Is anyone else seeing the giveaway in bold at the very top of the page:
Brought to you by Enron?
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Pavithra Sankaran
--- On Thu, 1/21/10, Vijay Anand vi...@vijayanand.name wrote:
There is this rather large community aided by this
organization called CKS (Centre for Knowledge Systems) and
That would be Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems. http://www.ciks.org They
sell organic produce of consistent quality
(Nobel Committee head Thorbjoern Jagland said:)
It was because we would like to support what he
is trying to achieve.
Surely the Nobel is given for actual achievement rather than intention? I am
yet to hear of someone who gets it simply for wanting to find a cure for AIDS.
Pavithra
Not really science, but natural history:
1. Song of the Dodo - David Quammen (and everything else by him, especially
this essays)
2. The Beauty of the Beastly - Natalie Angier
3. Consilience, Future of Life and all other books by - E O Wilson
4. Stones of Silence - George Schaller
And if you
And I.
--- On Wed, 12/17/08, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I'm in.
Udhay
On 12/17/08, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
When: 12:30 pm on Dec 27th 2008
Where: Sree Annapurna of Calcutta restaurant, Egmore,
Chennai
To muddy the waters of this conversation some more, let me introduce a
sociologist who, umm, fooled physicists into thinking he was an expert on
gravitational waves. Prof. Harry Collins of Cardiff University also
participated in Turing's test-like experiments where 'real' physicists posed
--- ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Curious to know how this story ha been covered by
the indian newspapers ?
AFAIK, it hasn't been covered at all. With luck it'll
make the news briefs in Down to Earth next fortnight.
Pavithra
--- Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
About your translated indian lit - DO read ponniyin
selvan, and AK mahadevan's
translations of sangam era tamil poetry.
Surely you mean AK Ramanujam?
--- Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/28/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
but what we have in India is a spiraling
inflation of urban land
prices while rural land continues to lie untouched
by the Indian
economic miracle unless it has some potential of
touching
I wonder if anyone remembers the Gujarati Bhavan on
Broadway. I have delicious memories of their unlimited
Rs. 20 lunch which included a magnificent aamras
(blended mango pulp) during the season.
It is (was?) wholly vegetarian, but also a very
basic, functional place meant to serve working
I vouch for the Sanjeevanam lunches. If you go on a
weekday (when there isn't a crowd and when you won't
need to book a place) their waiters usually have the
time and patience to explain the order and reasoning
for the courses to you. The vazhai thandu pachadi and
olan (banana stem in yogurt and
--- Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The food is very tasty indeed. But very very bland.
If you want spicy
food, that's not the place for you.
It is meant to be bland, owning to some sattvic funda.
But bland doesn't mean tasteless in this context.
Deepa - do make a booking if
--- Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Coincidentally, teh British Library in Bangalore is
soon going to
have a sale. YAROOOHH!
Please, could you post details when you have them?
Thanks!
Pavithra
--- Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Drug lord's legacy: Herd of unwanted hippos
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I'll probably get flamed for this, but anyway.
They should shoot the hippos. There are bigger
problems in letting exotic animals loose in a place
they don't belong, than there are in simply getting
--- Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The continuing saga of Darwin's Nightmare:
The President's response is so typical, it hardly
merits attention or comment, except for the harassment
of innocent people it has triggered. Politicians the
world over invariably choose to attack the
Udhay
I work with a wildlife conservation non-profit in Mysore, and this is exactly how all my mornings start off. Each day research throws up ever more horrible facts, each day the government tramples over environmental and human concerns, each day my own footprint on the planet grows larger.
Something ate my lines. It should have been "An evolutionary biologist will tell you that the gases we label 'noxious', oncefilled the atmosphere, and today's benign (?) oceans were rather like the vats of oil awaiting us in Hell."
P
--- Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe - from newspaper reports - that about 22
blogs were sought to
be blocked, but some incompetent indian isp
employees (am I repeating
myself there?) blocked all of blogspot
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I
CenSorship, of course.
--- Pavithra Sankaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I believe - from newspaper reports - that about 22
blogs were sought to
be blocked, but some incompetent indian isp
employees (am I repeating
myself
For the birdwatchers on Silk:http://www.surfbirds.com/video/?p=18 "For David Attenborough’s 80th birthday celebration, the public voted on
their favourite Attenborough TV moment. Number one was this clip of the
Lyrebird. The lyrebird, which Sir David Attenborough meets on a log in
a dense forest
- Original Message
...Bangaloreans?I guess I can't, I've only been here 12 years now.[1] How many are natives of anywhere? I've lived in Bangalore longerthan I've lived anywhere else, but I can't call myself a native. Iguess I'm just a homeless nomad. :(
I'm sorry - I never expected
Would there be a quorum, if I were to suggest a Chennai Silklist meet? I'm in
the city between 26 June and 1st July, hence the q.
Pavithra
---Vinayak H wrote---
Yeah for some strange reason, IT is very easy to get hardware and books at real
cheap prices in hyderabad. I have found that buying commodity hardware
(hard drives, graphic cards, speakers) in Hyderabad is cheaper by as much as
30-35% sometimes compared to Bangalore or
More on the theme from:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=12157R=EC5A29952
Natural Selection
Yet another reason to admire the author of 'The Origin of Species.'
by James Seaton
05/08/2006, Volume 011, Issue 32
Darwinian Conservatism
by Larry Arnhart
Imprint
- QuoteAshok Hariharan
This is a universal disease...the last
time i was in india, i overheard two people talking. one was going to delhi
for the
first time, and the other was recommending
that the very first thing they must do is see Gurgaon. why? becuase it
looks
like.'Singapore'
Might I gatecrash into this conversation?
Here in Mysore we have some wonderful concerts around
Ganesha Chathurti (mid-August normally), held in the
middle of a small street, shaded by a small shamiana
and amplified by large speakers from the 1960s.
Organised by a small association of shopkeepers
Might I gatecrash into this conversation?
Here in Mysore we have some wonderful concerts around
Ganesha Chathurti (mid-August normally), held in the
middle of a small street, shaded by a small shamiana
and amplified by large speakers from the 1960s.
Organised by a small association of shopkeepers
--- Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if Nithyashree
...
[ouch. i dont want to know..
Me neither! She's never performed here, but no one I
know laments the lack :-)
P.
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--- Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I too have struggled to bring some ghanam
...
remarks do touch a sore point
with me!
Oh, this isn't about pitch at all! Only about volume.
I will admit, though, that Nityasree's swara sthanam
is normally faultless.
Sowmya I like, but like people
I've had the D70 for close to 2 years now, and would
recommend it to anyone without hesitation. No matter
what you plan to use it for (though I've largely shot
wildlife and landscapes with it) it's likely to be
excellent. The metering is perfect, the five spot
focusing and continuous focus are
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- I had an occasional image quality problem that I
didn't understand - a black shadow
...
you took the hood off - no problem.
I should add (to my earlier post about the D70) that
if you use a wide angle lens (including the standard
18-70 lens available with the D70
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