Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-06 Thread Thaths
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Supriya Nair supriya.n...@gmail.com wrote: Random House has just published the first two translations in their new Classics series, both from the Bengali: one is Bankim's Durgeshnandini, which is widely considered the first novel written in an Indian language.

Re: [silk] How do I tell if I'm getting ripped off by the optician?

2011-01-06 Thread s_u_j_a_i
I see lots of people just typing +1that's two keystrokes and a send button, thrice as much effort! I find that I have had to re-evaluate the meaning of the word like. When there is a moving picture of a wild animal that's become roadkill, or news that someone has lost her mobile, I

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thaths [06/01/11 16:10 +0530]: Speaking of ACK, I also ordered Nandini Chandra's The Classic Popular Amar Chitra Kathas (1967 To Now) from flipkart. Should be worth a read, if only for the brushwork in there. I was quite a fan of ram waeerkar, and of jeffrey fowler, who illustrated like three

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-06 Thread Supriya Nair
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Supriya Nair supriya.n...@gmail.comwrote: Heh, I hadn't caught up on this thread then, but I warned Thaths away from Daniyal Mueenuddin just yesterday. 'In other rooms' is interesting because it's not often one finds English writing that deals with the daily

Re: [silk] How do I tell if I'm getting ripped off by the optician?

2011-01-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:55:23AM -, s_u_j_a_i wrote: So the important question might be - what do you want to do with the like/+1 type data. And then decide on the appropriate system to codify that and summarise the results. Quality metric is a vector, not a scalar. (Or, at least, a

Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 14, Issue 7

2011-01-06 Thread Dave Long
So the important question might be - what do you want to do with the like/+1 type data. And then decide on the appropriate system to codify that and summarise the results. If someone can't be bothered to trot out even a hackneyed sentence expressing their admiration for or at least

Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 14, Issue 7

2011-01-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 01:00:59PM +0100, Dave Long wrote: If someone can't be bothered to trot out even a hackneyed sentence expressing their admiration for or at least interest in a topic, they I don't want to read me-too spam. I want, however, to be able to utilize the information about

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-06 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 06-Jan-11 9:29 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Samanth is silklist material and udhay's been trying to entice him over for quite some time. Samanth being maxed out on email already, will probably take time to do that. Thanks for the poke - he's on silk now. Hi, Samanth. Come out and say

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-06 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 06-Jan-11 4:10 PM, Thaths wrote: In my history of reading Indian books in English translations, the only one I liked was Ashokamitran's Eighteenth Parallel. That was done, I believe, by erstwhile silklister Kalyan Raman, who generally translates Asokamitran's work. Udhay -- ((Udhay

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-06 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 6 January 2011 21:38, Samanth Subramanian wordpsm...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Udhay. A cordial Hello to the Silklisters out there. Welcome Samanth. I ordered the book on flipkart a few minutes back. :) ~ashwin