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From: sunand@skat.usc.edu (sunand gopal)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: STORY : READ !
Date: 25 Aug 1992 21:18:19 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu

Hi Guys,

One Mr. V. K. Rao has just taken the corpse from the tree and taking
it to give it a decent burial, when the corpse started to talk. This
is for the 'n'th time that the corpse has flown back to the tree and
the brave Mr. V. K. Rao was bringing it back. This is what the corpse
said. " Mr. V.K.Rao, I am going to tell you a story and later ask you
some questions related to the story. If you know the answer and keep
silent or give the wrong answer, your head will be split into a 
thousanfd pieces".
And then it started telling the following story. Once there lived a
professor in a town, who was teaching in a college. He had another
professor who was his assistant. These were the only two well known
professors in that town. The profeesors son was intelligent and was
now trying to apply for admission to colleges. His mother wanted him
not to leave the town. Though his father was against his son applying
to the same college, he finally agreed. Only four students were to be
taken into the professors fold. The professors son did very well and
was the topper in the exam but the professor asked his assistant to
grade the papers. For some unknown reason, the assistant professor
failed the professor's son. 

The professor had the exams re-evaluated and to cover up his assistant's
deed, ordered for a re-exam and again asked his assistant to grade
the papers. This time, the professor's son did not fare well but was
definitely in the top four. The assistant professor passed him this
time. After seeing the results, the professors son left the town to
seek higher education in some other town.

"Now", the corpse said," answer the following questions. If you fail
to answer correctly or remain silent, your head will split into
thousand pieces"and went on asking these questions.

1. Why did the assistant professor fail the professor's son the first
   time and pass him the second  time?
2. Why did the professor insist that the assistant professor grade the
   second time?
3. Why did the son leave the town after getting through the exams? why
   not before?

ALL the nettors (V.K.Rao's), those who respond to articles and those
who do not, have to reply. Remember,silence will result in.........

regards,

-- 
Sunand[ The woods are lovely, dark and green,
        but I have promises to keep.
        and miles to  go before I sleep
        and miles to go before I sleep] Gajjala
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sunny@cse.unl.edu (Sunil Kumar Burra)
Subject: Looking for friends @Univ. of Missouri Rolla (Mech.. dept)
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 18:10:24 GMT


  I am posting this article for a friend of mine, who is looking for
  his friends from CBIT, Hyderabad.

  At present they are doing MS @ univ of missouri Rolla their names are 

   Rahul Reddy, Anil Reddy, Munish Agarwal, Keith Sequeira, Praveen Khimani
   

   If they are  still alive ask them to contact Srikanth Talpallikar,\
   his phone# is: 402. 435. 8478 (Lincoln, NE).

   I appreciate your help.

   thanks


   Sunil K. Burra
   sunny@cse.unl.edu
From: ngopalas@ho19.eng.ua.edu (Nath S. Gopalaswamy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Concordia killings-the Indian angle
Date: 28 Aug 92 00:24:21 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

In article <1992Aug27.223953.5810@unixg.ubc.ca> banarji@unixg.ubc.ca (Ajai Banarji) writes:
>		      CONCORDIA AND DEBCHAT
>
>	S.c.i. readers in Canada must have shared the sudden sinking
>feeling I had on hearing the news headlines on Monday about the
>killings at Concordia U-I was fairly sure that one of Debchat's numerous
>admirers on s.c.i. and s.c.p. had finally caught up with him:-)
> 	I don't know if the US papers had much coverage on this incident,
>but it is interesting to note that the assassin Prof. Fabrikant had been
>posting a number of articles about his grievances against certain
>professors in the newsgroup sci.research.careers. I found it rather
>interesting to see that many of his complaints were directed against
>professors with South Asian names. However, it appears that some of his
>victims  were not the ones he had complained against.
>	His postings (and other's comments) can be seen in sci.research.
>careers; you may find them of interest as they say a lot of the seamy
>side of research (including the way professors exploit students from
>countries like India)-though it seems that Indians are exploiters as
>well as exploited. 
>	Perhaps our friends like Debchat have something to add.


Since I do not have sci.research.careers at my site could someone post exactly
in what capacity Indian profs were involved and why did Fabrikant shoot someone
else instead of the profs against whom he held a grievance?

Thanks,
Nath.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: kuntal@algol.cs.umbc.edu (survivor)
Subject: Re: queries directed to jains ... (from a jain) : answers follow
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:58:09 GMT

In article <1541@rwja.umdnj.edu> gopal@rwja.umdnj.edu (Srihari Gopal) writes:
>
>Yes, I do to consider the argument that plants are not sensitive to pain to
>be weak.

[... some portion deleted...]
>
>So where do you draw the line? What is edible, if you are a vegetarian,
>and what is not? Should vegetarians eat venus fly traps, even though they
>obviously sense pain?

While I am not concisely sure of what can be eaten or not, I will attempt to
define what constitutes as edible (per Jainism requirements) :

- Any plant product that does not involve terminating it life.
 
  (eg. roots are banned, so is cauliflower, cabbage and leafy veggies)

- fruits, and pluckables (don't know the right biological term) like
  beans(french), pea_pods, pulses are permissible.

- there is some grey area re: tomatoes, brinjals and other veggies (where
  consuming the veggie involves eating a lot of seeds [potential life])

As far as pain is concerned, I agree that it is an unresolved anomaly.

As I had mentioned before, varying degrees of liberty have been taken re:
the daily diet by Jains to suit the different needs and lifestyles !

I have no qualms about consuming any vegetable. I draw the line at eating
animal life. 


>Please respond
>Srihari Gopal

Kuntal


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.kerala
From: trivedi@curie.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi)
Subject: Re: REASONS WHY I POSTED TO S.C.T AND A.C.K [REF. PANTNAGAR]
Organization: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 08:40:48 GMT

vkrishna@nyx.cs.du.edu (Vijay Krishna) writes:

 > My dear angry Keralite brethren,
 > 
 > 1. I was working on my research paper and I found a reference
 >    of some professor who is associated with the area
 >    in which I am working and who is/was (?) in Pantangar. 
 > 
 > 2.  Being unaware with the geographical location of Pantnagar,
 >     I confused it with Palghat (I guess it is somewhere in Kerala).
 > 
 > 3.  I have to work on a time bound assignment and I found it 
 >     convenient to post the query to s.c.i, a.c.k and s.c.t.

Why didn't you say so earlier? Why, why, why? I didn't realize that 
the logical chain of things was so convincing; those stupid Keralites
fooled us all by pretending otherwise.

Well, now that we have it all cleared up, I have a few questions of
my own to ask of our Keralite and Madrasi brethren:

1. My childhood friend's aunt, who was from one of the Northern or
   Eastern states (or could it have been Rajasthan??), used to make
   a really yummy pudding (could have been a chaat item). Could
   somebody please locate the recipe for me? 

2. When I was in High School, film producers in Bombay decided to
   sensitize the nation towards the culture of native hill people:
   the outcome was a movie called something like "Haseena Ka Blouse".
   There was a great song which went : "Mulayam Mulayam..." I guess 
   that must come from Malayalam. Could someone from Kerala (or should 
   it be Malaysia??) please send me the words?
  

You should also get to know the following guy:

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Article 22084 (2 more) in comp.sys.next.misc:
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Subject: Handling foreign payments.
From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess)
Date: 3 Sep 92 00:58:00
Distribution: world
              
Having just had a run-in with my bank, I'm turning to the only
source of information...

My problem is that my bank wants $35 to turn a check drawn on a
German bank into dollars in my account.  This is _not_ including
changing the money, if that's needed.  ...NeXT is such a world-wide
machine ...But, I've never seen any postings about it.

What do other people do to solve this problem?  ... Would it be
worthwhile to have an account on a Swiss bank and have people do 
direct deposit?

[...I'm pretty desperate.  And, hopefully this will help other 
people out with the problem, which should help the market as a whole...
besides, if you think I'm using this to help me in my selfish
money-grubbing, you can feel free to stop by sometime and look at
the balance in my bank account...]
***********************************************************************


Do get in touch with this guy. You have much in common, and will surely 
hit it off; then maybe you two can exchange e-mail with each other.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: asingh@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Avninider Singh)
Subject: Looking for Kulwinder Gill
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:33:00 GMT

I am looking for 'Kulwinder Singh Gill' from Agriculture Univ., Ludhiana.
He did his Ph.D. from Kansas State Univ. in Agriculture Engg. in 1991.
If anybody knows about him, please mail me the information (possibly
his email address.). Thanx in advance.
Avninder.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone)
Subject: Re: Does masturbation reduce intelligence? (Was Re: Is it correct that ...)
Reply-To: stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 21:13:22 GMT

bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine) writes:
>In article <1992Aug24.024901.17244@ccu.umanitoba.ca> feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld) writes:
>>Last I heard, one brand of Hindu mysticism held that men who could
>>perform auto-fellatio, and thereby absorb their own vital bodily
>>fluids, derived special virtues therefrom.
>
>  Turns out there was a primitive race of early homonids that could,
>  in fact, do this very feat quite easily due to some rather unique
>  spinal development.  It seems, however, that there are some rather
>  strong evolutionary pressures that selected against their producing
>  viable offspring.

No doubt.  In fact, most anthropologists are taught in graduate school
that...

There once was an Australopithecus afarensis from Nantucket
Whose dick was so long he could suck it
He said with a grin,
As he wiped off his chin,
"If my ear was a cunt I could fuck it."

By the way, you misspelled 'hominid'.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: anand@Cadence.COM (Anand Bemra)
Subject: Re: Vivekananda
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:26:00 GMT

debchat@vax2.concordia.ca (DEB CHATTERJEE) writes:

> it like that if I drink 3 litres of cow's urine, I will be absolved of all my
> sins throughout my life ? Prabhu, what exactly are the protocols of Hinduism ?

Actually the urine might do you some good deb. It has
some chemical, the name eludes me, which calms down the mind.
3 litres might be pushing it.

> Your humble servant asks these questions from the Darkness of Ignorance. He 
> also asks that is Kamasutra a part of Hindusim ? Why there are sexual 
> intercourse pictures on the temples of Khajuraho - a woman copulating with a 
> horse ! I saw it Prabhu !! With my 4 eyes !!! Yes, Prabhu !!! I have the Bong
> version of Kamasutra, and, read it everynight; Prabhu, am I a sinner ? 
> Will you save me Prabhu ? Did Vivekananda write answers to these stupid 
> questions of an ignorant malodorous oaf like me anywhere Prabhu ? 
> By the way Prabhu, if I feel > `excited' what should I do Prabhu ? 
> People tell me to find a woman ! 

Never fear. Our Indian seers have thought of all this and came up with
"Chaturvidha Purushartha' i.e. the fourfold objectives of human life -
Dharma, Artha (money), Kama (sensual pleasures) and Moksha. 

> - deb chatterjee
>(a good samaritan)
--
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: paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus)
Subject: Eve-Tossing [Re: looking for ways to meet opp sex]
Organization: The Net-Anarchists of SCI, Inc.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:52:42 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.012026.2003@lowton.rn.com> mark@lowton.rn.com (Mark Powell) writes:
>
>In article <1992Aug22.074306.15658@access.digex.com>, gulati@access.digex.com (Raj K. Gulati) writes:
>> Hi,
>>   A few of my friends including myself, are wondering about what
>>   is the best way to meet indian guys and gals (ie opposite sex)
>                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
>Now come on, are you really that paranoid?
>

1] Now come on, he was just saying that indian guys and gals are of
   the opposite sex :-)

>>   here in the U.S. Some of us would want to pursue just a rela-
>>   tionship, others are inclined towards immediate (or arranged)
>>   marriages. Any suggestions?
>
>Jesus. 

2] A desperate  soul asks for suggestions to meet women(of the opposite
   sex) and you tell him to turn to God !
   Have Mercy ! Not all mortals have your control. :-)

[...]

>You people really are the worst.

3] Forgive us master, but please consider that we have travelled so far
   to learn. So much wisdom and so little time.

> Your prospective wives are not some commodity 
> that can be tossed about
>as is your want.

4] Damn! You had us fooled for a while.
   They should have laws against eve-tossing back home,
   so prevalent is this practice. Some women even say the like being
   tossed. In the light of your revelation, I think they fake it. :-)

>
>>   Please send replies to gulati@access.digex.com.
>
>No.
>

5] I couldnt agree more.
   Stay Cool.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: dharam@yaya.WPI.EDU (Dharmendra Khanolkar)
Subject: Re: soc.culture.marathi
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 14:47:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.154356.16852@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> vijay@wizards.austin.ibm.com writes:
>So whats the deal with soc.culture.marathi?  Are we creating it or 
>not?   Looks like lots of folks have said yes.


Well even I was thinking on the same lines. These days when I read SCI I
read it only to see if the newsgroup has been created. Well as far as it
goes for me I am very much game for it.

Dharmendra Khanolkar


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: cloud@milton.u.washington.edu (cloud person)
Subject: Indian-Americans
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:45:50 GMT

Hi.  A couple of weeks ago, someone posted a message saying that a new newsgroup was being started for Indians who grew up in the U.S.  I don't think it exists yet.  Does anyone have any information about it?

P.S.  Sorry my message doesn't appear to be wrapping around properly.

Thank you.


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ngopalas@ha14.eng.ua.edu (Nath S. Gopalaswamy)
Subject: Re: Confused about Indian Babes ...
Keywords: Indian babes
Organization: The University of Alabama
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 22:11:33 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?
|> 
|> take care
|> 
|> (no flames please)(I'm just a curious dude).

Well, a survey in India Today six years back showed that though 22 percent of
Indian husbands would be shell-shocked if their wives mentioned sex, 68 percent
desperately wished they would. That should pretty well summarize the results 
for you. Also, now you know why Indian guys are horny. :)
Pity, but that is the truth. 

Nath.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: hongde@ms.uky.edu (Hongde Luo)
Subject: For your information
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:31:55 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

                            For Your Information
SINO-AMERICAN Translation Service Co. is providing a service to convert video
tapes from PAL (TV system used in main land China and India) to NTSC (TV system
used in US) and the other way around. For information, call (606)-224-4307. 
Their services are prety good, in my opinion.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,alt.sex,sci.med,talk.politics.misc,talk.religion.misc,talk.ph
From: jbaron@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeffrey Baron)
Subject: Re: Does masturbation reduce intelligence? (Was Re: Is it correct th
Keywords: puzzling questions
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 19:23:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.160040.3456@tamsun.tamu.edu> peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram) writes:
>It is most important to feel that whatever you are doing
>is the right thing to do.  Feelings of guilt could be
>harmful to the mind and consequently to the body.  So, do
>whatever you want so long as you thing that you are doing
>the right thing and you would feel that you are on top of
>the world.  Same goes for masturbation.

As far as I understand it, continued sexual performance is just like any other
bodily function - it suffers from atrophy if left unused for a prolonged period
of time.  In effect, masturbation is just like the daily warmups that a boxer
goes thru...he doesn't fight every day, nor would he want to.  But he'll be
a very poor boxer if the only exercise he gets is in the ring.

Sex to me is at the same time the most wonderful and most destructive 
abilities of this, our mortal frame.  Given the National average that says
that most of the people reading this are 99% likely to be alive next year,
that means a lot of people are going to be suffering thru life for quite
some time before we all get to this great promised land beyond the scope
of our mortal consciousness.  So until then, let's avoid losing the one really
nice thing that our bodies provide us to atrophy and disuse due to guilt
or whatever.

(.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.)/ I heard two claps of thunder         \ 
Jeffrey Sittenfield Baron  (_  | this afternoon.                      |
b.k.a. Phaedrus            -__-| Well, we hear - sometimes we see.    |
Indiana University Psychology  | which doesn't say                    |
jbaron@silver.ucs.indiana.edu  | there is a world, or we are.         |
('X'X'X'X'X'X'X'X'X'X'X'X'X'X')\ But something is.    - William Bronk /


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: armally@pbhyb.PacBell.COM (arvind mally)
Subject: Re: A question about INDIAN AIR-LINES
Organization: Pacific * Bell
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:19:12 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.034331.8702@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> pandey@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ravindra K. Pandey) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I was wondering if anyone knows about the baggage limit on INDIAN air-lines if
>you take it as connecting flight for international air-lines.
>
>I was told that if you have an international ticket, the limit is same as that 
>specified by International Airrlines.
>please, send all e-mails regarding this to pandey@gn.ecn.purdue.edu.
_________________________________________________________________________
The baggage limit is the same as international limit on Indian Airlines as
long as you don't break your flight in India in Bombay, Delhi etc. Anyway
check with your agent as the rules keep changing.

Arvind Mallya 

>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>ravi, THE SUN
From: khilnany@cps.msu.edu (Mahesh I Khilnany)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Univ. of Minnesota
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:31:12 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
Originator: khilnany@indian.cps.msu.edu


I need the telephone numbers and the e-mail addresses of the Grad
Advisor of the Dept. Of Comp. Sci. at the University Of Minnesota
(Twin Cities). Thanks in advance,


Mahesh Khilnany.
From: sunjain@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (mera bharat mahan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: queries directed to jains ... (from a jain) : answers follow
Date: 26 Aug 1992 14:32:38 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

In <1992Aug26.190856.21698@umbc3.umbc.edu> kuntal@algol.cs.umbc.edu (survivor) writes:

>In article <1992Aug24.203312.27146@umbc3.umbc.edu> kuntal@algol.cs.umbc.edu I 
>had asked :

 (some stuff deleted)

>As, an addendum, I want to know how other Jains defend their belief in
>vegetarianism ? I am always faced with this poser, "Why eat plants if
>you don't believe in killing animals ?"

>My explanation is "Possibly, the people of that time did not know or
>consider plants as having life or capable of pain." But, I consider this 
>explanation rather weak. Anyone willing to contribute ?

 Agreed, Plants have life but they have the capability to regenerate.

 If you want to eat some fruits from a tree, the tree WON'T DIE.

 But if you want to eat the leg of a Chicken, it won't regenerate another
 leg in due course of time!!

 I still believe in vegetarianism.
>My sincere thanks to all the people who took time and spent some effort
>in replying me.

>regards,
>Kuntal

Sunil Jain.
From: KMITRA@vm.poly.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Chances of Financial aid
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:46:38 GMT
Organization: Polytechnic University

There are chances of financial aid at Polytechnic University, Brroklyn
for Fall ;92.
  Contact immediately:
      graduate@thermal3.poly.edu
From: ASARM@ASUACAD.BITNET (Anjaneya Modak)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: sorry for the misposting
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:41:47 GMT
Organization: Arizona State University

soc.culture.indians,
      sorry for the previous posting by mistake fiddling with the netpost
      menu.
From: thiyagarajan@mims.enet.dec.com (RT)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: ARTICLE: Female infanticide rampant in Tamil Nadu
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:06:40 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

-Message-Text-Follows-

In article <BtyGpn.KwM@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>, srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca (Srinivasan K.) writes...
>In article <1992Aug30.031409.4557@nuscc.nus.sg> krishna@iss.nus.sg
> (...Krishnamoorthy.) writes:
>>                     Female infanticide rampant in Tamil Nadu
>>                     ----------------------------------------

There was a CNN news item in headline news this morning about the same thing in
Salem

RT
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian