On 7/16/07, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On 7/17/07, shiv sastry wrote:
Basically Indians do not document anything. Everything is handed down as a
verbal anecdote. For that reason you can rarely get any serious information
and the little that you get is so badly written that it becomes easy to
I would say hindu kingdoms (rather
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ashok _ said the following on 17/07/2007 14:02:
even in europe a strong tradition of documenting history was something
that was picked up after the arab incursions
That's interesting. Do you have any references I can use to learn more?
Ram
I did a google search and came up with this.
http://www.twf.org/Library/Renaissance.html
I have a friend who is a librarian and a catholic historian. he told
me that the tradition of written history within the catholic /
orthodox church (one of the main sources of older european history...)
Oh wow...
On 7/17/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 16 Jul 2007 5:00 pm, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Or maybe ask your parents [seriously - they'd probably be the best to
tell you what the authoritative works are]
However I must compliment Deepa here for the excellent
I have been using my Nikon D70s without a back-up battery. I probably should
buy a back-up by way of abundant precaution but so far the battery has been
great. It just seems to keep going on and on.
Check if using a non-Olympus battery would invalidate your warranty.
Venky
On Tuesday 17 Jul 2007 3:32 pm, ashok _ wrote:
I would say hindu kingdoms (rather than indians do not document
anything ) did not document anything. The arab tradition of
documenting everything was followed by muslim kingdoms...
er.. a very small percentage of Muslims in India would fall in
But the Hindu will take years before he can do that without squirming and
fighting.
The Hindu being some homogenous jelly like substance?
This whole notion of Hinduism is rather recent isn't it? Local cultures, all
seized somehow under one large umbrella without consent. This assumption of
On 7/17/07, Neha Viswanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Hindu being some homogenous jelly like substance?
This whole notion of Hinduism is rather recent isn't it? Local cultures, all
seized somehow under one large umbrella without consent. This assumption of
homogeneity is almost disturbing.
What? You don't mean the upper castes in your part of India don't go
on pilgrimages to Badrinath?
The upper castes in my part of India mostly eat lots of curdrice and sleep
in the afternoons. If they do get to Badrinath, they are so overwhelmed by
the eight layers of jumpers that they refuse
On Tuesday 17 Jul 2007 11:56 pm, Thaths wrote:
The Hindu being some homogenous jelly like substance?
This whole notion of Hinduism is rather recent isn't it? Local cultures,
all seized somehow under one large umbrella without consent. This
assumption of homogeneity is almost disturbing.
On Tuesday 17 Jul 2007 11:56 pm, Thaths wrote:
What do you mean your housemaid worships
the street corner mariamman!?
Thanks for throwing that one up Thaths. This is a Freudian admission of a very
Hindu viewpoint indicating a particular mental picture of social status and a
linking that
On Tuesday 17 Jul 2007 11:12 pm, Neha Viswanathan wrote:
This whole notion of Hinduism is rather recent isn't it?
The idea is to find what evidence points to it being recent, and what evidence
points to its being ancient.
The question repeatedly gets mired in the mindlessly repeated arguments
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