HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: J.Ainikkal@massey.ac.nz (J. Ainikkal)
Subject: Re: More About India
Summary: Human rights or womyn rights
Keywords: Human rights or Womyn rights
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 22:43:10 GMT

>This is in regard to the womyn accent thing.  Several studies have
>been done in linguistics which indicates a tendency for women to
>be more prescriptivein their use of language. This is true not
>only for accent but also for grammatical structures. This is not
>only true of Indian women, but of upper middle class women in
>general.

>Women tend to try to approximate the norm or accepted standard
>variety of a language more so than men.

Fascinating. 

Were there any theories as to why they did so? Did it have anything
to do with 'male domination' and the 'accepted' need to conform? I
am sure that many nettors would be rather interested with the - Why
follow the norm question.

>This information is courtesy of a lecture by Dr. Braj Kachru,
>professor of linguistics here at the University of Illinois. I can
>find the references for some of the studies done if you wish.

>Tracey
>UIUC
From: ashish+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ashish Arora)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: SCI posters club
Date: 11 Oct 92 03:59:41 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.indian
Organization: Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.soc.culture.indian: 9-Oct-92 SCI posters club by
Sylvia D'Cruz@meaddata.c 
> Maybe this is a Goodbye to SCI. Another one bites the dust.....and
another one
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 's
> gone. And, many more to go............
>  
> -- 
> Sylvia D. D'Cruz                                

I sincerely hope not.  Your posts, both news and opinion, were usually
amongst the best.

cheers

Ashish Arora
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: susanc@rice.edu (susan chacko)
Subject: Pan Masala and Oral Diseases
Organization: Rice University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:11:25 GMT


Background: Chewing tobacco is well known and advertised as a carcinogen 
nowadays. Pan masala is becoming more popular in its place, and is eaten 
in large quantities even by people who avoid tobacco. 

Pan masala consists of areca nut, catechu (??), lime, elaichi, and unspecified
flavouring agents. 75% of the pan masala mixture is areca nut, which has been
reported to have cytotoxic (kills cells), mutagenic (causes alterations in DNA
of cells) and genotoxic (chromosomes in cells are sick but the cell survives)
properties. The mysterious catechu is also genotoxic. A variety of pan masala, 
zarda, contains tobacco, which is well known to cause oral cancer.

This study examined thirty healthy vegetarian teetotallers. Pan masala is a new
phenomenon on the Indian scene, so they picked only people who had been eating
it for a year and who did not smoke, and who all ate the same brand of pan
masala. The control group had the same characteristics except that they did not
eat pan masala.

They examined blood and mouth tissue from both groups. You can probably all 
guess the results. The pan masala group had a significantly larger percentage 
of genotoxicity in the assay. This was about the same as the level in people
who chewed areca nut. The people who ate zarda pan masala had the same level
of genotoxicity. (My terminology may not be correct here, but I can't be more
accurate without going into the details of their assay, which will bore all
the non-molecular biologists to death).

Why is zarda pan masala not worse than regular pan masala? Possibly because 
the zarda-consumers spit more than the regular consumers, who tend to swallow
the whole mixture.

The study group is small, mostly because they had a fairly rigid set of 
criteria for including people in the group. I assume that they'll have a
followup study with a larger sample size. However, the constituents of
pan masala have already been shown to be cancer-causing, though they're
not as bad as chewing tobacco.

Susan.

p.s the brand used was not named here, but Pan Bahar has been shown to be 
carcinogenic as well.
Reference:
AU  - Dave BJ, Trivedi AH, Adhvaryu SG
AD  - Cell Biology Division, Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute,
      Ahmedabad, India.
TI  - Cytogenetic studies reveal increased genomic damage among 'pan masala'
      consumers.
SO  - Mutagenesis 1991;6:159-63

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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
From: n060fx@tamuts.tamu.edu (Koteswara Chintapalli)
Subject: Looking for a place to stay in San Jose vicinity.
Organization: ~/lib/organization
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:03:50 GMT

Hi Netters,

I am  looking for a place  to stay in San Jose vicinity. Anyone who
is looking for a roommate or knows one who is, please let me know by
either sending email at chintapa@ee.tamu.edu or calling me at
(409)846-9073. Right now I am looking for a job in semiconductor
processing area. When replying please leave your phone number so
that we could talk about it.
Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:33593 soc.culture.indian.telugu:506
From: dharam@wpi.WPI.EDU (Dharmendra Khanolkar)
Newsgroups: wpi.students.desis,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.telugu
Subject: Re: Looking 4: Satish K. Reddy (In Canada) (From Secunderabad)
Date: 12 Oct 1992 02:40:01 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <1baodoINNs75@bigboote.WPI.EDU> sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu (Suresh Doki) writes:

>everyone is invited for the group-flame  ;-)
>suresh


I already did..!! Check out SCI..

-- 
Here it comes......

--dhamu
From: sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu (Suresh Doki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: SOME DOKI JOKES
Date: 7 Oct 1992 06:16:35 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxine.wpi.edu
Keywords: jokes

(Deepak Narain) said:
>From janand@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Jayaraman Anand):
>>>P.S. I am just kidding. ;-)
>>P.S. I am just kidding. ;-) Really.
>What a coincidence!
>P.S. I am just kidding ;-) Really. Really.


so one more trend that i set eh ;-)



suresh

ps: i am getting paranoid these days

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,rec.music.indian.classical
From: kamala@npac.syr.edu (Kamala Anupindi)
Subject: Spicmacay Syracuse: Concert on Saturday Oct 10th : REPOST
Organization: Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University (NPAC)
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 11:17:09 EDT

                 The Society for the Promotion of
                Indian Classical Music And Culture
                   Amongst Youth (SPIC-MACAY)
                           SYRACUSE


                       Proudly Presents
               (as a part of their FALL-FEST '92)

		
                  Carnatic Vocal Recital By


            *****************************************
                S A V I T H R I    R A M A N A N D
            *****************************************

                        Accompanied by

                  Mysore Venkatesh  (Mridangam)
                   Mysore Satish     (Violin)


                             ON
                  Saturday, October 10, 1992  


                            AT
                          7:00 pm
                  Room 500, Hall of Languages
                Syracuse University, Syracuse.

               -----------------------------------
               A D M I S S I O N   I S   F R E E ! 
               -----------------------------------

        
        Details of our next event are as follows:
        *****************************************
 
        ------------------------------------------------------

        October 23rd: NADASAWARAM Recital (Mambalam Shiva and troupe)
                      7:00 pm, Marshall Auditorium, SUNY-ESF.

        ------------------------------------------------------


        For further information contact:
        Kamala Anupindi (kamala@top.cis.syr.edu) 474-8420
        Paramesh Santanam (psantana@cat.syr.edu) 428-9441
        L.Chandar (lchandar@rodan.acs.syr.edu)   423-3507


****************************************************************
                        Directions
****************************************************************

From 81 N

- Take exit 17
- Left at the stop sign at the end of the ramp
- Right at second light onto Salina street
- Right on second/third light onto East Colvin
        (there is a post-office on the left just before the turn)
- Left on the second light onto Comstock Ave
- Left on second light onto University Place
- Pass a guard booth and one stop sign 
- Just before a second stop sign Schine Students center
- Hall of Language's is opposite the Schine Center


From 81 S

- Take exit 17
- Right at end of ramp onto State Street
- Right at first light onto East Colvin
- Left on the second light onto Comstock Ave
- Left on second light onto University Place
- Pass a guard booth and one stop sign
- Just before a second stop sign Schine Students center
- Hall of Language's is opposite the Schine Center

===============================================================================
From: gt9911a@prism.gatech.EDU (SMILE :-)  :-))
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Can a girl and a guy be just friends
Date: 13 Oct 92 12:38:04 GMT
Organization: Somewhere near nowhere
 Hi nettors,
           I thought I will start a new thread ( but I guess this topic

just be friends or is it true what people say in India " A girl and a guy
can never be just friends". I would like to know the opinions of different
people.                                        

Sundar 
******************************************************************************
SUNDARARAMAN VAIDYARAMAN               * *   IF MY MIND CAN CONCEIVE IT   
SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING         * *   AND MY HEART BELIEVES IT   
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY        * *   THEN I KNOW I CAN ACHIEVE IT       ATLANTA GA 30332                       * *                 -Rev Jesse Jackson  
*******************************************************************************
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ks@cse.unl.edu (Krishnan Sarangarajan)
Subject: Request: Good travel agents for rtrip tickets to India.
Keywords: Travel Agents, India, Round Trip etc.
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:42:04 GMT

Hi there,

	I am posting this on behalf of a friend of mine. He has decided to
go to India for Christmas on persuassion by his dad but only if he can get
a round trip ticket for around $1300. I would really appreciate it if you
could let me know of any travel agents, anywhere in the U.S. preferrably around the East coast that you have experienced or that your friends may have
experienced that are good and efficient. Since he is leaving in December he
does not have very much time left but again I would really appreciate it if 
you could let me know at your earliest convinience. 

	You can send the information to ks@cse.unl.edu. Tons of thanks in
advance to all of you.

						Krishnan S.
From: RDS119@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: sher-o-shayari
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:13:41 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

arz kiya hai...

       kuch teri nazar ne loot liya,
       kuch teri inaayat maar gayi.
       ham raaz-e-muhobat keh na sakey
       chup rahney ki aadat maar gayi.

RD.
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:05:53 EDT
From: <SSEN@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: S.S. Ray (ex-Cm of W. Bengal) new Ambassador here

My parents told me that Siddharta Shankar Ray, the C.M. of West Bengal during
the emergency, and one of Sanjay's friends, has been appointed the new
Ambassador of India to the United States. The last Ambassador was Abid
Hussain.

I have not confirmed this news with the Indian Embassy.
From: dxn@juniper.WPI.EDU (Deepak Narain)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Places to Suggest for Honey Moon .
Date: 11 Oct 1992 04:49:52 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, WPI
NNTP-Posting-Host: juniper.wpi.edu

From g9220348@cc.uow.edu.au (adil shaikh):
>eleeafj@menudo.uh.edu (P. Narendra) writes:
>
>
>> Seriously,  go to Ladakh, believe me, you will enjoy......
>
>
>If planning to go out side India then how about Antartica or Siberia.
>

I personally have a soft spot for Greenland.

--
deepak
Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:33634 soc.culture.indian.telugu:518
From: sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu (Suresh Doki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.telugu
Subject: Re: Looking 4: Satish K. Reddy (In Canada) (From Secunderabad)
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:21:02 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxine.wpi.edu


>	Once again, this is not  "C" Language .. It's "E"


are you sure dude? here in wpi we have a lots of machines and i also
have a ee which gave me a lot of errors. we also have gnu compiler
called gee which did not work either.


suresh

;)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: hdeshma@eos.ncsu.edu (HARSHAVARDHAN  DESHMANE)
Subject: Re: Muslims will start an Armed Rebellion
Followup-To: soc.culture.indian
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:02:30 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.184052.26024@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> indu@iss700.Columbia.NCR.COM () writes:
>                  MUSLIMS WILL START AN ARMED REBELLION
>                  =====================================
>                
>
>The following is one of the speeches delivered by the President of
>ISLAMIC SWAYAMSEVAK SANGH. This has been published in Jagrithi CENTRE SPREAD
>(Sep 21-27 issue). ISS is particularly notorious for its anti-Indian activities.
>Recently there was a furore in the parliament over the involvement of Pakistani
>diplomats visits to KERALA and the tensions which prevailed in Kerala.  THESE
>TWO ORGANISATIONS ARE RALLYING THE MUSLIMS FUNDAMENTALIST MOVEMENT IN KERALA.
>The rhetoric with which the chief of ISS has declared the ideologies of
>ISS is itself a proof of the true picture of ISS.
>
>  This is my second posting on activties of ISS and its grand plan of 
>  converting KERALA into muslim country. The final of this series is 
>  an article on PAKISTANI SPIES and their activities in KERALA. This article
>  too will be posted soon.
[stuff deleted]

sounds like a pakistani tabloid.
I doubt whether the indian educated muslims will buy that.

-harsh
-- 
_______________________________________________________________________________
Harshavardhan Deshmane, ECE Dept.                   hdeshma@croc.ece.ncsu.edu
North Carolina State University.                    hdeshma@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu
From: sasthana@cirrus.com (Sunil Asthana)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Sending money to India
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:47:23 GMT
Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc.  Fremont, California

In article <2=3z4vm@rpi.edu> sens@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Shantanu Sen) writes:
>I have a question regarding the convertibility of the dollar at the market 
>rate. I believe that currently 40% of the amount sent is convertible at the
>market rate. I sent a postal order to India some time back. It was deposited
>to an account at SBI. But my parents have been told that the entire sum will be
>converted at the standard rate. If that is the case then how can we avail the
>advantage of 40% convertibility?
>
>I shall be grateful if someone could throw some light in this regard.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Shantanu Sen


Hi Shantanu:

Ask your parents to keep the receipt of exchange, at the time when the money 
order is encashed. This will enable you to convert utpo 40% or more back to 
US dollars.

If you go to India and exchange foreign currency, you can convert 100% back if
you keep the exchange receipt with you.

Sunil Asthana
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,rec.music.indian.classical
From: kamala@npac.syr.edu (Kamala Anupindi)
Subject: SPICMACAY Syracuse: Nadaswaram Recital on October 23rd
Organization: Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University (NPAC)
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 10:33:28 EDT

                 The Society for the Promotion of
                Indian Classical Music And Culture
                   Amongst Youth (SPIC-MACAY)
                           SYRACUSE


                       Proudly Presents
               (as a part of their FALL-FEST '92)

                
                *************************************
                N A D A S W A R A M     R E C I T A L
                *************************************

                               BY

                   -----------------------------
                   M a m b a l a m     S h i v a 
                   -----------------------------

                               ON
                    Friday, October 23, 1992  

 
                               AT
                             7:00 pm
                        Marshall Auditorium
                     SUNY-ESF Campus, Syracuse

                -----------------------------------
                A D M I S S I O N   I S   F R E E ! 
                -----------------------------------

        
        For further information contact:
        Kamala Anupindi (kamala@top.cis.syr.edu) 474-8420
        Paramesh Santanam (psantana@cat.syr.edu) 428-9441
        L.Chandar (lchandar@rodan.acs.syr.edu)   423-3507


****************************************************************
                        Directions
****************************************************************

                (Marshall Auditorium, Marshall Hall
        SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), Syracuse)

>From Points South:

1. I-81 North
2. Exit 18 (Adams Street)
3. From ramp, right on Adams St.
4. 2nd light, right on Irving Ave.
5. (About 4 blocks later) At end of Irving Ave., you'll see SUNY-ESF
   security booth.  Enter SUNY-ESF here.
6. After you pass Gate B of carrier dome on your left, take a right
   into ESF Parking lot.  Park here and walk to Marshall Hall.
   (Ask anyone around to identify the building.)

>From Points North:
(Also Thruway travelers from points East and West):

1. I-81 South
2. Exit 18 (for Adams St.)
3. At ramp, bear left.  You will be UNDER I-81, and traveling along
   its length.
4. 2nd light, left on Adams St.. Then follow steps 4-6 above.

****************************************************************

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gunturu@eola.cs.ucf.edu (Sivakumar &)
Subject: rfrom Manipal
Organization: University of Central Florida
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 16:07:04 GMT

Hi,MITians

I am from the 85-89 engineering batch.

Sivakumar

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Boring discussion!!!
Date: 7 Oct 92 09:42:54 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu (Suresh Doki) writes:
: >>does anyone have an idea as to what the other discussion on this group
: >>is about?..... something about culture and western civilisation and so
: >>on.  could someone try to stop this thread?
: 
: 
: >Give threats to break the thread.
: 
: 
: 
: leave that to  sree sreehari nimmala who knows little else ;-)
Ohhh(*big sigh*); so you still didn't learn the lesson? Why
don't you come to SCITelugu? People are playing foot-ball there.
Hope to see you.

---NS
: 
: suresh
: 
: 
: ps: nothin in the ps this time
PS: I have to put PS now, because my buddy has not. S.C.I.Telugu
has taught him a very good lesson and he stopped coming to that
group. So, the challenge is now open to SCIians.
From: sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu (Suresh Doki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: SOME DOKI JOKES
Date: 7 Oct 1992 06:08:14 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxine.wpi.edu
Keywords: jokes


one morAn called JAYARAM ANAND farted:


>P.S. I am just kidding. ;-) Really.


if you don't want to you can always all use condoms.



suresh


ps: the level of the sense of humor of this joke has been reduced so
    as to satisfy sree sreehari nimmala who requested more jokes. 


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: porayath@IASTATE.EDU (Rajiv Porayath)
Subject: Re: ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF KERALA
Reply-To: porayath@IASTATE.EDU (Rajiv Porayath)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 02:19:13 GMT

Here what we see is the replay of 1921, the muslims in the above mentioned area
went on a rampage to create a muslim caliph,they killed and destroyed anything
that was Hindu,women were kidnapped and forcably converted to islam,thats why
there are no hindus in the above mentioned area.I come from palghat which
borders the above mentioned district and during my visits (I live in Bombay)
I have seen this build up.My greatgrandmother and her children went into
hiding in the nearby forests to survive the hordes and I shrug to think of
what will happen to my aunts and cousins should the scene repeat.

In 1921 the British called in the Gurkha Rifles to put down the massacre, and
the muslims wanted to make it look like a freedom fight and call it a revolt
against the British rule.What shall they call it now?All this is happening
due to the petrodollars sent by these guys working in the gulf,mosques are
built with money from Saudi government.It is not going to stop until it is 
put down with force,the same way it was done in 1921,sword should be cut with
a sword.
These actions of muslims all over the nation,supporting Pakisthan and drawing
inspiration from ismalic fundamentalist nations will lead to a bloodbath and
it is they who will suffer as there is no Gandhi to save them and no pakisthan
to go to.This will lead to the moderate hindus being drawn to RSS and BJP as my
cousin in Palghat who told me on my last visit a year ago that he had joined 
the RSS.
From: ravi@maxine.wpi.edu (Ravi Narayan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Formation of Indian Student Association at UNC-Charlotte
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:07:06 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxine.wpi.edu

In a previous article, psagali@uncc.edu said:
:- 
:- We are happy to announce the election of the office-bearers for 1992-93.

	we are thrilled to hear of this. oft times, while musing on the
	bitter nature of life, one thing that has caused particular pain
	in my heart, is the absence of (information about) an Indian
	Student Association at unc-charlotte. there is an old saying,
	where i come from, which goes "when god is done with making your
	life a shitty experience, he will grant you your greatest wish",
	and now i find the wisdom and truth of this statement crafted
	my ancestors.

:- President   		: Mohan Korrapatti
:- Vice President	: Satyajit Rao
:- General Secretary 	: Venketeshwar R. Sagi
:- Treasurer		: Deepak Hathwar

	the absence of an official kuchipudi dancer and sambar
	specialist leaves the above list a little lacking. no doubt, the
	elections for above posts are in progress this very minute. i
	shall eagerly await the results! in the meantime, i take
	immeasurable pleasure in wishing the above gentlemen the best in
	life and in their new office.

	peace,

	- ravi


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: g9220348@cc.uow.edu.au (adil shaikh)
Subject: Re: United we stand for S. Doki..
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 10:34:53 GMT

rsingh@eos.ncsu.edu (Ranbir Singh) writes:


> 
>References
>	[1] Baby jokes. S. Doki. soc.culture.indian. Jul 1992.
>	[2] Looking for a sexy desi female. S. Doki. soc.culture.indian. Jun
>1992.
>	[3] IIT Bullshiting from the Ignorant ones.
>	[4] Need to keep Doki & company off the net. YUCKIES.
>soc.culture.indian. Oct 1992.
>	[5] World Culture & Western culture. YUCKIES. Sept 1992. 

>	[6] Christianity the best religon in the world.  Ed Crick. sometime in 1991
One more:


[7] October 2, S.Doki posted on 3rd October,1992.

It was posted 2 days before this posting.



Bye
Adil