Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-14 23:11:22 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me get this straight... Your conjecture is [...] Bzzt. Just because I made a somewhat-related conjecture in the same thread does not make what I said about pilgrims a conjecture. Quoted from Somanatha, The Many Voices of a History,

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Sriram Karra
[Disclaimer: I being no original researcher on such matters, rely on easily available 'authentic looking' material to guide my thinking] On 7/13/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which outsiders? Isn't that begging the question? It assumes an already agreed upon outside and inside

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 15 Jul 2007 2:09 pm, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: Quoted from Somanatha, The Many Voices of a History, Thapar 2004, Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon us. shiv

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Sriram Karra
On 7/13/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the various kingdoms traded with and invaded each other as well, so was there actually any inside there? That there was never a coherent India even remotely resembling the modern nation state of is more or less accepted as fact. The

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
shiv sastry wrote: [ on 02:47 PM 7/15/2007 ] Quoted from Somanatha, The Many Voices of a History, Thapar 2004, Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon us. What a curious statement. Care to expannd? Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com))

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Gautam John
On 7/15/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon us. Why pray? Much criticism has come her way for opposing the communal revisions of Indian history but I've never heard of her described as a 'blithering idiot'.

[silk] More on teleportation

2007-07-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22048954-2,00.html Scientists find way to teleport atoms on optic fibres By Mark Schliebs July 10, 2007 11:55am AUSTRALIAN physicists have discovered a method that could see atoms being teleported between Sydney and Perth and pave the way for possible

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 15 Jul 2007 4:15 pm, Gautam John wrote: Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon us. Why pray? Much criticism has come her way for opposing the communal revisions of Indian history but I've never heard of her described as a 'blithering idiot'. You might have

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Thaths
On 7/15/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 15 Jul 2007 2:09 pm, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: Quoted from Somanatha, The Many Voices of a History, Thapar 2004, Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon us. That is right! We want more learned sources like Drs.

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
shiv sastry wrote: [ on 07:08 PM 7/15/2007 ] Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon us. What a curious statement. Care to expannd? Gladly. We all have our opinions on who is or is not an idiot. For example On Friday 13 Jul 2007 9:28 pm, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:

[silk] Diamonds are for ever(y) bride?

2007-07-15 Thread Venkat Mangudi
http://www.slate.com/id/2167870/

Re: [silk] firework physics

2007-07-15 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
huh? the link only confirms that fireworks were invented in china. getting objects to move with steam (what was apparently invented by Archytas [in] Tarentum is certainly not similar to fireworks or rockets. waterworks, perhaps! On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 15:18 +0200, Giancarlo Livraghi wrote: I'd

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Ingrid
going back to the original outlook article, why do you think women in tamil nadu are reporting such disproportionately high levels of spousal violence? *How Women-Friendly?* *In TN, 69.2% have a say in family matters * *A.P* *T.N* *Kerala* * Karnataka* *INDIA* *U.P* *Gujarat* No. of females

[silk] buying off-brand camera batteries

2007-07-15 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
for the cameraheads on silk - i just got an olympus e-510 as an early birthday gift... i'm wondering if i should get an extra battery and, mainly, if it's a good idea to get the olympus battery than one of the many knock-off brands (digipower, american power, etc) that claim to provide the same

Re: [silk] buying off-brand camera batteries

2007-07-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
This review for the e410 has stats for e510 battery life - 650 shots. Seems like that's quite enough without needing a spare battery unless you're like kalyan and going out for months into a dense forest .. http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/olympus/e410-review/index.shtml Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

Re: [silk] buying off-brand camera batteries

2007-07-15 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:55:04AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Seems like that's quite enough without needing a spare battery unless you're like kalyan and going out for months into a dense forest .. true... which i shouldn't do unless i get this impressive camera protector [1].

[silk] A gift from Gandhi

2007-07-15 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071002055_pf.html A Gift From Gandhi Frustrated Green Card Applicants From India Use Methods Of Master By Xiyun Yang Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 11, 2007; D01 Shyam Bindingnavale had spent years of anguish

Re: [silk] Rest in Pieces

2007-07-15 Thread Gautam John
http://www.cargolaw.com/2007nightmare_ital.florida.html Another one that a friend sent. Looks pretty much how trucks in India are loaded.

[silk] A new car for £30

2007-07-15 Thread Gautam John
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,,2127297,00.html Mugabe's price cuts bring cheap TVs today, new crisis tomorrow Police and Zanu-PF lead bargain hunt after officials order shops to act Chris McGreal in Harare Monday July 16, 2007 The Guardian Zimbabweans are shopping like there's