HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam Ghosh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: STOP THAT BUGGER.  RIGHT NOW...
Date: 21 Aug 92 04:02:44 GMT
Reply-To: mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Houston

In article <1992Aug20.214156.214@tamsun.tamu.edu>, gagrawal@cs.tamu.edu (Gopal Agrawal) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.190721.18741@menudo.uh.edu> mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU writes:
>>What about laying waste to the money put by millions of starving people
>>in India to bring you to this "paradise".
>
>That's not anybodys fault. Its the system that is at fault. If someone 
>gives me a free lunch, I'll take it. If that person is starving his 
>own children to provide me that free lunch, it is his fault and not 
>mine. He should have warned me that after I have that lunch it is my 
>duty to feed his children. In other words, India should have had some 
>policy like that of china where people have to serve within the nation
>for a couple of years if they want to avail free education. The other 
>alternative should be that India should not have provided the free 
>education in the first place. 
>
>Besides, we aren't all that traitors you make us out to be. Most of 
>India's foreign exchange comes from NRE/FCNR accounts that Indians 
>here open up in Indian banks (though not out of altruistic motives).
>Indirectly, we are serving India much more than we might have if we 
>were in India. 
>
I did not say you are not serving. It's only a reaction to the wanton
statement that I am doing a criminal offence by going back to India.



>I agree with Mr. Seetamaraju. You ARE a pakoda of some sort with fillings 
>of romantic philosophies and skewed sense of priorities. You believe
>yourself to be some sort of saviour of the world, don't you?  Buddy,
>I got news for you. I have seen such people like you in India and they
>all end up being frustrated when they find they philosophies aren't 
>making a dent on the society. And by then it is too late to get back 
>to grad school. My sincere advise would be that you should at least 
>secure yourself an insurance (a degree) in case you find that theological 
>philosophy is all rot. Once you get a degree, you can do whatever you
>wish without any risks. BTW - Is it impossible to do what you consider
>humanatarian tasks simultaneously with a job ? 
>
You think yourself so incapable that you cannot find out a place in the
world without a PHd degree. 
Half measures do not help anybody in the world. You cannot walk with feet
on two canoes.
Arindam


>Another BTW - Don't marry unless you want to make someone's life miserable
>or she's also a pakoda like you. ;-)
>
>regards,
>--   
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>    ____/  __  /  __  /  __  /  /  |  \  /|   LIFE'S COMPLEX - IT HAS 
>   / __   /   /  /   /  /   /  /   | (o)(o)   REAL & IMAGINARY PARTS  
>  /   /  /   /   ___/  __  /  /    C      _) 
>_____/ _____/ __/   __/ __/ ______/ | \___|  
>E-mail - gagrawal@cs.tamu.edu       |   /   All Std. Disclaimers apply.
>
>
>
From: chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.telugu
Subject: Re: On the birth of Andhra Pradesh (was Re: I HATE TAMILS)
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:48:06 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.indian
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Was it a mistake not to include Madras(Chennapatnam) in
Andhra Pradesh? Many feel, taking into consideration the 
geographic and linguistic factors, that Madras should have
gone to A.P. during the formation of the states. Any comments?

---Sree
From: satya@.ssdc.honeywell.com (Satya Prabhakar)
Subject: IGF: AN Update
Organization: Sensor & System Development Center
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 11:52:52 GMT

To those of you who are riding IGF or are interested in its
fluctuating fortunes, here is some good news: After touching
lows of about $15 in the recent past, IGF closed at about
$18 yesterday, ranking among the biggest percentage gainers
on NYSE yesterday.

The discount to NAV which has been around 20% in the recent
past has now turned into a slight premium, which indicates
that there is some well-informed investors playing the game.
We can just buy and hold.

Satya Prabhakar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rrp@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (rakesh.r.patel)
Subject: Re: Indian babes ....
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:12:45 GMT

In article <Bt37oL.Hp@news.udel.edu> cobra@chopin.udel.edu (Jay Bhartkumar Patel) writes:
>In article <rich07.713909947@milton> rich07@milton.u.washington.edu (Jon Jochem) writes:
>>
>>Are Indian babes horny?
>>
>
>
>    No way dude.    
>

You better get out of Delaware, Jay!!  Lots of horny deshi babes up north in
NJ and NY.

Rakesh Patel


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rasrao@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Rajiv Sudhakar Rao)
Subject: HE IS THE COW
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:46:52 GMT



My friend from Bombay sent me a news paper clipping today.  What appears below
is an exact reprint of one of the articles which appeared in "THE AFTERNOON" on
August 4, 1992.

I bet you will enjoy this.
___________________________________________________________________________
***************************************************************************

CALCUTTA's Telegraph has got hold of an answer paper of a candidate at the
recent UPSC examinations.  The candidate has written an essay on the Indian
cow:

"The cow is a successful animal. Also he is quadrupud, and because he is 
female, he give milk, but will do so when he is got child.  He is same like
God, sacred to Hindus and useful to man.  But he has got four legs together.
Two are forward and two are afterwards.

"His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk.  What can it do?
Various ghee, butter, cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth.
Also he is useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally.

"His motion is slow only because he is of asitudinious species.  Also his
other motion is much useful to trees, plants as well as making flat cakes in
hand and drying in the sun.  Cow is the only animal that extricates his feeding
after eating.  Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are situated in
the inside of the mouth.  He is incessantly in the meadows in the grass.

"His only attacking and defending organ is the horn, specially so when he is 
got child.  This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapons
to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great 
velocity forwards.

"He has got tails also, but not like similar animals.  It has hairs on the
other end of the other side.  This is done to frighten away the flies which
alight on his cohoa body whereupon he gives hit with it.

The palms of his feet are soft unto the touch.  So the grasses head is not
crushed.  At night time have poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts
his eyes like his relatives, the horse does not do so.

"This is the cow."

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

___________________________________________________________________________
***************************************************************************

Have fun

RAJIV
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gagrawal@cs.tamu.edu (Gopal Agrawal)
Subject: Re: ON THE OCCASION OF AUG,15 -- I
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Texas A&M University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 07:47:25 GMT

In article <Aug.16.23.01.25.1992.22755@ruhets.rutgers.edu>, myadav@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Mahesh Yadav) writes:
|> 
|> America. If you look back now you will find that India was the first country 
|> (among developing countries) which airlifted its people. The people from 


Ahem...actually it was Egypt (which is also a developing country). 

regards,
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   / __   /   /  /   /  /   /  /   | (o)(o)   REAL & IMAGINARY PARTS  
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E-mail - gagrawal@cs.tamu.edu       |   /   All Std. Disclaimers apply.
From: amit@alice.att.com (Amit Gupta)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Going to a Wedding
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:58:17 GMT
Reply-To: amit@research.att.com (Amit Gupta)
Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs

In article <75880004@hpldsla.sid.hp.com> jdansky@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Jeri Dansky) writes:
>I'm (hopefully) about to go to a wedding in India, and I'm hoping the
>readers of this newsgroup can answer a few questions for me.

 [ D E L E T E D]

>The wedding invitation says it's the wedding of Sow. Meera with
>Chi. Sriram.  What do "Sow." and "Chi." mean?

Easy. From the Websters... 


1sow \'sau.\ n
[ME sowe, fr. OE sugu; akin to OE & OHG sU sow, L sus pig, swine,
     hog, Gk hys]
(bef. 12c)
1: an adult female swine; also: the adult female of various other
     animals (as a bear)

 (Other meanings deleted)


>Thanks for any help,
>
>Jeri Dansky
>jeri@spd.hp.com

Glad I could help

-amit
amit@research.att.com
From: saig@crchh527.BNR.CA (Sai Gollapudi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: WANTED: e-mail for TI and DIGITAL of Banglore
Keywords: e-mail
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:41:17 GMT
Reply-To: saig@crchh527.BNR.CA (Sai Gollapudi)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.

Seeking e-mail addrs for either TI or DIGITAL of Banglore.
Need to pass on valuable info from a friend to a friend.

Please respond with the addr to either the net itself or to my e-mail

Posting for a pal... Sai 
Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:28228 soc.culture.bangladesh:4501 soc.culture.pakistan:13697
From: pr0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Pravin Devineni Ratnam)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: Salman Rushdie: A few questions??
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:26:58 GMT
Organization: Senior, IM - MCS/CIT Track, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Someone writes:
 ******************
 
4.What prevented Khomeini and Rushdie from settling these simple questions
over a cup of coffee?

***************


And let Khomeini collect his own 1 million dollar reward after he adds
poison to Rushdie's coffee?
From: banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: The GOP and Slavery ( was Re: Khalistan and GOP)
Date: 19 Aug 1992 10:42:43 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu



>In article <1992Aug18.125424.1@vax1.umkc.edu>, vkuttikattu@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>|> I  was watching G.O.P convention yesterday on ABC 

On a slightly different note, it was kind of funny to hear GOP chairman Rich
Bond lash out a Hillary Clinton for having compared marraiges to slavery. 
What Mrs.Clinton had said and I quote " every marraige is a slavery of sorts
....... where the more agressive partner does dominate the relationship to an
extent."

Wonder what Jennifer Flowers would say? If only she had known of SCI...the 
possibilities are mind boggling ....:-)

Sorry Ed, no reference to arranged marraiges. 

Samit
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: gagrawal@cs.tamu.edu (Gopal Agrawal)
Subject: Re: Air India - Try it and you will not complain
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 03:59:13 GMT

In article <BszpJ8.5KH@taligent.com> kayshav_dattatri@taligent.com (dattatri) writes:
>Food was good. And plenty of it frequently. And I couldn't find any flaws 
>with the service. I was having a good time talking with the cabin crew and 
>discussing 'this and that'.  I had fun on that flight.
>

I have had several occasions to fly AI and I thought I should add my comments
too. It is true that their food and air crew is good, but your happiness stops
there. When it comes to schedules, it is terrible. When it comes to luggage 
care, it is not too good either (I have had bad experiences). The fault lies 
not in the air crew but in the ground crew who for some reason are far more 
sloppy than the air crew. When it comes to refunds from the administration,
it isn't easy either (I can compare that with the refund service from British
airways and they were a class apart). 

And as for the economic considerations, this December most reputed airlines 
like Singapore, Cathay Pacific, Emirates etc. are offering a price 
(from Houston to Bombay) at around 1450 to 1500$ while AirIndia will 
be charging for the same something like $1800-1900. $300 is quite a 
difference!

regards,
--   
   ______ ______ ______ ______ __  |\/\/\/|
    ____/  __  /  __  /  __  /  /  |  \  /|   LIFE'S COMPLEX - IT HAS 
   / __   /   /  /   /  /   /  /   | (o)(o)   REAL & IMAGINARY PARTS  
  /   /  /   /   ___/  __  /  /    C      _) 
_____/ _____/ __/   __/ __/ ______/ | \___|  
E-mail - gagrawal@cs.tamu.edu       |   /   All Std. Disclaimers apply.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
From: psycho@makalu.Stanford.EDU (Mr. Knotty Sycho)
Subject: Climb every mountain -- but stash your trash
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, solid waste,
        environment, outdoor sports 
Organization: Peace and Freedom Institute, Stanford University
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 21:32:53 GMT



	KATMANDU, Nepal (UPI) -- Even at the top of the world, garbage is
piling up.
	So Nepalese authorities announced Sunday they will impose trash fee
of thousands of dollars on teams climbing Mount Everest and other
Himalayan mountains this season, to help clean up the polluted peaks.
	Officials said the fee was a deposit which would be returned when the
trash had been disposed of properly.
	Nepalese officials said 77 expeditions from 16 nations had been
granted permission to climb 27 peaks in the Mount Everest region during
the September to mid-November climbing season.
	About 37 of the teams were likely to be affected by the new fees,
including 12 attempting Everest, the world's highest mountain at 29,028
feet.
	The trash fees will apply not only to Mount Everest, but to the
Khumbu region near the peak.
	Nepalese authorities have categorized the trash as garbage that can
be incinerated, trash to be disposed of on the mountain, recyclable
materials and trash such as camping equipment, oxygen bottles and
bottles to be brought back to Katmandu.
	Expeditions attempting to climb Everest will be charged $4,000 in
trash fees. An amount of $3,000 will be charged for peaks higher than
26,000 feet and $2,000 for smaller mountains.
	The scheme was introduced following increasing concern about the
environmental impact of mountaineering in the region.
	Trash has been steadily accumulating in the region since Sir Edmund
Hillary and the late Tenzing Norgay Sherpa first conquered Everest in
1953.


Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
From: pmparaju@acs.ucalgary.ca (Partha Mani Parajuli)
Subject: Arjun Thapa/ Bhismananda Bajracharya
 
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 01:50:02 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

Can you reach through Email? If yes respond to this note. If no
try to reach me in the following address
PMParajuli
Dept of Civil Engg.
2500 University Dr. NW
Calgary,AB
Canada,T2N 1N4
Tel 403 282 7403 Home
    403 220 4813
From: sanjay@media.mit.edu (Sanjay Manandhar)
Subject: Re: what did I see?
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:50:34 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.175753.12495@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> margulis@inf.ethz.ch (Eugene Margulis) writes:
>
>Last spring I was trekking in Nepal, from Pokhara towards Jomosom. 
>On the way to Hille I passed through a tiny village where I 
>encountered a very strange procession. A porter was carrying a large
>basket with an umbrella attached to it. There was a woman in the
>basket and at least 5 people accompanying them. There were a couple of
>other completely loaded porters. 

Yes, sounds like a marriage procession. If a groom was not walking in
front of the "doli" (the basket you mentioned), the bride was most
likely going to be taken to the groom. In many moderately well-off
families, they'll even hire a musical band (usually playing the
"panchai baja" or five instruments).

The umbrella and shoes have traditionally been signs of wealth or
stature. I am assuming that the umbrella you saw was slightly
decorated and the "basket" you saw was oblong. If the umbrella was a
regular one and the basket was also the regular "doko", then it was
probably a mountain ambulance.

sanjay


-- 
___________________________________________________________________________
Sanjay Manandhar  MIT Media Laboratory       sanjay@media-lab.media.mit.edu
                  Siemens-Nixdorf Info Systems          sanjaym@sni-usa.com
                  Cambridge, Massachusetts. USA              (617) 349-5047
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
From: roger@nsc.nsc.com (Roger Thompson)
Subject: Re: what did I see?
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:40:02 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.175753.12495@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>, margulis@inf.ethz.ch (Eugene Margulis) writes:
> 
> Last spring I was trekking in Nepal, from Pokhara towards Jomosom. 
> On the way to Hille I passed through a tiny village where I 
> encountered a very strange procession. A porter was carrying a large
> basket with an umbrella attached to it. There was a woman in the
> basket and at least 5 people accompanying them. There were a couple of
> other completely loaded porters. As soon as I raised my camera one of
> them shouted that they do not want pictures to be taken, so I did not
> take any. I am not quite sure what the procession was about, I wanted
> to ask someone local about it, but by the end of the day I forgot. 
> Someone later suggested that this was a marriage procession, sort 
> of delivering the bride to her husband, but he was not sure. Does
> anyone on this group have an idea what it could have been? 

Was the woman sick or possibly crippled?  i have seen this on
numerous occasions where a man is carrying somebody a sick or
crippled person and other family members may be following along.

Wedding parties would be ornate or elaborate and depending
on how close to Jomsom you were, they would likely be on ponies. 
I forget exactly where Hille is on the trail.

roger
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
From: sanjay@media.mit.edu (Sanjay Manandhar)
Subject: Re: what did I see?
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:13:40 GMT

A while back I posted a short "how-to-post" note for the Unix users.
Since I do not have that document anymore, I suggest new users to
subscribe to the following groups and find out how it might work for
your site.

news.announce.newusers
news.newusers.questions

========== Posted for <pokharel@watdcs.UWaterloo.ca> =============
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 12:31:00 -0400
From: POKHAREL SP (SYSTEMS DESIGN) <pokharel@watdcs.UWaterloo.ca>
To: sanjay@media-lab.mit.edu.internet@camus.sni-usa.com

Hi,
I was looking for some idea to post this news to soc.culture.nepal but I
could not find any help.  Could you please help me in this matter so that
I would be able to post the news directly.  Could you please help me in
posting the following news?  Thanks.
Shaligram Pokharel

The News.

The parliament of Nepal has granted permission to open a private
university in Nepal.  The new university, "Kathmandu University", would
be located at Dhulikhel, about 50 km east of Kathmandu.
The university has already started its administrative works and plans to
admit the students for I.SC. and MBA from Fall, 1993.  Plans are being
made to start undergraduate course in electronic and computer engineering
from Fall 1994.  Japan, universities from USA and Canada has already
shown inerest on the development of the university.  The administration
is thinking to adopt courseworks based on US system.
The vice-chancellor of the university, Dr. Suresh Raj Sharma, was in US
in May and discussed the possibilities of affiliation of Kathmandu
University with some US universities.  More could be enquried from the
following address:

The Vice-Chancellor  or The Registrar
Kathmandu University
Lazimpat, Kathmandu
Nepal





-- 
___________________________________________________________________________
Sanjay Manandhar  MIT Media Laboratory       sanjay@media-lab.media.mit.edu
                  Siemens-Nixdorf Info Systems          sanjaym@sni-usa.com
                  Cambridge, Massachusetts. USA              (617) 349-5047
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Friday, 21 Aug 1992 16:53:30 MST
From: <ASRPA@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
Subject:    News from Bhutan

                     Copyright 1992 Agence France Presse
                              Agence France Presse

                                August  14, 1992


HEADLINE: Hundreds of Bhutanese refugees die of disease in  Nepal

DATELINE: KATHMANDU

 BODY:
    More than 65,000 Bhutanese refugees of Nepalese origin have
entered  Nepal   this year and 866 of them have died of seasonal
diseases, Bhutanese People's  Party (BPP) spokesman S.K. Pradhan
said Friday.

    "The majority were infants and others included women and
elderly people" who  had fled from the tiny kingdom, Pradhan told
a press conference held here.

    Pradhan in the press conference appealed to Indian Prime
Minister P. V.  Narashimha Rao to support the Bhutanese people in
their struggle for political  freedom and human rights.

    BPP general secretary P.R. Kafle said other ethnic groups
including the Drukpa and Sarchop were giving the BPP indirect
support, even though they could  face punishment and imprisonment
if arrested by Bhutanese security personnel for  their alliance
with the BPP.

    "Even Bhutanese soldiers, royal bodyguards and policemen of
Nepalese origin  have fled Bhutan and entered into  Nepal  to
escape the atrocities of the  Bhutanese government," Kafle charged.
From: akumar@pollux.usc.edu (Anant Kumar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
Subject: SpicMacay:Indian Dance(ODISSI):LEC-DEM:AUG 19:FREE
Date: 12 Aug 1992 15:33:06 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu


  Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth
                                (SPIC-MACAY)

                                 presents

                   An evening (Lecture-Demonstration) with

           	 One of the foremost Indian Classical Dancers
			  The Great Odissi Exponent


                             SANJUKTA PANIGRAHI



                        Wednesday Aug. 19, 1992, 7:30 pm.
			
 		       Titan pavilion A, University Center
			  California State University
                                   Fullerton

			**ALSO AT:
			  Peterson Hall, Room 103
			  UC, SAN DIEGO. August 20th, 7:30 pm.
			  Call (619) 291 9377 for more Info.
			**

                        ADMISSION FREE AND OPEN TO ALL.
	     (First Come First Served, limited by hall capacity)

		For CARPOOL and other info, contact:
                           USC, Los Angeles (213) 748-6353 (Kartik)
                           UC, Irvine       (714) 856-3589 (Sanjiv)
                           UC, Los Angeles  (310) 312-1644 (Munira)
			   CSU, Fullerton   (714) 992-5875 (Subha)

                or e-mail: ananthan@usc.edu   (Kartik)

Lecture-Demonstration: 
---------------------
The artist explains the art form and its intricacies. She illustrates
her explanations with demonstrations of each action (mudra) even as she
talks.

The audience will be sitting on the floor, close to the artist. It might be
a good idea to get your own cushions.

Directions and Parking:
----------------------
From 91 Freeway
Take 57 N. (Pomona), Exit Nutwood Avenue. Take left at exit (lights)
right on State College Blvd.
First Right on Dorothy Lane
Immediate Left and go on to Parking Lots A & B.

parking Fee is $2 per car.

---
from 60 Freeway.
Take 57 South, Exit Nutwood. Right at exit and follow above directions.
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