Re: [silk] Good puns

I am not into puns, but keep my ear out for malapropisms. Here my threaded collection over the last two years. Starting with https://twitter.com/saravade/status/1089748571073773568?s=21 the latest being at https://twitter.com/saravade/status/1404071835994529792?s=21 Let’s drift closer. > On

Re: [silk] it may not be well-done; is it becoming rare?

I wrote a small piece yesterday on a similar problem. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/conundrum-professional-learning-nandkumar-saravade We have to deal with shorter attention spans. Regards, Nandkumar > On 04-Jan-2019, at 3:31 PM, Deepa Agashe wrote: > > Interesting to hear

Re: [silk] Headspace and similar meditation "services"

> On 10-Sep-2016, at 3:38 AM, Prashant P Kothari wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Srijith Nair wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have been looking at doing guided meditation for several reasons. >> Apps/services like Headspace (headspace.com)

Re: [silk] To retire or not - that is the Q.

On 24-Sep-2014, at 7:33 am, Bruce A. Metcalf bruce.metc...@figzu.com wrote: Rajesh Mehar wrote: Fifteen more years has also given me some perspective on the importance of doing *work you believe has enduring value*, and of the need for down time to keep work from being the force driving

Re: [silk] Migrant workers and bank accounts

On 19-Apr-2013, at 1:16 PM, Deepak Shenoy deepakshe...@gmail.com wrote: . How do they send money home? Lots of ways. The standard is for people to send money through someone else travelling back. Once in Gurgaon, a huge truck was hired to send back goods home to a village in Bengal, by

Re: [silk] The facebook experiment - now on e-mail!

? J.A.P. On 31 March 2012 09:31, Nandkumar Saravade sarav...@gmail.com wrote: I use FB to read about friends' activities, rather than narrating my own. So, I did check out the Silk FB page and a profile or two. I would think that there is too much distracting stuff there and would rather stick

Re: [silk] The facebook experiment

I use FB to read about friends' activities, rather than narrating my own. So, I did check out the Silk FB page and a profile or two. I would think that there is too much distracting stuff there and would rather stick to the text conversations. Cheers, Nandkumar On 31-Mar-2012, at 1:51 AM,

Re: [silk] aqvavit

Absolutely, the nature of any suicide is tragic and perhaps has enough preventable causes. From the NCRB you are indeed right - I had only looked at data till 2009 when I'd looked earlier, and that shows a dipping or flat suicide rate: http://ncrb.nic.in/ADSI2010/table-2.1.pdf It's now

Re: [silk] How can we call him Sachin?

On 19-Jun-2011, at 2:14 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 18 Jun 2011 Er chillax. Every person who does not have tax deducted from his cheque at source is given a list of thins he can claim against tax. The right thing to do is to make the claim. That is the

[silk] Fwd: iPad2 -- 3g question

On 15-Apr-2011, at 11:11, Josey John josey...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi: Does anybody use the iPad 2 (WiFi + 3g) version in India? I wanted to check if it is easy to sign up on 3g networks here and the user experience. Thanks, Josey Puliyenthuruthel John I had used iPad 1 last year

Re: [silk] roopkund

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote: Anyone been up to Roopkund, and beyond? (e.g. Homkund) -- ams Only up to Roopkund. But in 1987; so may not have any 'useful information'. Regards, Nandkumar

Re: [silk] Meetup in Bombay?

I am going out of town between 25 April and 7 May. Would be happy to join otherwise. Nandkumar

Re: [silk] modem phones

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: Abhijit Menon-Sen [05/04/09 07:24 +0530]: A USB data card sounds good. I should have known that such things must exist. I knew about PCMCIA ones, but I don't have a PCMCIA slot. Do you have any recommendations? Or

[silk] Japanese cell phone application wards off gropers in trains

http://www.technologyreview.com/Wire/19617/?nlid=625

Re: [silk] 9/11 again

shiv sastry wrote: On Thursday 04 Oct 2007 8:36 pm, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: What exactly was the size of the Rashtriya Rifles detachment going after these militants? Majors command a whole battalion if am not wrong - that's at least two companies in strength, about 150..200 people

Re: [silk] 9/11 again

shiv sastry wrote: A related article http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Young_officers_lead_from_the_front/articleshow/2430534.cms BTW Nandakumar - I saw you on NDTV re cybercrime. I sent an SMS saying that the govt should shift to OSS but NDTV ignored my SMS. So much for my

Re: [silk] Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency

Eugen Leitl wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:58:21PM +0530, Nandkumar Saravade wrote: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-10/ff_allen?currentPage=all It's a good method, imo. I've read the book a couple of times, and preparing to process my Humongous Piles of Stuff

[silk] Mobs on the rampage

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Editorial/Mobs_on_the_rampage/articleshow/2337938.cms

[silk] India Together: Better traffic ahead - 5 July 2007

http://indiatogether.org/2007/jul/ash-btis.htm

[silk] FW: India: the Empire strikes back

In 1600, when the East India Company was founded, Britain was generating 1.8 per cent of the world's GDP, while India was producing 22.5 per cent. By 1870, at the peak of the Raj, Britain was generating 9.1 per cent, while India had been reduced for the first time to the epitome of a Third

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

Ingrid wrote: going back to the original outlook article, why do you think women in tamil nadu are reporting such disproportionately high levels of spousal violence? I think one of the reasons for this trend is the special all-women police stations set up by Tamil Nadu police, which

Re: [silk] Silkmeet in Mumbai on Sunday 24th June?

Returning late that evening from a three-day trip to Chandigarh. So, have to beg off... Nandkumar Aditya Kapil wrote: Not raising hand. But two thumbs up for Mahesh. Awesome seafood. Adit. On 6/19/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingrid wrote: [ on 10:43 PM 6/18/2007 ]

[silk] The Ignorance of Crowds

http://www.strategy-business.com/press/enewsarticle/enews053107?pg=0

Re: [silk] My invention already invented

Biju Chacko wrote: On 3/6/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shiv sastry wrote: I was approached by a sales rep from WIPRO selling a little gizmo the size of a cellphone with a screen to match and it comes with a pen. The gizmo is called a mobile e-note taker and clips

Re: [silk] on the cutting edge of forensic science

Venkat Mangudi wrote: Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: Hooray for not-quite-modern forensic not-quite-science. -- ams Can you suggest some alternatives? I do not condone these methods, but I suspect India is a few years away from CSI style forensics. I agree completely. Most of us would like to

Re: [silk] India's Cyber Lab

: Speaking at the launch, Nandkumar Saravade, director - cyber security and compliance, NASSCOM, said, With the increase in use of IT in our day-to-day lives, we see emergence of both new challenges and threats. Various forms of cybercrime are on the rise around the world and while India continues

Re: [silk] Thinking about power and authority - a story [WAS: 'IsAfzalnowjustarallyingpointforintellectuals?']

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: the good that the police do does not in any way make up for their abuse of power; indeed, as someone pointed out, it is the job of the police to fight crime using constitutional and just methods, so when they do that they're doing their job. when they abuse their

Re: [silk] security and choosing sides

sastry wrote: I am tempted to bleat that it is up to us the public to address the problem. But long before "we the public" can help correct the problem we have to recognise what the problem is and where it lies and not clutch at straws or take down strawmen. That realisation means

Re: [silk] security and choosing sides

Badri Natarajan wrote: IMO, many of the ills the Indian police is guilty of can be traced to their governance structure. (I am speaking here as an interested party.) There is an exercise at present to create a new law which will Wasn't there some kind of famous Commission

Re: [silk] security and choosing sides

Badri Natarajan wrote: Is it correct to say that it is essentially the same problems that plague the police today? That is, if the report were implemented now, it would still do a lot of good, right? Or do you think things have changed a lot in the last 20 years, and we need a different

Re: [silk] security and choosing sides

sastry wrote: But please tell me, how can civil society get involved at this stage? The draft is currently with the Drafting Committee, headed by Soli Sorabjee. It is bound to be put up for comments from the public, once the Government decides to start preparing for introducing in the

Re: [silk] security and choosing sides

Indrajit Gupta wrote: You need to speak to my Dad, who's ex-IP (not IPS). Keep about three hours in hand, though. Indrajit Gupta 'Ramsharan', 396, TT Krishnamachari Road, Teynampet, Chennai 600 018. +914455511138 +919884375777 Thanks for the tip. Will keep

Re: [silk] security and choosing sides

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: So far, scopolamine / its more recent variants, and lie detector tests (which the locals keep calling "brain mapping") There are a lot of differences between the traditional lie-detector test

[silk] Why is India's traffic in the shape it is?

A bit of the answer can be found in an article at http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-drivers2aug02,0,7394500,full.story?coll=la-headlines-world Cheers! Nandkumar

Re: [silk] motorcycles

Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: I guess the cops were shooting fish in a barrel that evening. Cheeni That's a curious turn of phrase ('shooting fish in a barrel'). Some browsing around led to this interesting discussion

Re: [silk] Silk Mumbai Meet?

ekta bahl wrote: unfortunately i am in aurangabad [got here last night] and will get back to mumbai on May 2, 2006. Will be in Mumbai for just a day before heading back to Hyderabad. I am also stuck in the midst of something unavoidable. We can look at some other time next

Re: [silk] Cops assault innocent pedestrian, claim they are protecting him

Being the lonely cop on this list, I feel I am entitled to make some points. Complaining about this kind behaviour should be seriously considered. Without a complaint, it is likely that the offending policeman will repeat his behaviour with another person. Fears of a false case being

Re: [silk] Cops assault innocent pedestrian, claim they are protecting him

Badri Natarajan wrote: If not, what is the point of a complaint? First of all, though it sounds a bit theoretical, it is the right thing to do. Secondly, if you know the layout of the organisation, you can route your complaint to the topmost bosses (which, if nothing, ensures that

Re: [silk] Belated introduction

"Biju Chacko" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 21/04/06, Nandkumar Saravade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The goverment blames 'anti-social elements' ie Bangalore's equivalent of British football hooligans. The infrastructure-moaners are blaming the governmen