir does not want to stay with India
>or Pakistan.  If we let Kashmir go, Pakistan will just take it 
>over, we cannot let that happen, can we?  
>
>Manoj

The question is not as simple as letting Kashmir go. Pakistan has occupied
a third of Kashmir for the last 40 years. If there is to be a plebiscite, it
must be held only after Pakistan vaccates Occupied Kashmir. The chances of that
happening are less than one in a million.

More importantly any referendum will be meaningful only when the thousands
of families (predominantly Hindu) who have been driven out of their homes
are allowed to return and vote. Creating a reign a terror whereby most
minorities choose to leave the valley and then calling for a plebiscite
(assuming of course that the overwhelming Muslim majority will vote to
seceede, which they might not) seems preposterous.



Samit





Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:30888 talk.abortion:36015
From: porayath@IASTATE.EDU (Rajiv Porayath)
Subject: Re: RSS ( MP Government's Silent revolution in Education)
Keywords: Reply to Javed 
Reply-To: porayath@IASTATE.EDU (Rajiv Porayath)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 22:07:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.173157@IASTATE.EDU>, jakhan@IASTATE.EDU (Javed A Khan)
writes: 
> 
> 
> 
> The point is whether the Indian culture being projected,which the RSS equates
> with Hindu 'culture',includes only the non-religious part of Hindu culture or
> also includes the religious symbolism. To a non-Hindu (at least to me) the
> underlying message from the 'cultural renaissance' being propagated by the 
> votaries of Hindutva (the BJP-VHP-RSS) seems to encompass the Hindu religious
> rituals as well which is being thrust upon an unwilling and suspicious
> non-Hindu
> population. I've got no problem if they mean the cultural aspects of Indian
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> civilization but that is not the sense which is being projected. In any case
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I don't see what is so un-Indian, so culturally "un-Hindu" about today's
> Indian society. If their vision encompases the muslim culture, the sikh
> culture,
> the parsee culture, the buddhist culture ... then where's the need for a
> renaissance? What we have today is the Indian 'Hindu" culture they seem to
> be so desperately seeking.
> If their vision is not encompassing (which at least a large number of muslims
> appear to believe) then what is different from the 'cultural renaissance'
that
> the Muslim League or the Jamaait-e-Islami seeking for the muslim community?
> 
> 
> -Javed.


        Unless we agree on the word cultural aspects of Indian civilization
this discussion will not yield any conclusion.What I gather from the cultural
aspects of Indian civilization means the culture of Indian society dating back
to BC before the advent of either islam or christanity.This goes back to the
vedas,gita,ram,Krishna,buddha ,mahavir,ashoka etc.All of which originated in
India and flourished here.I do not include the culture that developed elsewhere
and made its way to India.


I do not agree with the BJP philosphy of forcing people who have decided to 
adopt other cultures either willingly or by force (in the past) to identify
with Indian culture.As of August 1947 we constituted a new nation which gives
one the right to follow ones belief.By propagating views contary to the
constitution the RSS does not glorify Bhagat Singh or other freedom fighters 
but insults the cause for which they died.

_RAJIV PORAYATH
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
From: mgundeko@pcserver2.Naitc.Com (Murthy Gundekota)
Subject: Re: SALMAN RUSHDIE
Organization: Somewhere near Chicago
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 19:36:46 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.173717.4158@twg.com> khan@twg.com (Sharaz Khan) writes:
>Salman Rushdie's 
>novel was funded for the very same reason that many of us
>are unaware of.     
>
>Picture this; a novel writer who is not even critically 
>acclamed receives a grant to mass produce his novel from 
>Penguin books.  This would seem a bit out of the normal.

Is this the new con or what? Rushdie was critically acclaimed by those
who read and appreciate Anglo-Indian writings. Much before he
became notorious, his fame was genuine. Even in Satanic Verses, unless
he is using expletives or names from Hindustan, Salman reminds one
of vintage British writers. However, it seems strange that he should
receive Britain's Booker Club prize (or some shit like that), after
he became notorious.

>Secondly, his book is written in a time prior to the Gulf 
>war around the time when the Soviet Union is at its breaking
>point.  At the same time, the language that used to be thought
>to the CIA (Russian) changes its curriculum to Arabic.  

Authors can't control the release of their books. Whereas, publishers 
can. But then, you must be incredibly stupid to connect Gulf war with
the book. Sadam Hussein is no Khomeini. He is the most liberal of
middle-eastern saint-warrior-rulers. So by that tact alone, USA
should've befriended him, and indeed it did until it perceived
oil-crunch.

>In my opinion, the book was simply another tool used and 
>defended by the big 5 who have the power to veto any bill 
>passed in the UN, to get a consensus of:         
>
>1) The Islamic reaction around the world
>2) To which levels would muslims go to in order to defend Islam
>3) What are the numbers of Muslims in and around Europe. 

And then, the Islam world fulfilled the expectation. It's like
you throw a stone at the dog and you expect the dog to bite back.
An intelligent dog would invent a catapult. You got a whole bunch
of catching up to do with Roadrunner-Kayotee series. All the
philosopher's wool you are weaving doesn't even get you a job
in KGB. No, not even as a shredder operator.

>As far as I am concerned, the big five are out to wage war against 
>Islam in a way never perceived before, and if we Muslims are not 
>ready for it (and I include Pakistanis), you may well see Pakistan
>as the next Iraq.

Meanwhile, shouldn't Mecca be relocated to a bio-sphered planet
somewhere, as per Khomeini's orders of COURSE from the GRAVE, so at
least some faithfuls with access to liquid fuels and rockets can
preserve the relics from the ultimate destruction? And I am dying to
hear your next theory of the
Christian-Hindu-Tao-Budhist-Amish-Gay-Lesbian nexus to displace Islam. 

>My opinions and your comments.

I feel glad to have relieved myself, although I fear retribution from
the SCI Lord of Toilet.

Murthy
From: ambati@acsu.buffalo.edu (Balamural K. Ambati)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: November AIDS Conference in India
Date: 10 Sep 92 14:23:44 GMT
Organization: UB

Recently there was a report of an AIDS conference being held in India this
November.  Does anyone have further information such as when, where, and
who will be organizing it?  Thanks.

Balamurali K. Ambati
ambati@ubunix.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: partha@paul.rutgers.edu (the_tramp)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: looking for Ketan Mehta (MIT)
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:38:39 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

hmmm that's why didn't hear about any movies after Mirch Masala!!!!!