On 30-Jul-11, at 9:12 PM, Anand Manikutty wrote:
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Thoughts/opinions on the article welcome.
The spell-checking is competent.
-Taj.
I enjoyed this bit:
We need a collective mindset as Hindus to stand against the Islamic
terrorist. The Muslims of India can join us if they genuinely feel for
the Hindu. That they do I will not believe unless they acknowledge
with pride that though they may be Muslims, their ancestors
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:50 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
But as far as i know - it is only in India here there are big debates where
the members of the majority religion are debating with each other as to
whether they are secular enough or not.
I think this is an admirable quality.Would
On 4 August 2011 15:03, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:50 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
But as far as i know - it is only in India here there are big debates
where
the members of the majority religion are debating with each other as to
whether
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Ingrid ingrid.srin...@gmail.com wrote:
To pick a bone, Italy has no jurisdiction over the Vatican.
Hehe, specifically planted there to lure the pedants. The Vatican bank
wouldn't get away with the money laundering if the Roman banks stopped
being so helpful. In
But this whole secularism debate is an oddly Indian phenomenon - and I
would
be curious to find out how many nations with a significant minority
religion
spend a great deal of effort in which the members of the majority religion
squabble among themselves about the need to be secular.
The
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
As far as I can tell, all secular democracies struggle with how to deal with
religion and government.
India's secularism is a fortunate accident. I credit the small band of
intellectuals who had fortunate control of
On 8/3/11 8:50 PM August 3, 2011, ss wrote:
I find something fake and contrived about Indians talking secularism. I am
reminded of an event held in schools called a mock UN in which teams of
schoolchildren purport to represent various nations. The same Indian kids are
seen making impassioned
Charlie Stross on the explosion in laws (which is again, a promo of
sorts for his book _Rule 34_). It got me thinking: this is basically
putting all of us who are on the planet into a low context culture [1] -
essentially, the disappearance of the very notion of tribal knowledge.
Interesting
On Thursday 04 Aug 2011 7:41:18 pm Charles Haynes wrote:
But as far as i know - it is only in India here there are big debates
where the members of the majority religion are debating with each other
as to whether they are secular enough or not.
One of the things I found frustrating in
I have an annoying problem with using google search on firefox, that I
hope someone can help with.
I mostly use google for my search needs, exclusively through the search
box in firefox. I modify the behaviour of this by editing the config
file for each search plugin so that it gives me e.g 100
On 08/05/2011 07:48 AM, ss wrote:
On Thursday 04 Aug 2011 7:41:18 pm Charles Haynes wrote:
Yet it is a predominantly Hindu country that writhes and struggles with an
internal debate on secularism. If democracy is the will of the majority, then
pluralism should be the rule in india, not
On 05-08-2011 08:05, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
I am aware that this behaviour is supposedly configrable via google's
search settings page [1] but it is not working for me, likely because of
some interaction with the noscript plugin. I do not want to turn this off.
Any thoughts?
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