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From: kat@doe.carleton.ca (Kathiravan Krishnamurthi)
Subject: Re: Ancient Indian History
Keywords: Aryan, Dravidian
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:07:11 GMT

In <1992Nov18.204828.18165@cs.odu.edu> raj@aelle.cs.odu.edu (M. P. Krishna Raj) writes:

>In article <BxJ50y.GCM@cs.psu.edu> narayana@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Kuram T Narayana) writes:
>>In article <BxIxMG.8F1@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> selvakum@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (C.R.Selvakumar - Electrical Engineering) writes:
>>>

>>Boloney! Firstly you are a dravidian racist unable to stomach that the largesse
>>of the Indian culture is Aryan. That is the reason why you post racially
>>slanted articles. There are a lot of us who have some dravidian cultural
>>elements. We don't go and chest beat in Ayatollh Khomeni style. You have
>>done that. Now you come and post disgusting statements about the 
>>intentions of posting an article about a historic find. You are the 
>>one who is a racist. There are none on sci. So cut of your devilish
>>nonsense.
>>
>   

>Mr. Narayana,

>I don't understand why are you attacking religious practices of other
>people and other country. What is the relevance of your attack on
>an iranian leader in this forum. 

>Raj



  kuram narayana! you utter something sensible on this earth. then we will listen.
do not strain by bringing in ayotollah for allah sake.

    Concerned with usage of language,

   Kathiravan

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: misra@charles.polymer.uakron.edu (Sanjay Misra)
Subject: Re: NO SUCH MAILS PLEASE-- REF--RESPECT FOR FEMALES
Organization: Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:51:43 GMT

In article <1em4faINNc7h@phakt.usc.edu>, fafat@phakt.usc.edu (Vijay Fafat) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov20.193612.6487@gw.wmich.edu> x92nath@gw.wmich.edu writes:
|> >HI READER
|> >
|> >THIS IS FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE USING OBSCENE WRITING IN THE NETWORK
|> >THAT IF THEY HAVE ANY PERSONAL FIGHT THEY CAN CONTAVT WITH EACH OTHER
|> >ON EMAIL OR GET EACH OTHER PHONE NUMBER AND FIGHT.  IT IS BEING READ BY 
|> >MANY PEOPLE AND PERSONAL FIGHTS LIKE IT OCCURED IN RESPECT FOR FEMALES
|> >SHOULD BE STRICTLY AVOIDED.  NOBODY IS HERE TO READ YOUR BULLSIT EMAILS
|> >
|> >SHAMBHU.
|> 
|> 	
|> 	Ram Lak^han's  littil babloo brother has arrived ...
                              ^^^^^^

	That is spelt bab^loo~. He is the brother Ram Lak^han has been
	searching for since thay were separated 20 years back. Its a
	long story... Ram Lak^han was able to jump aboard the freight
	train while poor littil bab^loo~ ran behind shouting Bhaiyaaaa......!
	Well he never could make it. The trauma of their mutual loss
	is evident in their rantings. 
	
	Bye Bye

	San^ja oops Sanjay ;)
From: narain@csa.bu.edu (narain attili)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Khalistan
Date: 20 Nov 92 06:56:50 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <1VsguB10w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca: garyd@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Gary Deol) writes:

:go with the MAJORITY ** FIGHT FOR KHALISTAN **.
: 
::Punjab will still remain Punjab no matter what you call it!!!! 
: 
:  I couldn't agree with you more, Punjab will always remain Punjab, BUT
:it will be `one of the states of Khalistan'!  :^)
: 
:
:Gary Deol              garyd@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 

After reading a couple of posts from this guy.... i thought some one  used
to argue in a similar fashion...mostly on sticky wicket..arguments based on
hearsay than anything concrete...and ofcourse sweeping generalisations..I
think I've got it now...this guy's is very similar to that Suresh chap from
CMU... posting jingoist crap..usually baseless.

sorry for being harsh.

-Narain.


Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:59:01 -0500 
From: Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh <rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Indian civilization being oldest

 > 3.	Recent historians are beginning to rethink and question the
	old-aged-outdated Aryan invasion theory.

Or, please do give some references to these 'historians.' Make sure that
they are not too close to any red-saffron clad 'holy men.'

 > 2.	Many independent thinkers (no BJP members BTW) such as Swami
>Dayanada, Sri Aurobindo, Vivekanada etc have already
>	rejected such theory even before BJP came into existence.

Theories. More interesting theories to server their motives. But, how do
they stand in face of overwhelming scientific evidence. Unless of course
you dvelve in Aryan mythology. 

>Keep that politics away from anthropology. Will you?

I believe it is you who is mixing the two things up.



-Suresh

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil
From: alok@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (alok.vijayvargia)
Subject: Re: Ancient Indian History
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:17:23 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.indian

> -     The whole of India was and is overwhelmingly dravidian and NOT
> -                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> -     aryan ( = vedic-culture-people).
> -
> -     Regards,
> -     Selva Selvakumar
> -

Is that why the dravidians (tamilians) decided to form a separate group
and abandon soc.culture.indian ? If Indian culture was and is primarily 
Dravidian then why did dravidians form a separate group ? If what Selva
claims is true, than tamilians should have felt right at home on SCI.

Something fishy here ....

Alok
From: srini@ecf.toronto.edu (KANDALA SRINIVAS)
Subject: Re: Nov 19 ---- National Integration Day.
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:45:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.180321.8684@usl.edu> sgs1679@usl.edu (Sudhindranath Sira G) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I wonder how many of us remember that today, Nov 19th,
>is National Integration Day, back home in India.
>
>And ironically, today is also the former Prime Minister 
>Indira Gandhi's birthday.
>
Are you sure it is ironical? This reminds me the words of
one of the commentator (of what else) covering the 82 Asian games.
I paraphrase,"Co-incidentally, today is the birthday of our
beloved (or someother s**t like that) prime minister". Was it
a coincidence?

>Regards,
>
>--Sudhi.

srini
-- 
Blue Jays: 1992 World Champions
From: B.Kumar@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: CFV: soc.religion.islam.ahmadiyya moderated
Date: 19 Nov 92 13:00:26 GMT


>> In article <1e9kpbINNm5v@CURIE.SYSTEMSY.CS.YALE.EDU> ahmed-shakil@cs.yale.ed
u (Shakil Waiz Ahmed) writes:
>But even casting that aside, let us look at Prophet Muhammed's (pbuh)
>last sermon which he gave on the ninth day of Dhul Hijjah, 10 A.H. in
>the Uranah valley of Mount Arafat:
>
>   O People, NO PROPHET OR APOSTLE WILL COME AFTER ME AND NO NEW FAITH
>   WILL BE BORN. Reason well, therefore, O People, and understand my
>   words which I convey to you. I leave behind me two things, the QUR'AN
>   and my example, the SUNNAH, and if you follow these you will never go
>   astray.
>

Is n't Mohammed proved wrong here?  "- No new faith will be
born .". Huun... May be Mr Mohammed had no idea about Sikhism, Bahaism 
and Kabir Panthis - all started after Mohammed's above declaration. I am 
quite sure that there would be many other minor faiths, all started after 
his above (pompous) declaration. Seems like Mr GOD was playing a joke 
on Mr Mohammed or someone is misquoting GOD/Mohammed.

bkumar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: chandra@cannelloni.cis.ohio-state.edu (B Chandrasekaran)
Subject: Re: INDIAN CULTURE - Subservient
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:52:14 GMT


>-From: ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sanjoy Ghosh)
>-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 00:08:10 GMT
>-
>-                                             All I am saying is that if
>-all the talented people here were forced back to India there would be
>-enough of a critical mass to make a difference.
>

Highly unlikely!  I don't think the problem in India today is lack of
From: ag3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Arun K. Gupta)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: South Indian <> Dravidian
Date: 23 Nov 92 20:22:36 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


If in 500 BC Gautama Buddha referred to his teachings as
"Arya Dharma" and it obviously didn't have any racial
connotation, then why does it always start a nasty political
fight 2500 years later ?

-arun
From: vivek@ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: OM SHANTI!!!!!! SHANTI!!!, WHERE IS NET P
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:35:16 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

In article <1992Nov16.180720.29180@athena.cs.uga.edu> venugop@athena.cs.uga.edu (ABDUL PETER IYENGAR) writes:
>>
>
>   One possible solution would be complaining to the 
>   systems administrator and I have done so after I
>   received a nasty piece from Sree Sreehari.
>   I have a reply from his systems administrator
>   and he told me he could prevent such further 
>   posings on evidence.
>   I have been threatned by this character Sree 
>   Sreehari,I would only caution him that if
>   so the law enforcement does accept these
>   postings as evidence and could be used for
>   prosecution
>   API

Wonder how the sys admin took such action, when by law he is not allowed
to do so, unless there is evidence of a cognizable offence, or intent to
commit an act in the detriment of society an example would be hate mail.

In fact though the exchanges on the net between the particular gentlemen
were of an unsavoury nature, it does not give anyone the authority to be
a self-proclaimed net.police, and ask the sysadmin of a particular node,
to restrict that account holders privileges. You might have in fact just
given the particular gentleman, an opportunity to take the sysadmin to a
court of law to seek redressal.

This reminds me of an incident last semester/year,  when Asim Mughal and
Co. tried to get the sysadmins of 2 nodes to restrict account privileges
of people who post on the net,and were firmly rebuffed.

Regards,
Vivek.

-- 
vivek@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu),
Research Assistant, Systems Engineering Lab., Dept. Of Computer Science, 
School Of Engineering, Computer Science And Technology,
California State University, Chico, California.
Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:38059 soc.culture.usa:8657 soc.culture.pakistan:17134
From: balarama@cae.wisc.edu (Prabhu Balaraman)
Subject: Blues!
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Distribution: usa
Date: 21 Nov 92 12:19:38 CST

                Why should this be?

        Why do I feel depressed?
        Why do I feel the blues?
        Why do I feel sorrow,
        in all colors and hues?

        Why do I feel like a flower,
        sucked dry by the bee?
        Is this really the truth?
        Or is it just the way *I* see?

        Where are the birds and sounds,
        in my garden, once so green?
        Where are the people,
        on me, who once used to lean?

        Why do I feel like a betrayed tree,
        left holding the empty nest?
        Where have the birds flown?
        I know I have only given the best.

        Why do I wake up every morn,
        burning with impotent rage?
        Why should disappoinment
        be writ on every page?

        How did this all happen?
        Why should this be?
        Is this really the truth?
        Or is it just the way *I* see?

        Prabs                                   

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: swgto@cs.iastate.edu (Swagato Basumallick)
Subject: Going to Juarez for Multiple entry F-1. need co-riders..
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:27:32 GMT

Hi netters !!

I am going to Ciudad Juarez to apply for a Multiple entry 
F-1. I am, however, driving to El Paso from Dallas , and  am looking
for someone to share the driving / gas/ rental . The details are as
follows:
	1) Phone # in Dallas: 214-238-0658 (ask for Swagato)
	2) Phone # in Ames, IA - 515-294-4695 (till Thursday, 11/19)
	3) Date of starting from Dallas: Sunday, 22nd at 3-3:30 pm
	4) Car rented : Geo Metro (probably)

If anyone is interested, please call me at my Ames number till
8:00 am, Friday the 20th, or at the Dallas number after 8:00pm on Friday:
equivalently, you could send me e-mail at "swgto@judy.cs.iastate.edu" .
From: 8888cc06@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (B Mohanarangan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: re: premarital sex
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:12:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: uhdvx3.16NOV199213123921
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Houston-Downtown
NNTP-Posting-Host: uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu
X-Lunar-Date: 4 days, 22 hours, 32 minutes since the full moon
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41A

Why are you asking everyone if you can have sex with your fiancee?  Do 
you not have the guts to ask her?  If she doesn't mind than have it
because you know what they say love has no boundries.  The question is
do you love her?  If you ask me I don't think you do.  If you did love
her then you would respect her and not want to jump her bones.  You are
one of those men who have hormones striking up any time you look at a 
girl.
	GO F##K HER.  Don't make love to her.
From: fafat@aludra.usc.edu (Vijay Fafat)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: I AM SMARTEST GUY IN INDIA.
Date: 23 Nov 1992 20:38:05 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <1992Nov24.023404.1463@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> vedati@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu (Keshavprasad Vedati  ECE-GRAD) writes:

>I AM DECLARING MYSELF THE BOSS OF THE UNIVERSE>
>ANYBODY TO CHALLENGE ME?????
>VEDATI KESHAV PRASAD

	Hey Sanjay, what's this? Firshtly, Ram Lakh^an's Bab^loo~ brother
	arrived.. Now we have Doki junior around... Guess ThanksGiving is
	really in the air...  I think we should give him the Cycle wala
	Michael's role. Srik might play the Pony wala Tony part. And Rajat's
	request to be the wardrobe in-charge has been denied for 2 reasons:

	1] Mona Darling does'nt have a wardrobe because of "nahati raho"
	2] With Rajat in charge, we might have all the heroines "nahati raho"

	Perhaps he can play Asrani's part to perfection. Bhanu Athaiyya has 
	been conned.. err.. made contact with for the costume part. About
	your "pilot baba" part, you seem to be using the CGS system of 
	nomenclature. In MKS, he was called Debrindam Ghosherjee (Sriram's
	cowpyright :), the schizophrenic entity comprising of Arindam Ghosh 
	and Deb	Chatterjee (The same to same whom our heroine, NiRmmala,
	was challenging so foolishly, not having had his/her fill of Bengalis
	even after being heavily poundu by Samit). 

	FFT

	PS: The Universe Boss seems to have an Ohio address. George Chacko
From: gagrawal@cs.tamu.edu (Gopal Agrawal)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: ISS creeping into Karnataka ?
Date: 22 Nov 1992 08:25:07 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
NNTP-Posting-Host: neuron.tamu.edu

In article <By3r5q.Ex7@ns1.nodak.edu> sivaram@plains.NoDak.edu (The Purple Bleeder ) writes:
>
>I would like to take this occassion to salute the vigilant
>patriotic people who opposed this brazen anti national
>act with firmness and kudos to all those lawyers who
>did  not take up this case.

Same here.

Does anyone know what is the reaction of the Indian muslims 
to this incident ? I wish similar steps were taken in kashmir
when such incidents were first reported. 

regards,
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From: indu@iss700.Columbia.NCR.COM ()
Subject: Re: South Indian <> Dravidian
Originator: indu@iss700
Organization: NCR Corp, E&M-Columbia, Columbia, SC
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 15:07:44 GMT

To: EASWAR@PURCCVM.BITNET
In article <92322.150340EASWAR@PURCCVM.BITNET> you write:

>NOT ALL SOUTH INDIANS GO WITH DRAVIDIAN THEORY.

  (very good stuff, deleted for convinience).
   I agree with most your arguments made, above.



>CLAIM 6 : RIGHTING HISTORICAL WRONGS IS DANGEROUS.

>This should be self-evident. This is what Hitler did and RSS says it is
>doing. Let us not repeat the mistakes of the past.

   I think you should not have brought in RSS, if you did not know its 
   philosophies exactly. RSS, is not for correcting HISTORICAL WRONGS, it
   wants people to REALISE Historical wrongs. Indian politicians have subverted
   Indian history to their whims and fancies, to make their "trash" 
   justifiable. RSS is in support of the ULTIMATE TRUTH. A true follower of 
   TRUTH, a Hindu Ideal. BTW, even RSS says that WE SHOULD NOT REPEAT THE 
   MISTAKES OF THE PAST. Your otherwise correct posting, had this small
   slip, which I hope , you would not mind if I interfered to correct .

   I do not know much about Hitlers case. Hence no comments.
   
>GROW UP, THE WORLD IS PASSING YOU BY.                    Nyshadham

-Indu.
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From: bkannan@ho12.eng.ua.edu (Balaji Kannan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Einstein on religion
Date: 23 Nov 1992 16:11:20 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



Vijay Fafat:

>From sci.physics:

>An interesting quote by Einstein on the subject of religion :

>"Religious thought is an attempt to find an out where there are no doors."

>---A. Einstein (1938?)


        and Einsteinian thought??

bk 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: cs641114@umbc8.umbc.edu (cs641114)
Subject: An APB is out for ....
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:47:19 GMT


3 persons :

1.mala subramaniam : EE - VPISU
2.nadeem iraqi : EE - univ of ohio at athens
3.deepti banti - chemical Engg - univ. of kentucy or  kentucky state univ.

These persons are requested to report to Lalitha Sankaranarayanan (whom for
brevity, we call Lalitha :-) ) ASAP ! She has filed charges for "lost contact"
against these individuals ! Anyone who are privy to their email addresses are 
requested to report it immediately to lalitha@engr.umbc.edu.

(The reward is a thank-you note from her !)

Sgt. Reflection,
CCO, Comp. Sc.
UMBC

ps : in case the persons in question read this, please turn your email address
     in ! that fact can be used in your favor, eventually.
From: deepak@konark.njit.edu (Albatross)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Lower Castes WIN
Keywords: Mandal Commission
Date: 18 Nov 92 17:46:46 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Nov17.235006.7101@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU> kumar@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (V.R.Kumar) writes:
>
>LOWER CASTES WIN
>----------------
>New Delhi, India 

Who or what is a Lower Caste?
What are the requirements for one to be considered part of this 'Lower Caste'?
Can a person from a 'Higher Caste' convert himself to 'Lower Caste'?

Gosh, its right, "If you cant lick'em join'em"

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: janand@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Jayaraman Anand)
Subject: NOTHING IN PARTICULAR #4
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:55:17 GMT


hi,
	The horse I bet on, came so late that they had to pay the jockey
	overtime.

J Anand.

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From: udumudi@vanilla (u v babu srinivas)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: ** REPOST** : Essay on Cow : -)
Date: 21 Nov 1992 01:12:58 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: vanilla.wpi.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Rajat Jain (rajain@scotty.ecs.umass.edu) wrote:

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

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


haha.. it was too good!

if only we had our own mother tongue for education in India, the s.c.i.
would've missed this great article, don't you think so? :)

and, of course, the candidate would've passed with high marks :)
(assuming the exam was not for testing english ;)

                                                          -- srinivas
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: m-sj7228@GRUMPY.CS.NYU.EDU (Sanjay Jaiswal)
Subject: Testing
Organization: New York University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:26:38 GMT

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: byab314@chpc.utexas.edu (Srinivas Bettadpur)
Subject: Re: Books and the Indian-American experience
Summary: So depressing,..... (sighhhhhhhh)
Organization: Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin
Disclaimer: Responsibility for the contents rests solely with the author
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 00:38:26 GMT


While we are on Indian writers, a slightly tangential note:

How many Indian writers can you count who write just for the pleasure
of telling a tale or playing with words ?  I read novels by Indians in
English and Hindi, and they fall (as with all books) into three
categories :  (i)  Heavy duty (lots of social commentary, very 
observant, and depressing like hell); (ii) Junk (OK, but wears off 
after a while); and (iii) Just plain fun.  

  Almost everyone who is regarded as "good" writes heavy duty stuff
almost without exception, and this is particularly true of Hindi 
writers.  Junk books are the most numerous (who hasn't read Inspector
Azaad, or its cousins), but there seems to be a strange lack of books 
that are just plain fun to read (don't count RKN or KS).  In Hindi the 
humor is to be found, virtually without exception, in poetry.

  This is not to say that no Indian writes stuff that is pleasurable
to read.  However, I really have to hunt far and wide (and UT is
supposed to have an excellent collection of books from/by/about
Indians) before I find one that I can read without having to worry 
about it being "good for me".  So, if someone can suggest interesting 
Indian authors, whose characters are not always disaster prone, or 
totally consumed with angst and are otherwise self absorbed, please 
drop me a line.
                                                    Srinivas
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