Re: [silk] Grief during a pandemic

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 11:57 AM Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > Thanks for starting this thread, Udhay. > > As someone who has been interested in financial inclusion and would like to > see India become a developed country in my lifetime, our country's callous > handling of the pandemic has driven

Re: [silk] Valuing and selling inherited trinkets

> Pooja > > If you have a working cassette and CD player, please let me know. > > Thanks > Lakshmi > Hi Lakshmi, sorry this comes late, but we do have working cassette and CD players, will be happy to show you. I’ve had a very good experience with the antique dealer Ramachandra his > number is

[silk] Valuing and selling inherited trinkets

Reaching out to Silklist for help. I grew up as one of five people living in a house in Bangalore built for at least 10, with endless space for hoarding the knick-knacks of four separate households from three generations. Constantly dusty, a nightmare to clean and maintain, and stuffed with

Re: [silk] Bangalore and Chennai food/restaurant recommendations

> > There are a dozen places I would go to in Bangalore for authentic, tasty > food over MTR. From street corner benne dosa places, to North Karnataka > food to TamBram food to mudde idli places, But I would hesitate to take > a foreigner with no previous exposure to Indian restaurants to many

Re: [silk] Flamebait of the week

Thanks Deponti.. I agree, although I've helped draft regulations that do exactly this, and similar regulations are quickly becoming standard across the country. It's not clear what the motivation for these regulations is, since nobody other than private owners of the (larger, more visible)

Re: [silk] Affordable housing

> > would be 200,000 crore rupees. That's not a large number at Indian > Economy > > scale. Plus, its an investment, not a hand out. > > > > Also, the fact that such housing developments will have to be far away > from > > the city center shouldn't be a deal brea

[silk] Affordable housing

Hello all! I would love to hear what the members of this list think of affordable housing - certainly from architects (hi Naresh!) and urban policymakers, but also everyone here. In my work as an urban planner, we throw around ideas like affordability as a function of land prices, minuscule

Re: [silk] Soliciting recommendations

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:18 AM, WordPsmith wrote: > Thank you, all! This is immensely useful. Signing up for a bunch of these > right away. > > > On Oct 25, 2017, at 06:23, Venkatesh H R wrote: > > > > I second The Contumacious Curmudgeon -- Alok's

Re: [silk] Travels with the fish

On 20 Jan 2017 12:22 pm, "Udhay Shankar N" wrote: Posting this fond review of 'Travels With The Fish' in memory of the said fish: author Gopinath's younger brother and longtime silklister Ramu Narayan, who passed away last week. Farewell, Ramu. Udhay

[silk] Fwd: Introduction

Welcome, Pooja is always a good season in West Bengal, and that ought to be true here, too! I know your dad as Nallu, but my delight at the opportunity to get to know a child as an adult in her own right doesn't change. Can you tell jokkus like your dad does? Hi Deepa aunty! I remembered

[silk] Introduction

Hello! My name is Pooja. I studied architecture in Bangalore and Urban Planning in Ahmedabad, and learnt a few months ago that I could begin to call myself an architect-urban planner and my former professors by their first names. Until very recently, I was working full-time at an architecture