Re: [silk] my book

2007-02-12 Thread shiv sastry
On Monday 12 Feb 2007 2:26 pm, Charles Haynes wrote: I would prefer a doctor that had at least seen bleeding piles before I would consider going to them for treatment. Reading about piles in a book is all fine and good, but I would hope a doctor got more than just book training before

Re: [silk] my book

2007-02-09 Thread shiv sastry
On Friday 09 Feb 2007 10:46 am, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: Kupa is a Well, manduka is a frog. This is the story of a frog, which I'm not sure if it applies here... For the anglophones - Kupa Manduka means blinkers or tunnel vision It does apply in a nuanced sense to the people I am addressing

Re: [silk] my book

2007-02-08 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 2/3/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have said on and off that I had been working on a book about Pakistan. A couple of silklisters have seen early drafts of the book. The book is now online as a freely downloadable and distributable ebook on

Re: [silk] my book

2007-02-08 Thread ashok _
i downloaded it, and i skimmed through a few chapters... admittedly i didnt read it from cover to cover. my preliminary opinion was this: -the book had a significant taint of bias -the writer has not traveled to pakistan, but collected an aggregation of largely (negative) journalistic opinions

Re: [silk] my book

2007-02-08 Thread shiv sastry
Thanks for your comments. I did what I thought needed to be done. But regarding the haven't travelled to Pakistan - one needs to recall that a doctor does not have to suffer from a brain tumor or bleeding piles to treat those conditions. That is the basic premise of a review of the

Re: [silk] my book

2007-02-08 Thread ashok _
Yes doc but a terminal disease and an independent country are two different matters... the first can probably be looked at objectively and scientifically (in terms of available technical medical literature...) and cannot be compared in any sense with what mr.vir sanghvi has to say about a

Re: [silk] my book

2007-02-08 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 2/9/07, Abhishek Hazra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one needs to recall that a doctor does not have to suffer from a brain tumor or bleeding piles to treat those conditions Marc Bloch: a historian needs thicker boots and thinner notebooks I've not yet read the book Shiv, I've only skimmed