HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rajain@scotty.ecs.umass.edu (Rajat Jain)
Subject: ** REPOST** : Essay on Cow : -) 
Keywords: Cow, Holy, Feed, Milk
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:04:05 GMT

Repost of the essay on "Cow" which was (supposedly) written by some student 
in the course of completing the "Indian Civil Services Examination" :-)

I bet you will enjoy this.


___________________________________________________________________________
***************************************************************************

CALCUTTA's Telegraph has got hold of an answer paper of a candidate at the
recent UPSC examinations.  The candidate has written an essay on the Indian
cow:

"The cow is a successful animal. Also he is quadrupud, and because he is 
female, he give milk, but will do so when he is got child.  He is same like
God, sacred to Hindus and useful to man.  But he has got four legs together.
Two are forward and two are afterwards.

"His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk.  What can it do?
Various ghee, butter, cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth.
Also he is useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally.

"His motion is slow only because he is of asitudinious species.  Also his
other motion is much useful to trees, plants as well as making flat cakes in
hand and drying in the sun.  Cow is the only animal that extricates his feeding
after eating.  Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are situated in
the inside of the mouth.  He is incessantly in the meadows in the grass.

"His only attacking and defending organ is the horn, specially so when he is 
got child.  This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapons
to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great 
velocity forwards.

"He has got tails also, but not like similar animals.  It has hairs on the
other end of the other side.  This is done to frighten away the flies which
alight on his cohoa body whereupon he gives hit with it.

The palms of his feet are soft unto the touch.  So the grasses head is not
crushed.  At night time have poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts
his eyes like his relatives, the horse does not do so.

"This is the cow."

P.S.: We are informed that the candidate passed the exam.

___________________________________________________________________________
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Ciao, 

rAjAt.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: pound@ruf.rice.edu (Christopher Brian Pound)
Subject: TV in India
Organization: Rice University
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:22:54 GMT

Hi, I recently watched an old documentary (originally aired in 1985) about
television broadcasting in India.  Please forgive the naivete' of my questions
and my ignorance of current events in India, but I was curious about whether
the issues brought up in this documentary had been resolved.

How much of a local Indian TV station's schedule is produced locally?
How much control does the national government exert over local news production?
How many shows are produced in "unofficial" languages and what kind of shows
	are they?

I'm not looking for hard data, facts, or figures.  I'd just like to know how
much TV production in India has changed since 1985; the impression that
documentary gave was that there were hardly any local TV productions (not even
news shows).

Thanks in advance for any replies.

-- 
Christopher Pound	+	I am human by my hands and my feet, my guts,
Anthro Grad Student	+	my meat heart, my stomach whose knots fasten
pound@ruf.rice.edu	+	me to the rot of life.	   -- Antonin Artaud
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ftas@acad3.alaska.edu (SAHNI AKSHAY _)
Subject: looking for Maneesh Aggarwal
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41.UAC
Organization: University of Alaska - Fairbanks
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 05:09:00 GMT

I am looking for Maneesh Aggarwal - from PEC, Chandigarh.
He is currently in Northern Illinois University , Decalb.
If you know his E-Mail address do let me know .

                        Thank you
                                        akshay sahni
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: asia2@igc.apc.org (John Nides, Louisa Coen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Amnesty International's Ranking
Date: 16 Nov 92 04:21:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #R:1dv0muINN524@charnel.ecst.csuchi:-1857500009:cdp:1473300010:000:901
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!asia2    Nov 15 20:21:00 1992


Amnesty International does not rank countries in terms of their human
rights records. Also, members of Amnesty are prohibited from working
on their own countries to avoid bias.  There are a few exceptions to 
this rule. A member of AI can work to abolish the death penalty in
his own country; he can work to get his own country to ratify conventions
of international law; and he can work to get his own government to
live up to international law in the treatment of people seeking 
political asylum.  An Indian or an Indian-American is not permitted
to work on human rights violations such as torture or extrajudicial
killings in India in his capacity as a member of AI.  There are other
restrictions imposed to eliminate bias as a motive for doing AI work.
For example, a member of AI from India would not work on Pakistani cases
and a member from Pakistan would not work on India cases.  John Nides
From: toora@topaz.ucq.edu.au
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Chem.Engg. Chandigarh - '89 batch
Date: 20 Nov 92 17:06:23 AET
Organization: University of Central Queensland, Australia

 
Hi!

  I graduated from the Chemical Engineering Deptt., Punjab University,

 Chandigarh in 1989.  At present I'm doing M.B.A. from U.C.Q. Rockhampton. 

 I want to contat my batchmates in U.S.A. and Canada.  If anyone reads

 this message of mine, please respond as early as possibe.  I'll highly

 appreciate it.



 Ravi Brar

 c/o International Education   

 University Of Central Queensland

 Nth. Rockhampton

 Qld.- 4701

 AUSTRALIA.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sridhar@eos.ncsu.edu (S. Sridhar)
Subject: ********
Originator: sridhar@vayu.psrc.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: sridhar@eos.ncsu.edu (S. Sridhar)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:19:04 GMT




  LOOKING FOR  VIVEK BADAMI FROM BITS PILANI.  HE Must have come to USA in fall 

1992.        



                      My Email addresses are


     SRIDHAR@APOLLO.PSRC.NCSU.EDU

      SSRIDHA@EOS.NCSU.EDU





  THANX



    SRIDHAR S
From: mick@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Ravi Narayan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,wpi.students.desis
Subject: Re: Newsgroup monopolized by riffraff?
Date: 21 Nov 1992 20:16:05 GMT
Organization: Woopie Tech
Distribution: world
Reply-To: ravi@cs.wpi.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu
Keywords: None
Originator: mick@bigwpi.WPI.EDU


    this is a response to an article that appeared on w.s.d. its getting
    cross-posted on s.c.i, against my promise of a few days ago ;-)

prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar) writes:
:-In article <1ejrlrINNdfb@bigboote.WPI.EDU> ravi@cs.wpi.edu writes:
:->
:->    you flatter us "honorable gentleman" while concealed behind your
:->    apparent modesty! here's a simple equation that even ivy league
:->    school kids should be able to understand:
:-
:-I wonder why you supposed the posting which denounced puerile inanities
:-was pointed at you. Which is interesting since your posting suggests
:-otherwise.
:-
:-Since you chose to step forward and accept the mantle, we are just
:-denouncing posts which have no purpose other than denigrating others
:-and being a nuisance in general. There is no issue with one's academic
:-lineage. We are just concerned with the 'motives' of some 'honorable
:-gentlemen', which are so painfully malnutritous!
:-
:-Prabhakar


    above you use the word "we" - and you were responding to a post from
    someone who said "posts from obscure schools such as WPI blah blah"
    or words to that effect. if you respond to his post partially in
    agreement, and associate yourself with this person ("we"), and then
    go on to say "these honorable gentlemen have taken over the group"
    or words to that effect, obviously you concur with his views.
    further my response, was also partly in response to his post.

    that you choose to indulge in shadow boxing and word play
    ("honorable gentlemen"), i admit, leaves you room to wiggle yourself
    out of the situation. please, keep in mind, though that tolerance is
    a very great virtue - not because of altruistic content, but because
    it recognizes that there is no one "right way". sridhar, was but
    guilty of a gross generalization and vieled threats (i will write to
    your sys admin and ask him for suggestions for a good kill file),
    but had enough sense to realize that at worst the problem needs the
    construction of a kill file.

    peace,

    - ravi

-- 
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sig (n): a piece of mail with a fool at one  | Ravi Narayan, CS, WPI
          end and flames at the other. (C).   | 89 SuzukiGS500E - Phaedra ;)
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: crick@tsp.med.umn.edu (Ed Crick (CD))
Subject: Shivram Halan's only thought died of loneliness (Was:Sreehari/Crick etc.)
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 05:07:33 GMT

In article <1992Nov14.015422.28277@engr.latech.edu> shalan@engr.latech.edu writes:
>
>	be cool wear a bindi!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>

You post only shows the inability of your brain to conceive an original thought.

>Ed Crick	:
>		Biological Name:  scrotless crapus
		^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

A technique used by Samit Banerjee in attempting to describe the obscure
phylogeny of one Sreehari Nimmala.  It has been revealed however, that
Nimmala's origins cannot be determined until forensic DNA samples are
obtained from every male human and animal on the earth, because his mother
has been with almost all.

>		Purpose of life:   Fart Orally, 
				   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Have you no more intelligence than to try to use one of my own witticisms
against me?  It seems not.	

>
If you wish to participate in this debate, please express your own views, if
that is at all possible.  However, if that putrid mass of equine excrement
that you call your brain is too inept to give birth to a unique thought (as
we hope your mother gave birth to a singular braying jackass) then refrain
from opening your mouth and spilling that feces onto the net.

Ed
>
>shiv
From: sunjain@discovery.ksu.ksu.edu (mera bharat mahan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: stopover in Bangkok, help needed...
Date: 16 Nov 92 08:42:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: discover.1e9146INNj66
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: discovery.ksu.ksu.edu

I will be going to Bangkok while my way to India this December. I have a
24 hrs stopover there. I want to know the following:

  1) what are the things to buy from there? i'll be generally interested in
     buying some garments, and small electronic stuff..
 
  2) what are the good places there to shop?

  3) are there any good sight seeing places there?

(i'll be staying in T.K.Palace Hotel, i don't know where it is)

any help will be highly appreciated..

thanks in advance

sunil jain.
From: vemuri@informix.com (Sudhakar Vemuri)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Help Address of CDAC required.
Date: 15 Nov 92 22:16:09 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.indian
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <panta.721585190@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> panta@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (QUEENSRYCHE) writes:
>
>Hi,
>   Could any kind soul give me the address of Centre for Development of Automatic Computing (CDAC) in Bangalore (I think???). You could post it on 
>the net or email it to me. Thanks.


	CDAC,
	2, BRUNTON ROAD,
	BANGALORE 560 025
-- 
Sudhakar Vemuri  (vemuri@informix.com)
From: mick@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Ravi Narayan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,wpi.students.desis
Subject: Re: Newsgroup monopolized by riffraff?
Date: 20 Nov 1992 23:17:15 GMT
Organization: Woopie Tech
Distribution: world
Reply-To: ravi@cs.wpi.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu
Keywords: None
Originator: mick@bigwpi.WPI.EDU


prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar) writes:
:-(Anindya Basu) writes:
:-
:-   [whole bunch of "i am from an ivy league school" stuff deleted]
:-
:- It is incumbent upon us to free it from
:- these 'honorable gentlemen' who have managed to take it hostage.
:-
:-Satya Prabhakar


	you flatter us "honorable gentleman" while concealed behind your
	apparent modesty! here's a simple equation that even ivy league
	school kids should be able to understand:

	x = date when sci became 80% noise and 20% individual discussions
	y = date when posts started appearing from wpi, emory and other
	    "obscure" schools
	z = date when mr prabhakar and fellow intellectuals started posting

	hypothesis:

	x < z < y	(where < is to be interpreted as earlier than)

	and here's one more:

	x = % usefulness per post per sci reader before "obscure" schools
	y = % usefulness per post per sci reader after "obscure" schools

	at the worst: y = x + k
	where k = % usefulness of creating a meagre kill file.

	in any case, i suspect x = y = 0, and what we really need is a
	global kill file for SCI!!!!

	i have received mail from at least 10 people who appreciated (some
	of my) posts on SCI. if they would stand up and say so on the
	group, mr.prabhakar, fellow intellectuals, ivy league kids, net
	police, et al, would realize a few points:

	1. noise is here to stay on SCI (or any usenet group).
	2. generalizations are the ***most*** stupid things you could do.
	   (which of course is a stupid generalization!).
	3. a couple of people not liking something doesnt make it bad.
	4. the wrong could be in *you*!!! and this could be an opportunity
	   to shed your self-righteousness and learn something.

	peace,

	- ravi

	ps: i am out of this newsgroup if that makes you feel better! i
	might return later to post the second part, that i had promised
	(like anyone cares!) of the differences between americans and
	indians! see you all then!

	to fafat: drop the hee hee's and you will be ok!

-- 
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sig (n): a piece of mail with a fool at one  | Ravi Narayan, CS, WPI
          end and flames at the other. (C).   | 89 SuzukiGS500E - Phaedra ;)
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Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:37784 soc.culture.indian.telugu:1144
From: badari@trieste.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Badari Narayana KAKUMANI)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.telugu
Subject: STD code for Aurangabad requested
Date: 20 Nov 92 20:12:40 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.indian
Distribution: ba
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino CA, USA

My E-mail address  is badari@oas.olivetti.com

Thanks,
badari
From: murthy@mailhost.aa.cad.slb.com (Venkatesh Murthy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Hindu Students Council (HSC) is active at the University of Texas!
Date: 19 Nov 92 14:52:01 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Schlumberger CAD/CAM at Ann Arbor, MI

Subj:	Hindu Students Council (HSC) is active at the University of Texas!!!!!

 Hindu Students Council, the national forum providing opportunities to
 learn about Hindu heritage, is active at the University of Texas!!!
 HSC at U-Texas held its first general body meeting on Thursday November 5,
 and decided to have weekly discussion sessions every Thursday evening.
 The first sessions was conducted tonight and the topic was a brief outline
 of the life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda in light of the World Vision
 2000 project.
 World Vision 2000 is a series of programs to commemmorate Swami Vivekananda's
 visit to America in 1893, where he expounded the universal Vedantic truths
 of India.
 ...
 For more information about HSC at the University of Texas, please
 email to: LPJE103@bongo.cc.utexas.edu
 for more information about HSC activities at your campus and nationally,
 please email to Hindu.Students.Council@um.cc.umich.edu
 or write to 46B Irving St, Boston, MA 02114
=============================================
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: 09143@ravel.udel.edu (Nemo)
Subject: Request for H1 Multiple Entry @ Juarez information
Summary: H1 Visa, Juarez.
Originator: 09143@ravel.udel.edu
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:44:56 GMT

What are the chances of getting a H1 @ Juarez recently (any experiences
within the last month or so?). What grounds, if any, were used for
refusal?

Also, is it true that a 48 hour waiting period has been instituted?

Cheers!
Vikram

ps: Please e-mail. I will post a summary if there is sufficient interest.
From: srp1089@hertz.njit.edu (Sesharao Patchipala)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Summary: getting EAD(Employment authorization card)
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:52:52 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

I am graduating from NJIT, Newark, NJ in Dec.'92 and relocating to
California in Dec.'92. I want to apply for the post-practical training
there. I want to know how much time the INS people will take to issue
the EAD card after applying.

Thanks in advance.


bye
sesha
-----

 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gagrawal@cs.tamu.edu (Gopal Agrawal)
Subject: Re: Khalistan
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:50:01 GMT

In article <o58euB4w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> garyd@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Gary Deol) writes:
> 
>  Ah, yet another Hindu who gets spoonfed from the Indian gov't's
>propaganda machine, out of curiosity has any Hindu ever heard of a
>term called psychological warfare?  What matters is the end result, 
>like Sikhs before them they bravely put the noose on their owns heads 
>and yelled out "Khalistan Zindabad" when it mattered!  Would you have 

Such cheap machoism is for brainless birds like you only. If machoism
is the indication of being a brave freedom fighter, then every goonda
on the street is one too. My point was that Jinda was not motivated 
by any ideological considerations (as was perhaps Sukha). Terrorism
had become his life style and he killed anyone he was ordered to 
on a non-discriminatory basis. I bet a lot of the terrorists are of 
Jinda's ilk.  What makes you so sure that this was just a spoof of 
the propaganda m/c. If it was just a spoof, how come Sukha seems 
to have been exonerated of those charges. They could have dragged 
him through the mud too. 

>that kind of bravery, nyah you seem like the kind that would piss in 
>his pants at mention of the word `death'.  I figure if he had links 

That only time can tell. But I certainly don't relish the idea of 
gloating over my death if my life's been a total bummer. The worst 
joke of all is that all this talk of bravery is coming from a person
who doesn't have the guts to keep a Sikh sounding name in a foreign 
land.  

>with the Babar Khalsa his name would of been in the past (before as 
>you say they disowned him) called Jinda Babbar (all Sikhs in the 
>Babbar Khalsa use Babbar at the end of their names) but I don't 
>remember any mention of him being called that.
> 

Whether they called him Jinda Babbar or not, his terrorist activities 
in collusion with them is well recorded and acknowledged by the Babar
khalsa and the police. 

>Gary Deol              garyd@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 

When is the last time that you have visited India and actually talked 
to the Sikhs there. I mean the Sikhs who cannot afford to hide behind 
the comforts of Canada like you. Their worst nightmare is not the police
(though the police too is a nightmare). Their worst nightmare is the 
terrorist who leaves bombs in transistors and bags randomly at any 
public place. Before you finance the next murder of innocents, perhaps 
you should also pray that the ones murdered are not someone from your 
own family. 

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From: Contract_Services_Company@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: FEMALE ROOMMATE WANTED IN SANTA CLARA, CA.....
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 13:30:23 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Female roommate wanted to share a three bedroom town house in Santa Clara
from December 10th onwards. 

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Contact Shree @ 415-326-6722 (8am - 5pm) or @ 408-984-0469 (9pm - 11pm)
From: petera@yoyo.fiu.edu (Ancin Xavier Peter)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: HOW WE TIP IN RESTAURANTS
Date: 19 Nov 92 01:32:16 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Florida International University, Miami

In article <1992Nov18.171512.29862@news2.cis.umn.edu>, prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar) writes:
|> >I guess most of our people work in restaurants because of the tuition fees
|> >other expenses. We need to support them by atleast paying a little bit more 
|> >than the average. 
|> 
|> I don't mean to be rude, but my answer is 'Tough!"
	
|> If they treat tip as a gratuituous payment, they should shut up and take 
|> what they get and be professional about it.
	
	The IRS taxes these people for the gratuituous payment too. They 
are automatically taxed for 15% of the bill even if they do not get it.
The issue is not whether the system is correct or not. The system exists.
It is matter of human courtesy to tip the person. 

|> By definition, you cannot demand a gratuity, nor do I see the reason why
|> anyone should even pay it. I don't pay gratuity to my garbageman who picks 
|> up my trash every week, why should pay the waiter whom I may never see again?
	
	Well, no one stops you from doing that. It is not illegal. That
is no justification for not tipping a waiter. 

|> Prabhakar

Ancin
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: swami1@troy.cc.bellcore.com (swaminathan,kashi r)
Subject: Re: ** 220V/50Hz -> 110V/60Hz Info ? **
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 20:35:53 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.191340.998@bmerh85.bnr.ca> vilok@bmerh322.bnr.ca (Vilok Kusumakar) writes:
>
>There are adpaters which also convert frequcey but they cost a lot more $60 
>to $120. CD player, 2in1, Microwave oven should work with these
>adapters. I am currently investigating the possibility of getting these adapters
>made in India from a eletrician. 
>
>Correct me if I am wrong somewhere. My investigation is continuing.


Yes. The adapter for frequency in cd player, record player etc. is a
little wheel of different diameter that changes the gear ratio.
Usually instead of gears, they are coupled with friction belts.
>
>Please post a summary.
>
>>
>---------------
>Vilok Kusumakar                    OSI Protocols for tomorrow......
>vilok@bnr.ca                       Bell-Northern Research, Ltd.
>Phone: (613) 763-2273              P.O. Box 3511, Station C 
>Fax:   (613) 765-4777              Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 4H7
>