Vinayak Hegde wrote:
I think the electoral rolls were messed up for quite a few people. I know of
4 instances (all hindu if that helps) of names being mangled and names being
deleted amongst my friends. I think it is more to do with improper process
(and incompetent officials) rather than any
Thanks for this reply . -- this was the kind of elucidation that helped me
understand things better. One of the many benefits of Silklist.
On the US election stuff, it vetted to the nation a lot of the gender
discrimination that still exists. There's plenty of discrimination that
persist, though
Don't forget the TV channels. All they want is a straw and they will
sensationalize it. Reminds of a recent sighting on News 9, a Bangalore
based local news channel. They were making a big hue and cry about a
program that was going to be aired later that night that was based on
the news that
sic lightening
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Ravi Bellur rav...@gmail.com wrote:
Don't forget the TV channels. All they want is a straw and they will
sensationalize it. Reminds of a recent sighting on News 9, a Bangalore
based local news channel. They were making a big hue and cry about
(Bah, gmail on blackberry does not allow bottom posting)
As someone once said, do not attribute to malice that which can be
sufficiently attributed to stupidity.
The voter ID card creation and distribution business is extremely low
margin and quick turn around, and the contract goes to the
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote:
(Bah, gmail on blackberry does not allow bottom posting)
As someone once said, do not attribute to malice that which can be
sufficiently attributed to stupidity.
Napolean Boneparte
Welcome to our western nightmare: men are the eye candy accessories.
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/melissa-rycroft-and-beau-make-red-carpet-debut-at-us-hot-hollywood-party/21664?nc
Sad that the wrong side won (instead of liberating women from superficial
oppression, we just subsumed men to the same
--- On Sat, 25/4/09, Ravi Bellur rav...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Ravi Bellur rav...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Saturday, 25 April, 2009, 9:25 PM
Welcome to our western nightmare: men
are the eye candy accessories.
But I blame them for sending all the religious extremists here some
several hundreds of years ago.
They didn't send them -- the Puritans went of their own free will,
having first been unhappy in england and then having been afraid that
their children were growing up far too tolerant among
Of course I am not trying to be stupidly meticulous (quite often
quotations are attributed to different people - and sometimes it isn't
easy to tell who said what).
But I have always been fascinated with human stupidity (and I've written
a book about it). It may help to place some comments
On Saturday 25 Apr 2009 10:16:00 am Biju Chacko wrote:
I'm getting a fair amount of anecdotal evidence to support reports
that minorities have been systematically disenfranchised. Other than
the reports in the paper of widespread deletion of muslim names from
electoral rolls, I've been been
--- On Sun, 26/4/09, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
From: ss cybers...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Disenfranchised Minorities?
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Sunday, 26 April, 2009, 5:35 AM
On Saturday 25 Apr 2009 10:16:00 am
Biju Chacko wrote:
I'm getting a fair amount of
Shiv +1
Even my dad who is a Hindu, could not vote in Bangalore Central, with
is a new constituency after the recent delimitation process and where
Sangliana, a Christian has won last Loksabha seat on a BJP ticket and
is now on a Congress ticket. My dad's name was not in the lists even
though my
Btw,
Just few small corrections on typos:
Even my dad who is a Hindu, could not vote in Bangalore Central, with
with - which
answered on it's plate.
it's - its
Moreover, a friend informs me that the Election Commission usually
does a survey of the persons who have not voted and if they find
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
(ii) Why cannot the voters' id card be left to be issued only to those who
have no other id?
I'd prefer ONE Indian Card which will serve the purpose of a
national's identification for all social services provided by the
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Dave Long dave.l...@bluewin.ch wrote:
the hassle when it turns out that the person you rented out the flat to
isn't timely with the rent.
The landlord will gobble the security deposit if a tenant does not pay
the rent for a few months. If a tenant was
--- On Sun, 26/4/09, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote:
From: . svaks...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Disenfranchised Minorities?
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Sunday, 26 April, 2009, 9:38 AM
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:36 AM,
Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in
wrote:
(ii) Why cannot the
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