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From: rajeshkr@usc.edu (Rajesh Krishnan)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
Subject: ***comic thamasha***
Date: 7 Jan 1993 17:00:11 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

Saw this one in Malayala Manorama...

The First picture shows a big jaatha with people shouting;

Pullanae Pullanae, policesu namakku Pullanae...
Pullanae Pullanae, policesu namakku Pullanae...

the second cartoon shows a police van arriving to dispurt  the jaatha

the final picture shows the people running helter skelter..


thought it was funny...


peace

-rajesh

Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
From: cs911093@ariel.yorku.ca (SHANTY KOKKAT)
Subject: Recipe: - Payasam
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:16:11 GMT

Incrediants
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White Rice (pachary)			1 cup
coconut milk (fresh)			0.45 cup
Brown Sugar (charkara)			0.50 cup
salt					0.10 teespoon
Gerakam(flour)				2 teespoon

cashews
fried coconut (cut the coconut into very little piece and fry it
in little oil, add cashews).

First cook the rice very well(maybe in 3 to 4 cups of water).  When
it cooked, add the gerakam, salt and coconut milk.  After few minutes
add the brown sugar, keep it in the stove until it get boily very
well.  Then add the cashews and fried coconut.  I guess you all know
the rest......

If you don't like to eat lot's of coconut milk because of cholestrol
or any other reasons, reduce the coconut milk amount and add some
milk.

If you can get `nellu kuthiya ari'(rice that made directly from
`nelle' without frying it), that will be the best to make payasam.


Shanty Kokkat

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P.S  I will be really appreciate if you can send me any comments about
     my recipes, so that I can decide whether I should continue posting
     the recipes or change the format.

There is different methods to make payasam and there is different kind
of payasam.  I sort of know how to make `semiya' and `payar' payasam,
since I am not very font of these I don't usually don't make those.
But if anybody needed, I can post into the ack.  And I really 
appreciate if you can send me other methods to make payasam or
modified version.

Good luck!.
From: anair@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
Subject: FOREST IN GENERAL,ALSO  THOSE  IN KERALA ,part answer to 599.
Date: 7 Jan 93 11:21:45 -0500

Broadly speaking, there are :
Tropical Evergreen Forests
Tropical Deciduous Forest (ie. the trees shed leaves once during a year)
Temperate Forests  which again could be deciduous or evergreen . The latter 
are normally the Conifers ---- Pine, Spruce, Fir, Larch being typical.
In addition , one has the Grasslands, in which there are tall grasses,
and herbs interspersed with trees .
Kerala has the Tropical Evergreen type of forests , with stretches of
the Rain Forest.
This kind  is typified by  thickly meshed  top storey , so much so that 
hardly any light  penetrates to the below branch level area.The humidity 
is very high and there are frequent  , almost daily rains to help keep things
that way.
There is no undergrowth of plants, but the tree trunks and branches themselves
are covered with ferns, orchids, and some semi-parasitical creepers. Also, 
loads of mushrooms and other fungal varieties grow on the ground as well 
as on the trees.
Because of this high temperature, humidity ,and light  (or non-light) kind of
environment, the life forms( plants,  animals --- including insects), tend
to be  specially evolved . Creates an environmental niche, so that the 
interplay and balance between these units is essential for the survival of 
all of them. eg. clearing a patch in the middle of such a forest would suddenly
let in a lot of light , decrease humidity to way below normal,and temperature
would fluctuate because of wind effects. Plant and animal life that would now 
move into this area would be new species...... not the rain forest ones at all. 
I cannot, off hand, recount the  trees and stuff found here in common  names,
will try to get hold of those , so that you can relate to actuals...if you
really want that information.
Also the rest of the questions will need to wait awhile before  I can 
get to answering them....more specifically and relevantly.
Archana Nair

Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
From: kochumol@leland.Stanford.EDU (anna geevarghese)
Subject: two questions ?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 22:49:49 GMT


I have 2 questions.

1. Why is 'Sabarimala Ayappan' who is supposed to be
	Subramanian, son of lord Shiva, on a leopard 
	rather than on a peacock, which is supposed to
	be his mode of transportation ?

(Pls correct me if I am wrong )

2. Is Parvathi, wife of Lord Shiva, also known as Jamuna ?

All these are out of curiosity, brushing up some stories in
ancient mythologies.

Thankyou,

Anna

Kochumol@cardinal.stanford.edu
From: Ajit K. Nair <aknair@eng.auburn.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
Subject: Kerala in National Geographic
Date: 4 Jan 1993 15:32:17 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


Yes, I do remember reading the article mentioned by Kailasnath about one year back.As he rightly mentioned there were some beautiful photogrphs.There was one photo showing the Trichur pooram.If my memory serves right the article was titled  
"Kerala-the jewel of Indias Malabar coast".

Ajit Nair
From: mece21x@elroy.uh.edu (Yesudas, Michael)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
Subject: Religious Stuff...
Date: 11 Jan 1993 18:40 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: elroy.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

It has been quite sometime ever since our Anonymous friend is desperately
trying to get a foothold in ACK. Some of his articles were interesting,
Like

KERALA : ANOTHER PUNJAB ??
Translator : Whoami

When the Punjab problem got out of hand blah... blah...
The Muslims of Kerala also blah.. blah...

PAKISTANI SUBMARINE IN MALAPPURAM ??
Translator :  Whoami

There has been  blah.. blah..
So the Muslims of Kerala blah.. blah..

NUCLEAR BOMB AT KUTHIRAVATTOM
Translator : Whoami

Pakistani nuclear arsenal at the mental hospital blah.. blah..
The Muslims living in that  area blah.. blah..

PAKISTANI SPY IN MANJERI
Translator : Whoami

Blah.. blah...

My Dear Anonymous Friend,

What pleasure do you get out of making these cock and bull stories? Do you
passionately believe in this cause? Do you really think that all this you
write is true? Can you for a fact blame one community for all problems our
country has? (Yes, OUR country!) Or whatever we have faced as a result of 
our own actions?

Learn how to be responsible for your own actions. 

To begin with you can take the responsibility of stating your name in
your future articles. Not hide in a dark corner like a rat!

If you passionately believe that India is "your" country, why this mysterious
way of voicing your opinion?

I see only two reasons as to why you are hiding.

(1) You are scared of the public opinion about your cause.
(2) Your cause in itself is not true and so you have to hide..

Son, You and your translator have got your facts as well as logic screwed up.
Got nothing else to do?

Sincerely
Michael

P.S. To keep you busy, try answering these questions.

(i) Sati was known by a different name among the Rajputs of the sixteenth and
seventeenth century. What was it?

Ok here's an easy one ....

(ii) Undoubtedly the best philosopher modern India has seen is Swami Vivekananda
What was his father's name? Where was he born?

This might be too simple....

(iii) Where is the largest temple?

Don't even try to guess it. It is a very controversial one...

(iv) Where is the oldest temple where worship still takes place?
From: milhouse.caltech.edu!sathi (Narayana Sateesh Pillai)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
Subject: Re: FOREST IN GENERAL,ALSO  THOSE  IN KERALA ,p
Date: 8 Jan 1993 17:52:50 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: milhouse.caltech.edu
Originator: sathi@milhouse

	I have a problem in understanding the rain forest question.
Does Kerala have a Tropical Rain Forest?
	My understanding is that it doesn't. An example of the tropical
rain forest is the Amazon jungle. There are other rain forests in the
world - in Africa. They exist just around the equator. They have
peculiar characteristics like perennial rain fall (as opposed to
seasonal), a canopy at the top that hardly lets direct sunlight
reach the ground, and a varying flora and fauna throughout the height of
the trees. The life at the bottom is different from the life at the
top, mainly because of the difference in sunlight, resulting in
different vegetation. 
	Is this the situation in Silent Valley? I did not think so,
mainly because (as was pointed out by someone else), the rainfall in
Kerala is seasonal, and will not result in such an abundance of 
vegetation, as may be found in the Amazon.

TATA!
Sateesh
-- 
		| Sateesh Pillai			
		| 128-95, Caltech
who am I?	| Pasadena, CA 91125
		| (818) 564-1225
From: mece21x@rosie.uh.edu (Yesudas, Michael)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
Subject: Re: YES PROP?
Date: 5 Jan 1993 12:05 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rosie.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1993Jan5.171108.25389@colorado.edu>, paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Atharvan) writes...
>In article <9301050635.AA25142@cyclops.micr.Virginia.EDU> jv4s@cyclops.micr.Virginia.EDU (Jayanand Vasudevan) writes:
>>
>>	I voted YES PROP.  I'm not sure about running a poll with a loaded  
>>question like "Do you want religious propoganda on the group a.c.k?" is valid.
> 
>1] While you are welcome to vote yes if you feel like, its not very good form to   explain why you voted no or yes *before* the results are out. 
>   Ballots are usually secret.

Is it not the choice of the person, to reveal to the rest of the world whether
he voted YES or NO? Though ballots are secret, they are also democratic in 
nature. Right?

> 
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> 

Sincerely
Michael
From: "Paul C. Chemmanoor" <tstpcc@gwunix1.gwu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
Subject: Repost: Amendment to charter.
Date: 4 Jan 1993 10:25:51 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


0] Some people seem to have missed this article over the weekend.
   I have been asked to repost it.

1] In the light of recent postings in a.c.k. of the "Hindu Digest."
   and the subsequent reactions that ackers had, and the response
   of the originators of the post, I feel we must make our positions clear.

2] Let me explain my stand.
   I have no objections to any religion or any religious organization per se.
   But I have learnt from seeing sci and other india-related newsgroups go to
   waste that religion and its propoganda are the seeds of destruction of
   a newsgroup. 
   I have absolutely no sympathy with postings of this nature from people
   of * any * religion, be it, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity or whatever
   else.
   It has nothing at all to do with Hinduism in particular.
   I will defend the existence and the right of alt.hindu to preach
   that religion at any time. It was created for that purpose.

   Alt.culture.kerala was not created for religious flame-wars.
   If it was not specifically mentioned in the charter, then we will
   modify that charter.

   I am proud of being a keralite.
   Because of many reasons, but the greatest of them is the
   great degree of harmony that existed and still exists among 
   diverse ethnic and religious groups in Kerala. That secular 
   attitude is what I presumed, and I think many other ackers take for 
   granted in a group created for kerala.

   Religion is a private affair.

2] Since I do not know if we have the majority with us, I request
   that those who do not approve of religious propaganda send a mail
   to paulchem@ucsu.colorado.edu with
   'NO PROP' in the subject line.

   Those who do not agree with these sentiments can send a mail to
   paulchem@ucsu.colorado.edu with
   'YES PROP' in the subject line.

   Be sure to exercise your right to see what goes on in ack.   
This will set the trend for the future of ack and sck.

  I will post the results on saturday the ninth of december.
  Then we will know the general direction the majority wants to 
  go in. If the majority decides for allowing this kind of posting
  so be it. I will not argue against it.


3]  In the meantime, I would like to request that we stop discussing this
    on the net. We have already generated a lot of non-culture postings
   in the short span.
 
5] Thanking you for your attention.   Stay Cool.

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Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
From: tripunit@algol.cs.psu.edu (Mahesh V Tripunitara)
Subject: Re: Malayali humour/comic strips.
Keywords: kerala,malayali,humour,comic strips
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:58:12 GMT

In article <harikuma.726246593@enterprise.ifp.uiuc.edu> harikuma@enterprise.ifp.uiuc.edu (G. Harikumar) writes:
>
>If I had to name the one thing
>that I miss most about Kerala, I would 
>unhesitatingly choose the comic strip
>"Bobanum Moliyum". This particular

Something I recall from one of the "Bobanum Moliyum" strips :

A police jeep is speeding through the street, attempting to clear the way
for a minister's car that will soon be passing through :

Policeman (from the jeep) : Maarada Pattikale! Shavangalu!!

Passer-by : Athinu Shavangal Aakaan Mandri-yude Vandi Eevazhi Vannattillalo!

(with apologies to the compilers of the Aksharamaala - haven't had the
patience to go through it...yet).

Mahesh.
From: t60bss9@mp.cs.niu.edu (Bijoy Sagar)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
Subject: Sexual seggregation in Kerala
Date: 8 Jan 1993 18:51:35 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



	Would someone tell me why Kerala society is so sexually
oppressive and seggregated? I have been told that while Kerala
is so advanced in education, health care and in umpteen other things,
the society has remained by and large very conservative and 
suffocating! I am given to understand that you cannot even date in Kerala
openly, let alone travel and explore things together. ( I have
never faced any such problems in Bombay or Calcutta where you could
date when you are old enough and no one ever passes any judgement on strangers).

Just curiosity!

Bijoy

Ps: Other states which are equally developed culturally, such as Sikkim
Nagaland and Manipur also have very liberal social values and it is refreshing
to see those societies...
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From: tstpcc@gwunix1.gwu.edu (Paul C. Chemmanoor)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
Subject: Result of vote on amendment of charter.
Date: 9 Jan 1993 13:22:34 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


1] As promised here is the result of the vote held to amend the
   charter of alt.culture.kerala to exclude religious propaganda.

   The complete files with message bodies are too big to post.
   Anyone who wants to see the files can send mail to me.

   Here are the from headers:

   Those who voted to keep religious propaganda out of ack:

From: devkumar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Devakumar Sreevijayan)
From: sathi@cco.caltech.edu (Narayana Sateesh Pillai)
From: raj@bigbird.bu.edu (rajagopalan)
From: Sreekumar K. Thampi <nas_st@gese02.jsc.nasa.gov>
From: Kailasnath S Maneparambil <kailas@cs.psu.edu>
From: ramachan@physics.ucla.edu ('Sathyadev Ramachandran')
From: Ajit K. Nair <aknair@eng.auburn.edu>
From: RKRISHNAN@finabo.abo.fi
From: Rajesh Krishnan <rajeshkr@chaph.usc.edu>
From: WONKO@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU, THE SANE <SKUMAR@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU>
From: Ananda K. Mahadevan <anandam@eng.auburn.edu>
From: nvenkate@acs.ucalgary.ca
From: rvijayan@calvin.rutgers.edu (rajiv vijayan)
From: <KVD1@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
From: sajith@Athena.MIT.EDU
From: jsraghav@tx.ncsu.edu (Jayakrishnan Raghavan)
From: Murali.Damodaran@ntu.ac.sg
From: ashok <THAMPY@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
From: Mathai Chundattu <mchundat@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu>
From: pjn@IUS4.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU
From: jacobt@nynexst.com (Jacob Thomas)
From: Hari Nair <han@cluster.gps.caltech.edu>
From: venu@cirrus.com (Venu Nayar)
From: kochumol@leland.stanford.edu
From: vallath@vishnu.labs.tek.com (Vallath Nandakumar )
From: azeez@csi.com (Abdulazeez Chollampattu)
From: Chandan.Egbert@eng.sun.com (Chandan Egbert)
From: nair@ross.com (Harikumar Nair)
From: jake@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Baiju Jacob)
From: "Sreeharshan.O.G, Nijmegen, The Netherlands" <sreeharshan@elis.enet.dec.com>
From: JACOBJP@nfl.afrc.ac.uk
From: Thomas Jolly <thomman@joseph.me.uiuc.edu>
From: annie george <annie@cc.uow.edu.au>

33 in favour of excluding religious propaganda.

Those in favour of allowing religious propaganda:

From: thekkath@cs.washington.edu
From: Jayanand Vasudevan <jv4s@cyclops.micr.Virginia.EDU>
From: harikuma@which.csl.uiuc.edu (G. Harikumar)

3 in favour of allowing religious propaganda.

The majority is 11 times the dissenting side.

The amendment to the charter for ack stands passed.
No religious propaganda.

Readers may want to save this article to quote while attempting to 
enforce the verdict.

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Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
From: pjn+@cs.cmu.edu (P J Narayanan)
Subject: Anonymous service! (Re: Is Kerala Really Secular?)
Followup-To: alt.culture.kerala
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:38:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.200307.15571@fuug.fi> an4179@anon.penet.fi writes:
>
>	<Ignored, irrespective of the contents>
>

The anonymous virus has struck ACK too! I appeal all ACKers not to
respond to such postings in anyway, even if you can find very good
counter/supporting arguments. I recommend we hit the "n" key as
soon as we see such an article.

I am sorry I posted one article in response to an anonymous one. I
hope even this is superfluous.

PJN

P.S. :- I don't see why campaigning should not be allowed in any voting.
	However, by discussing your own or others' choices in this matter,
	we are giving the Hindu-Digest stuff more importance than we
	should. So, let's continue with quiet voting and abide by its
	numbers


-- 
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Robotics Institute, CMU			pjn@cs.cmu.edu
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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From: mece21x@rosie.uh.edu (Yesudas, Michael)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
Subject: Re: Sexual seggregation in Kerala
Date: 11 Jan 1993 12:13 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rosie.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <199301090051.AA02359@mp.cs.niu.edu>, t60bss9@mp.cs.niu.edu (Bijoy Sagar) writes...
> 
> 
>	Would someone tell me why Kerala society is so sexually
>oppressive and seggregated? I have been told that while Kerala

Bijoyda, Not opressive, But segregated! But most parts of our country are!

>is so advanced in education, health care and in umpteen other things,
>the society has remained by and large very conservative and 
>suffocating! I am given to understand that you cannot even date in Kerala

Aamra jaani! Ki korbo? Ekta suggestion detthe parben??

>openly, let alone travel and explore things together. ( I have
>never faced any such problems in Bombay or Calcutta where you could
>date when you are old enough and no one ever passes any judgement on strangers).

PAALLLAAM NA! As someone once said " Aami Dada, Kolkotthayer chele, Eyta shob
Amaar Babaer jenish!" In short, you are lucky! :-)

> 
>Just curiosity!
> 
>Bijoy
> 
>Ps: Other states which are equally developed culturally, such as Sikkim
>Nagaland and Manipur also have very liberal social values and it is refreshing
>to see those societies...

Amra O cheshta korchi!

No offense meant!

Sincerely
Michael

>`
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
From: paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Atharvan)
Subject: Re: YES PROP?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:06:25 GMT

In article <5JAN199312053826@rosie.uh.edu> mece21x@rosie.uh.edu (Yesudas, Michael) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.171108.25389@colorado.edu>, paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Atharvan) writes...
>>In article <9301050635.AA25142@cyclops.micr.Virginia.EDU> jv4s@cyclops.micr.Virginia.EDU (Jayanand Vasudevan) writes:
>>>
>>>	I voted YES PROP.  I'm not sure about running a poll with a loaded  
>>>question like "Do you want religious propoganda on the group a.c.k?" is valid.
>> 
>>1] While you are welcome to vote yes if you feel like, its not very good form to   explain why you voted no or yes *before* the results are out. 
>>   Ballots are usually secret.
>
>Is it not the choice of the person, to reveal to the rest of the world whether
>he voted YES or NO? Though ballots are secret, they are also democratic in 
>nature. Right?

1] Without going into the details, explanations of positions and canvassing 
   for positions end a certain time period before voting starts, and while
   the ballot is going on, nothing except voting is allowed. After the vote 
   is over, everyone is free to discuss anything. 
   Here the rest of the world is unfortunately the same as the people who 
   are involved in voting. So it amounts to influencing the vote.
   There is nothing strange about this. This is accepted procedure in 
   net.voting.

   This has nothing to do with the discussion itself.
   Only with the timing. After the vote is over and results are out
   feel free to discuss anything. You wont have to wait much longer.
   Saturday is only 3 days away. I will be releasing the results along 
   with the e-mail addresses and message ids, so everyone can see
   who voted for what, and in some case why.

   Let me make myself clear, as the person conducting the 
   ballot, I can see both sides of the problem, I can see very well why
   people vote on both sides of the issue.

   I hope I have cleared up this issue.
   God, I hope we will not have to go through so much, 
   non-cultural stuff for a long time.

   I will restrain myself from responding to articles that are connected
   to the voting till saturday.

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From: sbmn@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (S.Subramanian(contr))
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:58:10 GMT
Subject: Tel. no change in Trichur
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala



For the info. of those calling Trichur - new electronic exchange has been
installed and most of the old numbers have changed. 

Subbu