For some odd reason, this didn't turn up the regular way
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From: savita rao [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 31-Jan-2007 13:18
Subject: Fwd: [silk] Charles Haynes introduction + Veena Stores
To: Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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HalliMane isn't good. Not worth the effort.
Charles, did you ask for spicy food? Try Annachi's at Indiranagar. TamilNadu
cuisine.
Some other recommendations (for a comprehensive listing, there's always the
Kingfisher or Times food guides)
-Veg
-- Brahmins Coffee Bar in Basavangudi for idli vada
On 31/01/07, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the address of Veena Stores and the Iyer place in
Malleshwaram? Along with the address cd you name a couple of
landmarks for newbies to navigate Bangalore?
Veena stores:
Start at the
On 1/31/07, Abhishek Hazra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
even better was national market for the delicious pleasures of pirated DVDs.
but that alas is busted. at least for now. hopefully it will soon
resurrect
itself
From what I hear, national market is back in business.
Many years ago, a friend from Delhi had just moved to Bangalore to
attend college and was taken to Imperial for hist first meal. He,
being from Delhi, imagined that the name alluded to a far flung branch
of The Imperial in Delhi. [1] Was he in for a surprise but he did come
to love the
On 31/01/07, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
4. There is another good Italian restaurant on Cunningham Road. I
forget the name. It might be called Bangalore Bistro.
Moved to *another* place without parking -- (Lower) Brigade Rd.
-- b
I wonder how much of this is hyperbole and how much is grounded in
reality but an article in The Guardian states that ...if bananas
don't disappear from supermarket shelves by 2013, they will look, and
taste, different.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,875612,00.html
On 30/01/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chinese -
T'Chi near Philips on Edwards Road
Aromas of China off Richmond Road
For Indianised-Chinese I like China Pearl in Koramangala
North Indian -
Treat Restaurant on CMH Road (haven't been there in years, so going
out on a limb on
I have two, somewhat strange questions for you.
Q1) Assume you have a realtime API to a bank account. To several
bank accounts, not necessarily in the same country, in fact.
The fees are just your regular banking fees, nothing unusual.
What would you do with it?
Q2) Let's say you
There are some indian port wines which are generally dreadful
Some of the reds are not bad, a bit like the southern mediterranean wines,
strong alchohol content because of the sweeter grapes. Don't know about any
of the whites
On 1/30/07, Bruce Metcalf wrote:
Indian wine is only just
On 1/30/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Haynes wrote:
eat anything, I thought the Andhara food at Nandhini was nicely hot
but I prefer hotter... Who has favorite places to recommend to the
newbie?
Looks like we belong to the same category. Come home sometime and I will
Charles Haynes wrote:
I'm also looking forward to finding good purveyors of coffee. I'm
currently roasting my own beans that I buy online at Sweet Maria's. I
know India has some great coffees, one of my favorite espresso blends
is malabar gold espresso, and Google's new office is directly
I have spent more money there then I care to mention. Minaz (the owner)
likes to stock music that he listens to and he is into blues and jazz. It's
a refreshing change from mainstream retailers (Planet M and Music World).
Having said that, I picked up a Charlie Parker 3 CD box in the Hyderabad
On 30/01/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Biju Chacko wrote:
On 30/01/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Look for the Imperial on residency road. Cheap, tasty food - famous for
kerala muslim meat dishes .. hot enough to require a stomach lined with
cast iron ..
Rhythm House in Bombay
Anyone care to list other outlets India that stock jazz and blues? Also
vinyl?
Rhythm House in Bombay
Anyone care to list other outlets India that stock jazz and blues? Also
vinyl?
secondlife too techie? larry landweber sitting two seats away from me
(along with vint cerf, bruce schneier, dave clark and others at an OECD
workshop on the future of the internet) mentioned stardoll [1],
apparently the craze of little girls (and boys) as the site notes
every where. social
On Wednesday 31 Jan 2007 12:29 pm, ekta bahl wrote:
From what I hear, national market is back in business.
Absoutely - and for some reason the sellers took one look at my face and
assumed I was looking for hard porn.
I merely bought 28 Hindi and English movies on 8 DVDs for the equivalent of
On Wednesday 31 Jan 2007 12:56 pm, Deepa Mohan wrote:
only three routes exist for a woman of
India to reach or
exceed this internationally approved minimum altitude
requirement: Western
diet, partial Western ancestry, or atypical genetic
endowment.
blrp blrp blrp
Biju Chacko wrote: [ on 01:19 PM 1/31/2007 ]
For some odd reason, this didn't turn up the regular way
Silk was down for half a day yesterday, apparently due to a DDoS on
the box that runs it. Back now.
Udhay
--
((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
Dave Long wrote: [ on 04:06 PM 1/31/2007 ]
This, despite the fact that I know several people who have mastered
two unrelated professions -- accountancy/programming,
chef/programming, programming/welding, fashion design/translator.
are we supposed to guess which silklister is which?
Let me
While in India this past January, I witnessed on
television the height of
Western cultural imperialism. And that height, it
turns out, is five feet
six inches (or, more precisely, 167.5 centimeters).
That's how tall a young woman must be, minimum, to
enter the Miss India
contest. Never mind the
Eugen Leitl wrote: [ on 01:32 AM 2/1/2007 ]
I have two, somewhat strange questions for you.
Q1) Assume you have a realtime API to a bank account. To several
bank accounts, not necessarily in the same country, in fact.
The fees are just your regular banking fees, nothing unusual.
Hm.
Badri Natarajan wrote: [ on 11:58 PM 1/31/2007 ]
There is a certain amount of truth to the point that they are being
moulded to fit the standards of beauty of the West and more specifically
moulded in every way to win one particular competition.
I don't see the problem - it's just like
Currently I am in Pittsburgh dividing my time
between neurology and machine learning.
I'd appreciate any comments you have on:
[FoRK] intelligence and turbo coding
http://xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20061113/043489.html
(referring to Shaon, Galun, Sharon, Basri, Brandt,
Hierarchy and
savita rao wrote: [ on 11:32 AM 1/31/2007 ]
-Meat
-- Sufi for very good kababs (wind tunell rd)
Sufi appears to have moved - colocating itself in a nightclub on
Residency Road (I've forgotten the name of the nightclub, but it is
on the roof of the old Black Cadillac building next to Konark
On 1/31/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frankly, this doesn't seem very different (to me) from providing
accent training to a call centre employee. From all accounts, the
women who enter these competitions view the training they receive as
an important career step.
Be that as it
Charles Haynes wrote:
I've tried a few of the wines, not so many yet though with import
prices the way they are I'm sure I will come to love them pretty
quickly!
One thing that has me greatly confused though is a distinct lack of
any beers other than light lagers (and the occasional Guiness.)
Bruce Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Had a surprisingly good Vigonier with dinner tonight -- from Dusted Valley
in Walla Walla, Washington! I swear, some folks will try growing grapes
just about anywhere these days.
I know what you mean- considering how cold it gets in winter, it's not
Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've tried the Grover La Reserva [1] and it's not bad at all. But my
all time favorite is the Sula Chenin Blanc [2].
The La Reserva is a slightly higher-priced variant of their
Cabernet-Shiraz, which is very drinkable. I actually prefer the latter. The
Dwarka, I hear, is still around - in the Gandhi Bazaar or NR Colony area.
This time minus (I hope) the various notices hung on walls of the old
establishment - which, inter alia, warned customers - not to wash hands in
plate, not to speak loudly, eat and get out etc.
On 1/31/07, Venkat Mangudi
Biju Chacko wrote:
BTW, Madhu, I tried the Delmonico Steak at the Only Place like you
suggested and it was awful. Tasted like rubber.
Yes, I had a similar experience two days ago and promptly changed it for
a double fillet mignon instead.
And I even know why it happened. They tried to cook
Venkat Mangudi wrote:
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Perhaps you mean Karavali at the Gateway on Residency Road?
Karavali is fantastic. Try the Pomfret wrapped in a banana leaf. Mouth
watering...
Though you will pay through your nose for it. Five-star prices.
--
*
Madhu Menon
Shiok
Following the last, since when do you think this is somehow unusual or
respective to India?
The title could just as easily read, Miss USA, NOT representative of her
country.
Tara Conner (the current reigning queen of the Miss USA pageant) doesn't
exactly strike me as representative of most
On 01/02/07, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Be that as it may, I am curious to hear the opinions of the women in silklist.
Have you noticed that the women on Silklist (barring Deepa) mostly
lurk? I thought that Silk was not a particularly woman-unfriendly
space, but perhaps I am mistaken.
On 31/01/07, Badri Natarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I liked the authenticity of Kadambam - some of the dishes and atmosphere
really did feel like homecooked south Indian food. Branch in Malleshwaram
where we normally went plus one in Barton Centre off MG Road which I'm not
too familiar with.
I've posted! And I still believe I've a woman, at least anatomically.
We're not all lurkers.
On 1/31/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 01/02/07, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Be that as it may, I am curious to hear the opinions of the women in
silklist.
Have you noticed that
On 31/01/07, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I shall try making myself a flavoured steak with a nice dry
spice rub tonight. ;)
Hmmm ... I'll see if I can stretch my culinary skills tonight and boil
some water.
-- b
On 1/31/07, Carey Lening [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've posted! And I still believe I've a woman, at least anatomically.
We're not all lurkers.
I apologize. For some reason I only read the beginning of your name
and thought you were Casey, another silklister I met last year.
Thaths
--
Homer:
On 1/31/07, Carey Lening [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've posted! And I still believe I've a woman, at least anatomically.
We're not all lurkers.
Also, Divya and Savita post regularly, Thaths! Large numbers of the
*men* also lurk out there (I typed luck)
Deepa.
On 2/1/07, Thaths [EMAIL
On 01/02/07, Carey Lening [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've posted! And I still believe I've a woman, at least anatomically.
We're not all lurkers.
oops.
However, you have to admit that Carey is one of those unisex names
like Jean or Madhu. :)
Honest mistake!
So are we just seeing posts in
On 2/1/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 31/01/07, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I shall try making myself a flavoured steak with a nice dry
spice rub tonight. ;)
Hmmm ... I'll see if I can stretch my culinary skills tonight and boil
some water.
Be sure to watch a
Gautam John [31/01/07 09:55 +0530]:
I'm just glad no one has suggested Empire. Though in all fairness,
their grilled chicken is far better than Imperial's.
hell - I used to eat there all the time back when i used to work at blr
and yes, the grilled chicken was a regular order for me there
In all honesty, not being a Desi, there are a number of names on this list
that appear 'unisex' to me, but I will give you that my parents graced me
with a name commonly confused as masculine, especially after Joni Mitchell
sang of her 'old man' as my namesake ;)
Carey
On 1/31/07, Biju Chacko
On 30/01/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Biju Chacko wrote:
Good Grief! Are you trying to kill him? Even I've stopped going there.
Kairali near Christ College is a better restaurant at the greasy spoon
range of the market.
On a different note, did you study at Christ College? :-)
The staples are still quite good. Very good even. The chicken kebabs,
kerala parotas, brain fry and the mutton korma. However, the last time
I went, the ghee rice had been pegged back many notches, which is a
pity because it was superb in it's simplicity.
Imperial is rumoured to have a menu, an
when i was kid, i lived in assam for some years... i remember many of the
local variety of edible sweet bananas had large seeds in them.
On 1/31/07, Gautam John wrote:
I wonder how much of this is hyperbole and how much is grounded in
reality but an article in The Guardian states that
I use amazon.com, and i had the same problem with customs in kenya
however i noticed the customs guys in nairobi didnt bother me if i was
physically carrying the
cds / dvds as part of luggage... (i guess because all the shrink
wrapping was removed).
if you are a fairly frequent traveler
On 31-Jan-07, at 10:38 AM, Gautam John wrote:
I wonder how much of this is hyperbole and how much is grounded in
reality but an article in The Guardian states that ...if bananas
don't disappear from supermarket shelves by 2013, they will look, and
taste, different.
will unlurk just long enough to register the presence of one Indian woman
who is genetically endowed enough to qualify for the miss india norm (well,
height-wise, at least) and whose name seems to connote no particular gender
in most parts of india. my favourite mis-spelling of it to date is
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