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From: ramesh@ramesh.Warren.MENTORG.COM (Ramesan Ramanathan)
Subject: info about Amherst
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corp. - IC Group
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 15:37:47 GMT

 Hi Guys,
  
       I need some information about Amherst. My brother will
       be coming there in the Fall for an MS in CS. So any 
       kind soul who has the time to respond please email
       replies to:
                  ramesh@warren.mentorg.com

       1) How much does a 1 bedroom apartment cost?
          (as close to School as possible. )
 
       2) What is Apt. deposit like? In the south it is
       like a $100.00 but I have a nasty suspicion it is
       a good deal more in Amherst.

       3) Are there any graduate dorms where one can get
       a room to oneself and also a restroom to oneself?

       4) Are there any Indian Students Assoc. where 
       people can stay for a while before finding permanent
       housing?

       5) How big is Amherst and what is public transportation

          like? 

Ramesh.
(Ramesan Ramanathan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: harbirk@ifi.uio.no (Harbir Singh Kohli)
Subject: Re: Matrimonial - Groom wanted
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 15:04:34 GMT
Originator: harbirk@skotta.ifi.uio.no


A general remark, this is a group of and for Indians, Indian culture, and values,
good, or, BAD. If you feel arranged marriages are bad, that is your choice, but stop
writing here and WASTING bandwidth, and other's time with your rantings.
From: KXK140@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: kunal joarder at florida tlantic
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:12:24 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

Hi,

Any idea about Kunal's e-mail address or telephone number. Nothing important. J
ust to say hi and keep in touch.
Regards,
Krishna Kishore
From: mchari@yoko.rutgers.edu (Murali Chari)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Problems with some Immigrant Men
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:53:25 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Great writing - what ?? Someone should have thought about this before.
From: balarama@cae.wisc.edu (Prabhu Balaraman)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Response to INDIAN MEN ..
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:22:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Apr12.122202.18375
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

In message <MdttYEG00WBO847e8W@andrew.cmu.edu>,
sn00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sudha Neelakantan) writes...

> Haven't you probably seen many more attractive/beautifful women with not
                            ^^^^^^^^^^
> so appealing men rather than vice versa?

  There it is again! Unsubstantiated claims..
That apart , assuming the distribution of " Attractive " and " Unattractive"
people is the same for both men and women, the above argument implies that
a whole bunch of " Unattractive" women remain single. Kind of hard to 
believe..

Just some humble thoughts..
-PB
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: surge@en.ecn.purdue.edu (PhD-in-Training)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Arranged Marriages...
Date: 13 Apr 92 04:16:45 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

This is an age old question that still needs an answer:

If the dating-->romantic love marriage system SO SUPERIOR
to the arranged marriage system then how come:

	(1)  About 50% of US marriages end up in divorce (didn't
		the couple KNOW their partner pretty well?).  Why
		are so many love marriages still together but
		devoid of love and caring?  (Can it be that
		romantic love is NOT permanent?  Can it be that
		the success of failure of a marriage has nothing to
		with how the two "met"?)

	(2)  So many wives in the US are controlled, beaten, emotionally
		abused and raped if they were so WISE as to CHOOSE and KNOW
		their mate before marriage.

Either the above two remarks are false, or the above two remarks
are much stronger for arranged marriages.  I say that they are
not.  If the profile of the resulting marriages from each system
is not different, then how can using either method be of any consequence?

Perhaps some intelligent IIWs can enlighten my simple "MCP" mind with
some concrete facts/argument as opposed to spewing feminist rhetoric.

Come on, I dare yas!

--Surajit Mukheree (a.k.a. O.P., the Original Poster)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sandeep@mtl.mit.edu (Sandeep Bahl)
Subject: Re: New Gujju joke
Organization: MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 16:36:07 GMT

No offense to folks from Gujarat, but here's another one:

Q: What is the gay gujju's favourite rice?

A: Uncle Ben's
From: joshee@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jeetendra R. Joshee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Abuse of SCI
Date: 17 Apr 92 20:39:46 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Due to my interest in the sub-continent and to find out interesting
information, news articles etc., I read most of the SC groups from
Southasia. But it is disappointing that I find SCI constantly abused 
by so many netters. Don't misunderstand me - I would like to recongnize
that there are netters in this group who regularly post worthy articles.
But those worthy articles gets buried in a crowd of so many silly,
nonsense and bogus postings.

Lets try to be more CIVILIZED folks. If you are intelligent, skilled, and 
smart enough to use this net and are among the "Todays Technology Literate",
I am sure you have a mind to realize the abuse you are doing to this
system. Instead of wasting your time abusing the system - just take a 
hike somewhere. Don't create unnecessary traffic in the net.

Some of you may think - who the hell is this trying to be a nice guy.
No, I'm  not trying anything. I am just presenting my honest opinion.
Also, FYI, I'm not from India.
From: Vijay_Anand@TRANSARC.COM
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Cleveland concert info request
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:13:54 GMT


Could someone from Cleveland who has some information about the
concert next weekend send me some of it. Particularly, I would like to
know how to get tickets, the time and directions to the place. 

Anyone else planning to attend this concert, if you know something
about this, please send me mail.

I will post a summary for the benefit of people who are interested.

Thanks,

Vijay
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: burra@sun1.coe (Gangadhar Burra)
Subject: Re: Indians Protest Libyan sanctions
Organization: Texas Tech
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:16:34 GMT

Three cheers to Ajay for stating so clearly what is probably in most of our
minds and hearts. It would serve a very useful purpose if some sensible person
told these punks who were demonstrating that there were a lot of innocent
Indians on that Panam flight!!! Given that, what these guys are doing is in
effect celebrating the murder of some of their own countrymen/women. But again,
it has long been clear that the loyalty of some of these idiots does not lie
in India but with some dictatorial Muslim regime elsewhere...be it Pakistan
or Libya or someother twobit banana republic.

Gangadhar.
From: grx0751@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Marriage and ....[Ms. Chitra, please read this]
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:38:54 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services


	On this subject, one Ms. Chitra has sent me a personal mail, to which
	she wants to be replied privately. 

	Ms. Chitra, I have tried 'reply'ing to you; also 'send'ing the mail.
	But the mail in both cases bounced right back. Please send me Email 
	on how to send mail to you; at an alternate address perhaps?

	Thanks,
	Siva Prasad.			(grx0751@uoft02.utoledo.edu)
From: rao@parikalpik.eas.asu.edu (Subbarao Kambhampati)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Indian Men, Arranged Marriages : A NEGLECTED POINT
Date: 14 Apr 92 23:34:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Arizona State University, Tempe

In article <1992Apr14.214949.5338@cis.ohio-state.edu> murthy@neuron.cis.ohio-state.edu (Murthy Gandikota) writes:
>In article <1992Apr12.224328.28713@news.nd.edu> dkulkarn@vivaldi.helios.nd.edu (Dinesh Kulkarni) writes:
>>
>>possible to be a maverick but few people would want to jump through a
>>thousand hoops or be willing to make unnecessary compromises to get
>> what they want. So until our society at large (at
>>least the urban part) doesn't make a transition, it is unreasonable to
>>expect arranged marriages to go away, even in case of Indians who come
>>to US.
>>
>
>
>Change comes by leadership and the following. If more people in India
>looked upto the Indians in USA, and these in turn believed in love
>relationships, then the system of arranged marriages can be
>turned upside down. Conversely, to look for solutions, don't look into
>matrimonial columns and don't respond to them. Instead, start your own
>matrimonial pitch that goes somewhat like:
>
>"Hey gals out there, I don't think of you as goddesses or whores, not
>as commodities to be sold and bought, nor as exotic species to be
>contacted through diplomatic channels; neither am I an exotic male
>dildo nor anti-feminist. But you see, I need to love someone of
>opposite sex before I get too old and die as a virgin--if not as a
>loophole virgin. So why not send me a nice letter (or an angry one if
>you wish) that explains your preferences in a male and then we can
>work from then onwards. Remember, no love, no marriage. I don't want
>to meet your dad/mom/uncle/purohit/janitor/brother/broom-stick/pet or
>correspond with them or seek their approval in this process...."
>
>Gundekota

Well said. Extremely well said.

Rao
[Apr 14, 1992]
------

 A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as commonsense
 or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or
 futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's
 self respect and inherent human dignity

			Aung San Suu Kyi,
			Burmese freedom fighter & 1991 Nobel Laureate for peace
			Freedom from fear and other writings
			Penguin, 1991.
From: sunder@altair.crhc.uiuc.edu (Srinivas Sunder)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: India: Question of self-confidence / Dr.Manmohan Singh
Date: 10 Apr 1992 14:12:48 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: altair.crhc.uiuc.edu

A superb speech, IMNSHO (In My Not-So_Humble Opinion). In fact, I think someone
ought to take a copy of it and mail it to all the protectionist Japan-bashing
cranks that now permeate the Political system in THIS country.


-srinivas
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ninad@next13epsl.wam.umd.edu (Ninad Krishna Jog)
Subject: Re: Sanskrit
Keywords: September, October
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:41:05 GMT


The months September through December were the 7th-10th months of the 
year, until some Roman Emperor added January and February.

Ninad
--
Curiousity kills the cat, so he'd better be a smart bunny and 
flee before getting bitten by a Trojan horse.
Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:14766 soc.culture.bangladesh:2521 soc.culture.pakistan:6709
From: ag3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Arun K. Gupta)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: III: Conflict: Causes
Date: 17 Apr 92 14:25:46 GMT
Organization: Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA



To point out to Dipen Bhattacharya and others:

It is not a matter of `Hindus' making a concession to minorities:
(in the matter of helping disadvantaged groups catch up with the
general population). Its a matter of social justice, and following
the provisions of the Indian Constitution. In particular, Clause 4
of Article 15 authorizes the state to make `special provision for the
advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes of
citizen or for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled tribes' and
specifically in the matter of services clause 4 of article 16
exhorts the State to `make any provision for the reservation
of appointments to posts in favor of any backward class of
citizens which, in the opinion of the state, is not adequately
represented in the services under the state.'

Please note that I'm not calling for blanket reservations for
Muslims or any other class. Ideally, the govt. will identify
backward districts, (rather than religious or ethnic groups)
and will concentrate on the uplift of these weakest of areas.
Initially that will probably mean a lot of attention to areas
that have Muslim concentrations -- because Muslim backwardness
overall in India is a fact.

-arun gupta
ag3L@andrew.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: kumar@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (V.R.Kumar)
Subject: Re: College students in third-world India
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 23:09:05 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.234845.19996@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> sidana@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Ashmeet S Sidana) writes:
>In article <1992Apr14.191729.24012@intelhf.hf.intel.com> kumarr@ivan.intel.com writes:
>
>>The following article appeared in the Wall Street Journal in 1982. Much of it
>>is as relevant today if not more.
>
>and
>
>>The British founded the University of Calcutta, the first in India, 125 years
>                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>I believe the first in India was Nalanda University and predates
>the British by several centuries.
>
>---Ashmeet Sidana.
>
>

College of Engineering, Guindy [CEG], Madras (now Anna University) was founded
by the British about 200+ years ago. Its one of the oldest institutions in Asia.

Cheers,

Ramkumar [CEG Graduate, 1987]
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: kaji@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Tejas Kaji)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Transit Visa-Frankfurt
Date: 17 Apr 92 16:02:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: uwm.1992Apr17.160214.14201
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Originator: kaji@csd4.csd.uwm.edu


I would be grateful if someone, who in the recent past has travelled to India
via Frankfurt, can let me know if indian citizens are required to obtain a 
transit visa if they are in transit at Frankfurt.

Thanks in advance.

Tejas 
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From: prabhak@cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: On starting the newsgroup soc.culture.tamil
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:54:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr15.195435.26675
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.


 (Sundara Pandian) writes:
>
>           On starting the newsgroup soc.culture.tamil

	<Convincing arguments deleted>

I am not a Tamilian but I spent about 5 years in Tamil Nadu 
when I was doing my Bachelors. In this period I developed
a strong liking and respect for Tamil culture and arts. In
my opinion, Tamil culture is distinctive in its own way.

Now for the justification of a new group for Tamil-related
topics. I think if sufficient number of serious men and
women find the need for a group, that alone is justification
enough. In any case, it beats alt.basketball.duke.puke.puke.puke.

To the question: Why can't these guys use sci? If one lists
the articles on sci after a day's hiatus, the reason becomes
apparent. (At the risk of apearing popmpus and conceited)
SCI is overloaded with personal vendettas, childish exchanges,
one-two line retorts, looking-for calls, test messages and
virulent religious and regional attacks. A few people post
once in a while when they have something meaningful to add. But
their attempts at injecting some sensibility into the 
proceedings gets lost in the intemperate crosscurrents of 
trash and muck.

When a singificant number of committed members want to 
start a group to cater to their special needs, I wonder
why so many people let out plaintive shrieks as if their
houses are being robbed!

Satya Prabhakar (satya@ssdc.honeywell.com)
From: cobra@chopin.udel.edu (Jay Bhartkumar Patel)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: GUJJU JOKES
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:38:14 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

Lately I have seen a lot of GUJJU jokes. I haven't yet found a single one funny.
The people who think of these jokes( maybe they should learn a definition of a 
joke) are they from the University of Nerds? 

In all the years I've been on this planet (this is Earth to those retarded who 
think of the humorless jokes) I've heard of people make fun of 'polaks and 
'sardarjis', but never heard of Gujju jokes.

Are these people operating on the diffrent frequency?


If you have any comments feel free to fire away.


P.S. : The fact that I am gujarati has nothing to do with this article. I am 
       damn proud to be gujarati. I don't mind if the joke is funny and has to 
       do with GUJJU. Hey who would want to stop you from making fun of yourself
       by making senseless jokes about intellegent people.






COBRA

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E-mail: cobra@brahms.udel.edu 

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From: shankar@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Chidambaram Shankar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: test message
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:40:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: uwm.1992Apr8.174027.10233
Distribution: na
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Originator: shankar@csd4.csd.uwm.edu


hi, 
  this is just a test message.
     bye
     .
     .
From: uds@artemis.cs.wayne.edu (Seetamraju)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Caucasians/Europeans proposing to Indian women.
Date: 8 Apr 92 04:47:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr8.044754.29722
Organization: Wayne State University

>I don't think this is junk.  Let them be.  Come to think of it, I
>wouldn't mind finding a young Indian woman who doesn't mind an
>American myself.  :)
>-- 
> Michael Le Houllier           *  John 3:16  * Nov 12, 1991 - Dili      

Boss, could you please stop this.  Given that indian women are `irresistably'
attracted to `non-Indians' like kunal kapoor, salman khan, Aamir khan (both afgans), fido, Jackie shroff, etc.., we the common-indian bramhachaaris (CIBs) do
not stand much a chance, unless, you guys shift to other `hunting-grounds'.

I shall attempt to nominate you guys for a honorary Bharat-Ratna, for your
contribution and sacrifice, in this regard.  (to other CIBs: any body seconding
or opposing this motion)

Seetamraju, Uday Bhaskar Sarma
(email : seetam @ ss0 . eng . wayne . edu)
From: n0r1688@summa.tamu.edu (Raghunand Natarajan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Madras being part of Andhra Pradesh
Summary: Madras being part of India.
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:54:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr12.071846.16311@cs.wayne.edu>, uds@parvathi.cs.wayne.edu 
(Seetamraju ---- the parochial fool) vomits..... (about Madras & Tirupathi)

> Financially, yes , Tirupathi is a powerful, but that does not form a
> sufficient reason for not handing over Madras to Andhra.  We should have 
> legitimately gotten both -- its a pity we didnt [rest deleted]

What the f*@k do you mean you "should have legitimately gotten both" ???
You *DO* have both, you ass ! You are Indian aren't you ?

>Seetamraju, Uday Bhaskar Sarma

-Raghu
n0r1688@zeus.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: WHAT DOES THIS HINDI/URDU WORD MEAN.....
From: S.P.Pandey@massey.ac.nz (S.P. Pandey)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 03:03:05 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c

Re: Haala

`Haala' most certainly means Daru (and that too Desi!).

As for the third line "mere adhron par ho antim vastu, na ganga jal haala"
you might recall a similar sort of song from `Roti, Kapara aur Makan":
 "Panditji mere marne ke baad________________________, mere moon me ganga
  jal ki jagah thori Madira tapka dena".

And let's propose a toast to Madhushala Ki Madhubala!!!!!!!

Cheers!

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: chandra@cannelloni.cis.ohio-state.edu (B Chandrasekaran)
Subject: Re: Hindu Muslim Dailog
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 13:25:18 GMT

>> We do not have such problems in Bangladesh. Why in India?

  Actually, there were a number of anti-Hindu riots in the East Bengal
province of Pakistan in the 50's and 60's.  Substantial numbers of
Hindus moved to India as a result of these riots and their property was
taken over and given to the local Muslims.  But because of the
much tighter integration of Hindus in the demographic distribution of
East Bengal, the remaining Hindu population is still more substantial
than in West Pakistan from where Hindus and Sikhs were expelled  in
sufficiently large quantities in the late 40's and 50's that the percentage
of Hindus and Sikhs is extremely low (so that there are no anti-Hindu riots
in Pakistan any longer, giving Pakistan a better reputation in this matter
than India! -- but ask Ahmedias what kind of protection they get).

  It is true that Bangladesh since independence has not had any major
outbreaks of anti-Hindu violence.  In my view that is because that
extreme right-wing elements lost their credibility because of their role
during their war of liberation from West Pakistan.  Jamat-Ismali is trying
to make a comeback, tho.
From: sebas-j@acsu.buffalo.edu (Joseph Sebastian)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: More GUJJU jokes
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:38:06 GMT
Organization: UB
Originator: sebas-j@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu


In article <19527@chopin.udel.edu>, cobra@chopin.udel.edu (Jay Bhartkumar Patel) writes:
>> 
>> (this is not a gujju joke)
>> 
>> Q.	What's better than roses on your piano?
>> A.	Tulips on your organ!
>
>  Hey asshole, Do you know what the hell GUJJU stands for. It stands for the 
>  people from Gujarat. 
>
>  You call them jokes. They don't even make sense. Where the fuck do you get 
>  them?
>
>
>
>COBRA

	cobra, do us a favor and bite yourself.

>
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>Jay Patel                                     
>
>E-mail: cobra@brahms.udel.edu 
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: ramasubr@ecn.purdue.edu (SUBU Ramasubramanian)
Subject: Re: soc.culture.tamil
Keywords: citizenship
Reply-To: ramasubr@ecn.purdue.edu
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:35:51 GMT

How about one newsgroup for every person?

Subu