That's great. To access a blogsite that has been blocked for security reasons we go through the Pakistan blog oh man, the irony is entering my soulYes, all the newspapers have picked up on it, but what's going to be done? DoT...Dept of Tyranny...
Deepa.
On 7/18/06, Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 18-Jul-06, at 11:11 AM, ekta bahl wrote:
Try http://pkblogs.com/ to access blogspot. It worked for me.
They're having trouble keeping up with the traffic. Coral works better.
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://www.pobox.com/~jace
Deepa Mohan wrote:
That's great. To access a blogsite that has been blocked for security
reasons we go through the Pakistan blog oh man, the irony is
entering my soulYes, all the newspapers have picked up on it, but
what's going to be done? DoT...Dept of Tyranny...
Right to
the bigger problem is this veil of secrecy : 'we have banned something,
but we dont need to tell what has been banned and why...'
i once tried to get a list of banned books in india, but it was virtually
impossible to get an official list of books gazetted by the government as
unsavory for the
On 7/18/06, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right to information act filings I expect. And if there's anybody at
all from google here I'd encourage reciprocity.
Stop indexing anything at all from India till such time as the GoI stops
blocking blogspot, and apologizes.
It'll
Vinayak Hegde wrote:
I think the soultion you are proposing is counter-intuitive. If google
stops
indexing then people have even less access to information which is
Not really. Remember what was being suggested when google complied to
chinese censorship .. that google stop sacrificing
--- Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe - from newspaper reports - that about 22
blogs were sought to
be blocked, but some incompetent indian isp
employees (am I repeating
myself there?) blocked all of blogspot
--
I
CenSorship, of course.
--- Pavithra Sankaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I believe - from newspaper reports - that about 22
blogs were sought to
be blocked, but some incompetent indian isp
employees (am I repeating
myself there?)
Pavithra Sankaran wrote:
CenSorship, of course.
it is a double problem
censorship enforced and implemented by nitwits
acme company gadgets are dangerous enough without their being used by
wile e coyote
its really a cultural problem... i have found this 'morality' thing deeply
irritating in india (i know its there
everywhere, but its always struck me as particularly strong and ingrained
in india...) ...people assuming
that they have a 'moral standard' which everyone must mandatorily adhere
Ashok Hariharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
its really a cultural problem... i have found this 'morality' thing
deeply
irritating in india (i know its there
everywhere, but its always struck me as particularly strong and
ingrained
in india...)
You haven't spent too much time interacting
On 7/18/06, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The odd thing is that despite the fact that middle class India thinksof politicians as an unsavoury bunch, it has no problems with apaternal govt run by the same bunch that takes decisions impacting onpersonal freedoms.
Why the heck would anyone
The fringe always attracts more attention that the uninteresting conformists...that's what makes news newsworthy and grabs attention. Do all of us read about the regular hairdressers? No...it has to be Sylvie before we will look at the page...
Deepa.
On 7/18/06, Bernhard Krieger [EMAIL
Who or what is Sylvie?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on
07/18/2006 01:06:23 PM:
The fringe always attracts more attention that the uninteresting
conformists...that's what makes news newsworthy and grabs
attention. Do all of us read about the regular hairdressers? No...it
has to be Sylvie before
At 10:22 18/07/2006, Biju Chacko wrote:
why the heck would anyone trust the govt? The mind boggles ...
for a society that is capable of uncritical trust of elders and betters,
trusting the government is a natural extension. at least for such matters.
(indians are certainly not trusting of
i have to say, though, that the media has rather more coverage of
mainstream dutch politics.
At 12:06 18/07/2006, Deepa Mohan wrote:
The fringe always attracts more attention that the uninteresting
conformists...that's what makes news newsworthy and grabs attention.
For the International investor community and the press intent on reading
the tea leaves, this is news.
I personally think it was much simpler - the turban made a mistake and
picked the wrong company and state to privatize. From what I make of it,
DMK was backing the privatization until the
gabin kattukaran wrote:
I think this problem goes deeper down. The government is only the latest
to occupy that paternal seat. I would think that we have been used to
accepting our fate, morailty and acceptable behaviour from such
influences as gods, saints, kings, feudal lords, the weather,
the point is that Sylvie is not featured because she is a hairdresser, but because of her different lifestyle...which *I* think should be her business and no one else's... but then, she has had the courage to come out of the closet, dress the way she wants herself to be (which is a woman, notthe
i am always confused by nomenclature in such situations.
Do you call someone by the gender that they were born with (He (sylvie)
is a hairdresser) or by
the gender that they aspire to (She (sylvie) is a hairdresser).
Deepa Mohan wrote on 07/18/2006 05:49:04 PM:
herself to be (which is a
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 06:09:33PM +0300, ashok wrote:
i am always confused by nomenclature in such situations.
Do you call someone by the gender that they were born with (He (sylvie)
is a hairdresser) or by
the gender that they aspire to (She (sylvie) is a hairdresser).
Only after a
Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 06:09:33PM +0300, ashok wrote:
i am always confused by nomenclature in such situations.
Do you call someone by the gender that they were born with (He (sylvie)
is a hairdresser) or by
the gender that they aspire to (She (sylvie) is a hairdresser).
I live in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco, where transgender
people (at all stages of the process) are pretty plentiful. Protocol
here is to use the pronoun that matches the assumed gender, as
recognition of the who the person is becoming or wishes to be.
Danese
On Jul 18, 2006,
On 7/18/06, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A
nice ordinary tambram marrying and producing 2 children who will go into
engineering or medicine will not make the news.
Funny how parents seem to want to keep their children in this well
trodden path that would never make the newspapers.
Thaths wrote:
...and the tomboy flying kites and getting into scruffs with street
kids, and the motorcycle riding dyke
I've got a very good friend - she used to ride a big Enfield Bullet bike
all the time when she was in India. Happily married and in Purdue right
now. I havent checked
On 7/18/06, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a very good friend - she used to ride a big Enfield Bullet bike
all the time when she was in India. Happily married and in Purdue right
now. I havent checked but I think she's got herself a moto there as well
And I like
wish for a time , and a world, when people of all sorts can be accepted without having to conform to restrictive norms. How long will it take in India, I wonder? Having said, that, though, I must say that all my orthodox family and friends in Bangalore were SO accepting of the gay American couple
Hell...noi certainly hope not!! wouldnt the world be a duller place if
it were like that :)
Deepa Mohan wrote on 07/18/2006 06:57:52 PM:
wish for a time , and a world, when people of all sorts can be
accepted without having to conform to restrictive norms.
I enjoyed both that post and the little tickler at the end Dave! Thanks!
Deepa.
On 7/19/06, Dave Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The fringe always attracts more attention that the uninteresting conformists...that's what makes news newsworthy and grabs attention.
In the US several years back, I
At 10:54 AM 7/19/2006, Deepa Mohan wrote:
I enjoyed both that post and the little tickler at the end Dave! Thanks!
Q. why do we refer to news as a medium?
A. because it is neither rare nor well-done
I think the provenance of the above can be traced to a campaign that
Lintas(?) did for
ah, like another ad line fora phone, that has stuck in my mind...say hello to a good buy.
Deepa.
On 7/19/06, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 10:54 AM 7/19/2006, Deepa Mohan wrote:I enjoyed both that post and the little tickler at the end Dave! Thanks!
Q. why do we refer to news as a
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