HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mmurali@cs.ulowell.edu (M.R. Murali)
Subject: Looking for N.Ramprasad
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 13:54:38 GMT

I am looking for N. Ramprasad who was studying with me in K.V Malleswaram
Bangalore and later in M.E.S college ,Bangalore. He was in the doctoral 
program in M.I.T. I would appreciate it if anyone could give me his 
whereabouts and if possible his Email address. My Email address is 
mmurali@cs.ulowell.edu. Thanks
						Murali
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: bkotecha@cix.compulink.co.uk (Bipin Kotecha)
Subject: Test
Reply-To: bkotecha@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:18:13 +0000


Hello from the UK,

You don't seem to get (m)any postings from the UK.

Bipin

PS This is a test posting!

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: mv2z@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Madhusudhan Vudali)
Subject: H-1 Multiple / Mexico / Recent Experiences / Info needed
Originator: mv2z@ruby.cs.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:20:51 GMT

Hi Netters!

Thanx very much to those of you sent me mail
regarding the H-1 stuff.

Unfortunately, most of the mail was about experiences
of people who went to Mexico quite some time back.

I would like to get some info from people who have been to Mexico 
say in the last one month. 

Please send me mail regarding success/failure in the last one month.

Thanx again.

--Madhu

ps: send mail to 
      madhu@utdallas.edu
or    mv2z@virginia.edu
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From: ngrjn@milton.u.washington.edu (V Nagarajan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: RSS ( MP Government's Silent revolution in Education)
Date: 5 Sep 92 02:49:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Sep5.024929.2118
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Sep5.012419.14518@tamsun.tamu.edu> gagrawal@cs.tamu.edu (Gopal Agrawal) writes:
>In article <1992Sep4.190255.19027@ucunix.san.uc.edu> bhatnagr@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Raj Bhatnagar) writes:
>>Gandhi is also one such role-model and nobody is denying it, not
>>even RSS. I haven't seen any RSS literature denigrating Gandhi on
>>this count.
>>
>>---raj
>
>A lot of things that is taught in the RSS shakhas is not written 
>down anywhere. No where will you find any anti-muslim literature
>either.  
.....

	This is true. Either Raj is naive or he is trying to pull the wool
	over everyone else's eyes. Last year, at the height of the Shiv Sena-
	BJP bhai bhai' period, Bal Thackeray opined at a public meeting
	that Gandhi had deserved an early death. Murli Manohar Joshi or Vajpayee
	(of "Gandhian Socialism" fame) who was sharing the podium with 
	Thackeray did not react to this statement, a rather outrageous one
	even for a scum like Bal Thackeray. BJP's silence was interpreted
	in the press as an inevitable `coming out of the closet' from their
	historically contradictory position regarding Gandhiji.
	Having a few very close relatives who belong to the VHP and the
	RSS, I can tell you that the prevalent opinion in those circles
	is that Gandhiji was undemocratic because he wouldn't let the
	majority hindus prevail. In their opinion, again, Gandhiji's
	assassination helped prevent the hindus from compromising their
	religion and culture. One has to be excessively paranoid and totally
	unable to distinguish the concepts democracy and majoritarian
	tyranny in order to share these views.

							- Nagarajan
From: zpvy0a@hou.amoco.com (Yalamanchi Prasad)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: sari, churidar, etc. (why should I....
Date: 14 Sep 92 13:27:54 GMT
Reply-To: zpvy0a@hou.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco

--In article 26213@paul.rutgers.edu, partha@paul.rutgers.edu (the_tramp) writes:
--Hmmm..I would rather say that Indian women  are very very
--lucky..they have such a wide range to choose from..
--they can wear traditional indian dress (100 types of saris, diff
--styles of wearing and so on) as well as western dress..
--it only expands the horizon.....dont you think?


Coudn't agree more!!  That's making best of both worlds i suppose ....

prasad
From: iac!meha@uunet.uu.net (Meha Mehta - ITG Los Angeles)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Sati is good ...
Date: 10 Sep 92 19:51:10 GMT
Reply-To: iac!meha@uunet.uu.net
Distribution: usa
Organization: Investment Technology Group, Culver City, CA

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Sati is good ...
Summary: 
Expires: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: usa
Organization: Investment Technology Group, Culver City, CA
Keywords: 

In article <BuAGD8.Lz4@wpi.WPI.EDU> sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu (Suresh Doki) writes:
>>Summary: 
>>Expires: 
>>References: <BtvH4F.4wK@wpi.WPI.EDU> <754@iac.uunet.uu.net> <Bu0oz0.1GF@wpi.WPI.EDU>
>>Sender: 
>>Followup-To: 
>>Distribution: 
>>Organization: Investment Technology Group, Culver City, CA
>>Keywords: 
>>
>>NO! We are always 100% intelligent and YOU are so lame.
>>
>>- Meha
>
>
>yeah right!! the double headers and [ two other set of headers that
>were removed to lessen your embarrassment ] show how intelligent you
>are. i guess you are in the ninety percent non-intelligent period now.
>
>
>Suresh


Yeah, yeah.
I was waiting for this.  I just laugh.
You have guessed wrong.  It was the computer's fault.  
YOU are still lame.  You can't be sweet, at least not in 
this life time.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: armally@pbhyb.PacBell.COM (arvind mally)
Subject: Re: Maharaja Travels __  Need Info
Reply-To: armally@PacBell.COM (arvind mally)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 18:57:39 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.042323.2646@news.duc.auburn.edu> hamanglo@eng.auburn.edu writes:
>
>Need Information on Maharaja Travel Agency, New York, ( source - India Abroad News Paper). Anyone having travel experience with the above agency please contact me immediately, he seems to offer very good deals to India! need to verify his services 
>
>Thanks 
>Hemant Manglorkar 
>hamanglo@eng.auburn.edu
____________________________________________________________________________

Bad experience, if this is the same agency operating since 1983??

Arvind Mallya


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: raman@aeshna.zko.dec.com (Rajesh Raman)
Subject: This is a Test (IGNORE)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:05:19 GMT


This is test...and a TEST ONLY...Ignore it..

-/rajesh raman

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gagrawal@cs.tamu.edu (Gopal Agrawal)
Subject: Re: RSS ( MP Education system: Silent Revolution)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 05:55:53 GMT

In article <1992Sep07.223357.26580@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> indu@iss700.Columbia.NCR.COM () writes:
>
>  They don't denigrate Gandhi. And do any anti-muslim propoganda.
>  BUT IT IS A FACT THAT THEY INDEED PROJECT THE TRUE PICTURE. NO 
>  VERSIONS, JUST THE TRUTH. AND YOU JUDGE BY IT. They quote instances
>  from history, without any hesitation. I've even verified some times
>  and found always that what they said was true.  Many times I even used

Then our experiences with the RSS have been quite different. I have 
attended shakhas in Agra/Meerut/Pantnagar(Nainital)/Hyderabad. While
the views of the shakha in Hyderabad were quite moderate, it was not 
the same in the other 3 places. I have heard a lot of propaganda some
of which I found was totally false (eg. the Pilibhit riots were greatly
exagerrated. I cannot believe that in a riot only Hindus were killed
and no muslims. They are not supermen afterall). 

Coming back to Gandhi, I am not denying that what ever they say about
him is not true. But they always tend to project only the negative 
aspects of Gandhi's policies. NEVER the positive ones. The consequence
of this is that the young impressionable minds that attend the shakhas 
are convinced that Gandhi was some kind of a traitor or a British stooge. 
I am sure you must have noticed how the shakha goers boycott any activity
held on Gandhi Jayanti. At least that was the case where I studied. 

IMO, RSS is a double edge sword with both its good and bad points. 
Its existance is important to brake the growing muslim fundamentalism 
but at the same time, it tends to project an exagerrated sense of 
pride in our culture (remember what Hitler did). 

regards,
--   
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E-mail - gagrawal@cs.tamu.edu       |   /   All Std. Disclaimers apply.
From: arunk@cs.utexas.edu (Arun Kandappan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Prolific posters of the last fortnight...
Date: 6 Sep 1992 18:22:21 -0500
Organization: University of Texas at Austin
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: cash.cs.utexas.edu

In article <1992Sep5.002728.20699@ennews.eas.asu.edu> sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman) writes:
>
>Some people are trying to subvert the prolific poster list knowingly
	What purpose does this "prolific poster list" serve ?
	An index of topics discussed would be more useful.
	Arun
-- 
Arun Kandappan                                  arunk@cs.utexas.edu
512+345-1616   EE Dept, UT at Austin TX 78712   uunet!cs.utexas.edu!arunk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: hdeshma@eos.ncsu.edu (HARSHAVARDHAN  DESHMANE)
Subject: Re: Kashmir Campaign
Followup-To: soc.culture.indian
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 06:01:22 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.030731.8375@cc.uow.edu.au> g9220348@cc.uow.edu.au (adil shaikh) writes:
>mg819305@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Manoj Ghayalod) writes:
>
>
>>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
>
>
>Manoj:
>
>Kashmir is for Kashmiris.
>Why should India and Pakistan take it?

>It seems if India vacate the land then Pak is going to take it.
>This is what the most of the Indian think.
>What do Kashmiris think?
>The stand of Pak Govt. is to merge Kashmir with Pakistan and KAshmirs 
>does not want it to happen.
>What about U.N. charter?
>India went to U.N. first for the Kashmir fight.
>Is India going to take Plebescit in Kashmir?
>IS Pakistan going to make Plebescit a reality in Kashmir?
>These questions are just Speculation.
>
>WHY DO INDIA/PAKISTAN OCCUPY SOMEONE'S LAND AND FIGHT FOR THAT?
>TALK WITH KASHMIRIS. THE PEOPLE OF KASHMIR. MAKE THE ELECTION A REALITY.
>LET THE "AWAM" OF KASHMIR DECIDE THEIR FATE AND NOT THEIR LEADER TO
>JOIN INDIA OR PAKISTAN OR TO REMAIN A SOVERIGN STATE.
>
>
>Bye
>Adil


all your ranting is getting on my nerves.
Do you really think, all your bullshit, and other Indians' too, will
make an iota of difference to the situation in Kashmir,India ?

Besides, in your next article , you point out that Hindus are "only 4%"
of the population in Kashmir. 
You almost imply, that their opinion does not count. 
By YOUR logic,and by arriving at an answer to the following questions,
do you think a few dissenting voices ought to be heard?
Question: How much of the population of India is made up of residents
of the Indian state of Kashmir, including the unfortunate people
residing on the land illegally occupied by pakistan?

as an aside, with only a little bearing to this discussion, are you from
Kashmir? if so, where in Kashmir?

-harsh
-- 
_______________________________________________________________________________
Harshavardhan Deshmane                                 I had a signature
ECE Dept.,                                             it became an address:(
North Carolina State University.                       had@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu (Suresh Doki)
Subject: Re: Looking for a TALL,DARK and NOT SO HANDSOME GUY for A...
Keywords: TALL, DARK and NOT SO HANDSOME....
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:42:40 GMT

>Now this posting is only for TALL, DARK and NOT SO HANDSOME looking guys. If you donot satisfy these basic requirements, please skip this article.
>
>I'm looking for guys who fall in the above category for an INDIAN GIRL, who happens to be my classmate. She is only next to Princess DI! For more information
>please contact Ranganathan......rangana@cs.uwindsor.ca


hey why don't you read my old article "looking for a sexy desi girl"

It might solve all your [ I mean her ] problems.



Suresh



Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: kanga.caltech.edu!vidya (Vidyasankar Sundaresan)
Subject: Re: The Mahashakti Yagna
Originator: vidya@roo
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: ca
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:15:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.233300.7857@odin.corp.sgi.com>  
wcidbo@daedalus.corp.sgi.com (Pratik Jain) writes:
- In article <lafnfrINN4ig@hto-06.usc.edu>, meggert@hto-06.usc.edu (Mark  
Eggert) writes:
- |> 
- |>   The Hard Light Meditation Center will present the Mahashakti Yagna  
-
- |> Fire Ceremony for World Peace at the Hindu Temple in Calabasas, CA
- |> on October 1-3 1992.
- |>   The Mahashakti Yagna is dedicated to The Divine Mother as well as
- |> Swami Muktananda Paramahansa on the tenth anniversary of his  
mahasamadhi.
- |>   Eleven Brahmin priests from around the country will perform the  
ritual.
- |>   All are invited. For more information call Hard Light at  
(213)964-5077
- |> or write to Hard Light, 1875 Century Park East, Suite 5273, Los  
Angeles, CA
- |> 90067.
- 
- 
- I have a question to the poster:
- 
- Is it sheer coincidence that all 11 priests turned out to be Brahmins or  
is it mandatory ? Just curious..
- 
- Pratik Jain


The curiosity seems to have an edge of animosity to it. But as an answer,  
yes, it is mandatory for the priests in a yagna to be a Brahmin. Note  
however that the Mahashakti Yagna is not really all that Vedic in nature. 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: vijay@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Vijay Rangarajan)
Subject: Re: THE COW!!
Originator: vijay@newton.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:20:51 GMT
Keywords: Chakk de Phattey!!

In article <18j965INN2l6@overload.lbl.gov> prem@prem.lbl.gov (Shirdi R. Prem) writes:

>	Is it really fair to ridicule such a person just because his/her
>	grasp of a foreign language is less than perfect ??  The writer
>	seemed to be pretty well informed about the subject, and would
>	certainly have provided a good presentation if he/she had been
>	allowed to use the language of his/her choice.

Actually, I think it can be classified as an urban legend. Nobody saw it,
nobody knew him/her, everybody heard about it from somebody, who heard
somebody mention that it was published in some magazine (for a start, a
reputed magazine after it gets around a bit)...

>	What is _MY_ point ??  I am not really sure, but I feel rather
>	hypocritical to make fun of someone's command over English,
>	when my own command of that person's native tongue is less
>	than perfect. What do _YOU_ folks think ??

I guess they're making fun of a person not known to anybody, on an article
unwritten by them (he/she), on a forum they can't access, because they don't
exist. What could be cleaner ?

Vijay.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: nmrdb@vms.macc.wisc.edu (BEVERLY SEAVEY)
Subject: Re: Speeding Ticket
Organization:  University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
Date: 15 SEP 92 09:22:12    

In article <193b5rINNhhv@overload.lbl.gov>, prem@prem.lbl.gov (Shirdi R. Prem) writes...
> 
>	And when YOU start driving, let me know when you make a long 
>	interstate trip without ever going over 55.
> 
>	Prem!
 Well, out here in the mid-west the speed limit is 65, and yes I obey it.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: hazra@nimbus.larc.nasa.gov (Rajeeb Hazra)
Subject: Travel Agents for BA, KLM - tickets to India
Originator: hazra@nimbus.larc.nasa.gov
Keywords: Travel agents, general sales agents
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:38:46 GMT

Hi,

  I am trying to find a good deal on air tickets to India (Calcutta) and have 
  been told that the best deals are usually given by travel agents who are
  "general sales agents" of a particular airline. I am interested in finding
  such agents for British Airways, KLM, Delta and United. I have received
  qoutes from these airlines I am trying to see if such a GSA can beat the
  airline price.

  I will also be travelling with a 1 year old baby and would like to hear of
  experiences (good and bad) about BA, KLM, Delta or United.

  Thank you. I will post the info back to the net if there is a request for
  it.

Rajeeb Hazra
hazra@sunflea.larc.nasa.gov
 


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Subject: Re: Prolific posters of the last fortnight...
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 02:44:59 GMT

If you think the news.lists newsgroup has a purpose, then the
"Prolific posters" list has a similar purpose. 

arunk@cs.utexas.edu (Arun Kandappan)
writes in <lal4ldINNsb1@cash.cs.utexas.edu>:

)An index of topics discussed would be more useful.

Sure, but I am not a magician to figure out how subject lines change
to relate an article with another. But I have made an effort to
compile such a thing. I will post it after this article. But due to 
the size I will not include subjects with no followups (if people had
changed subject lines, I have no way of guessing). If you have trn, it
would make sense using it. My way of compilation will not match either
trn's or nn's or tin's listing.

sarang@saturn.sdsu.edu (Srinath Sarang)
writes in <1992Sep7.011747.2279@newshub.sdsu.edu>:

)Flames welcome reg my opinions... One from Sridhar I am suer to have...

Instead of flaming people here, my time would be better spent in
news.newusers.questions or some other group. And I will have the
satisfaction of helping people who have regard for resources. 

Venkatachalam Aruna  (Affable)
writes in <1992Sep7.001810.24218@menudo.uh.edu>:

)  To check your accuracy, this time I kept a count on the number of postings
)I posted in SCI and final tally was 14. Yes, I can prove it. Your program
)of evaluating this list, obviously has some flaws. Or you might have
)added the names of those who questioned the real purpose of this list,
)in your kill file. Anyway, take it easy.

Usenet postings on 99% of the sites have a maximum lifetime of 14
days. That is what my stats reflect. I have just a script which makes
some sense out of the headers of articles of the 14 days prior to the
date on my posting. I offer to send the script to you. If you can make
it more accurate, be my guest. (It would help seeing the Subject line
right?. I have made it explicit by saying "fortnight".)

Sridhar.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: kale@aelle.cs.odu.edu (Vijay S. Kale)
Subject: Loking for Narendra Deshpande and M Venkatachalam both in Australia
Organization: Old Dominion University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:59:11 GMT

Hi Folks,

   I have been trying to get in touch with two of my friends from TELCO, Pune
   They are Narendra Deshpande, who was at University of Melbourne doing his
   Ph.D. in mech engg and M. Venkatachalam probably working for Software dev
   company in Australia.

   I will really really appreciate any whereabouts of these guys. I guess Univ
   Melbourne students could help.

   Thanks in advance and pl mail me ur replies at

   kale@asmsun.larc.nasa.gov or kale@cs.odu.edu

..Vijay
From: porayath@IASTATE.EDU (Rajiv Porayath)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: CALL OF QU'RAN TO PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
Keywords: CALL OF QU'RAN TO PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
Date: 7 Sep 92 03:13:41 GMT
Reply-To: porayath@IASTATE.EDU (Rajiv Porayath)
Organization: Iowa State University


  
In article <1992Sep5.211707@IASTATE.EDU> JAKHAN write:
> In article <1992Sep5.175941@IASTATE.EDU>, porayath@IASTATE.EDU (Rajiv
Porayath)
> writes:
> >     > ===============================
> > >  irfan@maxwell.ece.wisc.edu (Irfan Alan) writes:
> > > 
> > > >THE CALL OF THE QUR'AN TO THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK   
> > > >(Especially for Christians)
> > > >STATEMENT OF INTENTION
> > > >
> > > >"Invite (all) to the way of your Lord with wisdom and beautiful
> instruction > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >       Is this not ironical that muslims can ridicule other religions and it
>                                   ^^^^^^^^
> > is OKAY,but " Satanical Verses" which is classified as a friction earns the
> > author a death penalty.Who is uncivilised and barbaric,hope the Koran did
not
> > teach you to be so.
> > 
> > 
> > -RAJIV PORAYATH
>
> 
>  
> But judging from the extreme reactions generated from the rest of the
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   non-muslim
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> world
> to this sentence, its pretty apparent that even they have limits on freedom
of
> speech.
> Its pretty clear that the so called free civilised world has limits on what
is
> acceptable behaviour; its just that there a divergence of views on what
> constitutes 
> these limits.
> 
> --Javed.
>   
I was wondering what was the extreme reaction of the rest of the world. Was it
that some publishers and bookshop owners refused to be bucked under threats and
bomb attacks stood for what they believed is the right of free speech and
continued selling the book. Or the poor japanese professor who was stabbed
to death because he was translating the book to japanese or the chancellor
of Jamia Islamia who was threatened because he said what he believed
was right.

- -Rajiv Porayath
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,talk.abortion