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From: an4234@anon.penet.fi
Subject: Re:attack on Buddhist temple in Bangladesh - An Appeal
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.culture.indian
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:17:38 GMT

Subject: Attack on Buddhist temple in Bangladesh - An Appeal
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>/* Written  3:01 pm  Jan 22, 1993 by bpf@igc.apc.org in igc:reg.seasia */
>/* ---------- "Appeal from Bangladeshi Buddhists" ---------- */
>AN APPEAL TO HELP AND REHABILITATE THE BUDDHISTS 
>AFFECTED BY COMMUNAL DISTURBANCES.
>
>As a consequence of destructions of historic Babri Mosque in
>Ayodhya, India, by the Hindu fundamentalists, communal
>disturbances flared up all over this subcontinent, resulting in
>colossal loss of human lives and properties.
>
>On the 11th and 12th December 1992, a group of miscreants
>numbering 400/500 attacked the innocent Buddhist Monks and
>villagers at Matain under Senbagh Police Station in Noakhali
>District. They caused heavy damage to the only Buddhist temple,
>looted away the properties and broke into pieces statues of Lord
>Buddha. The miscreants injured the villagers, looted away the
>house-hold properties including cash, ornaments, paddy,
>furniture, cattle, and set on fire the dwelling houses, kitchen,
>and cowsheds of the villagers, and rendered them completely
>shelterless without having any food and clothings in this winter
>season. About 200 people of 30 houses have been passing their
>days in great miseries and the condition of the Children are more
>serious for want of proper food and medicine.
>

>The extent of damaged will be about Tk. 50,000,000 (fifty lac).
>So far, no substantial help has been received by them from the
>government or other donor agencies.
>
>Therefore, this appeal is made to all for immediate help to the
>affected villagers.
     
     Send the bill to :
     L.K. Advani
     Parliament House
     New Delhi.
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From: reddy@ulysses.att.com (Kishore Reddy[ftd])
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,alt.visas.us
Subject: Question on TAX/DEDUCTIONS during PT/H1 : URGENT
Summary: TAX info. for H1/PT
Keywords: H1, TAX
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:43:50 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA


	Hi H1/PT Gurus:


	I have a question regarding the TAX etc. cuts during PT-H1-Labor
	period.

	I want to know, what are the TAXES (State and Federal)  and 
	DEDUCTIONS (FICA, Medicare, Disability) will be deducted from
	your GROSS pay, during Practical Training (PT), H1 status and
	after getting Labor Cert.. Please let me know the % of cuts
	also. 

	Please reply me at my account: reddy@ulysses.att.com
	as I donot read this group regularly.
	I shall post the replies after compilation.

	
	Thanx in advance,


	Kishore Reddy

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
From: an7931@anon.penet.fi
Subject: Get real
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.culture.indian
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:09:00 GMT

	So they almost pulled it off this time too ? I mean who 
	can convince the good bishop of Colombo to call Mr.Pirbhakaran
	"Humane"!!
		Mr. Pirabhakaran Humane????
	The good bishop must have been sleeping for the last 15 years.
	Or perhaps a misplaced sense of humour!!!
	Hah ..Calling Mr Pirabhakaran "humane" would be akin to calling
	Jeffrey Dhammer a vegetarian! Or perhaps  Mr Milosovic
	of Serbia a mother Theresa.
		Grow up boys.Be real.All this "humane" facade was just
	to get those guns Kittu was bringing over right on time for
	the next offensive.Releasing 2 cops out of the hundreds taken
	was such a noble gesture.Of course the idiots in Colombo would
	have fallen for it hook, line and stinker if not for our 
	departed friend Kittu's little adventure at sea.
		Of course Kittu was bringing a peace proposal.The 
	proposal must have weighed tons since he needed a 600ton
	ship to carry the "peace proposal".Or was it just a final
	proposal to break off some more "pieces" from the island?
	Perhaps the stuff that was thrown overboard may have been
	part of the peace proposal too!! 
		And quit whinning about the "act of Piracy on
	international waters ".Since when did the LTTE start to
	abide by International law?Did you get permission from
	Interpol to murder our Rajiv?Or perhaps they were acting
	in accordance with international law when they massacred
	those countless Moslem, Sinnaleese women and Children
	few months back.Or maybe just maybe they were acting 
	under international law when they wiped out Padmanabha
	right here in Madras?
		Get a grip you terroists.The fat lady has started
        singing.Kittu got what he deserved .No more No less.
	The same awaits the others too. And then my friends we will
	start looking at your fund raising efforts to an International
	terroists organization and I am sure the INS and the FBI 
	would be very much interested in you persoanly.(Of course
	for the Canadian patrons the RCMP has already started doing
	it's job!!) 
		As for you Sinnaleese get off your butts and get a
	government that can govern  and an Army that can fight.
		
					Avinash Giri		
				 
		

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: parikh@enws237.eas.asu.edu (Ripple Parikh)
Subject: Need help in Austin, TX.
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:05:12 GMT


Hi,

  	I need help from fellow Indians in the city of Austin, TX.

	I will be relocating to Austin within a couple of days near IBM.
	I would like to get some information about appartments around
	that place.

	Please send reply by e-mail to parikh@cs.eas.asu.edu
	
	Your help is appreciated.

	Thanks.

Ripple Parikh.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: divaka@jacob.its.rpi.edu (Ajay Divakaran)
Subject: Re: RSS, BABRI MASJID AND THE NAZIS
Reply-To: divaka@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:44:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.222102.21894@ncsu.edu>, ssd@eos.ncsu.edu (Srikant Sridevan) writes:
|> 
|> In article <f4j3-qg@rpi.edu>, divaka@jacob.its.rpi.edu (Ajay Divakaran) writes:
|> 
|> > In article <C15or1.92y@cs.psu.edu>, narayana@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Kuram
|> > T Narayana) writes:
|> 
|> > |> This guy pramanath sastry, Sanjeev Mahajan, Chukka Srinivas, Bhudiraju
|> > |> belong to the same category of people. Remember the great peoples
|> > war group
|> > |> terrorist trench follower Sanjeev Mahajan, and how he felt drinking
|> > bottles
|> > |> of shame manufactured in Columbus Ohio.
|> > |> 
|> > |> ...kt
|> > Anyone who has read postings from the individuals listed above would
|> > know how ridiculous the above categorization is. I have to admit that
|> > I detested Sanjeev Mahajan's brand of cacophonous anti-Hindu
|> > pontification. But
|> > I have not seen any anti-Hindu stuff from Pramath or Chukka or
|> > Budaraju,
|> > unless of course refusing to abuse non-Hindus makes you anti-Hindu.
|> > I guess I have just added myself to the above list. I think the only
|> > criterion for inclusion in Kuram T. Narayana garu's list of bete
|> > noires
|> > is disagreement with his unique perspective on life, love and
|> > religion.
|> 
|> And mother-tongues. Please do not exclude us cannibal Tamils from his
|> exclusive list. ;-)
|> 
|> >                                                      ajay
|> > 
|> 
|> Srikant
Oops! My mistake! I apologize profusely. How could I forget with
that Tamil/Malayali sounding name of mine! Actually my mother tongue
is a Telugu dialect which is a mixture of Telugu, Tamil and Kannada, which
I refrain from using in the presence of people from AP, since it grates on
their ears. I don't blame them, but I am quite proud of our cocktail
dialect. 
                                                       ajay
p.s. Just in case Narayana Garu is worried, I am vegetarian and do not
     have any cannibalistic tendencies. Even after watching 
     "The Silence of the Lambs."
From: mohang@netcom.com (Mohan Gopalakrishnan)
Subject: Call for discussion to form newsgroup soc.history.southasia
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:08:47 GMT


                         Call for discussion on forming NewsGroup
                         ----------------------------------------
                                     -SOC.HISTORY.SOUTHASIA
                                      ---------------------
            Anyway, I would be very much interested in pushing for
 a group dedicated to the discussion of S ASIAN history(which is
 roughly the region encompassing India,Pakistan,Bangladesh,Sri-Lanka,
 Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan and the Maldives). It would be nice if
 the group could be moderated(dont know the procedure for that either).
 We would be discussing different historical periods and perspectives
 in south asian history. While history itself is a political subject,
 it would be nice if uninformed politically motivated half truths as
 we see in the "CULTURE" groups can be excluded by moderation. This 
 is such that the group be dedicated to the discussion of history
 alone. If the group has a goal or objective, it is to enlighten
 ourselves with a better understanding od S ASIAN HISTORY thro mutual
 help.
                       -Mohan
From: mathur@egr.msu.edu (Arvind M Mathur)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Republic Day!!
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:04:01 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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Originator: mathur@eecae.ee.msu.edu




Felicitations to you all on the occasion of India's REPUBLIC DAY today!!


(Couldn't resist posting this since I hadn't seen even one posting regarding
our Republic Day today ; and it's almost the end of the day!!)

Hope it was celebrated with the usual pomp and gaiety and was not marred
by any undesirable incidents.


-Arvind

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: subraman@myria.cs.umn.edu (Satish Subramanian)
Subject: vaLLuvan kaatiya vazhi - 11
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:36:15 GMT

________________________________________________________________

   Thirukkural           "vaansiRappu"           Chapter 2      
                    (The Excellence of Rain)

[1]		"vaanninRu ulagam vazhangi varudhalaal dhaan
		amizhdham endRuNaraR paaRRu"

       "Because, by the continuation of rain, the world is preserved
             in existence, it is worthy to be called ambrosia"

___________________________________________________________________
  Corrections/ Discussions/ Different Interpretations are welcome.
                 Posted by Satish Subramanian
                    (subraman@cs.umn.edu)
	         Thanks to Siva Bala Narayanan
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: srsurapa@mtu.edu (Surapanani)
Subject: THE BODY OF EVIDENCE ------ A POEM
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:47:19 GMT
X-Posted-From: chem13.chem.mtu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


          The Body of Evidence


      The cowboy wonders on Eros and Cupid
          the body of evidence
          on desire and love
          with the bow and arrow
          aiming for erotica


      With the gale and snow
          blurring the vision
          the target is always missed
          by a margin of error
          out of range
          on the scale of two to sex


      Unable to find the target
          the cowboy took to the principles
          of physics, math and chemistry
          to take a shot in the dark


      The physics of cosmos
          shape the body of human
          man and woman
          with forces of attraction and repulsion
          where the likes repel
          and opposites attract


      The math of geometry
          shape the woman
          from the bosom, belly and bum
          to the scale of
          36-28-36 and ranging
          with the man's P
          rocking the movement and motion
          on the Ritcher scale
          from four to six
          with the shakes
          on dangerous quakes
          the higher and higher you go


      The chemistry of bond
          providing the chromosomes
          from X in man
          to Y in woman
          not evident in the periodic table
          or the species diagram
          with the invisible force
          of attraction and repulsion
          dominating the sense and reason


      So armed with the data
          from physics, math and chemistry
          the cowboy aimed the target
          only to miss
          with the margin of error
          out of range
          on the scale of two to sex


      Unseen to naked eye
          of many a eagle's eye
          there is a force
          acting from within and beyond
          in the shape of heart and love


       This cowboy can conquer
          any battle or war
          but there is one battle
          that I cannot conquer
          without the lassi
          pure and cool
          from the land of holy cows and magic fakirs
          and until then
          I always will be


    "An alien to love and erotica"


                             Srini Surapanani


      (The Cowboy from the land of holy cows and magic fakirs)
From: jayasim@cis.ohio-state.edu (D Jayasimha)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: U.S. Citizen NRIs Please leave India alone (Re: BJP)
Date: 27 Jan 93 08:59:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: platypus.1k6m3cINN5u9
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: platypus.cis.ohio-state.edu

In article <1993Jan27.141319.29007@ryn.mro4.dec.com> verma@pfeast.enet.dec.com (Virendra Verma) writes:
>
>	India has to regain its identity first and only then it will be
>	on the path of progress. Western thinking and technology is not
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	good for Indian culture where both religion and science progress
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	on equal grounds. Today if religion has a bad name or science
>	community turns against religion, it is because of western culture 
>	and religious mentality.

Western thinking and technology may be "bad" for Indian culture but must
be mighty good to you considering the origin of your post and the 
and the medium through which it is being broadcast.

>	Let us prove it by restoring Indian values in modern India because
>	I can't bring the proof for the ancient achievments. We have tried

Reminds me of the Republican campaign rhetoric on restoring "family values"-
fuzzy at best.

I see that your "circle of ire" has begun expanding- it was Islam, now it
is Islam and the West, after that it will include the Dravidians probably,
and this circle keeps expanding and it is not hard to see where that will 
lead to!

jayasimha
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil
From: anand@Cadence.COM (Anand Bemra)
Subject: Re: Use Sprint to call India
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:01:50 GMT

akfs@unity.ncsu.edu (Ashwini NMI Kumar) writes:

>In article <C0wrKq.BMx@utdallas.edu> veerasam@utdallas.edu (Jey Veerasamy) writes:
>>
>>For guys, who don't want to switch the long distance carrier,
>>but want to save on India calls, have Sprint as the secondary carrier.

>WHY NOT SWITCH OVER TO MCI : >

>Call SPRINT if that is your carrier, they will match it to keep you
>as their customer.

What ever you do, don't get AT&T. Those pigs had milked us indians for 
decades without lowering the rates.

--
Screw PBS & NPR news. Tired of news "sanitized for your protection?". Try:
misc.activism.progressive, "Lies Of Our [NY]Times", "Z" magazine (Boston).
KPFA 94.1 FM (Bay Area), 90.7 (L.A.), 90.1 (Houston, TX), 89.3 (Washington, DC)
These are my opinions, not my employer's. 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: an6415@anon.penet.fi
Subject: Will it work
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.culture.indian
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:10:32 GMT

Why not ?

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,alt.culture.kerala
From: tripunit@algol.cs.psu.edu (Mahesh V Tripunitara)
Subject: Re: Explosives seized from ISS activists
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:00:31 GMT

Hmm...posted to both soc.culture.indian & alt.culture.kerala? I guess followers
of the latter will have to put up with the flood of follow-ups that'll
be generated by soc.culture.indian followers.

Mahesh.
-- 
"There are only three kinds of computer scientists : those that can
 count, & those that cannot."
From: mshah@cs.arizona.edu (Munil A. Shah)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Teach me Gujrati?
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:43:42 GMT

In article <tracey-260193101910@129.83.62.139>, tracey@mitre.org (Tracey A. Harwood) writes:
> 
> I am in desperate need of a native speaker of Gujrati-- I don't know how to
> spell it, only pronounce it.  I'm located in the Boston area, but to me
> that encompasses a very wide area!
> 

	I have heard that there is a school in NJ area, where gujarati is
being officially taught just like any other foreign language classes. But
that too is 4 hours from Boston, isn't it?

-Munil

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From: hassan@cup.portal.com (hassan monu alam)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Re: Persecution of Muslims and Hindus in Pakistan
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 08:45:29 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <74325@cup.portal.com> <1993Jan25.173235.14965@bnr.ca>

>Why cannot we transcend religion and condemn acts to aggression,
>rape, destruction. By do people (Hindu or Muslim) feel it their
>duty to justify atrocities when it is committed by their co-religious
>soldiers/people. Its quite easy to see that harm was done to a
>fellow human...that should be jutification enough for condemnation.

Couldnt agree with you more. 

Think current theory is that this behaviour is rooted in
tribal mentality which had survival value. Ie if your group
overcame another group, you had a better chance of propagating
your genes.

I think the paradigm has changed. We all survive together or
we all perish together.

Hassan
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: banerjee@hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: (misleading) Indian Express Advertisement re: RJB
Date: 22 Jan 1993 01:48:11 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: hsc.usc.edu

In article <1993Jan20.175548.18329@csrd.uiuc.edu> ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sanjoy Ghosh) writes:
>(B.V. Jagadeesh) writes:
>
>>Did you know that, even though Kashmir is an integral part of
>>India, a Hindu cannot buy any property there? 
>
>No, i didn't know that cause it happens to be untrue.  I personally 
>know lots of hindus who own property in Srinagar, which is an integral
>part of Kashmir.  Please do not spread lies.


He was referring to Article 370 of the Indian Constitution which 
specifically prevents Indians from transacting in real estate in the 
Kashmir Valley. The choice of the word "Hindu" by the original poster
may not be factually correct, given the fact that almost all Indians,
irrespetive of religion are similarly restrained. But, considering
the nature of Kashmir's communal divide, it's not that difficult to 
understand either.

So before you accuse sombody of lying, atleast get your facts right.

Samit




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University of Southern California   |  A man who smiles when things go wrong,
Internet: banerjee@scf.usc.edu      |  has found somebody to blame it on.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: dea@jec315.its.rpi.edu (Anirban De)
Subject: AIR News: IA Pilots Call Off Their Strike
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:10:38 GMT


Source: All India Radio
Time: 1pm EST (18:00 GMT), January 24,1993
Country: India

**** 
Indian Airlines pilot call off their strike

Britain announces economic co-operations with India

Four sikh militants arrested in Delhi for planning to
disrupt Republic Day celebrations

****


Pilots of Indian Airlines have called off their one
and a half month old strike. The decision was made 
by their union following discussions with the minister
for Civil Aviation Mr.Ghulam Nabi Azad. The pilots had
demanded rise in their pay structure and better working
conditions. The minister assured them that the government
will consider their demands.


Britain has announced various co-operative programs with
India. This has come during the British Prime Minister 
Mr.John Major's on going visit to India. Among the ventures
announced in London by the British Overseas Development 
minister was a 21.4 million pounds hydro-electric power 
project in Orissa.


The Delhi police have arrested 4 sikh militants who
were reported to have been plannning terrorist activities
during the Republic Day celebrations. Some arms and 
ammunitions and documents have also been recovered from
them. 


Anirban De
dea@rpi.edu

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