On 8/5/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If someone was asked who Charles Haynes was, in India, they'd reply
Christian.
Really? Fascinating. Are they really so ready to pigeonhole people
based on nothing more than their name, or their physical appearance?
They are *that*
Charles Haynes [05/08/07 14:49 +0530]:
I may need to take steps to make it more obvious that I am not. Maybe
carry around Betrand Russell or something.
ah, another christian
this, from a place where a lot of the christians, especially those from my
father's generation or from smaller towns,
--- Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are also the Hinduism is a way of life
people who tell me that I
can be a Hindu despite my atheism, but I've never
been able to get a
straight answer from anyone about what exactly that
way of life entails.
I begin to wonder whether merely
--- Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are also the Hinduism is a way of life
people who tell me that I
can be a Hindu despite my atheism, but I've
never been able to get a
straight answer from anyone about what exactly
that way of life entails.
Atheism and religious membership
--- Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are also the Hinduism is a way of life
people
I find it sometimes nice that Hinduism seems so all-embracing and
sometimes stifling...I too am working out whether I am really a Hindu
or not. But going by the responses on this thread, unless I
Hinduism was never one religion, and the collection of people who were called
Hindus were never dogmatic about the identity of God, and never had a book
that identified God for them.
Hindus were never (IMO) required to identify themselves as a religion and name
their God until they were
On 8/5/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Viewing the computer for long hours has proven to cause impotency,
says Pramila Nesargi, chairperson of the Karnataka State Women's
Commission.
We are a transition generation; the husbands want to be like their
fathers, the wives
On 8/5/07, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
The next generation will IMO handle this much better.
The next generation will probably decide to be single. Women will finally
figure out (just like they have done in europe) that they dont need a man
anymore. I have a couple of cousins who are slaving
On 8/5/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Not so easy for an indian outside india, I assure you - if only because
other indians actively seek you out and drag you kicking and screaming if
necessary into the local community
i had this neigbour for a while, a kenyan-born indian. he had this
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 10:41:34PM +0300, ashok _ wrote:
The next generation will probably decide to be single. Women will finally
figure out (just like they have done in europe) that they dont need a man
Notice the birth rate in Europe. Demographics is hitting us hard, and birth
rate has been
Parents slaving for their daughter's wedding...which might end in a
divorce!!! someone very wise said: forget about the wedding, it is the
marriage that is more important. We Indians are highly goal focused rather
than process oreinted-I suspect that old fashioned contempt for dating also
has to
On Sunday 05 Aug 2007 2:49 pm, Charles Haynes wrote:
Really? Fascinating. Are they really so ready to pigeonhole people
based on nothing more than their name, or their physical appearance?
They are *that* simplistic,
Yes they are simplistic and ready to pigeonhole people _IF_ they are aware
I wasn't being flippant when I mentioned Barcamp Bangalore earlier in
this thread. The event has evolved significantly in its four
iterations, turning into an incubator of sorts -- we're going to have
two spin-off events later this year, focusing on e-governance and
startups, in addition
On Sunday 05 Aug 2007 11:42 pm, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
We are a transition generation; the husbands want to be like their
fathers, the wives thankfully don't have to take it like their mothers
- they are financially free. Stress, lack of time at home, yada yada
yada is just icing on the
Homer goes to India
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_P_BpGncKQ
shiv
Whooops - sorry wrong cartoon
This one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_iQim8Mtw
On 8/6/2007 8:32 AM, shiv sastry wrote:
Homer goes to India
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_P_BpGncKQ
shiv
Whooops - sorry wrong cartoon
This one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_iQim8Mtw
Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore. yup .. good one that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6932216.stm
Indian suspect in banana ordeal
An Indian suspect was forced by police to eat 50 bananas as a laxative,
to retrieve a necklace he was accused of stealing and swallowing.
When the bananas failed to produce the desired effect, police fed Sheikh
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/27/DIME.TMP
'I didn't eat and I didn't sleep'
Coin dealer flies dime worth $1.9 million to NYC
John Feigenbaum flew out of San Jose this week in first class, with
flip-flops on his feet, a T-shirt on his back and a dime worth $1.9
On Monday 06 Aug 2007 2:06 am, Radhika, Y. wrote:
We Indians are highly goal focused rather
than process oreinted-I suspect that old fashioned contempt for dating also
has to do with intolerance for ambiguity and low risk tolerance ather than
mere morality
Control of male and female sexuality
shiv sastry wrote [at 09:09 AM 8/6/2007] :
In other words, the IT sector is likely to become synonymous with
long hours,
high salary, no family - unless something changes.
As the IT worker demographics change (as the typical IT worker
becomes 30+ instead of 25- like today) the desire for
On Monday 06 Aug 2007 9:15 am, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
As the IT worker demographics change (as the typical IT worker
becomes 30+ instead of 25- like today) the desire for the mythical
construct called a life will increase.
Absolutely.
One mythical construct that the IT sector started out
Newsweek Disgrace: 'Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine'
By Noel Sheppard | August 5, 2007 - 13:43 ET
Manmade global warming alarmism took a disgraceful turn for the worse
this weekend when Newsweek published a lengthy cover-story repeatedly
calling skeptics deniers that are funded by
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