On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Deepa Mohan wrote, [on 3/13/2009 10:50 AM]:
To set the thread adrift..Udhay..how many parent-child members are there
on
Silk?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/silk-list/message/25020
Udhay
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:31 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 11 Mar 2009 11:51:54 pm Rishab Ghosh wrote:
What surprised me was that after I spent some minutes videographing that video
and uploading it a couple of days later - a friend of mine - who is by all
accounts very modern
Hoo, boy, this started for me while still in the Institute, with opinion
fiercely divided between SI and NI food. Both felt the other was inedible,
and there was no meeting ground. East and West India stayed strictly out of
this 'food fight'.
Ironically, we kept getting excluded from
--- On Fri, 13/3/09, Nikhil Mehra nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Nikhil Mehra nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Friday, 13 March, 2009, 12:35 PM
Hoo, boy, this started for me
while still in the Institute, with
Right - none of the yobs from IIT Delhi or IIT Kanpur could stand idli
vada; the fact that hostel cuisine differs in some remarkable way from MTR
might have had something to do with it. And no, there was no bissi bele
baath; the closest we could get to that would have been bissi bele hooli
Did anybody at all ever find ANY iit mess food at all that was worth feeding to
dogs without being accused of animal cruelty?
Not an IIT-ian, but stayed on IIT campuses for a few days, a time or two (mood
indigo and such)
Sambar is the easiest thing to make, and the Northies find unique and
--- On Fri, 13/3/09, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Friday, 13 March, 2009, 1:05 PM
Right - none of the yobs from IIT Delhi or IIT Kanpur
could stand idli
--- On Fri, 13/3/09, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net
Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Friday, 13 March, 2009, 1:17 PM
Did anybody at all ever find ANY iit
mess food at all that was worth
Did anybody at all ever find ANY iit mess food at all that was worth
feeding to dogs without being accused of animal cruelty?
Funny you should say this, because here's something that happened in my
first month at IITK and has stuck with me ever since:
Our mess was arranged in two rows of
--- On Fri, 13/3/09, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Friday, 13 March, 2009, 4:05 PM
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:17 PM,
Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net
wrote:
so, do the religious/ethical/moral aspects of culture exist/evolve to
counteract biological impulses/instincts that are hazardous to the prevalent
social hierarchy?
do they serve any other purpose?
ss wrote, [on 3/13/2009 5:32 PM]:
Mahesh - this is actually a juvenile statement because you don't know where I
am coming from but you reveal where you are coming from.
Regardless of whether I am sexually conservative or liberal I have a
viewpoint.
I suspect that you feel it is oh so
On Friday 13 Mar 2009 9:17:54 am lukhman_khan wrote:
I am from a muslim family *and* also love non-veg food.
Gosh! You're a Muslim! Cheee!
And you like non veg? Cheee!
shiv
On Friday 13 Mar 2009 9:51:05 am Mahesh Murthy wrote:
I can imagine that this must be severely distressing to most sexually
conservative folks.
Mahesh - this is actually a juvenile statement because you don't know where I
am coming from but you reveal where you are coming from.
Regardless
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:02 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
I put it to you that you know less about free sex, sex outside of marriage or
frequent changes of sexual partners than you claim to know. Perhaps that is
why you take so much trouble to second guess my own sexual history and try
On Friday 13 Mar 2009 5:11:14 pm Ingrid wrote:
so, do the religious/ethical/moral aspects of culture exist/evolve to
counteract biological impulses/instincts that are hazardous to the
prevalent social hierarchy?
I don't think morality necessarily counteracts biological impulses/instincts.
According to this website [1], India is the lowest spender in the world.
I wonder if that is a good thing, or a bad thing. Pakistan, is the
second lowest.
Venkat
[1]
http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/014/014-buying-whos-buying-what.html
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
ss wrote, [on 3/13/2009 5:32 PM]:
Mahesh - this is actually a juvenile statement because you don't know
where I
am coming from but you reveal where you are coming from.
I said that a particular instance would be
On Friday 13 Mar 2009 5:54:39 pm Charles Haynes wrote:
It seems to me the claim that the sexually inexperienced should not
argue about sexual mores is roughly the same as saying that someone
who's never been to Pakistan should not try to discuss Pakistani
mores.
Wrong analogy. You need to
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:37 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 13 Mar 2009 9:17:54 am lukhman_khan wrote:
I am from a muslim family *and* also love non-veg food.
Gosh! You're a Muslim! Cheee!
And you like non veg? Cheee!
And you eat milk products? Cheese!
Sorry Shiv, just
snip
Are you tyring to make an oblique advertisement about your own sexuality
while talking about mine?
Wow :-)
And I thought subliminal advertising was dead and gone among us advertising
folks :-)
I put it to you that you know less about free sex, sex outside of marriage
or
frequent
Pakistan! Free Sex! Womanhood! Family values! Hand-wringing distress!
Folks, we have ourselves a full-fledged formula movie here!
Cue A R Rahman... :-)
It seems to me the claim that the sexually inexperienced should not
argue about sexual mores is roughly the same as saying that someone
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
Pakistan! Free Sex! Womanhood! Family values! Hand-wringing distress!
Folks, we have ourselves a full-fledged formula movie here!
You left out decadent westerners and their values trying to corrupt
good hearted
Damn! Crossover global hit!
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com
wrote:
Pakistan! Free Sex! Womanhood! Family values! Hand-wringing distress!
Folks, we have ourselves a
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Did someone call?
Charles Haynes wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com
wrote:
Pakistan! Free Sex! Womanhood! Family values! Hand-wringing distress!
Folks, we have ourselves a full-fledged formula movie
Cory Doctorow [13/03/09 13:19 +]:
Did someone call?
And how did the ramayana confound you, cory?
That I've got to see ..
srs
Charles Haynes wrote:
You left out decadent westerners and their values trying to corrupt
good hearted Hindus but being confounded by the virtue of the
On Friday 13 Mar 2009 6:02:32 pm Mahesh Murthy wrote:
To repeat, I have clearly stated that I believe there is a large area in
the middle between the opposite extremes of fidelity and free communal
sex that most creatures exist in.
Coolness, liberalism, the price of fish and the GDP of North
On Friday 13 Mar 2009 6:35:26 pm Mahesh Murthy wrote:
If I recall, you prefaced much of your hypothesis that started it all with
words to the effect of I don't necessarily believe what I am saying here,
but let's have a discussion about it anyway.
And now you're getting all antsy about what
Tanks for the clarification. I presume you are no longer concerned about
other peripheral issues like conservative people who may be distressed or
wringing their hands.
Distressed people (conservative or otherwise) are known to wring their
hands. And it's quite reasonable of me to mention
According to this website [1], India is the lowest spender in the world.
I wonder if that is a good thing, or a bad thing. Pakistan, is the
second lowest.
Venkat
[1]
http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/014/014-buying-whos-buying-what.html
Seems to be where people around the
The problem as far as I can see is the effect this discussion is having on
you
making you speak of actions like hand wringing, or people
being distressed
The discussion, if you must know, is having an amused, calming effect on me.
:-)
I have explained before that distressed people are known
2009/3/13 Nikhil Mehra nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com:
food. Shoot me before putting a morsel of bissi bele baath in my mouth. But
While on bisi bele bath - I am convinced that it's the only food known
to man that looks identical while entering and exiting the digestive
system.
Ram
2009/3/13 Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in:
nearest what the Brits term the facilities.
They termed it the bog, actually. Please do not think about the
appropriateness of the term.
Ram
On Friday 13 Mar 2009 7:39:51 pm Mahesh Murthy wrote:
The discussion, if you must know, is having an amused, calming effect on
me.
:-)
I have explained before that distressed people are known to wring hands. If
this is not you, you really shouldn't be worried
I think that you are merely
On Friday 13 Mar 2009 7:32:57 pm Mahesh Murthy wrote:
I don't believe so.
And I have endeavoured to prove the opposite, with evolutionary,
statistical and other evidence.
Could I ask you to point me to the message or messages in which you have
provided statistical and evolutionary evidence
--- On Fri, 13/3/09, Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Friday, 13 March, 2009, 8:06 PM
2009/3/13 Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in:
nearest what the
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com
wrote:
2009/3/13 Nikhil Mehra nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com:
food. Shoot me before putting a morsel of bissi bele baath in my mouth.
But
While on bisi bele bath - I am convinced that it's the only food known
to man
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com
wrote:
2009/3/13 Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in:
nearest what the Brits term the facilities.
They termed it the bog, actually. Please do not think about the
appropriateness of the term.
Ram
Yes...for a long
This is what I believe is juvenile -
What you believe or not to be juvenile is irrelevant.
Do get to the issue if you feel like, you've tried to distract enough :-)
Speaking of mess food, I spent one unfortunate year at the NLS hostel
and have no idea how they could produce food that was as bad as it
was. The highlight of the week was something called pepper chicken but
it could have been blackened crow for all I know. I lived on a diet of
Romanov and Randy
Could I ask you to point me to the message or messages in which you have
provided statistical and evolutionary evidence that a change of human
morality from more conservative to less consrvative has a long term
survival
benefit for humans.
I think I missed it while I was being antsy.
Waay cool. As in - awesomely so. And I guess it can also function as a
'lifestream' of sorts. Come to think of it, that's rather creepy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ-VjUKAsao
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--- On Fri, 13/3/09, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Friday, 13 March, 2009, 10:46 PM
Speaking of mess food, I spent one
unfortunate year at the NLS hostel
and have no idea how
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
And here we were, visiting privileged relatives studying there, and deciding
that it wasn't any point inviting them home for a home meal, when they had
chefs dishing out Chinese at hostel - at gasp hostel! - and you
--- On Sat, 14/3/09, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Saturday, 14 March, 2009, 12:37 AM
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:35 AM,
Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in
wrote:
And here we
Speaking of mess food, I spent one unfortunate year at the NLS hostel
The things we did to find moderately edible food
Nikhil and Badri will have more to add.
The Sunday morning breakfasts (toast, butter, jam, eggs) was actually
pretty decent, although it was something of an effort to
While on bisi bele bath - I am convinced that it's the only food known
to man that looks identical while entering and exiting the digestive
system.
Ram
R-E-S-P-E-C-T!!! You aren't just factually accurate, my friend, but you've
also captured my emotions perfectly.
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