Re: [silk] FoU v3

2007-08-26 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Venky wrote: [ on 10:36 AM 8/23/2007 ] Charles has kindly offered his place, this Saturday evening. Who's up for an impromptu evening of food and drink and chatter? Cool! I'm in. Seven of us met up at Charles' place yesterday for the abovementioned food, drink, and chatter. Did I mention

Re: [silk] Pakistan at 60 from Rafiq Dossani

2007-08-26 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 26 Aug 2007 11:21 pm, Ingrid wrote: My experience ''at the grassroots certainly confirms that caste (and gender) biases are a significant barrier to development. I've just returned from southern Tamil Nadu where caste atrocities are a daily affair. Have witnessed much the same in

Re: [silk] Re-architecting the music business

2007-08-26 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Lawnun wrote: [ on 08:58 PM 8/14/2007 ] The idea of record-label free distribution has been done at least since 1997 [1], to varying [2] degrees [3] of success. [4] In the States, it was quite a big deal when the rock group Clap Your Hands Say Yeah sold over 200k albums on iTunes, sans a

Re: [silk] Pakistan at 60 from Rafiq Dossani

2007-08-26 Thread Biju Chacko
On 8/27/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps top-down imposition of something or the other is is never going to work. Neither is the removal of caste barriers near the top (by mixing and churning), because caste layers exist independently at every depth. Mixing at the top has no

[silk] Illustrated Coffee Guide

2007-08-26 Thread Venkat Mangudi
http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/2007/08/20/an-illustrated-coffee-guide/ I wish all the baristas in the cafes in the US educated themselves at least minimally from this site. It might not be a gourmet coffee drinker's definitions, but surely better than what most of the baristas dole out. Many of them

Re: [silk] Illustrated Coffee Guide

2007-08-26 Thread Gautam John
On 8/27/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have so far been impressed with the baristas in the cafes in Bangalore. Most of them know how to prepare a good latte or cappucino. Including the ones who warn you that an espresso is black coffee? And the ones who use tepid milk? My pet

[silk] In BLR for a week

2007-08-26 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
I'm going to be around from tomorrow till the 4th (weekend excluded - away at a training session). Udhay has confirmed that he'll be ready for lunch or dinner, any one else? Cheeni

Re: [silk] Illustrated Coffee Guide

2007-08-26 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
I'll second Gautam. Cafes in Bangalore and Chennai like to state the obvious. Double shot espresso, saar? It's only black coffee saar... Sir, Espresso will be a little bitter saar... C On 27/08/07, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/27/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [silk] Illustrated Coffee Guide

2007-08-26 Thread Madhu Menon
Gautam John wrote: Including the ones who warn you that an espresso is black coffee? And the ones who use tepid milk? My pet peeves. Gautam, I was in Delhi last week for my brother's wedding and happened to drop into a Barista outlet to grab a coffee. And when I ordered a cappuccino, I was

Re: [silk] Illustrated Coffee Guide

2007-08-26 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote [at 11:02 AM 8/27/2007] : I'll second Gautam. Cafes in Bangalore and Chennai like to state the obvious. Double shot espresso, saar? It's only black coffee saar... Sir, Espresso will be a little bitter saar... I'm willing to give them the benefit of the