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From: mark@lowton.rn.com (Mark Powell)
Subject: Re: Confused about Indian Babes ...
Keywords: Indian babes
Organization: Mark-one Communications
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 12:45:02 GMT


In article <rich07.714510434@milton>, rich07@milton.u.washington.edu (Jon Jochem) writes:
> 
> hmmm.....now I'm confused - some of you say Indian babes are horny - then 
> again only for indians - then again only for non-indians - and then again 
> with horns on their heads :-)
> 
> can some one please summarise for me - are Indian Babes horny or not? I know 
> Indian guys are (no offense meant) - also, do you indian guys consider 
> American babes to be horny? That will give a basis for comparison ... 
> 
> I havent seen very many indians dating americans - why is that?

Because of racism on *both* sides. Dare I say it especially the Indian*. I
know this doesn't apply to all Indians. Hell, what can I do but generalise.
This I have found to be the case. It's generally the parents from India that
don't like their daughters to have anything to do with whites, blacks, 
sikhs/muslims (if they're hindi), hindi/muslims (if they're sikh) etc. etc.
etc. etc. Usually, after a few generations such idea's die away. Going back
to the start of the US when Polish, German etc. etc. came over to colonise
the North American Indians homeland, you would find exactly the same happening
i.e. Polish parents wouldn't like their daughters to go near non-Polish people,
but would turn a blind eye to their sons engaging in sex with such people.
It happens all over the world and will continue happending.

* Not to say Indians are more racist that anyone else, just that they are
  the immigrants in this case and my diatribe applied to immigrants.

> take care
> 
> (no flames please)(I'm just a curious dude).
-- 
Mark Powell

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From: dinesh@civic.ece.cmu.edu (Dinesh D. Gaitonde)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Aryans: Native or not?
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:26:54 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University


I read in the latest issue of India Today, about the U.P. governments
efforts in changing the texts prescribed for history. 

One thing that attracted my attention was the statement that aryans
were the original residents of India and not invaders as is commonly
held. I am interested in sources that discuss this part of our
history.  Specifically, one poster some time back sent me an article
that argues in favor of the position espoused by the U.P. Government.
I accidentaly deleted that article. Could the poster kindly mail me the
article again?

Dinesh
From: banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: A request to Arindam Ghosh
Date: 12 Aug 1992 12:30:44 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu

In article <1992Aug12.184719.11276@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> vrg@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (v.r.gopala.rao) writes:
>
>If matrimonials, commercials from people wanting to sell bangles, sarees,
>lunches and truck rentals, job posts, discussions about islam and hinduism,
>bad jokes, offensive jokes, questions on chess and operating systems, and
>not to mention umpteen test messages belong on this, then discussions
>about Bahai faith also belong here. In fact, more so than most of the
>others just mentioned.
>
>rao


What about the viruses, immunology, cancer and AIDS, biotechnology and
genetic engineering, the Crick virus, Eastern and Western blots, Sholay and
Kishore Kumar and of course the thing that started it all ..arranged
marraiges?

Where were you all this time .. on the North pole and just managed to crawl 
out of your igloo? Or did the cacphony on SCI break your summer hibernation?

Oh well, welcome back anyway.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rgm4@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Raghuram G Murtugudde)
Subject: Re: Astrology, India and Nosterdumus ?
Reply-To: rgm4@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Raghuram G Murtugudde)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:22:52 GMT

Congratulations. you finally discovered Nostradamus!

 If you read carefully, he predicted that you would discover him on this
 exact day !
From: patelbv@cis.ksu.edu (Patel V Basvangoud)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Looking for Abishek Bhartiya
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:35:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: procyon.patelbv.713813802
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: procyon.cis.ksu.edu


I am looking for the email address and telephone number of 
Abishek Bhartiya who is in the physics dept at Cornell.

This information is requested by his cousin who has just come
from India to KSU.

Thanks.
Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:28152 soc.college:3592 talk.religion.misc:13986 talk.origins:9497 sci.math:10280 sci.chem:3038 sci.misc:1481 sci.bio.technology:225 sci.physics:12852 sci.space:11813
From: davidc@panix.com (David C. Chorlian)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.college,talk.religion.misc,talk.origins,sci.math,sci.chem,sci.misc,sci.bio.technology,sci.physics,sci.space
Subject: Re: CONSCIOUSNESS AND SCIENCE DISCUSSION GROUP
Date: 14 Aug 92 02:35:58 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <1992Aug12.150756.27716@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:


>     Then briefly tell me how this is reflected in, say, the development
>     of Maxwell's equations in a way that it was not reflected in,
>     say, the development of Weber's equations or Gauss's law.

>     Be brief.

Wrong subject of investigation.  
	The appropriate one would compare British science
and German science, attempting to correlate the relative importance
of electromagnetic investigation with comparable fields of physics
and chemistry, preferred methods of inquiry, methods of transmission
of knowledge, etc. with patterns of social and economic development.
Perhaps some interesting aspect of Maxwell's development of
electromagnetic theory would emerge, but I rather think the 
more interesting figure is Faraday--it's the formative figures
who show the influence of the context most significantly.

>                               dale bass
>-- 
>C. R. Bass                                           crb7q@virginia.edu
>Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
>University of Virginia
>Charlottesville, Virginia                            (804) 924-7926

David B. Chorlian
Neurodynamics Lab   SUNY/HSCB
From: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam Ghosh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Soc.culture.Indian or Islam or Hinduism??
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:16:44 GMT
Reply-To: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston

In article <1992Aug13.170740.7515@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, rroy@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Raja R Roy) writes:
> Well said Raj. It is ironic that we have to listen about Hinduism from 
>those who
>do not even know the definition of Hinduism.
>
> Raja>

Ironic indeed, that Hindus had to learn from Buddha what Krishna
taught
Ironic indeed, how some "Hindus" don't know H of Hinduism
Arindam
From: susanc@rice.edu (susan chacko)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Curious observation.
Keywords: Is it just me ?
Date: 20 Aug 1992 17:23:17 GMT
Organization: Rice University


Uma Subramaniam brought this thread to the more serious question of what
traditional clothing among Indian women actually implies. I agree completely
that the burden is often upon women to maintain a traditionally Indian
lifestyle (in clothing, food, child-rearing..). At the same time these
are often incompatible with a normal career. (Note: not that child-rearing
or cooking is incompatible with a career, but the traditional Indian
lifestyle evolved around at least one woman at home all the time, and
is really impractical in a nuclear family when the woman is working
outside the home)

Imho, the concept of being Indian, a woman, and having a career is still
not a very comfortable notion for many Indians. On campus or in a 
workplace or a casual get-together people are quite accepting of 
Indian women in whatever clothing, but in more formal surroundings 
some people prefer the facade of saris and home-cooked pakodas, as 
if to pretend that the corporate executive woman was actually at home 
all day. As if these superficialities determine 'Indian-ness', and those 
women who choose to wear jeans or don't like to cook are less Indian.

Men all over India wear trousers. Trousers and shirts have become
very much a part of the Indian landscape, sometimes merged comfortably
with traditional clothing (for e.g., shirts and mundus in Kerala).
If you don't doubt the ethnic identity of an Indian man in a t-shirt,
why can you not accept that an Indian woman in jeans is still
undoubtedly Indian?

Like Uma, I don't like wearing Indian clothes if it's demanded or
expected, but I love wearing them when *I* feel like it. I also like 
to think that it accustoms the non-Indian public to diversity in
clothing; in DC, for example, a sari or a dashiki gets hardly a look
on the street, simply because people are so used to seeing 
traditional clothes from all countries.

As for androgynous clothing, women already wear most forms of male
clothing. The ball seems to be in your court, guys :-).

Susan.
--
Mail from this account is forwarded to susan@vger.niddk.nih.gov
From: hira@cme.nist.gov (Ron Hira)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: ABCDS There's An Alternative
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:57:14 GMT
Reply-To: hira@cme.nist.gov
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Those of you who are interested, there's another newsgroup that's
formed: alt.culture.us.asian-indian. Its for Indian Americans, 
who would like to discuss their experiences. So if you're tired of
all of the noise on this group, give a.c.u.a-i a try.


Ron
The Revolution Will NOT Be Televised
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Re: Interesting article on X-posters of sci,scp,scb (just give a glanRe: 
 Interesting article on X-posters of sci,scp,scb (just give a glance)
From: Abu.Manzur@comp.vuw.ac.nz ( Shimant Manzur)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:59:43 GMT
Organization: Victoria University of Wellington.
Originator: amanzur@rinascimento.comp.vuw.ac.nz


 What the heck was that crap about Mr.cs611a08(next time please use your real
name instead of a username, as it is more convenient for us to abuse you.)of 
Univ. of Maryland . Tell you what bud , get yourself a life  and stop posting 
these garbage on the news . 


     No hard feelings .
From: KPS1@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Looking for Una of St.John's Univ : NewYork
Date: 17 Aug 92 22:08:42 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

Hi,
   If anyone has the E.Mail address of Una of St.John's univ, NewYork, please m
ail it to me. She is in the Business management dept. Thanks.
                                                              Sandeep
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram)
Subject: Re: why satti is practiced
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 07:41:03 GMT

In article <memo.578099@cix.compulink.co.uk> dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>
>The original question here was:
>
>>Please could any one tell me why Satti was or is practiced...
>
>The first reply, satirical, used the present tense:
>
>Bentinck which declared the burning alive of widows as murder";
>but there are laws and there is life...
>
>Is it still practised and, if so, why?  A complete answer would
>include why the law is not enforced, if that is the case.

	 To my knowledge, Sati is not practised in India.  There is an
exception.  There was a case of Sati being forced on a widow sometime
around 1986-87.  There was a major uproar, the opposition raised hell,
the government tried to investigate, but none of the villagers would
testify.  Those who testified were later intimidated by the local powers.
Thus, no one could be prosecuted for murder.

	Sati is totally absent in South India.  It is probably done very
rarely in states like Rajasthan with the active connivance of the
entire village.

	Why is it practised ?  I really don't know.  One reason could be
that a woman who practises Sati is believed to attain divine powers and
become a goddess.  This might be a question of prestige and power for
the family that wants to impose this heinous practice on a helpless
widow.

	The main reason I think is lack of education and inequality of the
sexes.
>
>Diane
>dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk

Suresh Peram
From: myneni@cs1.bradley.edu (Srinivasa Myneni)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Looking for MITians ( The first Honorary Computer Wizzards)
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:32:10 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.indian
Organization: Bradley University

Hi Netters ,
   I am looking for some of my batchmates here in US. I know for sure 
   that they are here somewhere but I donot know their contact addresses
   and numbers. So if any of you happens to know these guys please ask
   them to reply to my address given below. 
   Thanx a  lot in addvance.

   List  of people :
   1) Rohit Pai (Pai mama)
   2) C.V.Vivekanand(CVV)
   3) Akshay Bhakri(Bakri)
   4) V.P.R. Prasad(VPR)
   5) Ansu John
   6) Rajat Agarwal
   7) Thomas Mathew ( Undi Thomas )

E_Mail : myneni@bucs1.bradley.edu
Voice  : 309-673-3911.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sandeep@unislc.uucp (Sandeep Kulkarni)
Subject: Re: SOCULTURE.GHATTI OR SOC.CULTURE.MARATHI
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:24:05 GMT

From article <1992Aug17.213828.16745@unislc.uucp>, by sandeep@unislc.uucp (Sandeep Kulkarni):
> From article <1992Aug13.193444.1@woods.ulowell.edu>, by deshpandv@woods.ulowell.edu:
>> In article <1701@hydra.bucknell.edu>, hshah@bucknell.edu (hemesh shah GR) writes:
>>> Hi my ghatti brothers and sisters!!
>>> 
>>>    After trying unsuccessfully to change the name of "BOMBAY" you
>>> ghattis are trying to venture into another one of your stupid 
>>> ideas.
> 
I think I made too broad a generalization about Gujjus in my earlier 
posting. I don't want to offend anyone, but do want to play some jokes
with Mr Hemesh Shah. 
I have lived in Gujrat for a while and have tons of wonderful friends
and I speak the language very fluently. So my earlier posting is directly
primarily towards Hemesh. I didn't realize that I was generalizing, and 
hope that no one is offended by it.

Sandeep Kulkarni.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus)
Subject: Re: Curious observation.
Keywords: Is it just me ?n
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:55:55 GMT

In article <susanc.714236980@keckiris> susanc@rice.edu (susan chacko) writes:
>Not at all. While a sari might seem insecure from the observer's
>viewpoint, I'm sure all the women out there will assure you that
>it's quite easy to get used to wearing one, and it's perfectly
>stable after that initial adolescent initiation period. Of course,
>it's hard to convince anyone who hasn't tried one :-).
[...]

1] Yes, thats the whole problem, its very difficult to convince
   these WETERn traitor type shorts wearing infidel women to wear
   one. :-) Forwarding your advice to local I.C.A. :-)

>   
>(>> susanc@rice.edu about saris...
>Perhaps the Victorians really had some reason behind their paranoid
>social decrees: excitement clearly lies in what is concealed rather
>than revealed. In this case, a few inches of ankle exposed during the 
>100m. Bus-Catching Sprint, versus the vast expanses of midriff, 
>arm, back and shoulder left revealed on a regular basis by a sari. :-)

2] Deep are the mysteries of the mind.
   Was partial to the visible navel myself. :-)

>Yes, somehow women don't carry off a flabby stomach with quite the
>shameless flair of the men :-).

3] But then again, women somehow dont carry off a six-pack with quite the
   shameless flair of men. :-)

>
>>5] A male wearing a kurta-pajama might send out the wrong signals in this
>>   ultra liberal climate. I can assure all of you, boulder sees no sarees 
>>   either, sadly.
>
>We await further elucidation of this tantalizing statement. Is a kurta-
>pyjama considered conservative? Not conservative enough? Too far left? 
>Right? Do its subliminal politics draw opprobrium? Too much positive
>attention? :-)

4] For those hanging on the edge of their seats: 
   In the late eighties there were a number of violent incidents here
   in this here boulder county, where kurta-pyjama wearing miscreants
   were publicly beaten,  being taken for members of the KKK.
   Being aryan by race didnt help matters of course. :-)
   
   Now it is decreed by the mayor that k-p wearers of asian-indian extraction
   must be preceded by a herald, bearing the tricolor, at all times,
   except in the dorms. :-)


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From: sramacha@aludra.usc.edu (Sudarshan Ramachandran)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: I will close you by my ices --[ The Tiger Cascade ]
Date: 21 Aug 1992 20:27:43 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu
Keywords: bye

paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus) writes:

>In article <1992Aug21.173245.13865@ugle.unit.no> youhong@solan.unit.no (User) writes:
>>I will close you by my ices.
> I will lose you by my dices.
A neat one you started, Icarus.
From: murthy@ssd.dl.nec.com (Vasudev Murthy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Article on the Bahais
Date: 12 Aug 1992 20:19:25 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Todays Wall Street Journal has a very good article on the Bahais. Anyone
interested might want to take a look.

Vasudev
Aug 12 1992

-- 
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murthy@asl.dl.nec.com      my own  and have nothing to do with
(214) 518-5031             Advanced Switching Lab, NEC America, Inc.
1525 Walnut Hill Lane Irving TX 75038
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: waseems@sco.COM (Waseem Siddiqi)
Subject: Re: Does 14th August means NOTHING to us INDIANS?
Organization: SCO Canada, Inc.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:33:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.152742.26565@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> i000@iss700.Columbia.NCR.COM writes:
>Re: DOES 14th AUGUST MEAN NOTHING TO US INDIANS?
>
>
>
>
>   As our co-netter had posted,Does 14th August mean nothing to us?
>I feel that we better reorient our thought process towards PAKISTAN. Does 
>a nation lose its claim on its territorial parts that try to sperate for 
>time being?
>
>
>   Today Pakistan could be different political entity. But what about its 
>HISTORICAL links with BHARAT? We should always treat PAK as a misguided 
>brother who has lost his links of relationships with his family in the past 
>few centuries.
>

Good article. But you forget why Pakistan was formed in the first place.
Muslims felt they were and will be getting a raw deal in India so they 
decided they'd rather live in a separate nation.

India should start by treating it's own Muslims properly. Only then, the
Pakistanis will stop seeing India as a Hindu daemon and may begin to
think of it as a brother-in-history.


waseem
-- 
Waseem A. Siddiqi                                 Tel:    (416) 922 1937 
SCO Canada                                        email: waseems@sco.com 
Toronto, Canada                                        uunet!sco!waseems
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From: aim@ocf.berkeley.edu (Ali Mirza)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Where to go for best Indian food in the Bay Area/LA ?
Date: 19 Aug 1992 23:25:29 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: ocf.berkeley.edu


Where is the best place to go for Indian/Pakistani food in SF/Berkeley/LA?
Since this subject has probably been discussed to death many times over on
the network, I would apprecaite direct replies to my account.
Thanks.
     
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: vpm@po.CWRU.Edu (Vijaywanth P. Mathur)
Subject: Renewal of multiple entry visa
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 19:57:15 GMT


Hi,

I will be attending a conference in Paris. But my multiple entry
visa has expired a year back. Is it possible to apply for renewal 
from here ? OR one has to go to India to get it renewed.

Any information on this will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance. Please let me know the necessary procedure as well.

Thanks again

Bye
-- 
VIJAYWANTH P. MATHUR			VPM@PO.CWRU.EDU
2504 DERBYSHIRE RD, #1
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS,
OHIO 44106