HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: narayana@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Kuram T Narayana)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Parikh's Women of India and Abortion!
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:40:21 GMT
Organization: Penn State Computer Science

Last July while on vacation, I was sitting in the dispensory of
my Doctor friend in India! A villiage couple entered the dispensory!
The female in question was about 4 month's pregnent! They wanted to
have an abortion!

My doctor friend suggested a surgeon who will perform the abortion!
He lamented to the female that she should have taken care not to
become pregnent and should have had the fetus aborted early in
pregnency! 

He said that using abortion as a birth control measure is becoming
increasingly common! He lamented so much about the bad publicity
done in 1977 for birth control regimes and how they have impacted
the current practice! Note that in the specific instance, it was not
the choice of sex or anything like that! The lady wanted to have
as few children as possible. 

In adequate sex education and tabooing sex has such undesirable
consequences of using methods that are not intended for birth
control!

...kt
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil
From: shiva@b30.ingr.com (Shiva Shivakumar)
Subject: Re: Tamil Jokes... from Vikatan!
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 03:28:08 GMT

One of my all time favorites :

PeNN : Appa, tholaipesi !

Appa : Neeye pesittholai !

anbudan,

Jagadisan Shivakumar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: raghavan@wk21.nas.nasa.gov (Venkatraman Raghavan)
Subject: Re: The olympics and Bob costas
Organization: NAS
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 21:54:27 GMT

>venugop@athena.cs.uga.edu (Gopakumar VENUGOPALAN) writes:
 
>:     "Courier said the heat didn't bother him as much as Krishnan
>:     did.The junkballer from India,ranked No.200,puts less pace on his 
>:     shots than anyone else on the ATP Tour,Courier said.
>:     'We call him the surgeon on the Tour ,Courier said.He slices and 
>:     dices and that's what he was doing today.
>: 
>:     gopa
>:     regards

Many years ago, it was McEnroe who was complaining that Ramesh
Krishnan serves at 10 mph. If playing a slow game is a weakness 
why do these 'great players' get frustrated by that?

-raghavan, v.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: bsmg9810@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bhaskar S. Manda)
Subject: Re: MEN of EASTERN origin
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 03:45:52 GMT

a726226@daffy.mc.ti.com (savithri) writes:



>I just happened to scan this group out of idle curiosity.  From what I have seen,
>I am now more than certain that MEN from the EASTERN part of the world have something
>seriously lacking in their brain cells. (More than 98% - a figure I concluded from the
>number of scum bags I have met).  What is most surprising is even though they SEEM to
>be developed physically as humans, the majority of them are on the lowest rung on the
>mental level,  with their ego, narrow-mindedness, duplicity, male superiority complex
>(this is the subtlest of all among the so called educated) developed beyond and above
>the norm of other races.

	Etc., etc. along similar lines deleted.

	WOW !! Blanket indictment, eh ?
	I suppose if Indian men are as above, they're in good company :)

	Bhaskar(UIUC)
From: rsd@ccrl.nj.nec.com (Rajiv Dighe)
Subject: Re: MEN OF EASTERN ORIGIN
Organization: C&C Research Labs, NEC USA, Princeton, N.J.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 18:39:38 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.132955@daffy.mc.ti.com> a726226@daffy.mc.ti.com (savithri) writes:
>
>Suffice to say that I maintain my original position
>that more than 98% of the MEN of EASTERN origin are SCUMS.

Waitasec..
I thought SCUM stood for Society for Cutting Up Men...
I didnt know they allowed men in SCUM.
Or do they only allow EASTERN MEN ?
Does that mean MEN of EASTERN origin (ME) are not considered 
men by SCUM ?
How come ?
Should ME be affronted ?
Or should I be pleased ?
Ummm
Do I want to be a SCUM ?
Or can I just be ME ?
Or can I be free
of all labels indeed
unless its my deeds
that warrantees 
such broad categories
And when I say broad
I dont mean to goad
knee-jerk reactions
Newton's third law in action
So If I offend, please forgive
All I wanna be is Rajiv

Rajiv-No-Dr.Seuss-he-Dighe


>
>
>savithri


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,rec.travel,rec.travel.air
From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
Subject: Re: Alteration/Cancellation of Air tickets
Keywords: air tickets cancellation
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:35:59 GMT

rs@sys.uea.ac.uk (CHE Guest News Login) wrote: 
->	I am getting a good deal from  England to Delhi, via Air UK & KLM, but
->the travel agent is telling me that if I alter the date of Travel later on, thenI have to pay Pounds 75 per ticket, and in case of cancellation, I am not       entitled to any refund.
->	Please advice, whether I should go ahead  and whether these high alteration
->alteration charges are a common practice or I am being fooled.

look: you pay a cheap fare and you take what you can get.  if you
could afford to pay full price they wouldn't charge you for alteration
or cancellation of the itinerary.  part of the reason you can get
cheap fares is because they charge you for each and every exception
you need.

so: buy the ticket when you are pretty sure of your travel dates and
destinations, and buy travel insurance to cover those unscheduled
emergencies.

--
# henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc.  / <henry@ads.com>
From: vvhr@troi.cc.rochester.edu (V. Vohra)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Info. needed - M.A/M.S in economics/related field admission in U.S
Date: 30 Jul 92 02:51:55 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

Hello netters,
	I need some input from people who are doing masters in economics or
related areas. I need this information to figure out what are the options
for my brother who is presently doing Bachelors in commerce in India.
Please indicate if the masters programs that you list at your or other 
univs. here that you know and whether or not they offer any kind of financial
assistance? as is usually available for masters in enginneering.
	What do the schools look for in giving admission for m.s or m.a in 
economics or related fields. GMAT or GRE or ...? what is the weightage given
to academic performance in the undergraduate class i.e, his b.com in india.
		will be extremely thankful.....
					Vivek Vohra
				The University of Rochester
					Rochester, NY 14627
				vvhr@db1.cc.rochester.edu
				vvhr@troi.cc.rochester.edu
From: sankar@hal.COM (Sankar Bandy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Note filmstar Amjad Khan passed away....
Date: 30 Jul 92 23:52:43 GMT
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: quality.hal.com

In article <1992Jul29.202928.13969@engage.pko.dec.com> rsingi@penuts.enet.dec.com (Rajesh Singi) writes:
>
>Filmstar Amjad Khan alias Gabbar Singh - "Sholey" fame, died of a massive 
>heart attack on June 28, 92 at Bombay.
>
>- May his soul rest in peace.
>
>- Rajesh 
Should it not  be July 28, 92. Anyway really a sad news! Amzad was a great
actor and a greater human being. We will miss him.

>>Sankar
From: ravi@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu (Pattalachinti)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Lovable villain is dead ???
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:48:51 GMT
Organization: College Of Engg. & Tech., Ohio University. Athens

In article <18659@bunny.GTE.COM> rc05@gte.com (Ramesh Chandak) writes:
>
>heard on BBC this morning that "a lovable villain" from the Hindi film
>industry is dead ???  i missed the name.  any clues to who it is ?
>
>- Ramesh
>rc05@gte.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sa@cs.brown.edu (Swarup Acharya)
Subject: Re: TRAVEL AGENT: excellent experience
Keywords: Travel, Agent, good experience
Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:31:37 GMT

In article <swgto.712300686@judy.cs.iastate.edu>, swgto@cs.iastate.edu (Swagato Basumallick) writes:
|> Two points I'd forgotten to mention in my earlier posting

[....]

|> 	b) The travel agency charges you the full airlines fare if you 
|> charge your ticket; BUT HAS SENT ME THE REFUND CHEQUE ALONGWITH MY TICKETS .
|> 
|> 

Thanks for the info , but ...
  
    Is there an entry in the "absolute no-no things on SCI" which prevents
posters recommending travel agents, to quote how much the ticket cost(in
figures/hard_currency and not in "good/cheap/fantastic_deal" )?? Everyone
appreciates posts on good/bad experiences with travel agents but a few
figures would help a long way, wouldn't it ??

Henceforth, would the kind souls who take pains to recommend trav_agents just
add that golden line ....

Nothing personal here ...

Enuf said ,

Swarup  
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
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:52:27 GMT

>There are some on the net who will say 'Calcutta is doomed, I don't care, I don't
>want to get involved.'  To these people I say ' Hey, that's just fine, have a great life !'.  But I DO CARE, I want to stand up and say I want to help the good people who are fed up with the status quo.  I want things to change.  I believe Bengal has great potential, great talent.  I don't want to see my people perish.  
>
>Others will say 'the problems are huge and complex, it's impossible, you are a dreamer', I say let's put Bengals best brains to work, it's a great challenge, yes, but that's what the best brains want, to solve a problem that remains unsolved.  Above all, I refuse to accept defeat, every time I get knocked down I will get up and fight again and again and again.
>
>Apart from a think tank, we need a real leader, a guy who is smart, open minded and believes that Bengal can be great again.  Somebody who is not afraid to stand up to the bullies, somebody who will listen to all the voices and do what is good for the people.  Is there such a person in Bengal today?  I don't know, I want to think there is but he is probably disillusioned, the communists have probably tried to destroy him.  I believe things can change if everybody lends a helping hand.  Massive amount
>
>
>   
Here goes my sweet little plan, straight from Valmiki (-:
First divorce yourself from all political powers.
(Ram goes to the forest)
Then make an alliance with the traditionally oppressed tribal class
(Ram befriends Guhaka)
Then rescue the simple minded devotees from the clutch of self seeking
religious leaders who are often in partnership with the evil forces
(Ram forms the monkey army after killing Bali)
Then fight the final battle with the power crazy corrupt people for the truth
(Ram rescues Sita by killing Ravana)

See the scriptures are true!
I tend to think that religion is important in this process as only faith
can unite hearts of people, may be I am too weak. The problem is not that
solutions based on religion is irrational. "Love thy neighbour as thyself"
is not irrational. The problem is people have thousands of excuses not to
try.
I believe that without religion you can never achieve this type of solutions.
May be I am weak. Strong-hearted atheists who can trust such solutions without
a belief in God are welcome to join.
Bye
Arindam
From: ngopalas@ha14.eng.ua.edu (Nath S. Gopalaswamy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Olympics Opening Ceremony
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:02:38 GMT
Organization: The University of Alabama

In article <1992Jul27.144904.26091@news2.cis.umn.edu>, crick@tsp.med.umn.edu (Ed Crick (CD)) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul27.032957.138390@ua1ix.ua.edu> ngopalas@ha14.eng.ua.edu (Nath S. Gopalaswamy) writes:
|> >by some on this net itself. I have had trouble explaining to the Ed Crick
|> >clones that we consider it bad manners to eat monkey brains for breakfast,
|> >they are strictly meant for dinner only. Also, human sacrifices do not take
|> >place every full moon, but are conducted only during solar eclipses. Why, if
|> >we conducted sacrifices every full moon, our population would be half its
|> >current level. And they don't realize, whenever we pass the beef section, it
|> >is mandatory for us "Hindoos" to kneel and pray to the holy spirit of the cow.
|> >People do not work back home because they are too immersed in their hobby
|> >of snake-charming a la Vijay Amritraj in Octopussy.
|> >
|> 
|> Having recently tripped over a devout Brahmin prostrated in the frozen
|> meat section of my local supermarket, I feel it necessary to respond to
|> the allegations being directed to me and my "clones" (BTW, are these
|> cDNA clones or genomic clones, what vector was the library cloned into, and
|> what was your screening method?).  I HAVE seen the Indiana Jones movie, so
|> I do know that monkey brains are a delicacy reserved for banquet dinners.
|> As far as the scarifices, how did you escape your lot?  Did you parents
                ~~~~~~~~~~~
|> dress you in a sari, to pretend you were a girl?
|> One more question, is Vijay Amritraj the only Indian tennis player/snake
|> charmer, or is Ramesh Krishnan likewise multi-talented?
|> 
|> Ed

I do not intend to burn my fingers by even trying to figure out what genomic
clones etc are. I meant clones in the sci-fi movie watcher layman terms. But
I digress :). So you have seen the Indiana Jones movie, well now you know how
hard it is to catch monkeys for dinner, the darned things are becoming harder
and harder to hunt down nowadays. I think the underlined above is a typo or
is it intentional?, anyway I escaped because where I lived there was never
a solar eclipse! Ain't that wonderful? And did not the Indiana Jones movie
teach you that girls are not immune from becoming sacrificial fodder? No, I
am not interested in discussing immune systems which seems to be your forte :).
And your last question again shows your ignorance. I think you better go watch
those Indiana Jones and similar movies again (or PBS). Every "hindoo" is born with
snake-charming talents, in fact new-borns play the pipe, instead of playing
with rattles. And you forgot that we do not use stairs, we got the rope-climbin'
trick handy, together with our ever comfy bed of nails. Anyway, I really appreciate
your interest, maybe with enough of your kind around there is hope after all
for countries like India >:). I do hope more such people get to do shows on India
and its customs on  our friendly local PBS in the future.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: fonts for indian languages in wordperfect!!!
From: bagarwal@uceng.UC.EDU (Beena  Agarwal)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:49:37 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Cincinnati

	hello,
		I would like to know if anyone has used fonts for indian languages, like hindi in wordperfect, latex or any other wordprocessing tool.  If anyone has please send me the information of how to use it at:
		bagarwal@uceng.uc.edu
	I'd appreciate the help.

	Thanks

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus)
Subject: Re:    What's with this guy?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:41:32 GMT

In article <1992Jul20.222426.4856@Firewall.Nielsen.Com> mgundeko@pcserver2.Naitc.Com (Murthy Gundekota) writes:
>In article <1992Jul20.184600.21996@colorado.edu> paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus) writes:
>>   Niether Henry Miller nor Joyce considered themselves proponents of free
>>   speech. They did not write the way they did because they wanted to 
>>   demonstrate their contempt for the moral standards of the middle classes.
>>   Their use of language was a essential part of the stories they were trying 
>>   to tell. 
>
>Chicken or Egg? Henry Miller's stuff was banned in United States! In
>United States??? Yes, good ol' yankee tweedledom. He gave a big shit!
>And then he went on to his writing. Freedom of speech was then Henry's
>privilege (or nemesis), not a mere right.
> 
1] Both joyce and miller were banned in america.
   Yes, miller did not, in milder words, care much about the ban.
   Joyce' case was one of the defining cases with regard to 
   pornography. 
   America has always had a big gap between the words and 
   actual practice. Witness "All men are created equal" in the 
   declaration by the founders and slavery lasting for another
   100 years and more.

   Joyce did not use such language in "The portrait of an artist as a young
   man" or in "finnegans wake" or in "Dubliners."
   Miller always described the same basic thing: his personal life.
   So nexus, sexus, plexus and the tropic of capricorn and the tropic
   of cancer all have the same steamy style.
   All this in support of using any language you need to convey an Idea.
   But not in itself.


>>2] Reading your posts one often gets the feeling you have something to say.
>>   But the verbal maze you use to convey it usually is often so off putting
>>   one gives up in defeat.
>
>So just don't read! Who cares? Voices from cesspool were heard at
>times, especially when the cesspool is right in the middle of the
>living room. To unravel the metaphor, I am not surprised when Indians
>criticize my (shit splattering) commentary about Indians. It's just a
>fact of life.

2] Talking cesspools.
   q.e.d.

>
>You stay cool too, and just close eyes when not required.
>
>Murthy

3] Stay Cool.
   
   Qoute for the day:

	"You people will never know the things I have seen.
     Men on fire ...
     Stars exploding ...
     Now ...
     all these memories ...
     will be lost in time,
     Time to die."

						- "Do androids dream of electric sheep ?"
                           Dick Philip K.
     
     

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam Ghosh)
Subject: Re: Shape of the "Siva Lingam"
Reply-To: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:31:22 GMT

>The reason I am posting this on the net is to find out if
>anyone has read a book entitled "The Gods of India: Hindu
>Polytheism" by Alain Danielou, who has a number of other books
>(like translations of Manimekhalai and Shilappadikaram) to 
>his credit. The book is certainly interesting at first glance,
>and the poster can certainly find his answer in this book or
>the other book "While Gods play: Man and the  universe according
>to the Shaivite tradition."
>
>That is, assuming the poster's objective was genuine.
>
>Sthan.
>--
>   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
>     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
>        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
>           internet:  bbs.oit.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80

So dear Sthan, we meet again. Yes I have read that book. Compare Bahaullah
with the Shiva who will come in a hidden form to resurrect religion. Though
it doesn't follow all Danielou's interpretations about "The religion of the
book" and "sexual orgies" it certainly has resurrected the central spirit of
the Shaivism.
Arindam

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: singh@cc.gatech.edu (Ranu Singh)
Subject: Re: Taking a Car to India
Organization: College of Computing
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:20:53 GMT

Hi Netters, 
	I have received 10 requests asking me to post any information
	I get but no information so far !!
	If there is anyone who knows about this stuff, pleee...eease 
	respond.
	I repeat my question in detail :

>
>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
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 00:58:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.222945.10181@colorado.edu> manu@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Njan) writes:
[...]
>I vote YES! I knew this would happen one day... there's nothing like a group
>without Doob Chatterbox and Moooorthy Goondakotta and others...

1] Thats kind of weak ground for you to tread on, you know.

[...]

>
>ah yes, mallu flames...
>
>	how about "Bharani-pattu"? I never could remember more than a few
>lines...
>
>Njan

2] Waiting.

3] Stay Cool.

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From: vijay@efim.austin.ibm.com (Vijay Joglekar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: CFV: alt.us.visas
Date: 20 Jul 92 15:29:29 GMT
Reply-To: vijay@wizards.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM (Aix Tools Development)

How about creating a group called alt.us.visas.  By the addition of this 
group we could help folks mostly interested in visa information from any 
country to get that information easily.  A FAQ will also be helpful. 
This will moderate many of the soc groups.

Vijay Joglekar

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 Disclaimer: These are my opinions and my opinions only. Has nothing
                      to do with where I work.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rags@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Raghavan Jayaraman)
Subject: Need some Info.
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:35:33 GMT


Friend of mine needs some information on "Gurunanak Engineering College",
Bidar, which is  affiliated to Gulbargah University. 

Anyone who knows/has some info. please email to rags@casbah.acns.nwu.edu.

Your help is appreciated very much.

raghavan
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: soundar@cis.ohio-state.edu (m soundararajan)
Subject: travelling on Aug 2 Singapore ?
Originator: soundar@pons.cis.ohio-state.edu
Keywords: travel to India, Singapore Airlines
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:11:48 GMT

Hi,
   I am travelling to India by Singapore Airlines on the Aug 2 1:15 am
flight from San Francisco to Madras. There is a 10 hr layover at
Singapore. Is anybody out there taking this flight ? It'll be nice to
know I have company. Please email.

soundar@cis.ohio-state.edu