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From: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam Ghosh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Bahai :: Santan Dal in Bengal?(was Re: THE NEW COVENANT (RE:RAPE,Clinton))
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:01:32 GMT
Reply-To: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston

>
>
>>You are right; however when you know you are going to get a Bahai lecture from
>>my articles; why do you care to read them? 
>              ----------------------------
>
>
>  This is a valid question. While I do not claim to speak on behalf of
>anyone else (although there may be a few), I personally feel that
>religion/faith is a personal matter and should not be
>preached/advertised. I do not believe in such propaganda where it is
>said that 'my faith is better than yours' or 'all the problems of this
>world will disappear once everybody follows religion X' and so on. It
>is especially important nowadays when communal strife has been more of
>a norm than exception.
>  With this in view, I normally ignore all the religion based lecture
>series - be it on Hinduism, Islam, Christianity ... which we come
>across in SCI every now and then. But, then, why do I read yours ? I
>guess, that is probably due to the respect that I have for you based
>on your old articles which, IMO, were quite rational and well meaning.
>While I do understand your enthusiasm to share your newly found wisdom
>based on Bahaism, it is somewhat irritating for my taste to wade
>through such advertisement everytime I want to read your opinion on
>any particular topic. That's all. I have nothing against Bahaism or
>any other religion, nor am I urging you to conform to my taste.
>  Anyway, I value your contribution to SCI and hope you will continue
>to do that.
>
>regards.
>
>
>>>-Nilanjan
Thanx for the complement. In short, I am tired of analyzing/preaching and
have started acting and have a very clearly defined plan in my life. Since
all the SCI netters will think that's a day dream there's no point in trying
to state it. In short, I do believe that the Bahai faith has all the solution.
However, since it says all religion are One, no forcing etc. you don't have any
reason to fear anything from it. Any causing of dissention in the society is
by definition prohibited. We have to lift ourselves up together,in amity, and
in unity. So I  guess you have to stop reading my articles (-: 
You are always welcome to join any of the
Bahai activities regardless of your caste,class,creed,religion: don't have to
even believe in God; only condition ,IMHO, is no politics. I am still perfectly
rational; however the comments will seem irrational to you if you don't have
the background. As Tagore said; "People interprete my writings in their own
way; only he who keeps his eyes fixed at the God; can interprete my writings
correctly." Similarly, unless you frame all your policies fixing your sight on
the God all is doomed to be failure. There are many other people in the world
who are trying to fix the problems without taking God into consideration. So I
am perfectly happy to be on the other side of the fence.    
Arindam
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.tamil,alt.culture.us.asian-indian
From: manu@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Njan)
Subject: Re: alt.culture.kerala (r.f.d. kinda thing)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:29:45 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.205638.6574@colorado.edu> paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus) writes:
>1] In simple terms this is a request for attention  
>   in the floating of a proto-group alt.culture.kerala.
>   If it has a reasonable response we intend to go to the
>   next stage of putting it into the soc. hierarchy.

I vote YES! I knew this would happen one day... there's nothing like a group
without Doob Chatterbox and Moooorthy Goondakotta and others...

>        a] The developement of the malayalam language.

let's be more practical...

>        b] The developement of the keralite society.
>        c] Politics. 
>        d] Non-Resident Keralite society and clashes of values.
>        e] Religion. 
>        f] Films. 
>        g] Music.
>        h] Sheer nostalgia and news from home.
>        i] Food.
>        j] Flames. (Plenty of those)

ah yes, mallu flames...

	how about "Bharani-pattu"? I never could remember more than a few
lines...

Njan
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: nagappa@Rosie.UH.EDU (C Nagappa - behind the scenes)
Subject: Re: India is a poor nation.
Reply-To: nagappa@Rosie.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:17:44 GMT

In article <adesai.712422040@vincent1.iastate.edu>, adesai@iastate.edu (Alpaa Desai) writes:
>In <adesai.712348737@vincent1.iastate.edu> adesai@iastate.edu (Alpaa Desai) writes:
>
>>Time will tell these ignorant people who realy is poor.We Indian's may lack 
>>abundance of cash and wealth, but we are much richer than any other country in
>>every other respect. Only time will teach them a lesson when they ( the americans) find themselves to be slaves under others.
>
>		
			[stuff deleted]

>What I was trying to get across was the point that Americans are very ignorent
					^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>and self centred. They do not care to know what is happening outside the 50 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>U.S. states. 
^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Americans, in general, may not know all about the 150 cultures in
the world, but I definitely wouldn't call them ignorant or self-centred.

>	It's mainly this ignorance that is causing a lot of hardships to
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>people around the world. Take for example the situation in Punjab and Kashmir.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Now you are saying the Punjab and Kashmir problems are caused by
America! Where do the bunglings and follies of our very own ex-PM (may
her soul rest in peace) Indira Gandhi figure into this?



	[more ignorant stuff deleted]


Chetan Nagappa
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam Ghosh)
Subject: Re: West Bengal: Communists out, ? in
Reply-To: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:02:50 GMT

>
>I dont think u can blame congress as a political party for that.
>If it was CPI(M) raj all over India, it would still be true.
>
>one should blame the society itself and one should also remember that
That's the point I am making; people make parties, parties do not make
people.
Arindam

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: angrish@conch.cis.ohio-state.edu (yogesh angrish)
Subject: Re: **IN SEARCH OF SATAN****
Keywords: Satan
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:22:43 GMT

In article <1992Jul25.070929.13204@cc.uow.edu.au> g9220348@cc.uow.edu.au (adil shaikh) writes:
>
>Dear Netter:
>
>I am in search of Satan. Could anyone help me?
>

his e-mail adddress is angrish@cis.ohio-state.edu
-- 
       ...........................................................
       .  The world is full of nutheads, airheads & braindeads.  .
       .            That's why it's so messed up.                .
       ...........................................................
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rajes@ii.uib.no (Kalki)
Subject: Possible instances of computing tech(?) in ancient Indian texts .
Keywords: Computers , Vedas ,Pushpak .
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Bergen
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 17:46:47 GMT




Dear netters ,

On reading the current thread about astrology and the RigVeda on the net and knowing that:

(a) an almost countless list of firsts has arisen from China 
    ref:Science and Civilization in China -Needham 25 Volumes !

(b) stated contributions of India in the field of arithmetic (shoonya , etc)

the following thought occured to me :

Has the notion of computation occured in any ancient Indian or Chinese text ?
Even  an original interpretation  of certain text would be welcome .

If you have any ideas please drop me a line . Quotes would be preferable since a 
reference might be hard to follow because of nonavailability of source .

Thanx in advance .





-- 
Rajeshwar Mann
University of Bergen, Norway
email: rajes@ii.uib.no
From: 24sureka@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Dhabolkar ads.
Date: 22 Jul 92 13:30:41 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University


Hi guys,

I regularly attend the net discussions thou I never contribute and hence am a
silent observer.

This time I am requesting a contribution from fellow netters.
If anyone has been collecting the Dhabolkar (Amul) ads., I would be grateful if
he could forward a copy to me.

My add. is 
24sureka@gw.wmich.edu
Thanks,

Aman.
From: bharat@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Ajit jokes(yes)
Date: 22 Jul 92 10:23:05 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

In article <1992Jul21.170436.18697@cs.cornell.edu>, navin@cs.cornell.edu (Navin Budhiraja) writes:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 	Has anyone collected the Ajit jokes that were 
> posted on this newsgroup over the past few months? 
> I would like to get a copy, if possible.
> 
> Thanks
> -Navin
 
....Tumko mere joke chahiye...me bara aasan tarikaa batata hun..
Vax me login ho jana. Login me mera nam bhar dena. passward ki jagah type 
karana "Pani me aag nahi lagati". 
 
Thori der intzar karana, printer mere phatte ugalana shuroo kar dega.
 
- BAAS (mud iland se)
 
========================================================================
 
o o
 |  ?
 =--U

-always curious
 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: me@comstore.uark.edu (My Account)
Subject: Re: West Bengal: Communists out, ? in
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:36:46 GMT
X-Posted-From: comstore.uark.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Jul23.173453.23182@menudo.uh.edu> mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU  
(Arindam Ghosh) writes:
> >Your note in the first place was an exercise in futulity, and you knew  
> >that very well.  It is another instance of Bengali  
pseudo-intellectualism.  
> >We want to do a lot of things, but we know we are uncapable of  
achieving  
> >most of them, because we are unwilling to make the needed sacrifice and  
I  
> >think that it is nothing unusual. Most of us are torn between the need  
for  
> >a financially smooth and apparently luxurious life and the sublime urge  
to  
> >acknowledge our social responsibility. 
> >I would like to know, what you are doing in order to start the so  
called  
> >'movement'? If one person at a time is the basis of your concept, let  
it  
> >start from you.--- Aditi 
> Yes of course. I am booking the first flight out of this country, right
> after graduation.
> Arindam

I wish you all the best! -- Aditi
From: ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sanjoy Ghosh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Letter to NBC
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:05:29 GMT
Organization: Univ of Illinois, Center for Supercomputing R&D, Urbana, IL

rgopu@cs.tamu.edu (Rangarathnam Gopu) writes:

>Public Relations Officer
>NBC
>30, Rockefeller Plaza 
>New York, NY 10022
>
>Sir / Madam
>
>        It is bad enough that almost all the news reports about India and her
>        neighbors portray only the negative side of those countries. Please
>        do not let your apparent ignorance and condescending attitudes seep
>        into sports coverage too.

I am sure dear sir/madam will be very relieved to know that you don't
particularly mind their apparent ignorance and condescending attitudes 
as long as they know their place, and confine it to news stories.  As 
long as they don't get above themselves and venture into hallowed ground, 
the sacrosanct world of Sports its no big deal.

All the same, it was nice of you to write,
Sanjoy Ghosh
ghosh@csrd.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,alt.culture.us.asian-indian,soc.culture.asian.american
From: mgundeko@pcserver2.Naitc.Com (Murthy Gundekota)
Subject: Re: Family values and the West.
Keywords: Marriage, Family, Industrial, West.
Organization: Somewhere near Chicago
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 20:22:00 GMT

In article <3654@randvax.rand.org> edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
>Actually, they are trying to get sex off of PBS, too.  Given the
>recent two-track productions PBS has done with the BBC (wherein
>the US version is watered-down) they are having some success...
>
>I don't think the U.S. government is anywhere near perfect.  They've
>done many evil things, including putting my mother-in-law in a
>concentration camp because of her ancestry.  But despite all the wrong
>things the U.S. government has done, I wouldn't trade the U.S. system
>for any other.  I'd rather stay here and try to fix it.
>
>		-Ed Hall
>		edhall@rand.org


My last posting in reply, Ed. Somehow, you have stripped the humor out
of me. Anyway, can you elaborate about the concentration
camp business, if you care, if it has no propaganda value, if it
is rooted in some reality? 


Murthy
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: singh@cc.gatech.edu (Ranu Singh)
Subject: Taking a Car to India
Reply-To: singh@cc.gatech.edu
Organization: College of Computing
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:22:27 GMT


I am interested in finding out  the rules governing import of car into 
India by a person going back after 2 yrs.

a) Which is the best place to buy a car for sale in India? 
b) Which cars command the best premium?
c) What is the best way to take them back?

If any body has done research on this subject and can find the time to 
respond, please reply by email since I don't read this group regularly.
If there is enough interest, I will post a summary of the replies I 
receive.


	-Ranu Singh
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:29:07 EDT
From: Deepak Srivastava <DXS23@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: VHP's Defiance -- view point by Soli J. Sorabjee

In article <1992Jul23.142040.10814@menudo.uh.edu>, nagappa@Rosie.UH.EDU (C
Nagappa - behind the scenes) says:
>
>NEW DELHI, India - India's Supreme Court ordered a northern state to stop
>militant Hindus from constructing a temple within yards of a 16th century
>Muslim mosque.
>

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.

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All typing mistakes are mine.       Deepak

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: deepak@ern.doe.ernet.in (Deepak Singh)
Subject: Hair-raising 
Organization: Department of electronics, New Delhi, India
Distribution: w
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 08:17:41 GMT

Here is a joke on bank scam in which a company called Fairgrowth was involved.
Anoop is a hair vitaliser.



Shetty, the famous bald villain of Indian cinema had been reading reports
of the stock market boom in his heavenly adode. Fed up with his naging,
Yamraj finally allowed him to return to earth to make a killing. Naturally,
he went to Ajit for help. Here is the conversation that followed.

Shetty: Boss, humko Fairgrowth ka share dila do.

Ajit: Raabert, Shetty ke liye Anoop hair oil le aao.

Shetty: Anoop hair oil? Woh kyon, boss...?

Ajit: Stupid! Tumko Fairgrowth se pahle hairgrowth mangta.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ssmehta@unity.ncsu.edu (Surinder Mehta)
Subject: Passport renewal query
Organization: North Carolina State University Project Unity
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:50:30 GMT

I am planning to send my passport by mail for renewal to DC.  The question I have is they require you to provide a proof of your Visa Status.  What document do they want when they say that-
	(a) I20
	(b) I94
	(c) Letter from the ISo or the Dept
	(d) some other form of documentation.
Thanx guys.  Pls send your responses to me directly at ssmehta@unity.ncsu.edu.
Thanx again.

surinder
From: banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: New HIV virus?
Followup-To: rec.humor, soc.culture.bangladesh, talk.bizzare.
Date: 24 Jul 1992 16:20:39 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu


The ABC news on Wednesday (7/22) carried an interview with a researcher at 
the Univ.of California in Irvine who claimed to have identified a new strain of
HIV viruses. Dr.Sudhir Gupta (and hence the relevance to SCI , I am told)
claims that this virus cannot be detected by the usual ELISA test and it has
been shown to cause the immunodeficiency associated with the progress of the
disease. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has identified three such
cases in the US and the blood samples at UCI were from that organisation.

Is this virus going to be HIV-III or is it a mutant strain?

Does anybody have any info on this?

Serious replies are welcome. Flames are not, though they may not necessarily
be ignored.


Samit
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ST402804@brownvm.brown.edu (S.L.)
Subject: Re: Aditi, Arindam and me.
Organization: Brown University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:48:30 GMT


 Shouldn't it be "Aditi, Arindam and I" ??  "Me" is quite inappropriate!!


--S.L.





Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:26080 austin.general:2542
From: shubu@cs.utexas.edu (Shubhendu Sekhar Mukherjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,utcs.general,austin.general,ut.general
Subject: Air Ticket - Austin to Madison and back
Date: 27 Jul 92 12:48:39
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Austin, CS Dept.
NNTP-Posting-Host: oporto.cs.utexas.edu


I have a round trip air ticket from Austin to Madison which I would like
to sell.  The scheduled dates are Aug. 20 - leaving Austin and Aug. 25 
leaving Madison, Wisconsin.   However, the dates can be altered at a very
nominal price ($25).   

My price is highly negotiable.  Please respond ASAP.

Luck!
-Shubu
--
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Shubhendu Sekhar Mukherjee       University of Texas @ Austin, C.Sc.
Net:shubu@cs.{utexas,wisc}.edu   [W]:(512) 471-9856 [H]:(512) 450-1756
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sgs1679@usl.edu (Sudhindranath Sira G)
Subject: Re: US National Debt
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:26:47 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.194032.1637@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> gchacko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (George W Chacko) writes:
>In article <1992Jul24.144444.3390@news2.cis.umn.edu> crick@htlv.med.umn.edu (Ed Crick (CD)) writes:

Subject: Re: US National Debt
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>
>>I must disagree with you concerning my credentials.  I am adroit at using
>>the Indian biological technique, the Eastern blot.  This technique was
>>pioneered in India's institute of higher learning, as existed before
>>DNA hybridizations.  For those of you wondering what an Eastern blot is, it
>>is when you spill curry on your fresh, white kurta.
>
>Hmm! A Medline search showed no H.I.T.S. I assume that this technique
>has not yet been published. Perhaps Mr. Crick would consider making
>detailed protocols available? How does one probe for specific
>ingredients like mono-unsaturated fatty acids? 
>
>George
>
>


Oh, no! The Ed Crick virus marches on relentlessly as it infects
yet another subject-header... 

...and yet another line is added to my kill-file.

--Sudhi.


--
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Phone : (318)-232-2198 (r)	                    Lafayette, LA 70504-1688.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
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From: ngrjn@milton.u.washington.edu (V Nagarajan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Regarding RAW-Mossad Nexus to Fight Terrorism
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:15:44 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Jul23.185026.10827@news.uiowa.edu> abdutta@icaen.uiowa.edu (Abhijit Dutta) writes:
.
.
.
>        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.  
>
	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.

							- Nagarajan
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: suresh@pca.com 
Subject: test
Organization: Personal Computing Company of Ameraica
 
 Test.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:01:56 GMT

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