Re: [silk] Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 10:02:28AM +0530, ashok _ wrote: You relocated and during your childhood. You think thats the same as relocating when you are an adult or when you have kids? When you've relocated once or twice, it gets easier with time. Kids have it easier, if anything. -- Eugen*

Re: [silk] Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread ashok _
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: You relocated and during your childhood. You think thats the same as relocating when you are an adult or when you have kids? When you've relocated once or twice, it gets easier with time. Kids have it easier, if anything. I

Re: [silk] Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ashok _ [01/12/2009 3:15 PM]: The biggest stress for my folks was getting school admissions as sometimes we moved during the middle of the school year. Most of my childhood memories revolve around writing school entrance exams or packing things into boxes. Your dad was in the army and you

Re: [silk] e: Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread ashok _
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.com wrote: mind-games.  You start thinking of India as a hardship posting; you expect Believe me it is a hard-ship posting ... I cannot find any decent alcohol in madras... its even difficult to ask around (why do you want to buy

Re: [silk] Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread ashok _
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Your dad was in the army and you weren't a KV brat?   That kind of situation is just why every single armed forces base had a KV onsite, plus at least one other school, quite often .. both of which would be quite

[silk] Bangalore meetup on Thursday/Fridauy?

2009-12-01 Thread Devdas Bhagat
Since I am in town for FOSS.IN. Devdas Bhagat

Re: [silk] Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread Deepa Mohan
Err..I'm not sure who you're talking about? I was talking about the guy in the article who warns off the NYT reporter saying that he will complain to her superiors... I am also uncomfortable with this kind of sub-text references to any particular person. the point is (as has just

Re: [silk] Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread Radhika, Y.
indeed having a spouse of another culture makes any return to india complicated. our first criterion is that Mike should be able to find good work in landscape architecture (assuming that I will as well!). also where we return to work in India is an issue. overall i find it freeing to admit

Re: [silk] e: Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote: [...] This is quite the Derrida-ish argument that everything is justifiable if only we try to really really understand it, and that Charles Manson should Whatever is being smoked in this room smells of religion to me.

Re: [silk] Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan [01/12/09 17:31 +0530]: Err..I'm not sure who you're talking about? I was talking about the guy in the article who warns off the NYT reporter saying that he will complain to her superiors... I am also uncomfortable with this kind of sub-text references to any particular person.

Re: [silk] Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread Mahesh Murthy
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: snip let's NOT talk about any particular people, snap Gee Deepa, you've gone from saying let's say nothing bad about anything, to let's say nothing about anybody. Darn, this forum, and by extension, the

Re: [silk] Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: snip let's NOT talk about any particular people, snap Gee Deepa, you've gone from saying let's say nothing bad about anything,

Re: [silk] e: Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread Charles Haynes
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: Too bad you went and settled down in Tamilnadu which even the rest of us think is a hard ship posting. :-) Just come on down to Bangalore and get yourself some decent wine. The Nandi valley wines are reasonably good

Re: [silk] e: Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.com wrote: --Original Message-- From: Deepa Mohan Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Some Indians Find It

Re: [silk] e: Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread ashok _
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote: Mass produced Australian or Chilean plonk is still better than even high end Indian wine. To get decent wine in India I had to bring it in myself, or implore visiting friends to bring me decent wine. Things will

Re: [silk] e: Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:01 AM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote: (I have visited quite a few government run TASMAC liquor store outlets in chennai now. The little bottles of brandy seem to be the most popular items. Saw a guy stop in a scooter, down a whole bottle without removing his

Re: [silk] e: Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Charles Haynes wrote: With all due respect, no. There is no decent wine available in If you have the money, you can get decent imports. Bangalore either. The only people who think so are people who don't really have experience with the current state of wine in the rest of We aren't that

Re: [silk] e: Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Venkatesh Hariharan wrote, [on 12/1/2009 10:57 PM]: In 98-99, I spent a year in Boston and found that most Indians were constantly caught in the should I, shouldn't I go back? kind of vacillation. I did not find the idea of building a life in one place, winding it up and then trying to build

Re: [silk] e: Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

2009-12-01 Thread ss
On Tuesday 01 Dec 2009 10:57:25 pm Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: Indians were constantly caught in the should I, shouldn't I go back? kind of vacillation. The same thing was true back in the late 1980s too and I made a mental note of the factors that people were whining about as part of the

[silk] The dubai crisis - an unforeseen impact on Kerala :)

2009-12-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
No shortage of articles in various newspapers about how the Dubai crisis is going to be bad for the kerala economy .. like this for example. http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/dubai-world-crisis-is-bad-news-for-kerala%60s-economy_428387.html One industry that its going to completely sink