On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote:
I use http://isbn.net.in/
Thanks, I took a look at it. It appears pretty limited in terms of
search and features though lightweight and ad-free.
On Mar 4, 2014 5:08 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
A selfish organism is the very definition of cancer.
I'm not sure if I agree with all that you said, Cheeni. But that last
line...breathtaking in its simplicity.
Thanks Deepa, you are kind as always. :-)
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:08 AM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
The article looks at life like a single player game. Life can be a
single player game or a team game in which multiple players cooperate.
In India life is defined as a multiple player game in which your life is
played in family and
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Which is why the Evernote list makes sense. As and when you remember a
phrase, put it in the list. :)
If there is a pressing need to absolutely recall something, I agree, having
crib notes is the way to go.
But why
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
You know what else detracts from the subject of the conversation? Sermons.
:-) I sense anger :)
In all honesty, this wasn't intended to be a sermon, apologies if it sounds
so. I am quite happy to share what little I know, is
Sorry to miss you Suresh.
7PM works for me.
I'm assuming the race club is members only, and unavailable since Suresh
dropped out. Can we pick an alternate venue?
How about this place, I've always gone past it but never stepped in,
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
Or you could hypothesize that farming became popular for some reason other
than the happiness of the farmers.
As I said, this segue is IMHO mostly meaningless, we can only
hypothesize, we can't prove a thing. It's
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
Yearning for a mythical rural idyll is just a way to whine without
trying to make a change in the real world. Don't even get me started
on the selfish self indulgence of exploring inner selves.
I think this debate is very
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Caitlin Marinelli
caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, February 4, 2014 5:26 pm, Adrianna Tan wrote:
Hi all,
In Chennai 9 - 12 Feb.
Happy to meet one and all on 10 or 11 Feb.
Takers?
Monday or Tuesday evening works for me in Chennai. Would love to meet
Bayer CEO: We made medicine for people who can afford it, not Indians
I don't think vilification serves any purpose.
On the one hand, Bayer makes life saving drugs, very good; but on the
other hand it intends to only sell it only to the rich; not so good.
Historically speaking this has been
the average morality of the people who make it up.
Any examination of such matters needs to look at the larger morality,
and understand why our leaders time and again get sucked into narrow
views of self interest.
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
Bayer CEO: We made
On Feb 5, 2014 3:09 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
A look at population numbers would say yes. But then quality of life
indicators - and not just material quality, but indicators that take
into account mental illness, loneliness, depression and so on give a
very mixed
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
At least one silklister has taken the request to heart:
http://boingboing.net/2013/09/18/give-jeremy-bornstein-15037.html
Well it's not uncommon among humans to pay ridiculous sums of money to
watch other humans make
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 9:38 AM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
specifically
demonstrate that the 1910 book reference is a one-off anomaly
Any Indian author of a printed book in those years would have been
forced to submit their ideas to British egos. Severe censorship laws
had placed the
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph k...@kingsley2.comwrote:
You know, sometimes I think that Mr. Mahadevan may be as
over-enthusiastic in finding dravidian connections for Indus script as
some of the right-leaners are about finding Sanskrit connections.
Oh say, did you
Yes, see you at amethyst.
On Sep 2, 2013 3:43 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
On 02-Sep-2013, at 15:25, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote:
But if Amethyst is on, I can make it anytime after 6 - my office is
nearby. Shall we say 630pm Amethyst?
Is this on for this
Suresh do you have a preference? Chandroo, will you be able to make it?
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote:
Not in the same area at all, but anyone for Amethyst?
Unless I'm mistaken Amethyst is the one near the big mall Satyam?
That place is a mighty
Does Monday night, 2nd Sep work for everyone?
On Aug 27, 2013 3:44 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote:
Maybe early next week? Weeknight?
Anytime before the 2nd works for me.
6 pm somewhere in South/Central Madras?
I'm not current on places, so can someone help?
On Aug 29, 2013 12:04 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net
wrote:
On 29-Aug-2013, at 11:52, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Srini
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
liu's waldorf = cheap indian chinese, near the IIT campus
you don't need to be current on places, its been around for donkey's years
The last time I was at Liu's I had the pleasing company of a lizard on
the wall
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote:
I don't mind coffee and a sandwich at the Coffee Day on the
Theosophical society road towards Rajaji Bhavan.
Yeah Monday evening works for me but 6pm could be challenging especially if I
have to get to Adyar.
Will
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:55 PM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
For an article that starts with an example of cognitive bias, it is far
faar too long.
The husk around the kernel of truth is rather mighty, I agree.
Technological progress has a history of promoting a dulling of the
mind and body.
http://io9.com/5987567/brain+to+brain-interfaces-have-arrived-and-they-are-absolutely-mindblowing
Humans are the rats in a global experiment called progress with an unclear
target outcome.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Charles Haynes
charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
Which is to say, you may not be able to hack your way to happiness.
I have personal experience that is very much to the contrary but I'm
just a data point and not a representative sample size.
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote:
Maybe early next week? Weeknight?
Anytime before the 2nd works for me.
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps I've just met the wrong demographic among those who read self-help
books, but most of those who have pushed such books at me were fairly
successful - and I wasn't aware of any failure that prompted
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 8:45 AM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
This can happen even without mollycoddling/spoiling (the autopilot). A
child can simply do well in school and college because his interests and
ability happen to coincide with the direction his parents want him, and
encourage him,
Because it's been a while, and I feel like meeting Silk people.
Any interest?
:23 +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Privileged kids don't usually face serious hardship that shatters
their confidence until their start-up fails, their marriage tanks or
their addictive habits get the better of them.
While I agree with the general point you make about self help books
The old saying is you can wake someone who's asleep but not one who
pretends to be asleep.
Acknowledging climate change means to drill less for oil, and that's a
civilizational challenge for the rich people in the here and now rather
than fifty years from now. The poor people will die first
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
I began to wonder if hipster life hacking was different from self-help.
Maybe the difference between the two is socio-economic?
Are you saying being socio-economically backward might help in
preventing the development of a large
I'm waiting for research some day to start screaming that staring at
computer screens (and not to mention social networks) causes
depression and loneliness.
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/led-zone/4419340/Do-LEDs-cause-blindness
Do LEDs cause blindness?
Carolyn Mathas - August 6, 2013
AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm waiting for research some day to start screaming that staring at
computer screens (and not to mention social networks) causes
depression and loneliness.
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/led-zone/4419340/Do-LEDs-cause-blindness
Do LEDs
Dev Anand was a futuristic film maker in Indian cinema in many ways -
which includes beating Yash Chopra to Switzerland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONDviMDa3Hc
Prem Pujari - 1970 Grimsel Pass, is actually quite a historic location
in Swiss history, but not the easiest to get to - and so by
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
A few large discoveries in the Americas notwithstanding, it isn't like
The discoveries are not large, and mostly nonrecoverable. According
to recent graphs the Bakken story looks already over -- further data will
tell. We'll
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
Now if anyone would have a decent peak resource/energy mailing list
(especially now than the The Oil Drum is shutting down), that'd be
just great.
The Oil Drum is the biggest - but lots of Peak Oil websites have
crashed and
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Much more, including the full spreadsheet with all 21 'weirdness
features' for all the languages, at the URL below.
Also, it amuses me that this list says the most 'normal' language is
Hindi. :-)
It depresses me a little
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym
ala...@snell-pym.org.uk wrote:
On 06/20/2013 04:23 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/enterprise-it/security/India-sets-up-nationwide-snooping-programme-to-tap-your-emails-phones/articleshow/20678562.cms
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in
wrote:
Just say neigh, you think?
A night mare race to find the worst pun?
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
Speaking about a wipeout, how probable would you see a nuclear
conflict arising between failing states? I see huge problems
in the Pakistan/India/China corner. The climate shift will
probably hit Pakistan much harder than it
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
I wrote this some time agosomeone else referred to it on FB recently
(yes...a woman.) What makes us detest certain subjects at school, and why
is Maths (or Math) frequently at the top of the list? It can't always be
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
[...snip links...]
Notice that most of it is very predictable, several days
in advance.
You are right up to the point that global climate change bites. And
even without a climate apocalypse, I thought the margin of error with
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
in rich countries. In the end, though, they too will change as the
alternatives become normal, and what was once normal becomes quaintly
old-fashioned.
It has been quaintly old-fashioned for many years now where I sit.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Chetan Nagendra che...@nagster.org wrote:
I wonder if the PFRDA cannot even secure their website, how will they manage
billions in public funds?
Your optimism is remarkable. Pension deductions are a form of taxation
any way you look at it, either directly on
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk
s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
Anyone?
Time sink, but then most games are. Not for me.
On Jun 3, 2013 12:59 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com
wrote:
He was not universally liked but I guess even those that didn't like him
would be saddened by the news.
I agree, on both counts. RIP, Atul.
It was too
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Charles Haynes
charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
Saravana Bhavan
In the spirit of Silk, I register here my personal opinion that
Saravana Bhavan is the combined nutritional and ethical equivalent of
McDonalds Monsanto.
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 8:25 PM, mark seiden m...@seiden.com wrote:
but i must ask:
[...]
why is that your opinion? (i have only been to the sunnyvale branch, rarely).
(perhaps do they now serve Bhopal-style McDosas?)
Ethical: Their business practices in their early years were very rough
-
Ever since much the same happened in Pakistan about five years ago I've
been wondering when India would follow. My regret is that they didn't go
torch a politician's bungalow, at least that would have yielded results.
On May 24, 2013 2:25 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
(...)
What's the current PV deployment situation in India? Any signs for
a ramp-up?
The power grid and sub stations need more investment than power generation,
we are losing 100 - 800 MW of wind energy daily in Tamil Nadu alone.
Power
, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com
wrote:
The power grid and sub stations need more investment than power
generation,
we are losing 100 - 800 MW of wind energy daily in Tamil Nadu alone.
Transmission loss is more theft than inefficiency, in my
understanding. One only has to look
Parts of this, especially about the decrepitness of the railway system
and the corruption rings true for Indian railways too. Incidentally,
Declan Walsh was recently thrown out of Pakistan for attempting to
cover the elections.
The gourmands on the list (I'm thinking Charles and Gautam chiefly,
but also several others) will probably be interested in Steven Poole's
new book, You aren't what you eat (2012)
http://stevenpoole.net/you-arent-what-you-eat/
Guardian's review:
The upshot: screw the experts.
This is generally good advise for anything. Religion, investing,
philosophy, exercise, diet, don't adopt anything without verifying for
yourself.
It's silly how many people have respect for authority.
I was lucky to be genetically disposed towards rebellion.
Zombie phone mode was active, sorry
On May 9, 2013 6:49 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com
wrote:
Zzz d'sa zzz a Ss z
Masterfully argued, Cheeni.
Thaths
--
Homer: Hey, what does this job pay?
Carl: Nuthin'.
Homer
It's possible I may be able to attend (Chennai), pick a date and I'll try
to drop in.
On May 6, 2013 9:10 AM, Divya S divyasamp...@yahoo.com wrote:
I'm happy to meet in Chennai on any date from 6th to 10th.
Cheers
Divya
Sent from my iPad
On 03-May-2013, at 5:31 PM, Adrianna Tan
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Nikhil Mehra nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com wrote:
This should liven up the debate a bit:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/04/economist-explains-why-iceland-ban-pornography?fb_ref=activity
Iceland with 322,000 people is the size of an Indian
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Deepak Shenoy deepakshe...@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking purely economically - it's cheaper when they ban the darn
thing. If they make it legal, they'll charge a bloody license fee and
have auctions for licenses and some random minister will fraud the
taxpayers
The conservatives will obviously welcome this and the politicians will love
it because it's a meaningless but decisive move; with no political downside
to it because of the taboo. The only thing this will really do is destroy
Indian democracy some more by strengthening intrusive laws, and help set
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com
wrote:
The conservatives will obviously welcome this and the politicians will
love
it because it's a meaningless but decisive
Mukhopadhyay
sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com
wrote:
The conservatives will obviously welcome this and the politicians will
love
it because it's a meaningless but decisive move; with no political
downside
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Caitlin Marinelli
caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote:
Do they need micro insurance?
India is generally very passive-aggressive towards insurance isn't it?
Most insurance products sold here are halfway between investment and
insurance, with the insurance pay out
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
While sophisticated investors might not want to mix insurance and investment,
it still remains an option - in several cases - for less sophisticated
investors, as long as they find a honest advisor who doesn't
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
While sophisticated investors might not want to mix insurance and investment,
it still remains an option - in several cases - for less sophisticated
investors, as long as they find a honest advisor who doesn't
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
It is easy for one who has voted with his feet to condemn those who can't.
No sense going after the arguer, please do attack the argument.
Without some sensitivity a lot of very valid concerns sound like, You must
I am yet to see a calamity that will force Indians to evacuate. If
Indians were the kind that would quit unhealthy environments, then
prices of land in Bangalore should be falling right now.
Bhopal never skipped a beat even when its citizens were falling dead
from poisonous gas, and it's dusty
If there's any innovation in Jugaad, it is in talking a tall tale.
There is no ethnic flavor to innovation, not Indian, Chinese or
African. Sure when you take away the resources and / or laws, then
new solutions with trade-offs become possible. Like the Chinese mobile
phone clones or Indian drug
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com wrote:
An ugly public building comes up right next to a 1500 year old temple. A
monument to incompetence and corruption built in the backyard of
a millennial legacy of elegance and brilliance, and no one bats an eyelid.
I
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
Much as I like the marundeeswarar and much as I don't like the MRTS
station, your comparison doesn't hold true. Temple poetry is more about
exaggeration of the attributes of the diety and less of
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
I can see the MRTS evoking some Marxist / North Korean poetry.
You mean of the fascist joy through suffering variety, indeed. We
should let Hitler know.
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com wrote:
This is quite true of most places in India. A combination of dust, smoke,
concrete and other assorted particulate matter have made most
urban/semi-urban habitats next to impossible to live in without some
version of
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
The MRTS monstrosity is poetic in its own way. The MRTS stations are an
Ozymandian reminder of the early 90's and corruption.
Vomit is a reminder of yesterday's folly too.
Temples weren't invented here or only here obviously, though this
became the land of temples. They go afaik much further back than
proto-Abrahamic - hard to find any standing so it's all debatable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_religion
Fire temples are evidenced in Aryan history -
Satellite images of light pollution in India show the most uniformly
polluted sky of any developing country. In contrast, China is mostly only
polluted with light haze along the coast.
The few dark regions of India are the most revealing: Dantewada (maoists
who tear down the few electricity poles
Welcome, Silk can be worse than miscmarket. You are warned.
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:24 PM, frozencemetery rharw...@club.cc.cmu.eduwrote:
I've been told it's good form to post an introduction, so: hello!
I'm a computer scientist and security researcher currently at Carnegie
Mellon
There's a long (paid column inches I am sure) rant in almost all Indian
newspapers today by the chief of Novartis lamenting the death of
innovation. I couldn't be bothered to read it.
The front page headlines that weren't paid for ran with the conventional
wisdom that the ruling was good for the
A preview of my real life action adventure game for tourists - live life
like a Madras teenager:
- A visit to the TASMAC store to pick up cheap liquid courage
-- For bonus points: this is done at around 6PM on a Friday or October 1st
- A spicy chicken Biryani made of genuine 100% crow
-- For
Would you happen to know of the tasty lassi and samosa shop in the lane
behind Devi theater? I remember it being way too successful to have closed
down by now, so I still hope.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
That place no longer
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
1. Mylapore
A more serious contribution to your list:
- Rayar's Café and Maami Kadai -
http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2295935.ece
- Dabba Chetti Kadai - traditional Indian medicines and things your
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
You mentioned asking the guy whether he does a chocolate dosa
That ranks a close second to asking for cold milk with tea, and as such
rates as due grounds for deportation. We don't want these types here, I
have to
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Andy Deemer andydee...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey -- I was just going off the Deccan Herald's 99 Dosa recc's...
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/217211/content/217419/F
Yes we are a billion people, so I think we've earned our right to produce a
few idiots, and
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Sean Doyle sdo...@gmail.com wrote:
I would welcome that. We're having a definite quality control problem here.
Fox has been aiming at a 3 year old mentality (mine! all mine!) but the
rest of the media isn't as coherent. And.. to prevent too much thread
drift
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Naresh xxx...@yahoo.com wrote:
http://www.flipkart.com/sandisk-cruzer-blade-16-gb-pen-drive/p/itmczc2ndmuqrmt7?pid=ACCCWPADYYFEJ7ZGref=8938e4a9-ba8c-47a3-abef-349c1379cbe3
Second that one. Decent drive, decent price. If you want speed, ask for USB
3
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Sean Doyle sdo...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree. Bragg is often surprised at what his guests say (e.g., that Malory
of Le Morte Darthur was a thug) - he obviously prepares for his podcast
but he doesn't try to script/control his guests too much (except in in the
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote:
Karpagambal Mess - been around for several decades at least.
With a side order of a cast iron stomach? It's improved of late, still
the sight of giant cockroaches lingers in my memory.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Sidin Vadukut sidin.vadu...@gmail.com wrote:
Ahem. (Sheepish grin.) I forgot to recommend a podcast I wished existed.
1. A factually accurate, detailed podcast telling the history of India's
military conflicts since independence. Both internal and external.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Naresh xxx...@yahoo.com wrote:
I need some advice on which USB flash drive to buy..the parameters are
1.No separate cap but the retracting mechanism must be solidly built
The retraction mechanism makes no sense since the port is still left
open for dust to
1. historyofoil.typepad.com the history of rome (the LSE lectures
though not only about history do have some excellent history talks)
2. Too many to list and at the same time nothing to list.
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
At today's Chennai silk list meetup
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
Someone who lives in California, wants to buy wine in Chennai..such is
life...Thaths, how come you didn't get your 2.5 litres at the
duty-free when you came in?
si fueris Rōmae, Rōmānō vīvitō mōre; si fueris alibī, vīvitō
http://m.economictimes.com/news/politics/nation/two-persons-arrested-for-facebook-post-on-mumbai-shutdown-after-bal-thackerays-death/articleshow/17277705.cms
Is a disturbing trend in India.
On Nov 19, 2012 7:29 AM, Shoba Narayan sh...@shobanarayan.com wrote:
First time I am reading this writer.
Throwing shurikens while blind folded, isn't that the term Udhay?
http://www.springerlink.com/content/vg7322727mgl1875/fulltext.html?MUD=MP
Society
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012
10.1007/s12115-012-9596-y
Symposium: Mating Games
Sexual Economics, Culture, Men, and Modern
On Aug 10, 2012 2:45 AM, Landon Hurley ljrhur...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
Looks like the author stumbled across something written by Joseph
Campbell.
Don't think he needed any help, Harvey Cox is a noted theologian,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Cox
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1999/03/the-market-as-god/6397/?single_page=true
The Market as God
Living in the new dispensation
By HARVEY COX
A few years ago a friend advised me that if I wanted to know what was
going on in the real world, I should read the business pages.
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Deepak Shenoy deepakshe...@gmail.com wrote:
If the medicines are so much in demand and so ridiculously cheap in
India, isn't there already a flourishing black market in Pakistan for
them?
Your favorite gods of the market are to blame here too, you know. If
one
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote:
Isn't this him Thaths - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sriram/ ?
Yes, this is him
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sriram/4331864625/in/photostream
This is tragic, he was so young.
I got to know him fairly well in the couple of years that our lives
crossed paths in Bangalore. He was a charming, caring, generous and
intelligent friend. I missed him when he started to shun public
contact a few years ago, I had no idea it had to do with a
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Shivakumar Narayanan shi...@gmail.com
wrote:
Another choice in KNK Road - 3 Kingdom - has beer too.
OK, let us close on this then. We will meet at 3 Kingdoms on Khader
Nawaz Khan road
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Aanjhan Ranganathan aanj...@gmail.com wrote:
Haha. I was shocked as well. These days 200 INR per person is cheap
food in Madras. 300-500 passes off as moderate. What shocked me was
not the cost itself, but the sudden increase. I am pretty sure, 8
months back
On Jul 25, 2012 3:43 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
I can still get a good saappaadu at Balaji Bhavan for Rs.50. The minute
you start calling it INR the rate goes up steeply.mthen you have to go to
an authentic restaurant to get the real experience...inverted commas
push up prices.
On Jul 25, 2012 6:19 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Exactly the same water and air you pay for at saravana bhavan as you do
at azulia.
Since when does Saravana bhavan qualify as anything but an extortion racket
run by an axe murderer [it's true...]
I meant the high class
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