Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Charles Haynes wrote: > Yeah, that's the one we found - we lived across the street from it. Are > there others? Any that are public (i.e. paid for by the government?) > ​There's the State Central Library in the heart of Cubbon Park

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

Yeuggh. Bookleaze sounds too close to Booksleaze! What is the process by which people come up with names for their entrepreneurial efforts? I had a similar query in the old days of Live Journal (a blogging site which barely exists now) and the answers were varied and very...Interesting! I don't

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

Yes, there are two I used to go to. One is World Culture in Basavanagudi (not govt. but they run on a very fair fee), it has a collection that can keep a kid busy for a couple of summers. The collection in the reading section of the Govt. library in Malleshwaram was good (a good two decades

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

Oh that's much better than my search. For some reason "lending library" only returned Eloor and Bookleaze for me. Thanks! -- Charles On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 16:39 Deepa Mohan wrote: > Google amma gave me this: > > >

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

Suresh, I am currently based in Madras. Looking forward to hearing back from you. Cheers, Preetha. On Dec 29, 2016 11:34 PM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" wrote: Which city are you in? Plenty I know of in Chennai. Bangalore has its fair share + second hand book stores like

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

Google amma gave me this: https://www.google.co.in/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant=1=2=UTF-8#q=lending%20libraries%20in%20bangalore=ls:-1,lf_od:-1,lf_oh:-1,lf:1,lf_ui:3,lf_pqs:EAE=1=0=12950140,77638673,5288=lcl=7502844426495328141 Deepa. On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Charles Haynes

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

Yeah, that's the one we found - we lived across the street from it. Are there others? Any that are public (i.e. paid for by the government?) -- Charles On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 15:51 Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Eloor behind Safina plaza on Infantry Road has been around for

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

Eloor behind Safina plaza on Infantry Road has been around for 30+ years unless they closed down, I haven't borrowed anything from them recently so I hope they're still there Google + a website says yes they are --srs > On 30-Dec-2016, at 9:59 AM, Charles Haynes

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

Suresh, For future reference, could you please share the lending libraries of Bangalore? That was one of the things we (especially Debbie) missed the most about our time there - we were used to easily findable and accessible public libraries, and couldn't find such in Bangalore. -- Charles On

[silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

Howdy folks, I would like to seek your suggestions on the recommended reading list/songs/nursery rhymes etc. for a 5-month old baby girl. Is there a lending library where we can get children's books from - just wondering for I haven't seen one in India, so far. Could be mistaken, though. Cheers,

Re: [silk] Old Maps of Chennai

The madras archives http://www.tnarchives.tn.gov.in/aboutus.html Though if you know S Muthaiah of Madras Musings I am sure he can already give you chapter and verse on what you want. On 28/12/16, 9:36 PM, "silklist on behalf of Vijay Anand"

[silk] Old Maps of Chennai

Does anyone know where one can find old maps of Chennai? I am looking for a map of Triplicane, especially the area surrounding the Marina beach before 1991. If anyone could point me towards the right direction, it would greatly help. Thanks in advance. Vijay

Re: [silk] what have you produced during enforced downtime?

Oh, and when I was down with fever, I picked up Love in the Time of Cholera. I still remember clearly that, for some reason, I started reading it from Page 77 and couldn't stop. I read it right through to the last page and then read page 1 to 76. Amazing writer, that Marquez! On Dec 29, 2016

Re: [silk] what have you produced during enforced downtime?

Two years ago, I fractured my foot and was laid low for a month. That helped me read up on financial planning and substantially clean up my finances. Very helpful, that was :-) On Dec 29, 2016 10:41 AM, "Udhay Shankar N" wrote: > I got reminded of this message [1] from an

Re: [silk] what have you produced during enforced downtime?

On 29/12/16 6:53 PM, Vinit Bhansali wrote: Give me some enforced downtime and I'll write an ode to the person responsible for said downtime. Probably. Considering your dated phone, you'll get some un-enforced downtime shortly. -- Cheers, Venkat

Re: [silk] what have you produced during enforced downtime?

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Any stories the list can share about similar things happening during > enforced downtime? > All my time seems to be downtime, duly enforced by my Bengali genes for laziness, but while I don't have anything personal to

Re: [silk] what have you produced during enforced downtime?

On 29 December 2016 at 10:40, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > I got reminded of this message [1] from an earlier conversation recently. > To quote Ramu from then (are you still reading silk, Ramu?) > [...] > > Any stories the list can share about similar things happening during >

Re: [silk] what have you produced during enforced downtime?

1. When I was a senior in high school (age 17) I became ill with something or other. Some kind of flu, probably. It only lasted about 3 days, but during that time I was feverish, almost delirious. But somehow I managed to read a good chunk of Lord of the Rings — in 1970, when this book was