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From: plaul@latech.edu (Pummy Laul)
Subject: Re: DO YOU WANT TO MAKE SOME EXTRA MONEY??  APOLOGY
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:37:46 GMT



I have received 3 complaints regarding this article, I have put on the net &    each one mentioned that I was violating the code of ethics on this net. I have 
received all these 3 complaints in the last 3 days.

I talked to my system administrator and he confirmed that I was indeed violatingthe rules of the net.  I was not aware of this earlier. But now that I am aware of it, I am sincerely apologizing for abusing this service.

These articles will not appear again.

Thanx

Pummy Laul
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: hitesh@b30.ingr.com (Hitesh Pateo)
Subject: Correspondence Degree in Fine Arts (from India)
Keywords: degree, fine arts, correspondence
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:54:46 GMT

I need some information about correspondece degrees in Fine Arts from India.
Kindly provide me with following info:

1.	Name of the Institute (association)
2.	Correspondence Address/Phone
3.	Duration of course
4.	Number of exams to be taken (can they be taken in US???)

	and some general info which u think would be helpful.

Thanx.
Hitesh.

Please reply to following address.

hitesh@realt.b30.ingr.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam Ghosh)
Subject: Re: Bahai :: Santan Dal in Bengal?(was Re: THE NEW COVENANT (RE:RAPE,Clinton))
Reply-To: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:52:15 GMT

>between the Best of Faith and the Scientific Approach is IMO that of 
>a very benevolent dictatorship and DEMOCRACY.
Well you have almost hit the nail on the head, but I will say "atheistic
approach" as scientific approach has been applied to study religions and
it works. Refer to the past 2 references (Tagore and Iqbal) 
 There's a very interesting debate here, and I promise
not to bring Bahaullah in; but I guess you will know where the ideas are
coming from. What's true democracy? Since the discussion in this thread is
becoming a pretty much Bengali affair:let's go to a little more detail.
amra sabai raja amader ei rajar rajotte
noile moder rajar sathe milbo ki sarte
What type of democracy is Tagore talking about? What do you think?
Well let's see what people think? Then we can see if that is acceptable
or not.
Arindam
From: ghatak@cs.utk.edu (Subhendu Ghatak)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Question on IIT Kanpur/IIT Delhi
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:30:47 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: chili.cs.utk.edu
Originator: ghatak@chili.cs.utk.edu

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
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,bit.listserv.sas-l,bit.listserv.stat-l,bit.listserv.spssx-l,bit.listserv.edstat-l,bit.listserv.gis-l
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: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:58:04 GMT

>I wish you all the best! -- Aditi   
Thank you. However, I do not consider this as a sacrifice. Staying
here will be a sacrifice as that will be a waste of my talent and
skill, being another cog in the wheel. You yourself have said that
this lifestyle is "apparently luxurious". So why can't you shed off
this pretense? And about financial smoothness; time is long past when
the teachers in India had to die off hunger.
I think it all boils down to having an ideal that is worth fighting for.
I have that in the Bahai faith. My request to all is find *An idea*, any
idea that is worth fighting for. Don't just sit and grouch.
With love
Arindam

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: axs2776@usl.edu (Subramanyam Arunkumar)
Subject: Re: What is life?
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:10:53 GMT

You forgot the most famous !!

What's life ?

A : Life is short Play hard.


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From: prashant@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Prashanth Cannanbilla)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: What's with this guy?
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:27:36 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Pittsburgh

In article <92203.054344U15297@uicvm.uic.edu> U15297@uicvm.uic.edu (Shyamala Parameswaran) writes:
... Deleted....

>a big kill file. And I'd be happy to be on it. But I think you
>won't. We'll see...
>
>It's your messages that are empty, sunnyboy.
>
>>Sigh...some people!
>
>Ah, yes...some people!

.... Deleted...

Why don't you two fight it over email? Spare us please.


Just a thought,
-P.


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: bkv2673@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Platy aLoid)
Subject: THIS IS LITERARY TRIPE!!!!
Reply-To: bkv2673@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 18:55:25 GMT


-< Musings of a greater schizo >-

This is literary tripe but you sit there looking at the half empty can of coke 
in the garbage and wonder how that would make a difference to your individual 
interpretation of life? I don't know what to do with people who insist on such
trivial and useless meanderings. Let me tell you, it's not even going to make 
a difference to a pair of fetid dingbat's kidneys even if they actually take 
the time to sit and read all of this unmitigated junk that is spewed forth 
without the least concern or compassion for fellow human beings. If you feel 
that the music keeps playing at the end of the dark corridor only because you
chose to lie here listening, you're gravely mistaken. That, I know is a self
evident truth that is intricately connected with some untimely, warped magnetic
flux in the upper regions of our atmosphere but you refuse to see things in 
their own light and instead argue on tirelessly about how nice it is to be the 
benefactor of some unknown divine power that has chosen a lowly you to be the 
listener. To collate all the facts and paint a more wholistic picture for you 
would require me to plan and initiate an historic and peril filled journey 
thorough the abysmal depths of time; to do that, I haven't the least speck of 
interest or inclination. I'd rather sit in the middle of a narrow passageway 
situated at the nexus where space and time breadk down and make use of the 
time tested pedantic approach to impart knowledge that has been lost and 
neglected for so many years as a result of a large scale, exponential spawning
of individuals like you who even fail as an excuse for rabid, turd-brained 
Geekoids who term themselves intellectuals. The only redeeming factor is your 
timely and well thought out decision to read these chaotic meanderings of 
mine. Sad and unfair as it may seem, I still think you're an overgrown, 
bigotted, slime faced hairball with a darker facet to your ungainly and tunnel
visioned cerebrations that struggle to go on between the eyes that have so 
foolishly read this crap! And now...to you, an unmitigated fool, I bid 
goodbye!
From: bhatnagr@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Raj Bhatnagar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Hindu Refugees
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:30:22 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

In article <1992Jul27.163550.10605@menudo.uh.edu> mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.145918.23802@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, bhatnagr@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Raj Bhatnagar) writes:
>>I have seen you mention the above phrase on a number of occasions.
>>I sincerely hope that you mean the unification of religions in the sense 
>>of *Common Quest* and NOT in the sense of a *Common Creed*. Acceptance
>>of Multiplicity of creeds towards a *Common Quest* is the key to end 
>>the religious strife and conflict in the world.
>>
>>---raj

>I mean abolition of all creeds. 

That doesn't make much sense. As long as an individual has the capability
and the freedom to think he/she is going to have beliefs about nature
or spirituality or anything else and these views will differ from those 
of the next person.

>Religion is the science to understand
>spirituality. 

And Science, as a methodology, is grounded in the continuous evolution
of competing theories for explaining any and every phenomenon. Even
the basic axiom of empiricism has been accepted or discarded, depending
upon the times and the preferences of many a physical "scientists."

>What place does a creed have here?

If a "creed" implies to you a belief fixed for eternity, then you are
right. However, a belief with the acceptance of the possibility of a better 
explanation being discovered is also a "creed" and a must for the
thinking process to proceed. Not to offend you or anyone else, the teachings
of Bahaullah may be relevant today but tomorrow's society's needs may
be better served by the theory propounded by a new reformer.


>Arindam


---raj
From: ramesh@informix.com (Nagar Ramesh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Taking a VCR to India - answer!!
Date: 24 Jul 92 01:03:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
Originator: ramesh@cheetah

from: Deepak Gianchandani
 (Deepak S. Gianchandani)
hi folks,

here's the only answer i've received so far on my vcr query.
         

Thanx Deepak!!

regards,

ramesh

I took one last year, National J-15, it allows one to play NTSC (American
Recorded Vedio Tapes) on a PAL (Indian)  T/V -- one doesn't need to have
to buy a multi-national TV (saves money).  Naturally it plays/records
on the PAL system.  The price I paid last year is around $400.00
Duty on it depends on who you know and how nice you are -- rules keep
changing on Duty -- one suggestion tell the Duty officer that you are
only caring the VCR no other gifts, WINE, etc. (Remember you are allowed
to take up $100.00 (that's the amount last year) free of any duty.
The duty charged is a step function. For example $100-200 is 100%, $200+ is
250% -- these number are not accurate -- I'm just including an example here.

	One more feature about the VCR, it allows recording in the PAL on
two speeds (just like in usa we have three speeds).  This saves money on
tapes -- especially since they cost over Rs.100 in india.  Also the 
VCR plays NTSC tapes recorded in any of 3 NTSC speeds (SP, LP, EP) --
which means if you recorded the tape in USA on a 6hr mode you don't have
to record it on SP (two hour mode).

	One additional thing on VHS-tapes -- don't spend the additional
money on E-180 tapes (European 180 minutes) theses tapes are almost the
same length as the T-120 tapes when used in the PAL system.  The T-120's
in N.J. go for arount $2.50 for TDK brand.  The E-180 in N.J. go for
$4.00 a tape -- so save the money on that as well (Sales people try
to tell you there is even a difference in tape size, which is incorrect --
the media is the same -- the frequency is different).

	Hope it helps -- if any questions e-mail back

	Deepak
From: nxv@cs.rit.edu (Narayan X Viswanathan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: F-2 Visa Validity
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:35:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY



Hi,

I have a question about the validity of a F2 visa before the first travel
to the U.S.

My wife got her F2 visa on the second week of June at Madras. It is a 
one year multiple-entry visa. But she is expected to join me only 
during the second week of September (approximately 3 months after she
got the visa.)

The question is, is there any time limit within which the first travel to
the U.S. has to be made after getting the F2 visa? Will she have any
problems at the port of entry?

I will be getting into the F1 post-completion practical training in the
third week of August.

Also, is it cheaper to buy a one-way ticket for a travel from a India to the
US, here.

I would appreciate if you could email your responses to :

		nxv@cs.rit.edu
			or
		nxv0587@ritvax.isc.rit.edu

Thanks

Narayan


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From: suresh@pca.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: test
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:58:02 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Personal Computing Company of Amearica

This is a test.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:06:11 EDT
From: Deepak Srivastava <DXS23@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Response to NEWS posting

In article <fNR-qJ-@engin.umich.edu>, guru@engin.umich.edu ( V. Guru Shankar)
says:
>
>I posted a few UPI newsfeeds.  To one of this I recd. the following message.
>One begins to wonder if it is really worth the time to do such postings.
>
>Dear Mr. Shankar,
>
>I think that everybody on this net has the ability to read the newsgroups and
>UPI reports without you sending their relays here. I am not quite sure what
>you hoped to accomplish by advertising the deaths of 15 mujaheddin,

I do not have access to UPI newsfeeds and I look forward to seeing
more newsfeed from Mr. Shankar. Depending upon ownership,newsfeeds
could be biased this way or that and specially when the owenership
of UPI has now gone into Saudi hands should we pre-judge its biased-
ness? I do not think so.

regards..           Deepak

>
>Thank You.
>Sareer A. Fazili
>================<<end message>>===============================
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: patel@unixg.ubc.ca (Ashwin Patel)
Subject: Indian Air Force: Review
Originator: patel@unixg.ubc.ca
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:43:12 GMT


If anybody is interested, "AIR FORCES MONTHLY", a British publication, has
a review on the present status of the Indian Air Force.  It is in the July/92
issue.  It has a fair # of photographs of the various IAF aircraft (some of
them painted in weird, IMO, paint schemes!).

ashwin           
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.women,talk.abortion
From: ngopalas@ha14.eng.ua.edu (Nath S. Gopalaswamy)
Subject: Re: Abortion and the status of Indian women
Keywords: India, women, West.
Organization: The University of Alabama
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:54:46 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.184107.16452@usl.edu>, sgs@ucs.usl.edu (Sudhindranath SG) writes:

|> I have always felt that any attempt to solve the problems of our 
|> women should derive its force from our own culture and heritage. By
|> heritage, I do not mean what has happened in the last 20 or 30 generations.
|> A lot of injustice has been done to women for a long time. But India
|> has a very, very long history and this has to be borne in mind when we
|> think of solutions.
|> 
|> In its relatively short span of existence, the attitude of the West 
|> towards its women is to treat them as objects. This may sound rather 
|> surprising especially when the West is regarded as having "progressed" 
|> because it achieved "equality" of the sexes. In reality, it only resulted 
|> in forcing the women to fend for themselves, something that is evidenced 
|> by the plight of the numerous single-parent families here. (I feel that the 
|> number of single-parent families led by _fathers_ is relatively very
|> small. If anybody has any concrete information, he/she may clarify.)
|> 
|> The reaction of the women here is a kind of backlash to being 
|> treated as objects. It is a local reaction to a local phenomenon
|> and as such, cannot even serve as an alternative when we think
|> of solving the problems faced by Indian women.
|> 
|> Even if we force ourselves to regard this as an alternative, we
|> have to consider this ---- the West has _never_ in the past or 
|> even now, respected its women, in the true sense of the word.
|> India _has_ a past where its women were respected in the society,
|> though sadly, it is no longer true at present.  So, when we
|> look for solutions, what is the option that we should take ?
|> The answer, at least to me, is obvious.
|> 
|> 
|> >         Rohit Parikh
|> 
|> Regards,
|> 
|> --Sudhi.

I find the attitude to be refreshing and more pragmatic than aping other
cultures. Our culture is unique is that women do carry a lot of respect,
but today's consumerist and materialistic attitude has led to an absolute
breakdown of that respect. The best way to work things out is to use those
same beliefs of yesteryears to even the field today.
From: ragi@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: WOMAN, MAN, ARRANGED and DERANGED MARRIAGES, and related BABBLES.
Date: 23 Jul 1992 22:35:33 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Keywords: More babbles, astrological prediction, ayodhya, eastern men etc.

In <1992Jul23.213825.4653@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> sri@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (a.natarajan) writes:


[150 lines of sheer wit removed]

natarajan! the smiley faces! how could you forget them???
and how do you suppose the average peasant that reads it is going
to know when to laugh?

and what about the cognoscenti? now they are all going to get an
inferiority complex. bad natrajan... tsk tsk...  

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ragi@ksuvm.bitnet            |   Too Young to get Married.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Ramesh Krishnan....
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:45:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.135409.2349@cs.umn.edu> prabhak@cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar) writes:
>(Venkatraman Raghavan) writes:
>>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?
>>
>
>Simple. It is no fun playing with someone who chops the ball

	Since when did McEnroe start playing the game for fun ? Doesn't
look like he's having an awful lot of fun while he's on court - not even
when he's winning.

>and hits it like a grandma. Perhaps the only asset Krishnan
>has is his instincts for placing the ball. If he didn't even
>have that he would lose to Women's 2000.

	Bah. That's ridiculous. At one time, when Ramesh Krishnan was
ranked in the 20s and 30s, he was said to be second only to McEnroe in
racquet control and skill. And it wasn't just "patriotic" Indian sports
commentators who labelled him thus. 

>
>Getting 'frustrated' is not equivalent to 'not assured of 
>winning'. Ramesh never gave anyone scares.

	Wrong. He's won matches against the best of players, not just
given scares. He beat Wilander in a grand slam tournament, when Wilander
was ranked no.1 in the world. He lost a close 5-setter to 'Bobo'
Zivojinovic in the Wimbledon quarters. Does that qualify as a scare ? And
how did he get upto no. 25 in the rankings without giving anyone scares ?
As a matter of fact, in the early eighties, noone could be 'assured of
winning' against Ramesh.

>Satya Prabhakar
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: samaddar@siemens.com (Sumitro Samaddar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,alt.culture.us.asian-indian,soc.culture.asian.american
Subject: Re: Family values and the West.
Date: 31 Jul 92 13:46:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: dumbo.samaddar.712590378
Reply-To: samaddar@siemens.com
Followup-To: soc.culture.indian

msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu (Mehul Sanghvi) writes:

>Very true. I have only read one history text after coming to the States and 
>that went over the WW2 period with a very brief paragraph or so about the 
>American concentration camps (in my view thats what they were) for the 
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

While not belittling the sufferring of Japanese-Americans during WW2, you
should not use the word "concentration camp" for their internment. How many
Japanese-Americans died in those internments? How many were given starvation
rations? Compare that with the camps of Hitler and Stalin and then you may
realize the order of magnitudes of difference.

>Japaneses-Americans while the book went on to discuss in length Hitlers
>human rights violations, etc. The history text was for a class in 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hitler's "human rights violations"!! You are a master of euphemisms.

Sumitro
From: sngattan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Sanjay N Gattani)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Image Processing Software?
Date: 21 Jul 1992 11:22:10 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

Hello:

	Can someone provide me with the information of any image
processing software available in the market?  My email address is:

	sngattan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
	sg@civil.ce.ksu.edu

Thanks and bye

						sanjay gattani