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From: karnik@mega.cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: IIT Bullshit
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:34:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: mega.karnik.717878057
Organization: University of Minnesota

In <1992Sep30.140412.13237@cas.org> nlp54@cas.org () writes:

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>      3) Sir C. V. Raman did his research at Madras IIT and beacause of the
                                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	 prestige of IIT only he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah


>      8) Aryabhatta studied at Bombay IIT.
          ^^^^^^^^^^
	Who????????


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--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Neeran   Karnik  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dept. of Computer Science,      | Email: karnik@cs.umn.edu
University of Minnesota         |        karn001@student.tc.umn.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu (Suresh Doki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Back from India
Date: 3 Oct 1992 00:42:18 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxine.wpi.edu

In article no. <sdjfhjds> chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala) said:
>ravi@maxine.wpi.edu (Ravi Narayan - Mick) writes:
>: In a previous article, dxn@juniper.WPI.EDU (Deepak Narain) said:
>
>You both, along with that stinking character, seemingly are

how do you know i stink. maybe you stuck your nose up my wrong
orifice.

suresh

ps: again no offense intended
From: GRH6@psuvm.psu.edu (Girish Harshe)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re:Humurous Incidents involing desis
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:10:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: psuvm.92276.151058GRH6
Distribution: world
Organization: Penn State University

In article <1992Oct2.115854.1784@ucbeh.san.uc.edu>, garrer@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
says:
>
>#define OT old Timer
>#define NC New Comer
>
    stuff deleted

 If you are making fun of somebody, don't make any mistakes
(as in your subject line "Re:Humurous Incidents involing desis")
                             ========           ========
 and leave yourself exposed.

 NC: How come when people reply to my reply posting on the net
     there are two Re: Re: ?

 OT: You figure out. And don't screw up the spellings of earlier
     postings' subject titles by retyping it.

-------------------------------------
Just kidding. Don't feel bad.
From: ramesh@informix.com (Nagar Ramesh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: I.I.Sc. Alumni Association Membership
Date: 4 Oct 92 21:13:57 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
Originator: ramesh@cheetah

hi folks,

i have about 14 enrollment forms for the I.I.Sc. Alumni Association and
would be glad to mail them  out to you if you are interested - first come,
first serve!!

please do include your mailing addresses and if the requests come in 
thick and fast, i'll compile a listle a list of addresses and e-mail it to
my contacts at i.i.sc. so they can mail you the forms directly.

my e-mail address:  ramesh@cheetah.informix.com

regards,

ramesh
From: julu@pyramid.COM (Somayajulu Aryasomayajulu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: cultures
Date: 1 Oct 92 17:09:19 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Mountain View, California

In article <1992Oct1.013547.13636@cbnewse.cb.att.com>, hemant@cbnewse.cb.att.com (hemant.b.bhatt) writes:
|> "hum purane jamane ke jailer he"
|> 
|> If you look back to history of the world, when the rulers
|> change, the religion of the land changed - even in the Europe.
|> But even after centuries of rulers of other religion, Hinduism
|> survived - and same goes for may be judism. 
|> 
|> "hum nahi sudharenge" :-) :-) :-)
Hi !
	This may be a wrong assumption.   May be they are surviving because
	of their inherent 'inner strength'.   Even after may be 2000/3000 years
	the books/stories of Ramayan and Mahabharat are still sought after and
	read.   There are also lots of books written which are in existence and
	got lost in time (because of irrelavance later).   e.g.  if a writer writes
	a book on a turmoil in a country to inspire its people to comeout of it
	has value only during that time.  Once the turmoil is over the people of 
	that country does not really read that book and it simply falls through
	in time.   The only things people may cherish are of 'literary value'.

	So if some religions are still surviving means that they are strong on
	their roots and methodology to be 'killed by some change in rulers or some
	simple time'.   They may survive because the definition is so much adaptive 
	to prevailing conditions to survive the time death.

-- 

                 -m----------         Somayajulu Aryasomayajula
              ----mmm--------         Pyramid Technology Corporation
           -------mmmmmm-----         3860 North First Street
        ----------mmmmmmmmm--         San Jose, Ca 95134
                                      USA

        Email - julu@pyramid.com
                {allegra,decwrl,hplabs,munnari,sun,utai,uunet}!pyramid!julu

	Phone - (408) 428-7269 International
From: mac0049@hertz.njit.edu ( )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: FICA refund
Date: 4 Oct 92 03:21:17 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
Originator: mac0049@hertz.njit.edu

Does anybody out there know how to get the money paid as FICA during post
completion training back?

I found out too late that I was not supposed to pay that money and now
I can't seem to find out how to get it back.  Calling the Social Security
office was no help.

If anybody out there has the information could they please send me e-mail
at
  mac0049@hertz.njit.edu

since I do not always get an opportunity to read the newsgroups.  I can post
this information if others are interested.

Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sugato@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (sugato.ganguly)
Subject: VISA Question
Keywords: H4 to F1
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 12:45:55 GMT


I am trying to change the visa status of my wife from H-4 to F-1
after she received an assistantship from her school.

Does anyone know how long the process takes ?
I applied to the Cincinnati INS office over a month and a half
back and I haven't heard anything yet. They are impossible to
get through and they only respond to status enquiries by mail. 
But they never replied to my correspondence anyway.

If anybody out there has any experience regarding this, I would 
appreciate hearing from you.

Sugato Ganguly
sugato@cblpo.att.com
(614) 860-5258 (work)
(614) 262-2954 (home)

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sanjiva@ecrc.de (Sanjiva Prasad)
Subject: Re: World Culture and Western Culture
Reply-To: sanjiva@ecrc.de (Sanjiva Prasad)
Organization: European Computer-Industry Research Centre, Munich
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 12:28:48 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.194926.8399@cs.wayne.edu> seetam@hub.eng.wayne.edu (SUBS)
writes:
> 				....[deleted].....
> ......          I doubt very much, that parents in India
>would send such delicate constitutions to regular army-like drills...
>(Unless, they are smitten by western fads).

Oh, I didn't think organizations like the RSS, who strongly advocate
rigorous drill exercises, are "smitten by western fads".  And parents in
India actively send their children to participate; the RSS doesn't in any
way coerce the children to attend, does it?

You really are quite a specialist in uttering bizarre stuff (acronym alert!).

Ciao,
Sanjiva
--
Sanjiva Prasad,  Guest Magician				E-mail: sanjiva@ecrc.de
European Computer Industry Research Centre		Off: +49 89 92 69 91 58
Arabellastrasse 17					Fax: +49 89 92 69 91 70
8000 Muenchen 81, Germany				Res: +49 89 16 33 59
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: Chaw@cs.Stanford.edu 
Subject: Re: Can India make it ?
Originator: chaw@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
X-Disclaimer: Blame it on the cat.
Reply-To: Chaw@cs.Stanford.edu 
Fcc: log/outgoing
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date:  3 Oct 92 23:50:49 GMT

atul@hunnoo.Eng.Sun.COM (Atool CupAddYeah x65042) writes:

>India must first get their own house clean and then claim for fancy titles
>and labels. 

So one is to believe that the US, UK, China etc. all have clean
houses?  And since when did Security Council membership become a
`fancy title'? 

-Chaw

_________________________________________________________________
Chaw@cs.Stanford.edu                                 tat tvam asi
From: atulpule@alfred.carleton.ca (Ajit Tulpule)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: IIT BULLSHIT
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:28:34 GMT
Organization: Carleton University


In Message-ID: <1992Sep30.140412.13237@cas.org>

Paranandi Lakshmi Narasimham   writes : 

##Rakesh!
##     You forgot to say the following:
##      1) Ramanujam did his doctorate at Madras IIT.
##      2) Sir J.C. Bose graduated from Kharagpur IIT.
##      3) Sir C. V. Raman did his research at Madras IIT and beacause of the
##	 prestige of IIT only he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
##      4) Haragobind Khorana did his M.Sc. at Delhi IIT.  That training got him
##	 the Nobel Prize.  He is very fortunate to go to IIT.
##     5) Suri Bhagavantam attended the Madras IIT and that was the reason why he
##	 became the director of the IISc.
##      6) T. R. Seshadri was awarded the doctorate by the Madras IIT and Bombay
##	 IIT.  At Delhi IIT he learned the Natural Product Chemistry.
##      7) Meghnadh Shah did his B.Sc. at Kharagput IIT.
##      8) Aryabhatta studied at Bombay IIT.
##      9) M.S. Swaminathan did his B.Tech. in Agric. Engg. at the Kharagpur IIT.
##      10) B.P.Pal developed all his roses in the IIT Kharagpur gardens.
##      11) J.B.S. Haldane did his research at all  the IITs.
##      12) Birbal Sahani did his research at the Delhi IIT.
##      13) V. P. Subrahmanyam learned his meteorology at the Madras IIT.
##      14) Panchanan Maheswari did his pioneering research on embryology at the
##	  Delhi IIT.
##
##
##	  What great places IITs are?
##	  There is a difference between a technician and an intellect.
##
##
##	  PARANANDI LAKSHMI NARASIMHAM

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##Paranandi Lakshmi Narasimham
##CAS
##Columbus
##OH 43202
##
##Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are not those of the CAS.
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##


This is for Paranandi Lakshmi Narasimham and his likes -- 


Perhaps you should find out the meaning of the following two sayings

(Sanskrit)   VIDYA  VINAYENA SHOBHATE

(French)     ARROGANCE TUE TOUTE INTELLIGENCE


-Ajit.


-----------------------------------------------
Ajit Tulpule

School of Business
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1S 5B6

email : atulpule@business.carleton.ca
-----------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: dsouza@cs.cornell.edu (Ashvin Mark Dsouza)
Subject: request for All India Radio fequencies
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 20:46:02 GMT

hi

could someone please post the frequencies at which i could receive 
all india radio (in upstate New York). 


thanks,
ashvin.
-- 
Ashvin Dsouza
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.history
From: d89-jsp@nada.kth.se (Jan Sparrendahl)
Subject: Re: world culture example
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:35:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.153641.10742@csrd.uiuc.edu>, ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sanjoy Ghosh) writes:
|> In article <JMC.92Sep29221732@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
|> >Here's a story from which I have deleted proper names that give clues
|> >to its country of origin.  Was it written in India or somewhere else?

|> Also it reads too much like a story written specifically to be entered in
|> the BBC Short Story Competition.  A painfully syrupy style.

	I am sad to say that there is nowhere this story could not
	happen. Some places seems more likely than others but no one
	I know of has managed to exterminate fates like this.

|> Sanjoy Ghosh
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sanjiva@ecrc.de (Sanjiva Prasad)
Subject: Re: FACING UP TO THE TRUTH(M.V.Kamath's article)
Reply-To: sanjiva@ecrc.de (Sanjiva Prasad)
Organization: European Computer-Industry Research Centre, Munich
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:37:59 GMT

Could someone please mail me a copy of (a) Madhav Kamath's article;
(b) someone's article (by Dinesh Agarwal perhaps?) on Gandhi and RSS
views being actually quite close (it quoted passages from A Hingorani's
book)?
(The garbage collector of the news system here has been overzealous...)

Thanks and regards,
Sanjiva
--
Sanjiva Prasad,  Guest Magician				E-mail: sanjiva@ecrc.de
European Computer Industry Research Centre		Off: +49 89 92 69 91 58
Arabellastrasse 17					Fax: +49 89 92 69 91 70
8000 Muenchen 81, Germany				Res: +49 89 16 33 59
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sivesh@rebels.b23b.ingr.com (sivesh pradhaan)
Subject: Re: Should the government subsidize IITs etc?
Reply-To: sivesh@rebels.b23b.ingr.com
Organization: DAZIX An Intergraph Comp. (Huntsville, Al.)
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:36:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.021052.16087@unixg.ubc.ca>, banarji@unixg.ubc.ca (Ajai Banarji) writes:
|> 	Why should the government subsidize IITs etc?
|> 

In my view, the government should not subsidize engineering/medical education. 
Instead it should put all the money spent on such subsidee in an education loan
fund from which students could borrow and pay back once they get a job (some
what like the way the education loan works here.). 

This still does not solve the problem of students leaving the country and not
paying back their debt. But at least this way, if a students pays for his/her
education then he/she is more likely to try and get the most out of it and this
in turn may bring about a change in their attiture towards their jobs in 
general. 

One more thing I feel very strongly about is that at least for engineering 
students, efforts should be made to development entrepreneurial skills in them 
so that once graduated, at least some of the students will venture into 
setting up their own stuffs. I remember the confusion in the air when we were 
about to graduate. All of us were trained to be job seekers!! 

Some the stuffs I have written here do not relate directly to the topic under
discussion but I thought I'll mention them any way!!

-Sivesh

sviesh@rebels.b23b.ingr.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: RAVI
From: ssbethal@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu
Date: 5 Oct 92 12:39:13 CST
Organization: Wichita State University, Wichita, Ks

Hi
This is exclusively for a person called Ravi Vedantam. 

Ravi,
This is Shanthi and hope you do remember. We've studied in the same school
in Hyderabad. Heard that you graduated.
We've been looking for you i.e., me, Venu and Subramanyam.
Contact me as soon as you see this post.
S


Hi folks,
If you know this guy who graduated from SUNY, please do reply me.
we've searching for this guy since don't know when.
Hope you people do remember this guy.
Thanks,
S
From: vivek@ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Humurous Incidents involing desis
Date: 3 Oct 92 02:58:54 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

In article <1992Oct2.115854.1784@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> garrer@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
>#define OT old Timer
>#define NC New Comer
>
>IN another similar incident a NC drops in 50 cents and touches a button and a
>pop comes out.  Amused at his he does it again.  Seeing this an OT asks him why
>he is taking so many pops.  As an answer the NC said "Do you know xxxx, this is
>really wonderful, drop 50 cents in this box and touch this button and a can
>comes out at your feet".  The OT couldnt help asking "then why do you think you
>are dropping the coins".

We had an even more amusing incident, myself and a friend of mine at Livermore
in California last year. We put in 60 cents for a Pepsi, in a vending machine,
got one can, banged the machine a little, and got another for free.

This was a real case of "Buy One, Get One Free".

Regards,
Vivek.

-- 
vivek@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu),
Systems Engineering Laboratory, Department Of Computer Science, 
School Of Engineering, Computer Science And Technology,
California State University, Chico, California.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil
From: prem@prem.lbl.gov (Shirdi R. Prem)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Complete this..... "A fool and his money are ....."
Date: 29 Sep 1992 23:55:48 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Reply-To: prem@prem.lbl.gov (Shirdi R. Prem)
NNTP-Posting-Host: prem.lbl.gov
Summary: Re: Report on Indian Economy's Status
Keywords: India Economy

In article <1992Sep29.003429.24997@ulysses.att.com> bala@ulysses.att.com (Bala Krishnamurthy) writes:
 >For those who would consider investing their money simply based on
 >what one reads on the net, complete the following adage:
 >	 "a fool and his money are ..."

		   ......soon a fool andsomeone else's money ??   :-)
 
 >cheers,
 >bala


	Prem!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rnk@cbnews.cb.att.com (ram.n.kumar)
Subject: Re: IIT Bullshit
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:57:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.180233.16678@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rroy@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Raja R Roy) writes:
>
>In article <1992Sep30.125950.28436@cbfsb.cb.att.com> rrp@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (ra
>kesh.r.patel) writes:
[stuff deleted]
>>
>>Rakesh 'IIT-Killer' Patel
>>
>       How many IITs you have killed? Last heard they were 5 and still
> are, I guess.  In case, you mean killing IITians, how many have you
> killed?
>
Meaningless battle. Misses the point. If you must, go on debating what
"killing" really stood for in the original posting.

> BTW, if it is not intelligence on which people are given entrance
> in IIT, then what is it. 
>
IIT exam is definitely not a scale that measures "intelligence".
No exam is.  At best, an exam can only measure problem solving skills,
using known algorithms/techniques.

> Also, what India needs is people of mediocre brain, who can keep
		^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> on doing technical jobs  without thinking. Brain-drain is not a problem
> for India.
>
You have the right to believe so. However,
to be consisent in your logic, you may have to take your loved ones
to a mediocre doctor when they fall sick.
You seem to tgruly believe that mediocrity suffices for your motherland.
Please do not complain because I suggested that mediocrity may suffice
for your family.

<I apologize if I hurt your feelings. I was only trying to make a point.>

> Why everyone is bothered about IITs only.
>
Not everyone is bothered. I am not.
The government does not seem to be bothered at all.


> Is not the education 
> obtained by RECians and others subsidised as well?
>
A valid question. I agree with you.
How does the cost of spending 12 years at school compare with five years at
college? Isn't high school education subsized in some way or other?

>
>Raja

>>P.S. What the heck is world culture?????????????


Ram Kumar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: kxg5947@usl.edu (Guruswamy Kowsik)
Subject: Looking for a few RECTians...
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:51:46 GMT

Hi netters,
	I'm looking for the following RECTians from the 88-92 batch.
	I'll be glad if any of ya'll could contact me if ya'll have 
	information about them.

	1. Mohammed Ibrahim
		- I think he's in Stevens Inst. of Tech.

	2. Sanjeev Gupta
		- Must be sascatchewan, Canada.

	3. Krishnan
		- He's in montana state univ.

	4. Srinath.v.
		- No idea about his whereabouts.

Ya'll can get me at delta@usl.edu
ph: (318)-233-5373

Thanx in advance,
Delta.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: News - UN report shows India map minus Kashmir
Supersedes: <92275.162154DXA4@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:48:09 EDT
From: <DXA4@psuvm.psu.edu>

Indian government must lodge a strong protest to the appropriate authority
of UNO for the  gross misrepresentation of the facts. The state of J &K is an
integral part of India, and has been since it was legally acceded to it in
1947. The only portions which are in the illegal occupation of Pakistan and
China are under dispute. The government must insist of making a correction in
the future or subsequent edition of this grossly distorted report on this sub-
ject. And I think that those Indians who feel strongly on this subject should
write a letter to the author/editor of this report. Does someone know the
address to whom the letter should be sent?

Dinesh Agrawal...
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Subject: Re: Sati [A book to read]
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:36:43 GMT

rps@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (raj.sharma)
writes on soc.culture.indian:

)Mark Trully's latest book - Defeat of a Congressman - contains 10 essays

Just nitpicking.. He is Mark Tully. A truly magnificient correspondent
IMO. Though the phone lines are almost always noisy between New Delhi 
and Bushhouse Mark Tully has been one of my favorites to hear to. He 
has authored a book on Punjab too with his BBC colleague Satish Jacob which 
had received good reviews. 

)---raj
)
)	[P.S. Mark was born of an English father and a Bengali mother
)	      in Calcutta. He had been the BBC correspondent in Delhi
)	      for a number of years.]

Sridhar.
From: ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sanjoy Ghosh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: World Culture Example
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:08:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: csrd.1992Oct5.160806.9659
Organization: Univ of Illinois, Center for Supercomputing R&D, Urbana, IL

In article <JMC.92Oct2191234@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:

>Of the five people, all with Indian names, who offered an opinion,
>four thought it was Indian.  

Admit I was one of the gullible parties.

>When I offered the puzzle a year ago in rec.arts.books, the both
>respondents thought it was set in East Asia.  Everyone noticed
>the British language and institutions.  That could have been
>misleading, because the translator from Arabic to English was
>British.

This very story is a perfect example of what is wrong with the
world literary culture.  It blurs the distinctiveness of Egypt,
and makes the place, by your own oblique admission, seem like an
ex-british colony.  As an Egyptian, I would feel strongly slighted
if I realized that most non-egyptians on reading the translation
would come to the same conclusion due to the translator giving it
a very british colouring.  History is not my strong point, but I
think the british were probably in Egypt long enough to have bequeathed
some of their culture.

>The point of the example, that there exists a world literary culture,
>as well as similar institutions over much of the world, is reasonably
>supported by the responses to the posting.  

Yes, and they tend to put a Western spin on everything.  A western
slant to every exchange between peoples of different cultures which
is not always very pleasant to non-western-ers.  It is not so much
an existence of a western literary culture as the imposition by default
of it.  In many ways our own fault, but not something that we are 
always pleased to admit, or let continue.

Sanjoy Ghosh
From: txd6871@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: S.S RAY BECOMES IND. AMBASSADOR TO US
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:06:41 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

Siddharta Sankar Ray, the ex chief minister of West Bengal and
ex-governor of Punjab, has become the Indian Ambassador to US,
after Abid Hussain. Mr. Ray is joining office at Washington,
sometimes mid-October.

<source: Vision of Asia news : Sunday 27th Sept.>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan