The first message on Silklist [1] was sent on 19 December 1997. Next
Wednesday, it'll be 10 years since that happened. Many generations in
internet time, or even in dog years.
Anybody wants to do a meetup where lots of beer is comsumed, and
stories are traded?
Discuss.
Udhay
[1]
On Saturday 08 Dec 2007 6:00 pm, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Yeah - so there's a bunch of bjp / rss right wing kooks editing every
article they can find on the Indian freedom struggle and similar topics
I have developed a theory, and gamed it to boot, to demonstrate that any
owning up or
On Dec 9, 2007 8:12 AM, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Owning up to being Hindu is asking to be identified as
right wing
No, Shiv. Going to a temple, performing a pooja, celebrating diwali
with family and friends are all perfectly fine non-right wing ways of
practicing Hinduism. It is
On Sunday 09 Dec 2007 10:06 pm, Thaths wrote:
It is when one gooseteps in khakhi shorts down
the road, when one claims that the Hindu civilization is 10,000 years
old, when one thumps on Herr Hegdewar's books and goes around burning
Christian families, etc., one gets identified as right wing.
On Dec 9, 2007 4:51 PM, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 09 Dec 2007 10:06 pm, Thaths wrote:
It is when one gooseteps in khakhi shorts down
the road, when one claims that the Hindu civilization is 10,000 years
old, when one thumps on Herr Hegdewar's books and goes around
On Monday 10 Dec 2007 6:51 am, Thaths wrote:
Interesting you should opt out of re-using the gooseteps (sic) in
khaki shorts bit. I suspect a vaster majority of right wing kooks do
that than any of the other example characteristics I stated.
But Thaths that is not a reply to my question.
shiv sastry wrote:
One of the problems I note with Indian, particularly Hindu society is
this
Not really. It is a description of a subset of Indian editors active on
Wikipedia.
Editing characterized by
1. Aggressive nationalism (to the point of claiming that incidents like the
Satichaura
count me in
Deepak
On Dec 9, 2007 8:34 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The first message on Silklist [1] was sent on 19 December 1997. Next
Wednesday, it'll be 10 years since that happened. Many generations in
internet time, or even in dog years.
Anybody wants to do a meetup
OK. The point I would like to make is that the group described below were
characterized as BJP/RSS right wing kooks
On Monday 10 Dec 2007 7:45 am, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Editing characterized by
1. Aggressive nationalism (to the point of claiming that incidents like the
Satichaura
If we indulge in group profiling, we cannot expect that the favor will
not be ruturned to us.
I am an equal opportunity profiler. I think the right wingers on both sides
of the spectrum - modi and the brownshorts on one side and the mad mullahs
on the other - are reprehensible.
So, where
On Monday 10 Dec 2007 9:08 am, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
So, where does that leave me?
Can't say about you personally, but it is possible that you might fall into
what I wrote in the first message. I repeat:
There is, therefore a tendency among many Hindus to play down their Hindu
There is, therefore a tendency among many Hindus to play down their
Hindu identity in public and in mixed cultural company, while they remain
as
Hindu as can be in private. Owning up to being Hindu is asking to be
identified as right wing
I am not a practicing hindu, in private or in public.
Suresh Ramasubramanian said the following on 10/12/2007 07:57:
And I am quite open
about calling certain hindu godmen (including one silk dressed hippie with a
few rape cases against him,
Suresh:
Remember, we are supposed to respect all religious and sexual
preferences. This particular guy
On Monday 10 Dec 2007 9:27 am, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
I am not a practicing hindu, in private or in public. And I am quite open
about calling certain hindu godmen (including one silk dressed hippie with
a few rape cases against him, a US embassy advisory that doesn't quite name
him, etc
Remember, we are supposed to respect all religious and sexual
preferences. This particular guy has just combined both and also
interpreted Shaivism literally.
And you have to admit that watching supposedly mature politicians get
all ecstatic about being touched by a hand that was in all
I'm currently working with a non-profit and as part of our work we run
~400 libraries across Bangalore and many more across the state. We are
hopeful, if we find sponsors, of putting a computer in each library
both to manage the library and as a tool for the kids to work/play
with. As it stands,
Does the list have any thoughts on ideas I can use to put forth a
persuasive argument for Edubuntu as the OS of choice [1]?
If you do put XP in there stick in as many anti spyware, malware, virus etc
tools as you can, harden it some.
Public library PCs tend to pick up trojans and such at an
On 10-Dec-07, at 9:43 AM, shiv sastry wrote:
In fact many educated Hindus chose this route to avoid being asked
to answer
uncomfortable questions about Hinduism. Wearing Hindu symbols like
a large
tilak on one's forehead or admitting to openly practicing Hindu
ritual is
quite often an
On 10-Dec-07, at 11:11 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
If you do put XP in there stick in as many anti spyware, malware,
virus etc
tools as you can, harden it some.
Public library PCs tend to pick up trojans and such at an alarming
rate
In particular, you'll want to use Microsoft
Technology, Governance and Citizenship
12th, 13th and 14th December, 2007
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Technology is central to new modes of governance, and to emerging
definitions of citizenship, participation, and progress. As state
functions get automated through e-governance,
abhishek,
the site is updated.
register if you can.
hope to see you on the 14th.
janastu.org/tgc
d
On Oct 17, 2007 3:04 PM, Abhishek Hazra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thanks for sharing this.
i am interested in day 3 of the conference where the discussion will
be on Science and Technology
On Dec 10, 2007 9:43 AM, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
In fact many educated Hindus chose this route to avoid being asked to answer
uncomfortable questions about Hinduism. Wearing Hindu symbols like a large
tilak on one's forehead or admitting to openly practicing Hindu ritual is
shiv sastry said the following on 10/12/2007 08:13:
In fact many educated Hindus chose this route to avoid being asked to answer
uncomfortable questions about Hinduism. Wearing Hindu symbols like a large
tilak on one's forehead or admitting to openly practicing Hindu ritual is
quite often
On Dec 10, 2007 12:42 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10-Dec-07, at 11:11 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
If you do put XP in there stick in as many anti spyware, malware,
virus etc
tools as you can, harden it some.
Public library PCs tend to pick up trojans and
I'm in.
Venky, the Second.
On Dec 9, 2007 8:34 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The first message on Silklist [1] was sent on 19 December 1997. Next
Wednesday, it'll be 10 years since that happened. Many generations in
internet time, or even in dog years.
Anybody wants to do a
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:09:45AM +0530, Gautam John wrote:
On the other hand, I have been using Ubuntu for a while now and am
happy with it and the philosophy behind it. However, it's difficult to
translate this into a meaningful argument for a project of this scale.
As far as I can tell
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