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From: rajain@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: smoking percentages in India and US
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:11:59 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.173807.21954@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, janand@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Jayaraman Anand) writes:
> Hi !
>     I would like to know the percentage of people who smoke in India
> and in the US. Are these numbers decreasing ?        

  I am not 100% sure but I think the percentage is:

	Indians : 60%

	USA     : 25% (it has been decreasing for some time now and used to
		       be higher, around 40%, earlier)

> 
> 	Can somebody refer me to some magazines etc., which carry these
> details.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> J Anand.
> 
> 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: yunus@loro-next.Stanford.EDU (Jonas Sami Celebiler)
Subject: Heroism in Indian culture
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 01:45:29 GMT


I am interested, if you are interested as well, in the concept of hero in  
Indian culture.  The values and ideals that are imbodied in the Indian  
heroes.  
For example, Arjuna and Rama.  In what ways are they heroes, are they  
different types of heroes, or are they very similar.
It seems that Arjuna and Rama are heroes in  a different sense than the  
American hero, in that the ideal they follow is to do their duty, rather  
than the American ideal of doing something that is "right" and "putting  
things right".  How does that lead to heroism though,  and how does that  
link to hinduism, and dharma

???

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar)
Subject: INDIA GROWTH FUND: Buying Opporunity?
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:00:56 GMT

I have been posting often on the India Growth Fund which trades
as a closed-end fund on the Big Board.

Given the movement of the fund over the last six months, the 
current price of about 16.75 appears to be a good price to
accumulate some stock. As I suggested earlier, it is impossible
for anyone to predict the movement from here onwards. However
the steep 16% discount to NAV provides some cushion against
drop in underlying asset value.

I feel that the investment horizon for IGF is 2-4 years. If you
are playing for the short run, this ain't your kinda show!

Satya Prabhakar

p.s. Another excellent opportunity is France Growth Fund which
is selling at 16% discount and the average PE of the Paris
Bourse is about 9.5, compared to that of about 25-30 for Bombay.
From: kavuri@lips1.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Calvin to the Pedagogues on SCI
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:08:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: noose.1992Oct14.200817.25724
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network


  Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes) is in his classroom.

  Calvin: Miss Wormwood !

  Teacher: Yes, Calvin ?

  Calvin: If ignorance is bliss, this lesson would 
          appear to be a deliberate attempt on your
          part to deprive me of happiness, the pursuit
          of which is my unalienable right according
          to the declaration of independence.

          I therefore assert my patriotic prerogative
          not to know this material.  I'll be out on
          the playground.




*****************************************************
   Lighten up all ye' blokes
   You are not here to reform us folks 

   Take a sip of that coffee
   Or a bite off that toffee

   Time is past for you to preach
   because I am going to be out of your reach

   So you better hold on to your calm
   Or I'll call your Mom

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

    Surya Kavuri
From: ravi@cs.wpi.edu (Ravi Narayan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,wpi.students.desis
Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR GCTians..  ( Coimbatore, INDIA)
Date: 13 Oct 92 03:47:52 GMT
Reply-To: ravi@cs.wpi.edu (Ravi Narayan)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxine.wpi.edu

(Caveat Emperor) writes:
|> 
|> This posting is meant for all those who have graduated from GOVERNMENT 
|> COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY COIMBATORE - 641011. If you are not from GCT , Coimbatore
|> please ignore this posting. I am interested in forming an ex GCTians social
|> group. It would be fun to have the lost touch!!


	you may find a lot of them if you looked around in coimbatore.
	;)

	just another friendly suggestion brought to you by the Crazee
	Dazee (Tm).

	peace,

	- ravi


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From: groy@jasmine.csb
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: ***********SURVEY*****************
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:32:16 GMT
Reply-To: groy@jasmine.csb
Organization: National Library of Medicine

HI GUYS,

	    I am conducting a survey on global military power.
		
		If you could answer the following questions, it would be appreciated:
		
		1) Please list and rank the TOP FIVE AIR FORCES OF THE WORLD
           
           1.
           2.
           3.
           4.
           5.
           
        2) Please list and rank the TOP FIVE ARMY OF THE WORLD
          
           1.
           2.
           3.
           4.
           5.
           
        3) Please list and rank the TOP FIVE NAVY OF THE WORLD
        
           1.
           2.
           3.
           4.
           5.
             
		4) Please list the countries who you think can fight a 
		   nuclear war... (don't include countries who are 
		   rumored to possess nuclear arsenal)
		   
		   
		5) Please list the countries who you think can fight a
		   lenghty war (over 9 months) with the United States
		   
		6) Please list the countries who you think are 
		   geographically helped (such as terrain, desert, mountains,
		   waters etc) in connection to a war...
		   
		7) Please list the countries who you think indigenously built
		   their satellites..
		   
		   
		   
		   Please email me at the following address:
		   
		   groy@nlm.nih.gov

   
		   IF THERE IS ENOUGH RESPONSE I WILL POST THE RESULTS IN THE NET
		   
		   
		   *************************************************************
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 16 Oct 1992 12:30:26 CDT
From: Shyamala Parameswaran <U15297@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Eve teasing - India (in Europe too...)
 <1992Oct16.041356.4528@usl.edu> <1992Oct16.145619.27044@galois.mit.edu>

In article <1992Oct16.145619.27044@galois.mit.edu>, kumar@carleman.mit.edu
(Sanjay Kumar) says:
>
>I feel that US is an exception as far as relative absence of eve-teasing goes.
>
>I think that absence of eve-teasing in US has a lot to do with improvement
>in social status of women more than anything else. This has happened because
>of large gains women have made in professional terms. That is the way to
>go for India too.
>

Yes. I said elsewhere that working in India provides a different
perspective. Situations *do* change, even in India.

Shyamala Parameswaran
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: kmurali2@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Wanted  E-amil ads.
Date: 11 Oct 92 22:34:37 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

Hi Netters,

Excuse me for posting this here, I am looking for the e-mail address of 
the postmaster of 
		1. Rice University, Houston, Texas 
		2. University of California, Irvine.

If anybody knows, please send me an e-mail.

thank you,
muali.k
From: nd3375@meibm5.cen.uiuc.edu (Nishit Dey)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Looking for Sourav Mishra
Date: 15 Oct 92 02:49:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bw56Hs.7zv
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

I am looking for Sourav Mishra, who graduated from IT BHU in the year 1990 or 1991 (Metallurgical Engg). As far as I know he is doing his graduate study in some university in USA. If anybody knows this 
gentleman, I will be grateful to him if he could inform Sourav about this posting.  My E-mail adress is nd3375@meibm5.cen.uiuc.edu  and my phone number is 217-333-8133.

Thanks in advance


Nishit
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: jakhan@IASTATE.EDU (Javed Ahmed Khan)
Subject: Re: BM-RJB issue (more developments)
Reply-To: jakhan@IASTATE.EDU (Javed Ahmed Khan)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:20:47 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.161852.27594@csrd.uiuc.edu>, ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu
(Sanjoy Ghosh) writes:
> (Raja R Roy) writes:
> 
> >45 years was a long long time to change the demography of Kashmir. 
> 
> Don't intend to be rude or anything, but who do you think you are.
> God or what.  Change the demography of the place.  Who or what gives
> you the right to do that.  I hope not Hinduism, or Hindu spiritual 
> leaders.
> 
> >If only we had allowed Indians outside
> >Kashmir to settle  there, today we would not have the problem of Kashmir.
> >As it turns out Nehru was an idiot, not to have allowed so.
> 
> So that the fatcats of Bombay, Delhi, and Calcutta could have a
> 6-lane autobahn built to Srinagar.  Huge empty havelis on the
> Dal Lake, and most of the natives employed as hired help.
> 
> Sanjoy Ghosh


If the Indians from the rest of the country now decide to *consciously* change
the demography of Kashmir; that would be nothing less than imperialism(I would
also term it fascist). Kashmir should never have been accepted in to the union
with special privileges in the first place. It should have been accorded the
same status as the rest of the states in the union. That was the first mistake
commited but I wouldn't pass judgements on the conditions under which Nehru
agreed to the special status accorded to Kashmir. Its very easy to sit back and
criticize him and his govt. for all the ills of today. If Kashmir was to be
stripped of its special status, the same policy must be applied to all states
and should result in the similar stripping down of privileges accorded to
Nagaland etc.

--Javed.
From: rbabbar@lynx.cat.syr.edu (Rajnish Babbar)
Subject: Problems with multiple H1 @Juarez, Help needed!!!
Organization: Syracuse University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 11:58:44 EDT


Hi Nettors/Visa gurus:

I went to Juarez, Mexico last Friday and what unfolded is as
follows.  The instructions on the net were perfect, and I had no
problem getting to the consulate.  The lady who interviewed me
asked a few questions like whether I had a letter from the company
or not, but never read anything I had.  She granted me the visa and
asked me to pay $100 to the cashier.  I paid the money and passed
on the receipt to her.  She told me to come and collect my passport
with the visa stamped in an hour.  After I had waited an hour, I
was asked to come in, and told that they couldn't issue me the
visa.  I was stunned.  She asked me what I was doing in India on
the 29th of September 1991.  On being told that I was never in
India at that time, and after verifying that from my passport, I
was told to go to India and get my visa from there.  All I know is
that my sister had gone to the consulate around that time and
applied for a tourist visa and I had sent all the sponsorship
papers.  I can only imagine that they screwed up at the embassy in
India and updated my records for some odd reason.

What I want to know is whether anyone else has faced such a
situation before?  In case, someone has and found a resolution to
the problem, I would love to know it.  Also, if not, could someone
pass me the fax number at the embassy in Delhi so that I could
write to them.  Another question I have is how does it impact my
green card process, if any?

A quick reply will be much appreciated.

Thanks
--
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112 W. 103rd St., #11 	        	(816)854-5813 (Off.)
Kansas City, MO 64114   
email : /pn=rajnish.x.babbar/o=us.sprint/admd=telemail/c=us/@sprint.com
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From: agulati@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anuranjan Gulati)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Request for Application material ( VLSI/Microelectronics )
Date: 7 Oct 1992 15:54:43 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: agulati@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

This is for a friend who is interested in pusuing Graduate Studies
in VLSI / Microelectronics. 

He has a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication from
Delhi University and has 2 years experience in VLSI design.

If you think that your university has a good curriculum in the above topics
please send the application material to him at the following address.


ADDRESS is : 

		AMIT KUMAR
		3-D, VIJAY MANDAL ENCLAVE,
		DDA FLATS 
		NEW DELHI -  110016
		INDIA



Your help will be really appreciated. 

Thanx in advance.
Anuranjan
From: rajain@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Stories
Date: 13 Oct 92 09:09:16 GMT

In article <1bdin7INNg9c@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, sdoki@maxine.wpi.edu (Suresh Doki) writes:
> [lots of unnecessary junk by Anish deleted]
> 
>>Hey doki you tasteless morAn (tm?),
> 
> when did you taste me? i don't remember it yat allll....

  Of course ya didn't!!!! He first "chloroformized" you :-)

> 
>>Buy a brain will ya?
> 
> i already asked you three times as to where you bought your brain.
> anyway now atleast tell me so that i can get one.....for others like
> you who really need it.

  A hint:  "chor-bazaar" held every sunday behind Red Fort in Delhi :-) 

> 
>>Finally someone posts something worth READING on the net and you object?
> 
> you morAn, who ever told you that the articles are not worth reading?
> i only asked (if not requested) her to take them to the relevant
> groups. also you can still read them from there.

 Chh! Chh! Chh! How many times I have to tell you guys...............
 It's morAn dammit NOT morAn ..

> 
>>Of course, someone accustommed to your type of verbal diaorreah would
> 
> is that a new disease? i only heard of diarrhoea(sp?)
> 
>>And Shyamala, I am sure you wont take the MorAns (tm?) statements 
>>seriously (his stupid .sig file not withstanding). I for one really 
>>liked your story and would like to read more.
> 
> i still am not able to understand what you are trying to do! anyway i
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> think you wont' succeed. 

  Does the sound "slllllllllllluuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrpppppp" make any sense ;-)
 
   <grin!!!!!!!>

> if you really like stories you can check out this ftp site. it has
> really fundu stories.
> 
> the site is cnam.cnam.fr
> 
> the directory is: /pub/Archives  (with an upper case A)
> 
> 
> suresh
> 
> 

 rAjAt :-)

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rcmolden@parmesan.cs.wisc.edu (Robertc. Moldenhauer)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.asean,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: ...Internet in Asia ......
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:18:22 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

In article <1992Oct9.210517.18564@cs.wayne.edu> uds@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar) writes:
>
>In a gopher in Michigan I found Gopher servers in Chile Equador etc..
>	(Three in Chile!!!)
>None in Asia !!   What is Asia doing...?
>If IEEE Spectrum got its data properly sorted, then Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
                                                                   ^^^^^
                                                                   |||||

Umm, unless there's been some major geologic activity that I haven't heard
about, Egypt is still in Africa.


Dr. Landweber (landweber@cs.wisc.edu) produces a nice summary of network 
connections in the world.
From: indran@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Bringing High-Tech to a village
Date: 11 Oct 92 22:16:28 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

I  observed that most of the netters have  strong views about 
each and every subject appearing on the net which sometimes 
results in small clashs. Well ! keep it up! 
But here is a case for the netters to express their view.
I am posting this for Mr. X, who wish to remain anonymous.
.........................................................


Mr. X planning to invest $15000  to prepare a village for high-tech jobs 
and eduicational oppertunities of the 21st century. 

The basic goal is to create  25 professionals, within next 25 
years, from each of the following fields
  Engineering(BE,ME+), Computer Science(BTech,MTech +), 
Medicin(MD+),  Scientific research(PhD+), 
Business managment (MBA+). More fields can be added to the list at any 
time.

A secondary goal is to increase the job oppertunities for the 
unemployed young people of the age group (15-30)
through short term training programs in computer 
programming, word processing/data base management and all related 
stuff, electronics...small-business managment etc.

Another goal is to give training for young generation for 
competitive exams (NCSERT,BSRB,JEE,...,GATE,UGC,CSIR,IAS).

Finally to increase the maths and english skill of the young 
generation.

(The method he wish to make the children attracted to the 
project is by offering weekly/monthly and annual competition 
with attractive prizes, not by force or punishments)
  

Though the village will be the centre of activities, 
maximum area and people will be covered by the project. 
The project is driven not by the capital but the by the 
profits from the capital investiment.
  

Here are some questions,

 1 How to get maximum benifits from $15000. Investing in 
   USA ? investing in India ? What type of investiment ?
  
2 As Mr X. is not ready manage the project directly, what 
  administractive structure will be most efficient ?

3 Where to start ?. How to proceed ?


.........................................................

Ravi

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rajiv@mbunix.mitre.org (Kohli)
Subject: R u one in a million..Take a deep breath
Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, Ma.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 14:25:21 GMT



In India, if you feel that you are one in a million
Remember - there are about 900 others just like you
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: aluru@IASTATE.EDU (Srinivas Aluru)
Subject: Re: More About India/ Whither Patriotism
Reply-To: aluru@IASTATE.EDU (Srinivas Aluru)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:44:28 GMT

Many women netters have posted that they face no harassment in the US
and a lot in India. While harassment in India is known to occur, I think
we need the opinion of American women on harassment here. I haven't seen many
Amrecan men/women interested in Indian women/men. Most don't bother
much about people of a different race and this could be a reason why the
Indian women over here are experiencing no unwanted attention on the roads.

-aluru
From: am0f@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ANINDITA MUKHERJEE)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: [soc.culture.indian] FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS - Weekly Remi
Date: 8 Oct 92 04:27:12 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Oct5.084641.28392@ennews.eas.asu.edu>, sridhar@enuxha.eas.asu.ed
u (Sridhar Venkataraman) writes:
>Use searching capability of your newsreader to search for the
>following Subject on soc.culture.indian or news.answers.
>
>From: vikas@deolali.Eng.Sun.COM (Vikas Deolaliker)
>Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,news.answers
>Subject: [soc.culture.indian] FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
>
>*****************************************************************
>This periodic posting is now archived. It is available via
>anonymous ftp from
>       pit-manager.mit.edu (18.172.1.27)
>       /pub/usenet/news.answers/india-faq        OR
>       /pub/usenet/soc.culture.indian/FREQUENTLY_ASKED_QUESTIONS
>                     OR
>sending email to
>       mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu  with  (either one of)
>Subject: send usenet/news.answers/india-faq
>Subject: send usenet/soc.culture.indian/FREQUENTLY_ASKED_QUESTIONS
>******************************************************************
>
>If you find that you need some detail info on any of these topics
>please post the article, complile the information  and send it to
>me. If you find some information outdated/erroneous Please let me
>know.
>
>Thank You,
>
>
>Vikas
>
>vikas@sun.com
>
>*****************************************************************
>
>
>Contents:
>
>1)     Information on Passport Renewals
>2)     Addresses of Indian Consulates  in  US
>3)     Information on Remitting Money to India
>4)     Misc Junk..
>5)     Indian  Books and Magazines
>6)     Indian Newspapers Subcriptions
>7)     Indian e-mail Addresses
>8)     Shortwave Radio Frequencies
>9)     Visitors Visa
>10)    Visitors Medical Insurance.
>11)    Custom Regulations
>12)    Tourist Information
>13)    Pal to Secam Conversion
>14)    Sending Flowers to India
>15)    Printing Indian Language Texts using TeX and/or PostScript
>16)    Addresses of U.S Consulates in India
>
>************************************************************************
>
>--
>Sridhar Venkataraman           sridhar@enuxh{a,b}.eas.asu.edu
>
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: anil@clyde.tcs.com (Anil Ananthaswamy)
Subject: Info needed on Compression Labs,Picturetel
Organization: Teknekron Communications, Inc
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:18:25 GMT

-- 

Hi,
I'm posting this for a friend. Please reply to
him at

 NRAO1@hbs.hbs.harvard.edu


----------------------

Hi,
I am an MBA student at the Harvard Business School and am currently working
on a project to analyze the potential market for video conferencing.  I am
specifically interested in the marriage of videconferencing and computer
technologies.  I am especially keen on talking to engineers at Compression
Labs, Picturetel and any other companies in the field.  I would appreciate
any help in this regard.  Pl. send me your e-mail address or phone number
and I will get in touch with you.  Thanks.

Nagi Rao

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