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
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
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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.
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
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.com wrote:
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Charles Haynes
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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
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
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
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
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
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:03 PM,
On 01-Dec-2009, at 10:40 AM, Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.com
Returning home is not (or should not be) an altruistic act. You
return home due to circumstances (ill parents) or by choice, or by
tacit agreement (company sends you and you don't protest).
Bingo! Well said, Shoba.
I'd
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.comwrote:
I so agree. As a repat or cowpat, I have little patience with the whining
about how hard it is to assimilate back home.
Shoba and othersthis problem of having little patience is one I'd
like to address.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
Shoba and othersthis problem of having little patience is one I'd
like to address.
snip
Oh well...nuff said, I guess. Please...let us have, not little patience,
but...a little MORE patience!
This is quite
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:13, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.comwrote:
I so agree. As a repat or cowpat, I have little patience with the whining
about how hard it is to assimilate back home.
My sis in law is
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:03, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
I do think returnees who have a problem today came to India with a chip on
their shoulder and a wrong set of hagiographic expectations. And there is no
[..]
to blame for these than themselves. And if they feel bad
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:16 PM, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe the ex-pats do have a chip on their shoulder but what about the
desi's who want change for a change. Or are you proposing that each
individual should single-handedly bring about change magically without
any support from
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