Re: [silk] Intro to a tech-driven social worker

2012-11-19 Thread Thaths
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote: On 19 Nov 2012, at 09:26, Caitlin Marinelli caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote: I was based in Chennai until two weeks ago - when I shifted to Mumbai. But I'll be frequenting Chennai on a regular basis and think it

Re: [silk] great piece on Bal Thackeray after all the other crap that's out there

2012-11-19 Thread Thaths
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: Shoba Narayan [19/11/12 07:29 +0530]: First time I am reading this writer. Hope he writes more. http://www.indianexpress.com/**news/fear-and-loathing-in-**

Re: [silk] Intro to a tech-driven social worker

2012-11-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
that reminds me, anybody coming to chennai who can pick up a couple of dozen paperbacks off amazon for me? Small paperbacks (out of print westerns ..) --srs (iPad) On 19-Nov-2012, at 13:30, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: If you wait till around Christmas/New Years, I will be able to join

Re: [silk] Intro to a tech-driven social worker

2012-11-19 Thread Venkat Mangudi - Silk
And that's how we drift from language processing to J T Edson. :-) Quite lovely! --V On Nov 19, 2012 1:46 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: that reminds me, anybody coming to chennai who can pick up a couple of dozen paperbacks off amazon for me? Small paperbacks (out of

Re: [silk] great piece on Bal Thackeray after all the other crap that's out there

2012-11-19 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
http://m.economictimes.com/news/politics/nation/two-persons-arrested-for-facebook-post-on-mumbai-shutdown-after-bal-thackerays-death/articleshow/17277705.cms Is a disturbing trend in India. On Nov 19, 2012 7:29 AM, Shoba Narayan sh...@shobanarayan.com wrote: First time I am reading this writer.

Re: [silk] Intro to a tech-driven social worker

2012-11-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 19-Nov-2012, at 14:04, Venkat Mangudi - Silk s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: And that's how we drift from language processing to J T Edson. :-) Quite lovely! Tabor Evans actually - the Longarm series of adult westerns, with several spur award winning novelists (Lou Cameron, James Reasoner

Re: [silk] great piece on Bal Thackeray after all the other crap that's out there

2012-11-19 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote: http://m.economictimes.com/news/politics/nation/two-persons-arrested-for-facebook-post-on-mumbai-shutdown-after-bal-thackerays-death/articleshow/17277705.cms Is a disturbing trend in India. This is a serious misuse of

Re: [silk] great piece on Bal Thackeray after all the other crap that's out there

2012-11-19 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [silk] Intro to a tech-driven social worker

2012-11-19 Thread Badri Natarajan
On 19 Nov 2012, at 13:30, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote: On 19 Nov 2012, at 09:26, Caitlin Marinelli caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote: I was based in Chennai until two weeks ago - when I shifted to Mumbai. But

Re: [silk] Intro to a tech-driven social worker

2012-11-19 Thread Caitlin Marinelli
I'll be in Chennai the second week of December - if any of your are planning something then, would love to join.

Re: [silk] Intro to a tech-driven social worker

2012-11-19 Thread Badri Natarajan
On 19 Nov 2012, at 18:01, Caitlin Marinelli caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be in Chennai the second week of December - if any of your are planning something then, would love to join. Pretty much any day during the week of 10-14 Dec (except Friday 14 Dec) works for me. Does (say)

Re: [silk] Intro to a tech-driven social worker

2012-11-19 Thread Chew Lin Kay
Pretty much any day during the week of 10-14 Dec (except Friday 14 Dec) works for me. Does (say) Thurs 13 Dec work for everyone? Nothing preventing us from meeting up again when Thaths is here.. Will be in Chennai just after Pongal and will love to put faces to names too!

Re: [silk] Intro to a tech-driven social worker

2012-11-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
the thirteenth works for me too chew lin, pongal is mid january - i guess something can be done then. the reason there aren't too many silkmeets in chennai has nothing to do with reactivating anything, it is just that there's hardly four or five silklisters that live here, so any visiting

Re: [silk] Intro to a tech-driven social worker

2012-11-19 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Caitlin Marinelli caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote: 13th works for me! As it does for me. And oh, silklisters in/passing through Chennai. I am a freelancer, I work from home. So, any day is good for a meet. An hour's notice to decide where to meet is all I

Re: [silk] Intro to a tech-driven social worker

2012-11-19 Thread Badri Natarajan
On 19 Nov 2012, at 21:33, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Caitlin Marinelli caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote: 13th works for me! As it does for me. That's agreed then. We can fix the place and time nearer the day I

Re: [silk] great piece on Bal Thackeray after all the other crap that's out there

2012-11-19 Thread Jude Britto
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: The Internet is a giant echo chamber. I am outraged at the outrage :) While that was my first reaction too, this story appears to be true: https://twitter.com/SreenivasanJain/status/270458894193684480

Re: [silk] great piece on Bal Thackeray after all the other crap that's out there

2012-11-19 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Jude Britto jude.bri...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: The Internet is a giant echo chamber. I am outraged at the outrage :) While that was my first reaction too, this story appears to be true:

Re: [silk] great piece on Bal Thackeray after all the other crap that's out there

2012-11-19 Thread Mahesh Murthy
it is true, actually. was a shiv sena effort to discredit the story that, well was discredited itself On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Srini

Re: [silk] Intro to a tech-driven social worker

2012-11-19 Thread Divya
Count me in. I'm back in Chennai from December. Cheers Divya Sent from my iPad On 19 Nov 2012, at 19:09, Caitlin Marinelli caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote: Pretty much any day during the week of 10-14 Dec (except Friday 14 Dec) works for me. Does (say) Thurs 13 Dec work for everyone?