One isn't always buried when dead, so I wonder if the term is
appropriate to describe specifically turning in one's grave.
Cheeni
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Sumant Srivathsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or just cryptorotation, since, you know, one doesn't need to be dead to be
buried.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
The wind produced by politicians themselves is another untapped
source. They're frequently full of hot air as well.
Won't anyone think of the methane?
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Yes, but that's begging the question I raised, which is, for reference, Do
we actually *want* Kashmir?
Necessary evil...
What do we want as India's future? I am fine with a dissolution into
tiny nation states with
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Krish Ashok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
But the bigger issue is what happens if they do secede and there's a sudden
de-escalation in military expenditure. Somebody is sure to pull some strings
to get a few more wars started elsewhere to make up for lost
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Venky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Will this reduce the violence in the region? Maybe, maybe not.
Either has no bearing on the fact that holding a people against
their will is, at least in my book, a crime.
I suspect it will result in massively increased
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11991176source=features_box4
Apparently it was discontinued in 1912. I guess they didn't
In case you hadn't seen:
http://www.redhat.com/security/data/openssh-blacklist.html
Last week Red Hat detected an intrusion on certain of its computer
systems and took immediate action. While the investigation into the
intrusion is on-going, our initial focus was to review and test the
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It's a poverty thing.
That makes sense...
I don't agree.
Europeans
URL: http://www.newsweek.com/id/151355
Is Healthy Air Bad?
Why China's Olympic cleanup may be aggravating global warming.
Jamie Reno
NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE
Updated: 5:42 PM ET Aug 7, 2008
Dissidents aren't the only ones being forced off the streets of
Beijing during these Summer Olympics. The
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Psychologists found memories of painful emotional experiences linger
far longer than those involving physical pain. [1]
I don't think I've ever paid particular attention to this phrase, if
I've ever come across
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And while on food:
http://www.nationalgeographicfood.com/
Are you saying that's an example of a food scam? Actually looking at
the prices on this, I'd agree.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you still in der Schweitz,Obhishek?
Schweitz? Schweiz surely?
Apropos of nothing I have a love/hate thing for compound words in
German. This seems to attain new heights in classified advertisements.
Gartensitzplatzwohnung
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
If you removed the captions, would you see anything more than villagers
dressed in their festival best? I couldn't.
A few fashion designers are going to be a tad upset to discover that
their products didn't stand
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Sumant Srivathsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
What, specifically, did you find problematic? To be honest, I find
Imagine this layout - a starving man of skin and bones with sunken
hollows for eyes holding up Beluga caviar heaped on a silver tray.
Would that be
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Badri Natarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
immigration in the UK and the general perception of it (the comments are
perhaps even more interesting than the article).
This one had me rolling on
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Giancarlo Livraghi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This isn't really a silly question. I am working on a book and there is a
page where I am quoting examples of myth, legend, folklore, fairy tales,
fiction or whatever where a picture or a statue or an idol or an icon
On my way to Madras, I expect to be in the Adyar area for a few days.
Anyone in the vicinity, and wants to meet?
Cheeni
--
Sent from my mobile device
Cheeni
Q: Why is this email 5 sentences or fewer?
A: http://five.sentenc.es/
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.timecube.com/
Psychoceramic, heh, http://everything2.com/e2node/psychoceramic never
heard that one before. Useful...
Cheeni
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:14 AM, . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
OTOH, what if every politicians child had to study in the public
school (since no private schools would exist with for-profit motives)
and they also had no 5-star private hospitals to check themselves
into. Do you think we would
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:27 AM, . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
As if inspirational movies were not enough we just had to show the
American (privatisation) and the German (socialist/public) model that
we can do a better job of messing up.
Our education system is bankrupt. It's a dozen years
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Aren't the Parotta/Porotta and the Paratha two different animals entirely?
Allow me to indulge in a little back yard etymology adventure.
I know of the South Indian Parotta as the Ceylon parotta or
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
The few times I've had Ceylon Parotta, it had meat/scrambled eggs stuffed
into the fluffy bread. Kerala/Malabar Parotta and the Madras Porotta are
very similar, except the Madras version has a smaller
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bah ... can't compare to good ol' Appam and Stew, or my personal
favorite Kappa and Meenu Curry (Tapioca and Fish Curry).
Oh you hapless non-mallus -- you don't know what you're missing.
The rest of the thread now looks as
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Not really metal, but somewhere on the family tree.
http://www.nightwish.com/en/files/audio
Also, somewhere on the family tree...
Cheeni
On 03-Oct-08, at 8:35 PM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some of my friends used to make reasonably good idlis in
microwaveable egg poachers... Not as good as the idli cooker, but
not bad.
I cook my idlis in the microwave every time, even though I have the
more traditional
On 04-Oct-08, at 4:32 AM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Vardhini Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Whichever way it goes, the fact remains that idlis made in any way
other than traditional style aren't quite the same.
Definitely. You really have
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Martin Senftleben
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Are there other means, e.g. in Europe (UK), to get such a set? Who has
an idea?
It's available from the UK at £39.99
http://www.currys.co.uk/product.php?sku=370180source_id=awcamp_id=Shopping.com
And, this is the
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it's not based on any particular data point [1] is my new favourite
explanation for any thing i say.
And I defend the length of my reports by pointing to the three page[1] bail
out bill.
Cheeni
[1]
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it's not based on any particular data point [1] is my new favourite
explanation for any thing i say.
i love it.
You don't have to pay for it. I do. :(
In today's
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:15 PM, . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
this may be an old wives tale, but apparently the hand that mixes the
batter helps fermentation ...not all hands though :) its got something
to do with that individuals body heat (??) bleh... a mystery to me
thus far.
This
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Alok G. Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
I've been wondering about this too. It is possible to start a culture
with store-bought, packaged yogurt but it takes about 3 cycles before
it is edible (imho).
I suspect this is true for national brands like
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Generate
interest among your readers and get them to translate the work into
other languages. Let people make mashups with your work.
Or write a suitably impenetrable book,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Day
so
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 08:41 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
All that said, here's an interesting article that just got published,
and you will note Bruce's involvement.
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had the letters S tagged onto my boarding pass earlier this year
Just 4 Ss ..
Were you there looking over my shoulder? ;-) You are right, I think I
had only 4 Ss, but it can go all the way upto 7 depending
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had the letters S tagged onto my boarding pass earlier this year
Just 4 Ss ..
Were you there looking over my shoulder? ;-) You
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:07 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Yes but the government could outsource airport security to a private agency
that can get sued. Unless I am mistaken.
Blackwater's done just fine being a government sanctioned mercenary
terrorist outfit.
Cheeni
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Because they are! I fail to understand this line of reasoning. Theatre
for theatre's sake is what you're advocating? If what you're saying is
that the general populous need to 'feel' safe instead of actually
'being'
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-11/mf_mobgalore?currentPage=all
[Click link for full article]
Thanks to convoluted laws and corrupt officials, claiming ownership
over a piece of property in Bangalore can be as easy as hiring thugs
to paint your name on the side of a building. In
Possible sample selection bias, but the 4 flights I've been on in the
past two weeks have been full. Plus I've been multiple times to the
Reliance Digital store this week (only once to buy) and every time the
store has been busy. On one of these visits I actually remarked to
someone that
On 25-Oct-08, at 7:32 AM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/10/25 Aadisht Khanna [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
We must be living in different Indias. My experiences:
house prices to collapse as they surely must. Nobody is getting
telemarketing calls for overdrafts or credit cards
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Jude Britto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Intro: I'm Jude; I work for Google in Bangalore. I find the discussions on
this list interesting, and have been lurking on it long enough to know not
to top post :).
OMG, another Googler, welcome.
Cheeni (one of 3 (?)
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
no-noise server for the house LAN. In terms of the juice saved
it pays for itself in no time (and mine was free anyway).
Do you mean electrical power when you say juice? And, how does it pay
for itself, by saved
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Want to do it somewhere near Madras this time?
Auroville, Pondicherry.
Cheeni *predictable of course if you know where my last two vacations were*
:08 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
please, no real or wannabe ashram places for silkmeets..
Not even ashram places that look like giant golden golf balls, as
this one
does
On Thu, October 30, 2008 5:05 am, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:29 PM
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hyderabad eh? Apologies to the vegetarians but an irani chai (and biryani)
tasting tour of some famous irani hotels in the city might be appropriate.
Take time though :)
Please bring along an iron stomach and a
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/indian-math-tutors-math-deficient-americans/?pagemode=print
NOVEMBER 3, 2008, 6:09 PM
Start-Up Teaches Math to Americans, Indian-Style
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
The New York Times recently reported on a study that found, once
again, that the United States is
I can't tell if this is truly a disgruntled Republican or a wacky
joker, but this takes the cake:
I just want to urge you all to not give up hope yet. God hasn't voted
yet. All votes in the world are nothing against a flicker of will of
the Almighty.
What's that word the VCs love to use? Ah, yes, game-changing stuff this...
Cheeni
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/technology/personaltech/05pogue.html?em
November 5, 2008
STATE OF THE ART
Shazam! A Projector Is Shrunk
By DAVID POGUE
Come on, admit it: is there anything more awesome than
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Aditya Chadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's also this: http://www.shop3m.com/78923677021.html -- ~$80
cheaper and has a slightly higher resolution.
Much better replacement for an aging CRT based TV.
The one Pogue talks about cuts off after 90 minutes (at
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cool! You just gave everyone on silk an imaginary Erdos number. ;-)
But how? Have you written a paper with Perry?
Cheeni
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote:
Present.
When be date? 20/21 Dec?
:( going to Trichy on 21st Dec. Can we decide on the dates quickly please?
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
have to confirm or decline? Are all silkspouses allowed, or can only the
FoUnder bring his phemily?
Tell me you raised that question only to work in that pun :-)
Cheeni
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
This has the makings of a[nother] monster thread.
That's the mailing list equivalent of the sign that says jump off the
cliff here for wonderful view. I will bite of course :-) Most of this
is stuff that I know I
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PS: Udhay, for a moment I thought you posted this on Satin, then realised it
was on Silk, so quickly edited out the admin stuff I had written about the
thread.
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Get rich? Definitely want to do that.
Define rich.
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
6. Volunteer with a charity or foundation that helps children to read
- time: 6 months-1 year; cost: $$$
Akshara Foundation (www.aksharafoundation.org) might be interested in
your help. Wot Sez
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Bonobashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, I think that (building a key to define $ through $$$) is likely to be
hopeless at a top-down level. There are too many diverse contexts on this
list. Maybe the best would be to define only three levels, using the $ sign
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4AD72J20081114?feedType=RSSfeedName=oddlyEnoughNewsrpc=76
Ancient Greeks pre-empted Dead Parrot sketch
Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:56pm EST
By Daniel Flynn
ATHENS (Reuters) - I'll tell you what's wrong with it. It's dead,
that's what's wrong with it.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Ingrid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/11/16 Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Make sense of how the rational (logical) and irrational (moral) sides of
the brain reconcile
Have never seen the brain hemispheres labeled that way. Are morality and
rationality
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
J. Andrew Rogers wrote, [on 11/18/2008 6:59 AM]:
What's ICMP?
He'll ping you with the answer.
Echo that.
Did that idea just POP into your head?
HELO?
selfishness. But, on the flip side, this might lead to World Peace by
wiping out humans.
Yeah, personally I never liked that race.
I wonder how easy it is for any one mortal to wipe out the earth if
not the universe. The Dr. NOs of the world included seem to have
miserably failed. I don't have
http://www.crystalheadvodka.com/
Watch the Dan Akroyd video. Wins the prize for the most over the top
marketing speil ever filtered by diamonds indeed.
Cheeni
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 10:36 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
That reminds me of all of the various things that I will do When I have
The Time (small unrepresentative sample follows)
... i will make a list of things to
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess I'll need to hitch a ride anyway - coming in from Madras.
Solely from the efficiency point of view, and speaking to the 'anyway'
in your reply - the Shatabdi Express can get you all the way to
Mysore.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder why no one desires the most popular pastime of mankind when
time and money are no object.
Because it's not a thing I would like to do
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:21 AM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
In any case the world has a way of rearranging your priorities when
you least expect it.
Amen to that.
Cheeni
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any reason you're editing the subject line to add your name
and others'? It breaks threading in MUAs that use the subject to group
messages (such as gmail).
Thank you, +1
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Malini Aisola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Thank you, +1
me too, i'm feeling a little over exposed :)
Subject lines are only one carriage return away from the from field,
usually. How
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Postbiota are evolutionary successors of us/our machines, living in deep
space as native habitat. They will self-select to create a relativistic
expanding pioneer critter wavefront, that tranforms any stellar system
it
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
It would make more sense if expanded into a couple pages, but
a) it would be boring 2) I don't have the time.
And so you are externalizing the costs by making the rest of us spend a lot
more time reading or skipping
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given the number of random Nigerians who registered for IGF (and will
disappear into india the moment they land..) - and given my experience of
previous IGFs (I was at the first one in Athens) .. no they don't
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://info.intgovforum.org/PLP_3IGF.php has the full list of people who
registered for IGF. Search for Nigeria.
No, I meant why do they choose India? India isn't that hot a
destination to emigrate is it?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jCRkrQxbXdCbH0TfHp3oGe_2W1KAD94IB2F00Somali
pirates transform villages into boomtowns
By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN and ELIZABETH KENNEDY – 7 hours ago
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates are building
sprawling stone houses,
I agree with that grossly non-pc line of reasoning, your theory fits
the symptoms I have been observing.
Cheeni *in a hurry, need to expend more thought on this*
On 23-Nov-08, at 7:31 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know if anyone noticed the irony in these two seemingly
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I agree with that grossly non-pc line of reasoning, your theory fits the
symptoms I have been observing.
The specific symptom I'd like to call out here is the growing
anti-intelligentsia feeling I encounter all over
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:28 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 23 Nov 2008 9:02:21 pm Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
I think this is the telling effect of the brain drain on India.
er.. this assumes that brains exist abroad where Indians go. That is one of
the enduring methods of self
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:53 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 23 Nov 2008 9:30:44 pm Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
Perhaps not, but at least there isn't a persecution of the intellectual as
currently happens in India. I of course simply state the symptom, the cause
could be as you
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Sumant Srivathsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Sure, everybody's lazy or stupid at some point, but one expects better.
Maybe I asked for too much, or you're using a broken crutch to help you
stand.
Can we please lay off the ad-hominem and name calling?
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Tania Pérez Bustos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi A friend from Colombia who is coming to the FSFS.in in Trivandrum is doing
research on creative commons and traditional music and would like to be in
touch with people working on issues related to that. Can
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
really? i think this is a problem of popular democracy combined with an
increasing:
-unwillingness to accept ones (low) place in the social order, something
that was never common in places like, say, brazil
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a post office ID card for various people in the same situation you
are in, that's acceptable as valid proof of address and photo id.
My dad tried to get one. They were out of forms, and tried very hard
to
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
I looked at the IndiaPost site, and there no information about this.
There is some, but it is not actionable. The out of stock application
form isn't available for download.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ashok _ wrote:
There is no national identity card system.. which probably makes
having a dynamic voter registry impossible.
They have been working on getting one for a while now. Turns out that
one of the stumbling blocks is the
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Sumant Srivathsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Facebook? I almost hate it as much as Orkut. Death to all them social
networking sites, I hate them as much as reality TV.
Out of curiosity, why? (I get the reality TV bit, though)
Social networking sites are the
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Social networking sites are the Interweb's reality TV. Also, they are
utterly useless. facebook confuses and annoys me, while Orkut merely
annoys me.
Might I ask why you still have a Facebook account then?
a) Tired of
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Why not all of us rent one of those big people movers and go in the same
vehicle?
There must be a Volvo bus or two headed in the direction of Mysore
and back I think.
Cheeni
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Ramjee Swaminathan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Unfortunately, I have forgotten (oh how can i, but when i is thrown in
things really become complex) the name of this illustrious
organization, but it is very near the Vivekananda college of Mylapore
I spent a
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Ramjee Swaminathan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
http://www.sampradaya.org/
To think that I had already wasted precious 1 hour at my lib tryng to
locate my mothballed notes and the musty brochure of Sampradaya. What
a fine organization. It is on one END of
The sad thing is that this no rare event, merely one that has received
public attention.
Cheeni
*Date:30/11/2008* *URL:
http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2008/11/30/stories/2008113050060300.htm
*
--
BAREFOOT
*Selling one's child*
HARSH MANDER
Shyamlal and
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Actually too much time inside the college hostel (which was a
convenient place to lie down in the mid-day Madras heat) and the 1008
tea
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Bij-Umy response to this is, IU (actually, aiyo).
This whole thread U-turn is very disgusting.
Cheeni
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:24 AM, lukhman_khan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
[...]
The people who make those movies never factor in the IQ levels of the
target audience. They think we are fools/dumb anyway.
Stranger things are known to happen, maybe the bus was helped by a sudden
gust of tail wind
Hi,
I gather that there are a whole bunch of you in town this week. I was
hoping that we could meet on Thursday evening, 4th Dec for drinks
dinner. The best places as I mentioned are around Road #1, Banjara
Hills. We could hang out at Firangi Pani and head to dinner next door
at Aromas of China
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Malini Aisola [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations for restaurants in Hyderabad near
Kondapur? Hyderabadi, south indian, anything goes. Suggestions will be
greatly appreciated.
Skip Kondapur, the restaurants in the area are not the
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Zeenath Hasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Srini,
4th Dec at Hyd clashes with the invitation for the pleasure of our company
by Communication and IT Minister at Rock Heights.
Is Friday evening ok with every one then? I am not going to be able to
make it tomorrow
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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(Large chains don't always produce great food. You only have to visit the
lunch buffet at Mainland China to realise it.)
Not at all disputing what you say, but as a counter-point Angeeti has
almost always impressed me
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Aditya Kapil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Essentially a coffee shop.. I didn't get the impression that it was much of
a 'foodie' place.. maybe I didn't order the right thing.
No, it isn't a foodie place - but it's always busy.
Cheeni
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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dosa-bred southies will wonder what was so great about Ethiopian food.
Ah ha, dosa bread is incontrovertible proof of the negroid origins
of the subservient dravidian races.
/ sarcasm
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 12:33 +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2008/11/30/stories/2008113050060300.htm
i will not blame harsh mander but does the hindu no longer have a copy
desk
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
P.S. As another example of the wrong kind of blind justice, I never
really grasped the need to convict someone for attempted suicide.
I recently
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