--- Venkatesh Hariharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since there are many Indophiles on this list, I
thought that you may enjoy
seeing my photos of the Holi festival in Banaras
[1], one of the holiest
Indian cities.
Very nice indeed. I particularly liked the one of the
happy little girl with
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/19/mirror.therapy/index.html
updated 10:17 a.m. EDT, Wed March 19, 2008
For amputees, an unlikely painkiller: Mirrors
* Story Highlights
* Expert says phantom pain afflicts as many as 95 percent of amputees
* Cause isn't certain; one theory says
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/19/mirror.therapy/index.html
updated 10:17 a.m. EDT, Wed March 19, 2008
For amputees, an unlikely painkiller: Mirrors
A lot of information and it's cures is covered alongwith weird
--- Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A lot of information and it's cures is covered
alongwith weird
insights into the human
brain are covered in Phantoms in the Brain:
Probing the Mysteries of
the Human Mind
by V. S. Ramachandran
V. S. Ramachandran is very articulate too. Here
is a
http://www.livemint.com/Articles/PrintArticle.aspx
Great, I whispered to Nitin. They are teaching her to read English
with made-up nonsense.
... had me choking on my morning cuppa kaapi.
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 05:04 -0700, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Damn whoever started this thread. I'm going to get forced to pull all those
books off the shelves and start re-reading them. For the next few weeks at
haha mea culpa. so let me modify the thread, then: what are the sort of
books
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 20:45 +0530, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote:
Um, I read Ponniyin Selvan, not once but 5 times. And am walking/biking
Vanthiyathevar route in bits and pieces. My post on PS is still getting
attention, after 3 years.
so what's a good english translation? i found this,
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 23:56 +0530, Supriya Nair wrote:
The Guardian had a blog on the attractiveness of book lovers a couple of
years ago, spun off a poll about what people noticed most about others:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2006/08/01/i_bet_you_look.html
thanks for
va wrote:
http://www.livemint.com/Articles/PrintArticle.aspx
Great, I whispered to Nitin. They are teaching her to read English
with made-up nonsense.
... had me choking on my morning cuppa kaapi.
I think you meant this link:
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [05/04/08 16:27 +0200]:
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 20:45 +0530, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote:
Um, I read Ponniyin Selvan, not once but 5 times. And am walking/biking
Vanthiyathevar route in bits and pieces. My post on PS is still getting
attention, after 3 years.
so
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [05/04/08 16:15 +0200]:
haha mea culpa. so let me modify the thread, then: what are the sort of
books you re-read?
the o'brians for sure, favorite louis l'amours when i have a very short
time (an hour or two, tops), favorite poems from ogden nash / archy and
mehitabel / the
What a terrific talk. This boy from Viliyanur is a great communicator. His
ideas are not bottled up inside him and incomprehensible to others.
I loved it.
shiv
On Saturday 05 Apr 2008 6:46:07 pm Shyam Visweswaran wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl2LwnaUA-keurl
- Shyam
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:23 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What a terrific talk. This boy from Viliyanur is a great communicator. His
ideas are not bottled up inside him and incomprehensible to others.
I loved it.
The Emerging Mind (the book and the lectures[1]) are also very good.
--
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 20:45 +0530, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote:
Um, I read Ponniyin Selvan, not once but 5 times. And am walking/biking
Vanthiyathevar route in bits and pieces. My post on PS is still getting
http://www.livemint.com/2008/04/05001858/Wanted-Exceptional-parents.html
so she finally got into SPV, my alma mater (well, before i dropped out
at 12). hindi medium, cultural, gujarati, enough clues but they also -
oddly for bloggers - included the full (long) name of their daughter in
the
On Saturday 05 Apr 2008 7:45:11 pm Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
i hardly ever re-read, despite building up a huge collection. i
ditto for me.
But since I have been reading primarily non fiction for over a decade now - I
often make copious annotations that I refer to now and again when I need to
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.livemint.com/2008/04/05001858/Wanted-Exceptional-parents.html
so she finally got into SPV, my alma mater (well, before i dropped out
at 12). hindi medium, cultural, gujarati, enough clues but they also
On Sunday 06 Apr 2008 5:10:29 am Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
i remember when i was in school our principal had to defend herself to
the press for asking prospective nursery students to identify dals. she
argued that it's more important than being able to identify popular
brands of ice cream.
In
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
haha mea culpa. so let me modify the thread, then: what are the sort of
books you re-read?
Heh. Deja Vu all over again [1].
i hardly ever re-read, despite building up a huge collection. i find i
almost always end up remembering the book quite well once i'm back in
Udhay Shankar N [06/04/08 10:01 +0530]:
- JT Edson's early works (a guilty pleasure - his prose is lousy and his
politics worse, but I still go back to them over lunch/dinner every now and
again)
Oh yes. Oh YES.
- The early Executioner books
And Phoenix Force / Able Team as well.
Oh yeah
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