Not much use, he decided and asked, Describe yourself ..., hoping that he
was playing correctly what seemed like her game.
Mm ... I read in the toilet, and I read in my bed, and when I am not
reading, I am humming beautiful tunes to sleepy... , she paused as though
unsure whether to continue,
Mmm.
The the theme is ICT. So, all except the motor variety fit the bill?
Am at a preliminary stage where I am trying to collect info from 'those who
know'. Then zero in on more specific areas. So, I think I shall leave it at
this level for now.
Sruthi
ps: Thankus :)
This is in response to the Businessweek story...
There are a few points that I'll list first and see whether I can try to tie
them together into a cogent thread. Disclaimer: These are nascent thoughts
that have been running through for sometime and this story kicked in a few
more...
1. Across
My two paise on the question:
Why can't the response be that of tolerance rather than a definition?
Udhay, a discussion on what constitutes Indian culture would not be
capitulation, but providing that as a response would be. This is
because by framing a definition, you are also defining an other.
Hey,
Will try to join in too. Hopefully :)
Sruthi
Hi,
Gmail is turning 5 morrow. Me scouting for people who got a gmail id in
April 2004, when it was 'by invitation only'. :) Ping me at
srukr...@gmail.com.
Thanks much!
Sruthi
--
Sruthi Krishnan
www.thehindu.com
Email : sruthi.krish...@thehindu.co.in ( Please cc to srukr...@gmail.com)
Ph: (0
Wow!
Super response.
I was scouting for a story today morning and found that it was Gmail's
anniversary tomorrow, so thought about doing a feature on Gmail but wasn't
sure about how much info I'd get.
And so was searching for those who got the id in April 2004, when Gmail
started out. (Strictly
Hi,
For a story in the IT column of The Hindu (it appears on Sunday), am looking
for people involved with search technology.
If interested, do mail me on srukr...@gmail.com. The deadline for the story
is today and this will take around half an hour.:)
Thanks much!!
Sruthi
March 30, 2007:
`Prisoner, tell me, who was it that wrought this unbreakable chain?'
`It was I,' said the prisoner, `who forged this chain very carefully.
- Prisoner (Geetanjali) by Tagore.
Me: What do I do?!
Inner voice : Carpe Diem.
Me : Which one?
Inner voice: Go check the muhurat!
My 2 paise worth
The non-productivity at work -- do you think it is tied to people starting
their work day late?
Where I worked, everyone refused to come in by 9 am. Traffic, suburban
houses far away from the city, were all tied to the reason why they could
not make it on time. When work starts
Hey Sriram,
You could check out Navayana publishers and authors such as A.R.
Venkatachalapathy and MSS Pandian. Will ask around for seminal or
critically acclaimed works. :)
*MSS Pandian's _Brahmin and Non Brahmin_ in my to read pile*
Oh. Responded before seeing this. :)
Recommendation from a friend: V. geetha and S.V.Rajadurai : Towards a non
brahmin millenium.
I think kanishtha means younger daughter. Jyeshtha means elder. So, it would
also work for sister. But Bhagini seems more appropriate.. From whatever I
remember from 10th standard mugging. :)
Kanishth would be male and kanishth(a) would be female. So there would be
gender info there. Bhagini is wife..you are right, it translates to sharer,
which makes more sense for wife...
A friend who is using Kindle said that you may need to register under
someone else's name, and that person has to have an address in the US. And
some other jugad will make it work. And I can't quite recollect what is this
other jugad. :)
This is from bits and pieces of a random conversation, so
ignoring the great Hotel Saravana Bhavan.
And they change their cutlery accordingly thinking no one can tell the
difference. They also train their employees in Spanish for postings abroad.
Full process in place.
(and what'd facebook do without my keeping on posting links to it about a
guy playing with a pride of lions like i'd play with a bunch of large and
friendly dogs, or a brit tourist who thought the Hôtel de Ville was
actually a hotel (instead of french for town hall) .. :)
Sruthi Krishnan [28/08
Y
Mmm. The screen went 'message sent' before I typed a full word :) . So, if
I am still conscious after completing all these lovely stories I have to
do, I shall park myself at azulia for lunch.
:) Who are the other junta in Chennai??
Oops. This is entire list. But thanks Suresh, will call.
And if anyone has specialised gyan on this internet blocking software,
please email. I will be out till 1 30 pm now (our government is doing
wonderful things and wants the press to testify), so after that I'll log
back on.
:) Thanks much!!
:) Talking to peopel around about this now is throwing up interesting
insights in to the whole addiction thing. It is a catchy phrase addiction
and conjures up all sortsa images. And I really like the whole ants crawling
over feet. Saw a movie 'old boy' recently (whacko flick) and that imagery
has
Ha ha. This guy in old boy couldn't because he was locked in a room for 15
years. See the movie after you've dunked some n-shots of your favourite
poison. Ubah fun.
12.30 morrow at Azulia which has cute lebanese chef. :)
Started as software engineer (yes, can hear the groans). After 4.5 years
decided to quit and joined a journalism school. Joined a daily paper as a
reporter around a year ago. Now quit that because of health reasons (dont'
get me started on that.) Which happened a week ago, so the name of this
*I have found that the earning money part usually arrives as a result, and
may not happen if it is a goal.*
True. But it has to be somewhere in the process, by-product etc. All the
I-would-love-to-do-things seem non-conducive to earning pots of the stuff.
While slipping into these flights
Rise of jugaad... lol...
Someone who lectured us had it right.. the word has a certain haraami
quality to it, very appealing. He was talking about copyright laws and more
specifically about the rise of T-series, which did cover versions of all the
copyrighted HMV stuff, circumventing copyright
For whatever it's worth :
There's this guy Venkat in Chennai who started E Farms (
http://www.matchboxsolutions.in/). From what I gathered from our
conversation almost a year ago, he had self-help-groups, hotels, and
apartment communities as his customer base. He procured veggies from Ooty
and
*It never makes sense to me that one of the conditions for registering to
vote is that you must have lived at the present address for six months. Why
is this necessary?*
Logistics?
During the last general elections, I scoured some ten voting booths (there
had been allegations early morning that
(Don't want to make a big deal of it, but that quoting was weird)
:) Have always used italics in my other mails, so just a question of habit I
guess.
Large scale middle class mobility is a recent phenomenon; since
perhaps the '90s[0]. The poor and destitute have been mobile for a
Don't underestimate the power of caste to fight back.
I noticed this last month when I was in Madras, there is an increased
profusion of caste based welfare associations around the city than
from a few years back.
I agree -- this is one of the way caste perpetuates itself. In one case it
Why do reporters report in a pack? And this is not specific to India.
My 2-paise worth:
In a given time period, there are only so many events considered to have
news value. And so, all those events have to be covered to ensure the
audience served knows about those events.
If I didn't have an
Thaths, Deepa, thanks :) If some of the 'lazy reporters' image could
be repaired, am glad. :)
Slowly? Catching on? I recall reading excellent process reporting in
the 80's on issues such as what happened in Bhopal and how exactly the
money was kicked back in the Bofors scandal.
Don't get me
He's been rescued... V. scary.
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Bangalore/article112054.ece?homepage=true
BTW, can this thread gently drift back to the topic I originally
started? It's easy to beat up on individuals and their reporting
style, but I was hoping there'd be some debate on the larger issue at
hand.
My 2-paise worth on the 'larger issue', that of media today being a
slave of the
Hmm.
Some thoughts from before and then this mail on 'atemporality'.
Together they resulted in a blog post. Slightly-vague. But what the
heck :). Here goes.
Mementos
The day's headline read in dark, black, thick font 'A giant leap for
womankind'. A part of me wanted to cut it out from the
My 2-paise worth:
About the food review bias in The Hindu
There are quite a few restaurant reviews in The Hindu's Chennai's Metroplus
that do talk about the things not so right.
These are recent
instances:http://beta.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article425576.ece
Divya
Suresh
Krish Ashok
Lavanya
Udhay
Vijay (?)
Sruthi
:)
--
`Prisoner, tell me, who was it that wrought this unbreakable chain?'
`It was I,' said the prisoner, `who forged this chain very carefully.'
- Prisoner (Geetanjali) by Tagore.
I watched the clouds arrive, pile their black masses against the black
mountains, and dump their bumper crops of rain on the vivid green
muskegs. I read my way slowly through the contents of the town library.
I walked endlessly. I went to work. I came home. I watched the clock
change. I
I think in the last thread on paid news too this piece by Sevanti
Ninan was mentioned. Don't remember too well, but it is worth another
dekko -- 'Paid news for dummies'.
http://www.thehindu.com/mag/2010/03/28/stories/2010032850090300.htm
An excerpt:
So what are the honchos in charge saying
I certainly agree with _Foucault's Pendulum_. I've bounced off it
several times over the years.
Silly coincidence. I just got Foucault's Pendulum from the library for
a re-read. Finished it in one feverish go few years ago and loved it.
Of the list, I don't think Atlas Shrugged was
Usually I get screams of horror when I say this -- I couldn't get
through this book The Day of the Jackal by Forsyth. There was this
intense detailing on making a gun which was terribly boring, I
thought. I remember it well because it was the first book I abandoned
without reading fully.
Maybe it's a guy thing, but I had the opposite reaction, and read and
re-read the sections about the making of the hollow points and the
dirty bomb:-) This was before the Internet and Wikipedia made it easy
to get at this kind of information of course.
Yes, that's exactly what people have
Forsyth has all these painstaking steps on everything from faking a
passport to making a nuke. The Fourth Protocol has all that as well as a
complete org chart of MI5, MI6, the KGB etc etc. Not bad, for all that.
I remember being very sad. It was the first book I let go without
finishing
You are obviously neither a (a) guy, nor (b) a geek :-)
:)
You never know. Someone the other day told me how gender is quite a
fluid concept. And I staunchly believed that I was a geek, a lifetime
ago.
In particular, there's this
passage of ~15 pages in _Cryptonomicon_ that has to do with the Right
Way of eating chocolate cereal.
First reaction: Shudder.
Followed by: Tiny voice inside urges, maybe if it is well written
If you don't mind me asking, how old were you when you read Rand?
I have this corollary that people who are introduced to Ms. Rand in
their mid-to-late 20's or later don't like her much.
Your corollary remains safe. :) I read her in my 11th standard, was
around 15 - 16 methinks. It was like
and say that, out of sync with my high school- and college-mates, I could
never go more than a few pages of those Mills and Boons and Hermina Black
type of novels. These are the staple diet of generations of young women, so
I wonder what's wrong with my genetic makeupbecause what I read at
If you want kitschier romance and worse sex than MB, all you have to do is
to read one or more regional magazines .. swathi in telugu for example, or
mangayar malar etc in tamil.
I was curious as to why there was this major readership for this kind
of writing and found some interesting
they are. But when it comes to reading Rand, I must say I loathed her from
the 3rd page of the Fountainhead onwards. I have plodded through Atlas
Shrugged and Fountainhead (I was 17 - 12th Standard summer break) when Rand
was discovered and have never liked her - everything has been a problem,
Aaargh!
Georgette Heyer and sex!
Stop RIGHT THERE, young man, and go and wash your mouth out with yellow soap.
Come back when you are fit for civilised company.
Haha.
I picked up Heyer recently, and I think her books = MandB plot +
Overdose of Victorian fashion + lots and lots of
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Aditya Kapil blue...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I have, a dozen or so
That's it. I can't be your friend anymore..
Adit.
Ah Udhay, don't fall prey to the male gaze. :D
http://www.livemint.com/2010/08/10215916/Indian-scientist-offers-proof.html?atype=tp
Total wow moment. Mouth hung open and all that jazz. Colleague wondering
what the heck happened. :)
And more surprised by the fact that no one on Silk posted this so far. :P
*Full article:*
Indian scientist
*
* *
*Sruthi Krishnan *
*Venue: Crossword Bookstore, ACR Towers, Ground Floor, 32 Residency Road,
Bangalore - 1*
*Date and time: Tuesday, 7 September 2010 at 6.30 pm *
*Sharanya Manivannan's * first book of poems, *Witchcraft*, was described
in *The Straits Times* as sensuous and spiritual
Bertie: Not the Yeoman’s Wedding Song, I trust?
Slacker Without Borders
We're doing the other act, the one with umbrellas. Due to a shortage
of umbrellas in Chennai (no one takes rains seriously here), we have
managed to get only one umbrella. Am trying to
Hey Deepa,
Thank you for the photos!
Yes, that discussion went off on a tangent, and I second you, it is a
pity we couldn't catch up after the reading.
Right now dazed after the journey on KSRTC's Corona sleeper bus. That
Kempegowda bus station is a life lesson, learnt once never to be
Hi,
Here's something I wrote after the judgement. It is still a
thought-in-progress, so would like to know what you think.
As an aside, Biju, your mail prompted me to start this thread. I think
the pasta fairy deserves a dedicated thread.
Here goes:
Who is Mahant Nritya Gopal Das?
If you are
Who inherits India? Who are the people to whom India belongs?
The question is problematic, for it has to be answered with a list of
identity markers. To address the Mandir-Masjid issue, the question
needs to be different. Perhaps: How to remove discrimination on the
ground on the basis of
Had read this in a friend's dissertation on the education system and
this thread reminded me of it. I think it articulates pretty well what
the malaise in the system is:
They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become
blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment
there
I have a problem listening to something with lyrics when I work, i.e.
something which requires thought. If it is cleaning the house, there
HAS to be music.
If it just instrumental, I can do work (thought-stuff) while it goes
on in the background.
But serious listening is different -- it becomes a
If I can't draw...how can I include the earrings of the person in front of
me or the size and shape of the glasses, and other such details? I will
leave out all the elements as I can't draw them, and *I* will be drawn...and
quarteredHELP!
That's why drawing should be made compulsory in
Or more generally, I come across the Bengali (it is usually a Bengali)
literary critic / thinker who spouts incomprehensible sentences such
as homeopathy of self abstraction and I think to myself - what a
wanker. I'm perhaps wrong because these are clearly educated and
intelligent people who
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Aadisht Khanna li...@aadisht.net wrote:
On 13-10-2010 18:48, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Ergo I expect to see a lot of shit flying around on the Internet
criticizing this lady (who inexplicably hangs onto the last name of a
man from many marriages back), but
If not, why not? Is it because cultural theory owes it to laypeople to be
less academic, or to adopt more egalitarian stances?
I think that in technology and science, jargon has a precise
definition -- a two or three line explanation that has no room for
ambiguity.
On the other hand take some
4. How Delhi journos suffer from delusions of grandeur.
More scary is the shrug which answered Manu Joseph's question on why
the story on a corporate lobbyist brokering cabinet positions was
missed. Cynicism is fine but if it is going to shrug at corruption
claiming it is status quo means you
One for me. Please. :)
No, it doesn't. It does mean that there is a branching away between the rural
and urban India, that Bharat and India are separating faster than we thought,
and that India is by no means homogenous, it contains a set of Bharatiyas
(bhartis, in Pakistani web-site slang) folded in.
Let me
We had made plans to meet up when I got to Bangalore...
It refuses to sink in.
In shock.
Hellos,
Udhay, in his infinite wisdom, has assigned me a mission -- organise a
Bangalore silk meet.
So here goes:
I propose Thursday (14 July) evening meetup in Thulp.(http://thulp.in/).
What say?
scrambling to get the mission completed,
Sruthi
Hokai. Fri night.
Pizzeria Romano? http://www.pizzeriaromano.com/
It's karaoke night for me. :)
Friday night for the meet?
ps: Where's the karaoke night?
+1 for Thulp.
Instead of Pizzeria, any other place with good food and beer?
Votes will be counted, say tomorrow morning?
Sruthi
Thulp it is. :)
Mission accomplished! :)
Hi,
This discussion has derailed into some sort of farce. I hope it ends like
some Yes Men prank and we all laugh in the end, a little wiser. But somehow
that doesn't seem to be the case.
Can we end this thread? Or something?
Sruthi
Warning: it is a long post.
I know there is corruption in our country but there is a process and a
procedure, which is democratic. This fast is subverting democracy by
not letting procedure take its due course. It in fact helps
delegitimize democracy.
Having accepted this view, then other
Am reading 'Don't think of an elephant' by Lakoff on framing ideas -
and so these thinking aloud notes on reading this blog.
The author has assumed the following framing - bullock cart India,
airplane India, scooter India. It assumes a few things: 1. Different
Indias at different stages of
My 2-paise worth on the media debate:
When I joined a journalism school, there were many like me there who
did have a hallowed view of journalism. Then we were told repeatedly
that such views cannot sustain in real newsrooms. And so, my
dissertation there was this: In a democracy, media is
Hi,
In 'media and moral outrage' I saw that statistics pointing to
declining per capita availability of foodgrains was questioned.
The source of that statistics is Utsa Patnaik -
http://ideaswebsite.org/featart/apr2004/Republic_Hunger.pdf. She
discusses the fallacy in the 'diversified basket'
Hi,
Thanks Salil for those links. Will go through them.
Went through your article on the Life on the 32 line.
I don't think Utsa Patnaik refers to calorific intake - she's talking
about absorption of foodgrains going down, defining absorption as a
sum of both direct intake and indirect spend -
See above - not only processed foods, other natural food items too.
Edible oil for example has shown a huge huge jump over the years thanks
to imports and oil actually reaching the rural hinterland. In general,
grain budgets have shifted to both superior foods and nonfood consumer
goods.
I
Hey,
Thank you so much for taking the trouble to write and am sorry to put
you through all this typing.
Will digest this information and respond (hopefully) soon.
Best,
Sruthi
There was a documentary I saw on a reality show. I think it was set in
Japan. There are two women on the screen and the viewers could call
and ask those women to do anything - providing what the consumer
wants, so to speak.
Initially the callers asked the women to sing, make funny faces and dance.
This list reminded me of something:
Psued. It should be added to the dictionary. It probably has been, but
not with this level of insight.
Psued : An adjective for a person who is a believer in things which
are not meant for 'believing in'. For example, who believes in being
surrounded by
Glomped from the Oct 2011 edition of Vogue India--
Loved that word - glomped. Has a lot of potential. :)
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/singleton/
Fun piece.
The rapacious new corporate ethic was summarized by two phrases:
“churn ‘em and burn ‘em” (a term that described Microsoft’s habit of
hiring young programmers fresh out of school and working them 70 hours
a
Were they all singles ? If you have a family and kids - then you have
to stick to a routine, and your life gets defined by it (not the
routine, but by the family) . Its mostly single men and women who do
long and extended hours...i.e. life defined by work.
In the team I was working with,
I get the feeling that tens of thousands of young enthusiastic Indians have
been had and taken for a ride by the Info tech sector. All young Indians
join with their heads full of Work is worship, Duty first stuff. If the
pay
is low they soon learn that work need not be worshiped that much.
Something is bound to give, sooner or later.
Yes, the scenario is pretty much the same in TN. I went to a post-12th
std career counselling fair organised by the paper I worked in. The
first session was like watching a messiah in action. Parents and
children in a packed auditorium looking up
Raises hand.
Yes. 13th is fine.
Sruthi
Hi,
Am sorry, won't be able to make it tonight. Next time, hopefully.
Sruthi
A long time ago, I was roped into organising a picnic in my workplace.
There was this guy who told me in all seriousness - We are going to be
in the global top 10 soon. So the picnic should be professional and
must include things which he had learnt at a recent manager
conference. He wanted to
http://www.firstpost.com/living/reading-arundhati-roy-the-high-price-of-toxic-rage-251377.html
What to me seemed like a sensible response to Roy's essay.
Sruthi
That the arguments are *important*, to start with,
and then that they are *right*?
Mm. There's so much of debate over the person that the issue gets
lost. And it isn't just the case for Arundhati Roy's work. There are
so many others, where the dissection of where the person comes from,
their
+ 1.
Just finished a coldfever bout. I guess I should be ok by Friday. Hope
to come without germs. :)
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