Udhay Shankar N said the following on 06/11/2007 21:09:
Udhay, just back from a few days in a resort in Kerala that appeared
largely populated by Europeans -- nary a USAnian in sight, FWIW.
Kerala is way too exotic for Americans to go to. Besides, it's too near
Eyerack, EyeRAN, and all those
Hi all,
This reminded me of the episode of Southpark titled Make love not
warcraft :-).
regards
Anish
On 11/6/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/6/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Udhay Shankar N said the following on 06/11/2007 21:09:
Udhay, just back from a few days in a resort in Kerala that appeared
largely populated by Europeans -- nary a USAnian in
Hi Charles,
If you intend to travel around Cochin ( say another 100+ kms) you could
see a lot more. BTW what kind of stuff are in interested,
culture/history/nature ?
regards
Anish
On 11/6/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/6/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On
Udhay Shankar N said the following on 06/11/2007 21:31:
Didn't you get married in Varkala? You'd probably not recognise the
place -- lots of shops with signs like Ici on parle Francais and so
forth.
Did you stay in the Taj, then? Lovely place, terrible (Mal) service.
Ram
Forgot to mention - it'll be with two friends from the US who've never
been to India before. Any suggestions of cool things to do in Cochin
or environs either before or after?
Fish dishes at the Grand Hotel (it is a faded old three star hotel, quite
cheap but clean .. but its restaurant is
Charles Haynes said the following on 06/11/2007 21:40:
Forgot to mention - it'll be with two friends from the US who've never
been to India before. Any suggestions of cool things to do in Cochin
or environs either before or after?
Haven't been there recently, so don't know if this still holds
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote [at 10:46 PM 11/6/2007] :
Udhay, just back from a few days in a resort in Kerala that appeared
largely populated by Europeans -- nary a USAnian in sight, FWIW.
Kerala is way too exotic for Americans to go to. Besides, it's too near
Eyerack, EyeRAN, and all those
So why ARE there so few Jews in India? I know that historically there
were thriving Jewish communities. Is it because they, in general,
supported the Raj? Is it because of some form of historical leftist
anti-semitism?
Most of them emigrated en masse to Israel. There have been some very
On 11/6/07, Anish Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Charles,
If you intend to travel around Cochin ( say another 100+ kms) you could
see a lot more. BTW what kind of stuff are in interested,
culture/history/nature ?
1) Food
2) More food
3) Good food
4) History
5) Culture
My friends
On Nov 6, 2007 9:40 AM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Forgot to mention - it'll be with two friends from the US who've never
been to India before. Any suggestions of cool things to do in Cochin
or environs either before or after?
I was in kochi in Jun of 2005. My photos:
On Nov 6, 2007 9:55 AM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) Food
2) More food
3) Good food
Lots of this to be had. Try both the local Keralan cuisine and also
the fusion cuisine. There are some good cookbooks on Malayalee cuisine
available as well.
4) History
Fort Kochi is good.
At 2007-11-06 10:44:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(FWIW Jew Town would probably be offensive to most Jews [...]
IMO, Jew Town, despite the name, is not offensive.
I thought he meant the name was offensive.
-- ams
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:23:43PM +, Sriram Karra wrote:
In short, with access to your inbox, implementing such a system should be
fairly straightforward... right? I'd like to think so. [Maybe one of these
Oh, I don't think so. And automatic anythings won't work that well in
future, given
on the jewish story. there were a few thousand European Jews who were in
INdia in the 40s in mumbai who later went to Israel. there were refugees
during the war. One of my friends' dad taught French at University of Mumbai
and met a lot of the jewish people at the time.
2007/11/6, ashok _ [EMAIL
On 11/6/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:23:43PM +, Sriram Karra wrote:
In short, with access to your inbox, implementing such a system should
be
fairly straightforward... right? I'd like to think so. [Maybe one of
these
Oh, I don't think so.
Why
On 6 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you are driving down to Cochin, take the scenic route through
Gundulpet, Bathery, and Calicut. It's quite a lovely drive.
1) Food
When in Calicut, go for lunch to the Paragon hotel (ask anyone, it is
a small town). Ask for 'meen pollichathu'. Eat it
On 11/6/07, Madhu M Kurup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm:
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
But I'd have figured someone with a gnu.org address would be able to
figure
out how to unsub from a mailman list .. oh well.
Time to confess up, I recently went through an email address change and
On Tuesday 06 Nov 2007 6:20 pm, Deepa Mohan wrote:
the unsubscribe email doesn't always seem to unsubscribe one
Few people (especially the techies) realise that the server that gets the
message is located in France and that server interprets the unsubscribe
message as un subscription - or one
On 11/7/07, Alok G. Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Keep asking for 'meen pollichathu' until the fish is 'aikura'. It's
usually a different fish everyday.
I disagree. Aikura is the local name for seer. Ask for kari-meen or
pearl spot. That's the one to be had as 'meen pollichathu'.
Go across
On 11/6/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(FWIW Jew Town would probably be offensive to most Jews, but we will
be visiting Cochin's Jewish Quarter and synagogues for sure.)
Historically, Jew Town is what Cochin's Jewish Quarter (uhh ...
Jewish sixty-fourth?) is called.
I've noticed
At 2007-11-07 10:02:53 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the place with the 'netti pollichathu kozhi? Roughly, it
translates to 'chicken fried standing-up'.
Actually, it would translate to chicken /split/, not fried, standing up.
I think the word you're looking for is porichathu (r not
On 11/7/07, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, it would translate to chicken /split/, not fried, standing up.
I think the word you're looking for is porichathu (r not ll), though the
transliteration into English leaves much to be desired either way.
I stand corrected.
On 11/7/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
shiv
(who knows so much French that even the French don't know)
Learned in Pondicherry? IIRC, you studied there. Don't they have
slightly Tamilised French there?
-- b (who despite several years of French study is down to one phrase
Parlez vous
On 11/7/07, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 2007-11-07 10:02:53 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the place with the 'netti pollichathu kozhi? Roughly, it
translates to 'chicken fried standing-up'.
Actually, it would translate to chicken /split/, not fried, standing up.
On 11/7/07, Binand Sethumadhavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pollichathu - coated with spices, wrapped in a banana leaf and baked.
It's baked? Whenever I've had it, it's always been fried.
At 2007-11-07 10:24:12 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pollichathu - coated with spices, wrapped in a banana leaf and baked.
Really? Wow.
And is this really the same word as split, or did the Englishification
screw it up?
-- ams
On 11/7/07, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/7/07, Binand Sethumadhavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pollichathu - coated with spices, wrapped in a banana leaf and baked.
It's baked? Whenever I've had it, it's always been fried.
It's baked in a frying pan. You put just enough oil so
And now I'm hungry...
I wonder if the Grand is still as good as it once was...
I ate there a few months ago and it was superlative.
Alleppey fish curry (instead of karimeen), and a chicken chettinad that had
some amazingly tender, perfectly cooked chicken, seasoned with fresh pepper
and was,
On 11/7/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ate there a few months ago and it was superlative.
And then there's Fry's. How I love that place. I'm not sure how well
known it is though. Ceylon Bake House, has unfortunately gone down the
sh**ter.
On 11/7/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's baked in a frying pan. You put just enough oil so that it doesn't
stick to the pan and then close the pan. Effectively it's baked in the
banana leaf.
And now I'm hungry...
I wonder if the Grand is still as good as it once was...
On 7 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I disagree. Aikura is the local name for seer. Ask for kari-meen or
pearl spot. That's the one to be had as 'meen pollichathu'.
Balderdash. Karimeen is generally associated with the backwaters and
Calicut isn't. Malabar and Moplah cuisine doesn't have
Wonder what the Tamil equivalent for pollichathu is...should be something
very similar, no?
One word I can think of is Avichathu - (like avicha-muttai - poached/boiled
egg)
C
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The lens of my SLR / and CCD sensor of my camera have dust patches on
them... How do i remove these ? I tried wiping it with a microfiber
cloth but it doesnt seem to work .
Any ideas ?
ashok
On 07/11/2007, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/7/07, Binand Sethumadhavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pollichathu - coated with spices, wrapped in a banana leaf and baked.
It's baked? Whenever I've had it, it's always been fried.
The Malayalam verb pollikkuka means, among other
The lens of my SLR / and CCD sensor of my camera have dust patches on
them... How do i remove these ? I tried wiping it with a microfiber
cloth but it doesnt seem to work .
Any ideas ?
http://www.cameralabs.com/workshops/dslr_dust/ has some sound advice
India was ahead of the curve, on this one...
A new school of traffic design says we should get rid of stop signs
and red lights and let cars, bikes and people mingle together. It
sounds insane, but it works.
http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2004/05/20/traffic_design/index.html
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:25:20AM +0300, ashok _ wrote:
The lens of my SLR / and CCD sensor of my camera have dust patches on
them... How do i remove these ? I tried wiping it with a microfiber
cloth but it doesnt seem to work .
Any ideas ?
Professionals use collodium on lenses, but I
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