Re: [Silk] Our own Cory Doctorow features in this story

Oops that was meant to be “nail us” not “jail us” On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 at 08:59, Venkatesh H R wrote: > I guess the point of that piece is that we are all going to get had at > some point. Intelligence and vigilance can protect us but one day someone > is going to jail us at a time of

Re: [Silk] Our own Cory Doctorow features in this story

I guess the point of that piece is that we are all going to get had at some point. Intelligence and vigilance can protect us but one day someone is going to jail us at a time of vulnerability… >From that perspective, I have an additional Q. What is the basic one should do? I’m assuming that one

Re: [Silk] Chaotic Politics

Enjoyed this piece. In the last two years or so, I've been steeped in intensely political chatter on our school whatsapp group for a book project, and I've realised that as a 'liberal', I had thought of all my classmates who are mostly 'right-wing' as one monolith. But there are significant

Re: [Silk] 2023 Silklist Book Recommendations Thread

Have added the Murderbot series to my list. It's honestly been ages since someone has recommended a Sci-Fi series to me, takes me back to my teenage years! In that spirit, here are some books to add to those by Thaths, Dave, Ingrid, Christopher, Ameya, and Vinayak. 1. *Born to Run: A Hidden

Re: [Silk] What's your To-Don’t List?

I'm trying to do inline replies the right way for the first time. Kindly excuse unintended confusion/hilarity or trying to do too much :) and thanks Udhay for sending me a link that explains how to do it. On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 4:28 PM Thaths via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: On

Re: [Silk] Introduction

Welcome Salil and Mahima :) On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 6:26 PM Salil Bijur via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm Salil, I'm a civil servant in the government of India (income tax > department to be specific), currently based in Gurgaon. > > My wife Mahima is a former

Re: [Silk] Looking back …

Dunno if it’s the nicest thing (cause I learnt to love it and miss it) but leaving Delhi was the smartest thing we did in 2022! On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 10:35 AM Peter Griffin via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > … what’s the nicest and/or smartest thing you did for yourself in

Re: [Silk] 2022 Silklist Book Recommendations thread

Thinking about this, I realised that I'm currently reading/have read three types of books that are dear to me: 1. The addictive read that you have to finish as quickly as possible. For me that was Michael Connelly's latest Bosch and Ballard police procedural Desert Star

[Silk] Re: Too many needles. How do you cope?

Regarding physical books, I like the idea of building a library for posterity. You don't have to read all the books you buy, but you can keep them so that when you want to consult them, they are there. Before I do that though, I tend to look at the table of contents, bibliography and index so that

[Silk] Reading India’s languages

Thaths’ previous thread made me think: I would very much like to read at least one translated book from each Indian language that has a written literature. Can you give me a list of books to read, along with the languages + translated versions? Either fiction and non fiction will do. I’ll start

[Silk] Re: Reading the world

Great idea! Restricting my list to those books bought since 2019. Will send more when I remember them. 1) Poland: Drive your plow over the bones of the dead by by Olga Tokarczuk , Antonia Lloyd-Jones

[Silk] Re: Things that are going well

My wife, son and I got closer to each other. I had several deep conversations about god, love, emotions, good and bad, etc. with our 10 year old. We saved money. This is just off the top of my head. I’m sure there’s more. I’m grateful that we were privileged/lucky to survive the pandemic without