HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mann@dlorsc.enet.dec.com (Jessie Mann)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Justice Bains Writes in the Indian Express
Keywords: Justice Bains, Human Rights, Punjab, IPSG
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:33:16 GMT
Reply-To: mann@dlorsc.enet.dec.com (Jessie Mann)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Looks like you have a lot of negative thinbgs to say about IPSG without any
evidence.
All you have done is shown your dislike of the people involved.  For the last
3-4 years
everything I have seen from this group has something we can be proud of.  These
people
unselfishly give their time for  just causes and receive very little
aprreciation.

Everything we have seen here regarding Justice Bains has been factual
information
without any editorials from IPSG.  People like you make me sick.  You are
incapable
of doing anything decent yourself, but you have a big mouth to criticize those
who do.

Jessie Mann
From: sankar@hal.COM (Sankar Bandy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Question on IIT Kanpur/IIT Delhi
Date: 24 Jul 92 23:18:40 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: quality.hal.com

In article <l708h7INN2j1@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> ghatak@cs.utk.edu (Subhendu Ghatak) writes:
>Hi friends,
>  In which department is Dr. K R Srivatsan of IIT Kanpur please ? 
>  I believe he is in charge of the ERNET project there.
>
>  Also what is the PIN code for IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi please ?
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  Please reply to ghatak@cs.utk.edu
>
>-Sincerely,
>-Subhendu Ghatak

Dr. K R Srivatsan is in the Electrical Engineering department of IITK;
Funny, I can't seem to recall the pincode. This is what time does to you!!!
From: banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Olympics Opening Ceremony
Date: 28 Jul 1992 12:17:07 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu

In article <1992Jul27.231053.979@news2.cis.umn.edu> crick@tsp.med.umn.edu (Ed Crick (CD)) writes:
>In article <l78kk4INNs6v@phad.hsc.usc.edu> banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee) writes:
>>
>>
"Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom" - excellent choice for mentally depraved
>>punks wanting to know a little more about India. 
>>
>>Samit
>>
>>
>In that regard I suppose that the opinion that most of the netters have about
>the American West is formed by "Sholay," or does that represent the 
>gunslinging days of yore in India?
>
>Ed
>

So you actually thought that "Indiana Jones" was a movie about India. Way to
go!!!  

I guess by the same token you thought that SCI was a newsgroup for American
Indians and not the Asian kind that you encountered here. Come to think of
it, your comments about racism, slavery and mental aberrations inherent
in Indians actually makes sense when you realise that those were directed
against the people on the reservations. 

About the arranged marraige part, I dont know. It is probably your confused
sense of logic that lets you take parts of one culture and impose it on
another, almost at will. 

Samit





Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: n0r1688@zeus.tamu.edu (Raghunand Natarajan)
Subject: Re: Olympics Opening Ceremony
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 09:05:00 GMT

In article <26JUL199217032359@rosie.uh.edu>, eleea48@rosie.uh.edu (Thomas, 
Thomas) writes...
>It was a great shock to me to hear the NBC commentator describe India
[deleted]

>It also goes to show that people still regard India as a poor underdeveloped 
>nation. I wonder when this will change ?
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Answer: Simple ! When India ceases to be a poor, underdeveloped nation !

-Raghu
From: ashah@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Amish K. Shah)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Some more Bharat Dabholkars...
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:13:30 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio



Hey Guys,

Its great to hear so many people putting in so many good snippets from
"Bottoms Up" & "Son of..". I was reading that stuff and I remembered a 
couple of oneliners. I don't know if I will be able to convey the flavor but 
but here goes

1.  The scene is the home of a middle class couple and their boy who
managed to GET JUST 98% MARKS IN HIS UPPER KG and his parents are ashamed
to tell anyone and this is followed by some good quips and remarks on the
education system. So anyway, since he has FARED SO BADLY the parents are
wondering which school will admit this poor dude, so they eventually go
to a private school whose principal is a SINDHI. There is a sign in his
office which says "Earn while you Learn", so the father is impressed and
asks whether his son can actually earn while he learns, to that the Principal
says "No WE EARN WHILE HE LEARNS".

     The next thing is the son is asked to recite the addition tables. So the
son starts  
    2 + 2 sonofabitch is 4
    4 + 4 sonofabitch is 8 ... etc
The father then explains that his son actually meant
    2 + 2 sum of which is 4 ... etc

This above episode is not from the Bottoms up series but a new play by
Mr Dabholkar ( the name escapes me)

2. I also seem to recall the name of a minister who is standing for
elections in Bottoms up and his name was TNT and he was supposed  to 
be a South Indian.

Well if I remember any other snippets I will post them 

Until then Cheers
Amish.
 
-- 
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|          TRUST IN ME!!!                   Amish Shah.         |
|-Python to Mowgli in "The Jungle Book".ashah@ringer.utsa.cs.edu|  
==================================================================
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: srinivas@ern.doe.ernet.in (Mr SRINIVAS)
Subject: TEST
Organization: Department of electronics, New Delhi, India
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:45:27 GMT


READ THE SUBJECT

-SRINIVAS
From: slbxk@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: India Friendship Club
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:39:26 MDT
Organization: Utah State University



                   FRIENDSHIP CLUB

                   From the Editor
           -------------------------------


Dear friends,

     We are all far away from home, home town, home city, home
motherland. We each have the same dreams, dreaming about pursuing
a higher degree in education, accomplishing a wonderful task in
our own life, getting a satisfying job, climbing to a higher
class in life... But we feel lonely, terribly lonely, we need
friends, and love. Loneliness is like a killer, threatening us
every friday evening, saturday, sunday, holidays, even in daily
life. Why not let us gather together to get rid of loneliness, to
find ourselves companionship, to enjoy love or friendship! Let's
provide ourselves to the society and meet many people and choose
the one we want to be with, the one we love, but we have not met
yet.

     Good luck to all of you, dear friends!



                                       Editor


     P.S.

     For APPLICATION FORM please write to:

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     Or send inquiring to E-mail address at the top line of this news.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: adesai@iastate.edu (Alpaa Desai)
Subject: Re: India and Artificial Turf (was re: Olympic
Keywords: Poi Dog Pondering.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:53:04 GMT

In <29JUL199213143995@rigel.tamu.edu> n0r1688@rigel.tamu.edu (Raghunand Natarajan) writes:


>In article 27JUL199203591557@zeus.tamu.edu, I wrote:
>>>I don't think artificial turf (AT) "naturally benefits" anyone:
>>>it's just that "western" countries have more (to put it mildly) AT fields, and
>>>so get a lot more practice on AT. Naturally, they are better on it than us.

>To that, a certain Shirish Bhagawat (sbhagawat@eng.clemson.edu) writes in 
>article <1992Jul28.220242.9240@hubcap.clemson.edu>......

>>There is a difference in techniques of hockey played on Astro turf and clay 
>>ground.  Any person who has played sensibly and discussed it with knowledgible
>>people in the field hockey know it!!!!
>>India has changed its style to suit astro turf long ago.  


>Huh ? What does what you've written have to do with what I said earlier ?

>>Don't Bark!!!

Can't you use more polite language.

>Woof ! Woof, woof, woof ! Wooowwwwwooooooooowwwooowwwwwooowwwwoooowww !


It seems like you are doing all the barking.

>-El Coyote Mui Malo
From: crick@tsp.med.umn.edu (Ed Crick (CD))
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: US National Debt
Date: 25 Jul 92 16:09:51 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

Speaking of false positives, is it possible that Dr. Gupta used the Eastern
blot to "discover" his "new virus,"  the one that causes AIDS (based on 2
cases).  He should know that the false positives to which you refer can
be avoided by using the secondary taste detector (please avoid the artefactual
brown blots).

Ed
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sanjoy Ghosh)
Subject: Re: Letter to NBC
Organization: Univ of Illinois, Center for Supercomputing R&D, Urbana, IL
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 04:36:50 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.022930.8437@news.uiowa.edu> rachada@icaen.uiowa.edu (Ramakrishna Chada) writes:
>In article <1992Jul29.180529.1842@csrd.uiuc.edu> ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sanjoy Ghosh) writes:
>>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
>
>If you can fucking do any better than that
>do it. Dont put your worthless opinions on
>the net.

You think your opinion is worth a lot more, do you?

Purely for my edification, could you tell me why my
opinion is worth less than the original poster's
opinions?

Sanjoy Ghosh
ghosh@csrd.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: raj@utkvx9.utk.edu (S. KANAKA RAJ)
Subject: Re: Angola vs India
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:00:00 GMT

In article <92210.130545TXK9@psuvm.psu.edu>, <TXK9@psuvm.psu.edu> writes...
> It was interesting to note that Angola with a population of
>10 million, with 2 indoor courts and 250 serious players in the
>entire country made it to the olympics basketball finals. I wonder when
>India can dream of sending its basketball and vollyball teams to
>olympics.


	To all those who are obsessed to see the glory of 'India' in sports, I
have some questions.

     1.	Is sports really that important?

     2.	When millions are starving every day in 'India', is it really worth
	spending money in sports? 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

	Wealthy Nation : A nation where no man goes hungry.
						- Subramaniya Bharathiyaar

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: iyer@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Sridhar Iyer)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: CALLING ALL S.I.E.S, BOMBAY ALUMNI
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:38:00 GMT




CALLING ALL S.I.E.S (South Indian Education Society, Bombay) ALUMNI in USA
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

The alumni of S.I.E.S school and college who are spread throughout 
U.S.A will be interested to know that the
Society which was founded in 1932, with 6 students, has completed 60
glorious years. During this period, it has contributed significantly
to the promotion of education at all levels. At present, the
institutions run by S.I.E.S encompass around 15,000 students - from
kindergarten to Ph.D., under one roof.

A distinguishing feature of S.I.E.S is that it is a "comman man's"
effort. Not endowed with any substantial donation, the society has
grown purely on the meagre contributions of its students and well
wishers. Paucity of funds has slowed down academic
expansion. Pledged as the society is to provide the best continuing service in
response to a changing social environment,  it is planning to
strengthen and diversify the direction of its academic pursuits.

Believing that you may be interested in fostering education, we approach you
for financial support towards S.I.E.S's efforts in the cause
of education. And so, in this Diamond Jubilee year, the society looks
forward to your generous donations which will be gratefully
acknowledged. Cheques/Demand drafts may be drawn in favour of "The
South Indian Education Society" and mailed direct to:

The Honorary Secretary 
The South Indian Education Society 
K. A. Subramaniam Road 
Matunga, Bombay - 400019 
India.


Please do spread this appeal to your friends and fellow Indians. The
society will be pleased to correspond with its old alumni members,
entertain suggestions, and above all to meet them when they visit
India.

Best wishes to you all.


Mr. S.R. Iyer
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:28:13 -0400 
From: Ashish Bisarya <ab45+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: What is life?

Interesting piece of material I picked up from Mom that I use as
my signature:
***********************************************************************
Ashish Bisarya  (ab45) Carnegie Mellon University  Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Q: WHAT IS LIFE?  from Bhagvat Gita

A: Life is a challenge                 Meet it
   Life is a gift                      Accept it
   Life is an adventure                Dare it
   Life is a sorrow                    Overcome it
   LIfe is a tragedy                   Face it
   Life is a duty                      Perform it
   LIfe is a game                      Play it
   Life is a mystery                   Solve it
   Life is a song                      Sing it
   Life is an opportunity              Take it
   Life is a journey                   Complete it
   Life is a promise                   Fulfill it
   Life is a love                      Enjoy it
   Life is a beauty                    Praise it
   Life is a spirit                    Realize it
   Life is a struggle                  Fight it
   Life is a puzzle                    Solve it
   Life is a goal                      Achieve it
*******************************************************************
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam Ghosh)
Subject: Re: What will I do in India(Re: Rape in Bengal)
Reply-To: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:41:15 GMT

>
>>   My misinformed friend prostitution has always had religious scantion in
>>   in India.The very concept of the devadasi system stems from it.Karnataka
>>   has a whole village were girls at a very young age are set aside as 
>>   prostitutes for the village  Goddess.This practice is not all acceptable
>>   by any reigious standards but the fact is that it is still prevalent
>>   and tradition is resisting any  effort to rehabilitate them.
>>
>Well, if you cared to read some of the scriptures instead of listening to
>what priests told you; you would have known who is misinformed. Religious
>sanction does not mean the sanction of a priest. It means that prostitution
>is an acceptable lifestyle if you are trying for your spirtual development.
>However, that does not mean that people who decide to chose prostitution due
>to either economic conditions or promiscuous nature should be despised. Devdasi
>system was meant to give these ladies respect so that people do not subjugate
>them to slavery. That's why they were "slaves of God" and not "slaves of a
>pimp." Read "The toy cart" on which Shashi Kapoor's "Utsava" is based if you
>want to find out the status of prostitutes in ancient India.
>Arindam
>>
>>
This also brings the question what is prostitution? Isn't selling your sex
appeal a la Brook Shields or Kimi Katakar prostitution? Prostitution used
to enjoy the same public celibrity in ancient India as these stars do nowadays.
Arindam

>>> 3 is day dreamingas I don't have any first hand experience;
>>> but then neither do any of the readers I think.
>>>
>>    HAPPY DREAMING
>>
>>  gopa 
>>
>Thanx
>
>>
>>
>>  ALFRED E NEUMANN FOR PRESIDENT
>>  ANGELA E NEUMANN FOR RUNNNING MATE
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: axs2776@usl.edu (Subramanyam Arunkumar)
Subject: Re:    What's with this guy?
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:31:46 GMT

Looking at all the fuss :
	1] why dont you guys use AT&T to exchange your wonderful verbal
	   skills and spare us, the poor innocents, of all this bullshit ?
	   Or better, use MCI's 'Friends and Family' scheme, for I am sure
	   'fleas' and 'pets' are friends, if not family.

	2] when you post an article on SCI, hazar people get to read it.
	   So what's so special about someone paying more attention to one
	   article ? If you dont want it to be paid attention, then why on
	   earth post it ? If you want just a few people to read it, then
	   maybe you must form one more newsgroup just for swearing at each
	   other.

	3] Try to stay cool.

{ Hope my pal, paul excuses me for using his style, I liked it}

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: Address of Technopark in Kerala
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:02:16 GMT


Technopark
(Electronics Technology Park)
Vellayambalam, Trivandrum - 695 010
Ph: 91-471 68110
Fax: 66537

It has an R&D Incubator, Callibration, Testing and Standardisation Labs,
Central Pilot Production Complex and a Satellite Earth Station.

Regards,

Narotham

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil
From: meena@top.cis.syr.edu (Meenakshi Arunachalam)
Subject: Re: Tamil Jokes... from Vikatan!
Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 21:38:03 EDT

In article <1992Jul27.212257.9586@microsoft.com> dipand@microsoft.com (Dipan Dewan) writes:
>In article <1992Jul25.170547.23802@newstand.syr.edu> meena@top.cis.syr.edu
>                                (Meenakshi Arunachalam) writes:
>>
>>Patient: Doctor! ithellam mudiyalainnu thane unga kitta vanthen!
>>
>>  [...other jokes(?) in Tamil deleted...]
>
>From what I understand, "soc.culture.tamil" was started to allow

That is right. But there are many who do not have access to either
ACT[alt.culture.tamil] or SCT[soc.culture.tamil]. Infact, I got
mails from many who wanted the SCT articles to be posted on SCI also, 
till they are able to subscribe to SCT from their site.

>sharing of Tamil literature freely, without restrictions. Now,
>please desist from posting to SCI if you are not posting English
>translations too!

That is precisely the reason why  I said 'Tamil jokes' on my header!
I am sure you would agree that the joke is lost if it is translated 
to english. eg; Ajit ke phattes posted in Hindi. If there are many
people who feel so strongly about posting Tamil articles on SCI, then 
I shall consider not posting "Tamil" stuff [w/o translation] on SCI.

>
>Thanks, 

> Dipan.

cheers,
-meena

>  Dipan Dewan           dipand@microsoft.com       ...!uunet!microsoft!dipand
>    Views expressed above are mine; they may not be shared by my employer.
From: debchat@vax2.concordia.ca (DEB CHATTERJEE)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: SATANIC VERSES
Date: 24 Jul 92 21:18:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Jul23.080040.22176@cc.uow.edu.au>, g9220348@cc.uow.edu.au 
(adil shaikh) writes...
> 
>In "The Hindu" newspaper's international edition I read that 
>a Professor from Jamia Millia Islamia requested the government to 
>lift the ban on  the Satanic Verses.

 Seems appropriate to me, because, many other countries are `thinking' to
 lift the ban.

>Does anyone know the lattest stand of the govt. ?
                      ???????

 GOI has BANNED the book, with Pakistan to follow. You may be arrested if
 customs officials can fork out your mischief.

>adil

 - good luck in your `smuggling' attempts

       deb chatterjee
     (a good samaritan)
From: kuntal@bilbo.eng.ohio-state.edu (Kuntal Sengupta)
Subject: Re: Olympics Opening Cermony.
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 20:44:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.185406.15355@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> vshastry@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Vijay Shastry) writes:
>
>On not an entirely unrelated thread here, I wonder if the International Hockey
>federation would consider switching back to natural grass fields as a venue.
>I think the current trend in sports, like american football, is to 
>use natural grass because it is much safer- number of injuries to players
>is far less. I know that that the OSU stadium has switched to natural grass.
>

I'm really disheartened to see Mr Shastri ( a Buckeye)
comparing football with field hockey and the effects of astro-turf on
these games. Mr Shastri, if you have ever seen a football game, you
must have noted that the ball is never rolled on the turf (and
therefore, the turf has nothing much to do except for injuries etc)...
In field hockey, the ball rolls on the ground (I hope you know that)
and hence the speed of the game is faster.
 

>of this. Maybe, the federation could recognise two different venues -
>one natural grass and the other being astro-turf.
>
>This will not only benefit the traditional Indian style game and will save 
>India a lot of money in terms of setting up astro turf fields.
>
>				Vijay Shastry

Pakistan is still doing good in field hockey (at least they win medal 
and championships). So, we should not balme the turf all the time.  We
desis lack the killer instinct and thats what makes us different from
Pakis..
KSG


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