Inviting comments from knowledgeable folks on the implications of the following
fresh news, particularly ref to the last line.
Regards
Salil
'Rape' to go from IPC; new bill in offing
New Delhi, Mar 15 (PTI)
The Home Ministry is working on a draft bill which
shoot your mouth off.
Cheers
Salil
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No wrath yet, let's hope someone with self-esteem issues jumps in and asks you
to stop calling him shorty. That would be fun :)
Cheers
Salil
--- On Wed, 30/12/09, Deep gaymanprou...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
From: Deep gaymanprou...@yahoo.co.in
Subject: g_b BBC News: Condoms too big for Indian men
But I thought Vikram wrote to the list saying arrangements are being done for
acepting credit cards this time around ?
From: Dee luvde...@yahoo.com
Subject: g_b The GayBombay New Year's Eve Party at Karma! This Thursday Nite -
31 Dec 09
To: darpa...@yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, 30 December,
as compared to ~ 5.7
million infections in South Africa. Not that its a contest score, but
thought it important to set the record straight on this dated article.
Cheers
Salil
--- On Tue, 29/12/09, Deep gaymanprou...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
From: Deep gaymanprou...@yahoo.co.in
Subject: g_b BBC News: Condoms too
I was not complaining !
From: Salil salilmum...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: g_b Model Wars! Jan 10, 2009; Safe PICS for all ages, Rated G
To: gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, 20 January, 2009, 7:46 PM
Pic 7 is definitely not rated G
The word gay is now the most frequently used term of abuse in schools, says a
report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7289390.stm
Cheers
Salil
All men are gay until proven innocent - Boy George
Add more friends
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080071920
Pakistani gay finds love across the border
Press Trust of India
Sunday, November 09, 2008, (Islamabad)
The issue of legalizing
homosexuality has led to heated arguments in the corridors of power in
New Delhi, but that
for it, but then I would rather get
it on this list.
Thanks
Salil
--- On Sun, 17/8/08, asfan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: asfan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: gb Happy new year
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, 17 August, 2008, 8:29 AM
with this situation and will not post to this group unless there is
a solution that respects privacy and safe space. I believe there will be more
members who will feel as upset as I do.
Thanks,
Salil
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Some half a decade ago, Yahoo had made
- I had been writing for quite a few
years when that happened.
Cheers
Salil
Here is what the archive people claim
What is your privacy policy?
The Mail Archive does not solicit personal information, does not try to
identify individual visitors, and does not send out
British English may be a funny language, but sometimes one would rather prefer
spelt over spelled. Just try revising spelt doom to spelled doom - the
former sounds right - but then maybe its all about what you learnt when you
were a kid.
Salil
All men
You are likely to get a chain of mails this time too - but these would be
mostly off the list, begging you to let them attend the photoshoots and fluff
the models !
Salil
--- On Wed, 13/8/08, Tintin Mumbai India [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Tintin Mumbai India [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject
and resulting from disease)
cheers
Salil
naughty confessions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The youth are basically getting more experimental. Most of the homosexual
encounters in the young have roots in experiments and not in pathological
homosexuality, says psychiatrist Hansal
:
Maybe not over reacting. I think all parties here are just scoring silly
points.
Thanks for the mail S. (S is abbreveation for Salil).
Made me realise engaging in this is a waste of time.
Best,
Aditya B
On 25/02/2008, Salil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
None of my bong friends
?
Cheers
Salil
Aditya Bondyopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Opaque, KK,
Could you please reciprocate civility when you are receiving it yourself. I
say Maharashtrian when I refer to people from that state, I do not use terms
like 'ghati' or other
on this from
knowledgeable people on the lists.
cheers
salil
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1136874
Now, magistrates can fine up to Rs10k
Anshika Misra
Monday, December 03, 2007 03:40 IST
MUMBAI: Committing offences like cheating, bigamy, torturing a married woman or
having unnatural sex
.
Having done some survey work at some point in my career, I can safely say you
need to learn more about how to create interest in your respondents !
Best wishes and regards,
Salil
Just me [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you have not already filled in this survey please do
in the
first place. All he was saying was that its important to not be careless, which
is the message that others seem to be wanting to get across anyway.
Cheers
Salil
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Floris
A dear friend of mine sent me a load of pix from your gay pride of last week, I
must say that it was surely a blast ! We hope one day we will have something
like that in India, where we feel liberated enough to have a pride carnival
instead of a pride protest march.
Cheers
Salil
Yes, in fact I am sure that the original email from Abhay would have done far
more good to far more members than all that we have all written about it
thereafter !
cheers
salil
azhagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Poor Abhay. He only wanted to share his bad
it to the group.
Cheers
Salil
Manoj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Anon,
Well meanng but misplaced sympathies?
I am not the person to answer if there wud be a meet on the topic u have
suggested, but the way i see it , this is a topic on whether to cruise
what you said below - just negative
and brooding drama !
Cheers (in spite of your rather morose mail!)
Salil
suhail khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...and please dont give advices if I should turn into a doormat or
something else, its not pleasent
Ketan, Vikram and others who wrote in about Viraf,
I confess I only ever met him a couple of times, both on GB picnics, but
remember him well for his energy, flamboyance, wit and cheerfulness. Truly he
seemed to be a nice and helpful person. I and my bf share your shock and grief.
Salil
have said is correct so I apologize beforehand if
you or anyone else here finds it to be objectionable or wrong.
Love
Salil
ssm ssm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today I read the call for blood donation. I immediately called Ketan on Mobile,
but it was not answered
heterosexual society. Of course if one of the partners DOES
NOT agree to an open relationship but the other still insists on covertly or
overtly sleeping around, then that's covered under the don'ts list as
disgracing or degrading the partner, isn't it !
Cheers
Salil
RAK SHAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Salil
hirejaime [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey
Suhail,
What is the scene that every gay person is supposed to know about
long-term relationships. It's all a matter of when someone truly wants
to settle down. My partner and I would have been together for 21
. It is to the gay men's credit that they have
these relationships in spite of society rather than with its support and
strictures as straight men do.
Cheers
Salil
suhail khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
.About how stable gay relationships are and how much do gays believe in
commitment
Suhail
Try writing shorter emails. Many readers of this list ( I guess) have better
things to do than to read the same sentence thrice, as it happens to appear in
your email (I did read through the whole of it, only to discover that the email
was long not because you had much to say, but
don't like the quality of
moderation you are free to leave and start your own group and see how thankless
a job moderation is. I didn't ever see any email from you thanking him for the
days on which spam didn't enter.
Cheers
Salil
neco_nata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Hello guys,
The following safety tips for dating online safely are from the website Manjam.
I hadn't seen them in the couple of years that I have been a visitor to that
site so I figured many others would not have seen these either !
Cheers
Salil
Nice parable, but unnecessarily gory, she could have just bought a bouquet ipf
beautiful flowers and done the same thing ! Or better still, something
completely inanimate, like bits of paper torn off a sheet of paper.
cheers and with flowers for all of you
salil
Love is Life [EMAIL
not sit in judgement over them, otherwise
there is no difference in mentality between you and the college !
Cheers
Salil
guamtab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be
nice if this film could be put online for us to see. Then
we could all judge whether it is truly
cruelly and that party was
not the husband,
Salil
shibu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi
sorry if i am making assumptions - dont know either walnut or his
family so just posting the thoughts that came into my mind as i was
reading the mail.
I guess
am sure everyone here wishes
you the very best, and if you are ready for it, I wish you a loving new
relationship. This may sound presumptuous to you, but please keep your mind
open about it - the past doesn't return and we still have the right to be happy
in the future !
Cheers
Salil
Vineet,
If he slept with you, and if you are a man, he is not straight, he is bi or
gay. Thats what the words traditionally mean !
The fact that you had to seduce him with tact and subtlety just means that he
did not like you right away.
Cheers
Salil
vineet kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
I wonder whether they surveyed equivalent age boys who were not in 9th grade
because they never went to school ?
Salil
gaybombay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Sex
trafficking in South Asia
Sex trafficking in South Asia
A 1999 Sri Lanka study
-judgmental.
Cheers
Salil
udai anand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what
ever u guys write -- but the fact is that GAY guys need SEX everyday with NEW
guy -- that is whole fuckin TRUTH they dont believe in LOVE AND
RELATIONSHIPS -- they always on HUNT and on the RUN
to reduce those feet to inches for the sentences to
make sense :)
Irreligiously yours,
Cheers,
Salil
Tom Iliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi
Reading the letter in the Hindu also other things in the press recently
(reactions to the gay march in Jerusalem
enshrined
in the teachings of the founders of these religions.
Regards
Salil
--- In gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com, A B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aditya,
Messenger dude is a hate-monger. Fine. Agreed. But what kind of communal harmony and love are you propagating by choosing to sound the way you do
that you have experienced in your life as a gay man, gives you the right to hurt the unbigoted. Unless you believe that innocents getting killed in military crossfire deserve no apologies. Cheers SalilAditya Bondyopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Salil,I shall not dispu
n a china shop. As I said to Aditya in my other email just before this one, innocents getting killed in crossfire deserve apologies, and similarly the unbigoted on this list, deserve to not have their articles of faith trampled on merely to satisfy someone's whims.Cheers Salil
Sa
Why do straight men tell others that they are married ? Why should gay people not be allowed to do so ? Are you implying that I should be apologetic about being gay or that I should be ashamed of it or hide it ? Are you gay ? Do you think you were made by God ? If you were, how can you be
Manoj,The word Impotent is most commonly used to denote the inability to get an erection, or more generally, to denote powerlessness. It is definitely not used to denote inability per se. It is a word that is bound to raise the hackles of those people on the list who choose to believe
Yes, Sumeet, I respect the tradition of marriage. It provides an anchor to life, makes the man familial, creates stability in society, and creates a mutual support system in old age. So now that we agree on all this, will you joinme inwanting that gay marriage be allowed in india so thatI can
hetto - its a bit like the Hindu extreme right telling Muslims in India that they are all Hindus since Hindutva is a context, and that if they dont find this funny label sitting well on them they are free to leave !Cheers salilKarna Mehta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ah! s
KarnaPlease do not misunderstand - its not about standards or prudishness - i know Utkarsh well and I think he really doesnt care a hootif anothergay guy stays with one person all his life or sleeps with twenty every day - his point seems to be simplytocall the bluff ofthe "get married"
Dear Aditya,Well, its abusive because it is meant to be. Its a bit like the word queer. Its abusive till it is re-appropriated (or whatever the correct word for that is!)SalilAditya Bondyopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Dear Salil,Why do you consider being called a prostitute
Vikas,Isnt it a bit odd to say that most of the 20 odd lists you are subscribed to (phew !) are all completely silent (not believable) and you want them to not even have the _only_ activity they have - the GB party announcement ? :))cheers salilVikas Pandey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
.Thus, I do not have a problem if Sumeet married a girl after telling herthat heintended to continue to sleep around with other men / women / dogs / worms / whatever, and secured her agreement. Cheers Salil Android Angel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:31:51 + (GMT)From
(your word).Regards SalilMukesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salil wrote: Certainly guy with guy or girl with girl can not do so. This is the law of nature, which no one can change. Fine, so gay men will not produce children. Is it compulsory to produce children ? Who told you so ? Why do you
Bravo R !!The guy on this debate who tried tell the others that it requires courage to get married, hope you take the time toreflect on these lines from R - if this is not love and courage, what is it ?cheers salil rohan r [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:~~snip snip ~~~ I have been
Can't a gay man love a woman? Why is everyone inclined towards associating love and happiness with sex only?Well, platonic love for women by gay men - by all means cool. The current discussion is about those amazing gay men on the list, who advise each other to marry to please parents,
nally involved", "bread and butter" etc. Also noted
that because you are gay you are dedicated to your work so much that it makes you forget that you are gay (Thats the silliest circular argument I ever heard). Also noted that since I do not forget I am gay, (and am allegedly not
each for life.cheers salil asfan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just seen BBM (first day, first show) and thought it to be a good, sensitively made movie. BUT, it
concerns two gay cowboys who marry and then cheat on their wives.In view of the recent brickbats being thrown
bout him.Regards, Salil Sumeet Mehra
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi Utkarsh!Well said. But hey buddy, can you tell me definition of strength and courage. You dont want to marry because you think you cant make it with females.In life many people make small and big achieveme
Sumeet,I would like to not run away from "social and family responsibility". The problem is your definition of social and family responsibility is heterosexual marriage by all men including those who are exclusively homosexual. This is something that heterosexual people told you, and
Hi Ketan,The following post of mine never appeared - can u please look into it and allow it to appear ? Thanks in advance !Cheers SalilSalil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:09:59 + (GMT)From: Salil [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: g_b BBMTo: gay_bombay
This is exactly what the politicians thrive on. You have more respect for a rotten political system that expects resident doctors to work in subhuman conditions, rather than having support for basically sincere young docs who are asking for fundamental rights, not for privileges. If are taking
Dear Vikram, While I appreciate the other information and points of view in your mail, is it really necessary to sit in judgement over Sumeet's mail and get annoyed with it publicly - does it not run counter to the central purpose of having a safe space ?I don't see what is annoying about
Hi R,I dont think you need to be apologetic about reporting here about your letter in DNA. I would say this is quite the proper forum for this to be publicized, and I for one would like to compliment you on a well written letter. There is also a lesson in this for all those of us,
What absolute crap, ketan, we rest assured that you
are on guardhow did this abomination slip through
? Even the quacks write better spiels in local train
compartment stickers !!
cheers
salil
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should be more careful, i agree.
regards
moderator
around, which
encourages people like you to take posting privileges
for granted.
Regards
Salil
--- Aditya Bondyopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Moderator,
Please read the mail below. It is either a willful and unacceptable negligence
on your part or it is a way of censoring me. Both
/23bill.htm.
Such thoughts give hope the campaign against Sec. 377.
However I cannot help recollecting how Dr. Singh
fumbled when handling the gay marriage question asked
by a jornalist at his joint press conference with the
Canadian PM a few months ago.
Cheers
Salil
the need to change the
British part to Indian.
cheers
salil
--- Aditya Bondyopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On a beautiful deserted island in the middle of
South Pacific, the following
people are stranded:
Two Italian men and one Italian woman.
Two French men and one French woman
and anally. This tends to support the
hypothesis that those identifying themselves as
double-deckers did so primarily to masculinise their
feminised gender identity away from kothis.
Regards
Salil
--- Robert Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Could someone explain what a double decker is?
Thanks
zouk (z#363;k) pronunciation
n.
A popular dance music of the French West Indies,
combining African drumming styles with influences from
American and Caribbean popular music.
[Antillean French Creole, party; probably akin to
JUKE1.]
From - The American Heritage® Dictionary of the
English
Salil
--- Angus Linney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ajit: I got all kinds of advice, even read books on the topic, but nothing ever
helped me be free from a pain in the ass (trying it three or four times was
more than enough for me--maybe I am missing the G spot). Since I am older than
dirt, I
Would you also say that one has tobe brain damaged to
get into a relationship of sorts with a gay man who is
supposedly monogamously coupled with another gay man ?
Salil
--- Vikram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the whole I'd say appreciate that he's honest about being married so
other than comradeship and
support ? To pick up either of Mr. Right or Mr. Right
Now, we go elsewhere !
Cheers
Salil
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elsewhere? where? where? guide us to that path o enlightened.
ketan
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hallucinate. I pardoned him because he had a good
lithe dark body and was moving it well to the music,
but that's beside the point in this discussion
cheers
salil
p.s. I have taken the liberty of writing to both the
gb and g_b lists, since people on both would want to
chime in !
--- Vikram [EMAIL
This link doesnt open , how do i join ?
salil
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asfan,
dishoom is more typically the sound of a fist hitting ur cheek, not gunfire, in hindi
phillums !
salil
asfan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lizzie darling,(if I may call you that)
Dishoom is the Bollywood way of describing the sound of gunfire.
Thus, all action movies (including
John,
I do not think a discussion on the sexuality of my father or mother, as indeed of my gods, should irritate meUNLESS I have one of the following hangups -
1)that LGBT sexualities are in some sense a lesser thing and not worthy of being those of people whom I respect, or
2) that I am
about, say, Lord
Krishna, has emails discussing mythologocal tales about hetero-erotic activity between
him and Gopis ? If you are ok, why ?
Regards
Salil
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i do not know about the other gb list but i have cleared/posted all the mails on this
issue on the main list. there have
Ajay,
Are you okay with your God having a female consort, with him being described as sexually virile, being shown in coital poses with goddesses on temples, being worshipped in the form of a linga, being referred to be of a specific gender, say male, or do you genuinely believe these
So what is the modus operandi?
where in dadar does this salim call people?
and how can you recognise him other than being 19 and on yahoo chat.
maybe he also operates somewhere in dadar (other than on the internet)
answers?
i shudder at the plight of victims.
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