Re: [silk] Weekly or monthly recommendations

The Browser is a fantastic service that sends a few great reads everyday into your email Inbox. Super low volume and I almost always enjoy their recommendations. I am a subscriber. And worth every penny. Also they don’t obsess over ‘good writing’ as much as ‘things that are good for reading’.

Re: [silk] projects in Art And Science

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 2:35 PM Udhay Shankar N wrote: > I sometimes get interesting mail like this out of the blue. Anyone feels up > to suggesting something to this person? > > Udhay > > -- Forwarded message - > From: Tam Treanor > Date: Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 6:47 PM > Subject:

Re: [silk] A considered opinion

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 1:07 PM Udhay Shankar N wrote: > I saw this line from silklister Heather Madrone on another list, and it got > me thinking (shared with Heather's permission): > > > I have no opinion on Ito and MIT and the Media Lab. I'm not > > interested in doing the work to develop a

Re: [silk] What do you do when you get to know that you have been pwned?

The haveibeenpwned.com site is great and I use it every six months or to check if any logins have been compromised. (Sorry I keep forgetting the Silk protocol about replying before or after a thread.) On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 3:59 PM Ashim D'Silva wrote: > Medium made a huge deal about it when

Re: [silk] Huda Masood

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 4:39 PM Huda Masood wrote: > Hi ! > > I'm Huda and I'm honoured to be part of the Silklist group. Udhay mentioned > that I need to introduce myself so here's a little bit about myself. > > I live in Bangalore but I'm Hyderabadi. Here, in Bangalore, I run a company >

Re: [silk] On Lit fests

@sidin On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Bharat Shetty <bharat.she...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Sidin Vadukut <sidin.vadu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Was supposed to be there (as one of the surprisingly nice people) and > then > > my

Re: [silk] On Lit fests

Was supposed to be there (as one of the surprisingly nice people) and then my passport vanished into the corridors of the home office here in the UK. On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 1:08 PM Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Jaggi and Manu Joseph, fml. The rest of the usual suspects

Re: [silk] On Lit fests

I have attended several in various capacities. And there are a few reasons for this perhaps: 1. Most big fests have a media partner. And one of the quid pro quo arrangements is that some senior editors will moderate panels, talk to writers and so on. 2. Some senior journos are mini celebs in

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

t 8:21 AM Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:30 AM Sidin Vadukut <sidin.vadu...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> ​Happy to inform that podcast will resume production in 2017. I will >>> hopefully finish a bookproject by th

Re: [silk] What's your primary computing device?

​Work: 50% 7-year old iMac, 50% cheap as chips Acer Chromebook Play: Phone. But that is because for me play is almost entirely podcast listening.​ *Sidin Sunny Vadukut* *Foreign Correspondent - Mint* 91 Kingswood Road, Bromley, BR20NG Mobile: +44 757 244 1292 Fax: +44 203 318 2053 Web:

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:12 AM Sidin Vadukut <sidin.vadu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Incidentally, and do excuse this unsolicited advertising, I've started > work on a podcast history of the

Re: [silk] Not quite your dad's cup of tea

First of all stop having liquor with tea. This is not the 1980s in Thrissur. *Sidin Sunny Vadukut* *Foreign Correspondent - Mint* Flat 128, Sienna Alto, 2 Cornmill Lane, Lewisham London SE13 7GG, UK Mobile: +44 757 244 1292 Fax: +44 203 318 2053 Web: http://www.livemint.com Blog:

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

. -- * * *Sidin Vadukut* *Foreign Correspondent - Mint* *Editor - Mint Indulge* Flat 14, 71 E, Drayton Park London N51DH, UK Mobile: +44 757 244 1292 Web: http://www.livemint.com Blog: http://www.whatay.com @sidin

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

Ahem. (Sheepish grin.) I forgot to recommend a podcast I wished existed. 1. A factually accurate, detailed podcast telling the history of India's military conflicts since independence. Both internal and external. On Tuesday, January 15, 2013, Sidin Vadukut sidin.vadu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello

Re: [silk] Reverse migration, and book launches

What happens to the remittance economy that runs because of them? On 28 Aug 2012, at 08:26 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: I'm a sucker for ambitious undertakings. Especially when they come wrapped in packages like this one. Silklister Shoba Narayan is releasing her second book

Re: [silk] 500 mile emails, redux

On Tuesday, May 29, 2012, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On 29-May-12 10:02 AM, Biju Chacko wrote: One of these days I should write up the story of the ERP project that I worked on that crashed if the CEO of our company was in the room. Same kind of story. Here's a silklist-worthy project - let

Re: [silk] Does IQ really matter

As an aside, have any of you tested your IQ? Care to share? --Venkat I gave a Mensa test once that I cleared. But I don't recall being given an actual IQ score. The test was fun enough to give though. I like giving exams. Don't judge me.

Re: [silk] India: global mobility

-Original Message- From: Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com (mailto:che...@gmail.com) Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net (mailto:hserus@lists.hserus.net) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:46:47 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net (mailto:silklist@lists.hserus.net)

Re: [silk] India: global mobility

On Wednesday, 18 April 2012 at 16:33, Thaths wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:29 AM, salil tripathi sali...@gmail.com (mailto:sali...@gmail.com) wrote: And ec(n)r prevented school-drop-out artists from travelling, since if you hadn't finished hi school, assumption was that sarkar

Re: [silk] In the UK.

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Varun Sahni v...@yahoo.com wrote: We are in london - do let me know when you are coming thru. Best, Varun On 8 Mar 2012, at 21:01, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Just a quick note. I've moved to the UK, specifically

Re: [silk] Hello

Enter Sundman. Sidin Sunny Vadukut London Correspondent - Mint WSJ Mobile: +44 757 244 1292 On Friday, 13 January 2012 at 18:21, Shoba Narayan wrote: Message: 8 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:12:17 -0500 From: John R. Sundman j...@wetmachine.com (mailto:j...@wetmachine.com) To: Hello

Re: [silk] Freedom of Speech

I am not an expert in India media, having only worked for a newspaper for a very brief period of time. At least my paper, I know, writes and deals with things like police reform. We had a columnist for a while who wrote about this kind of thing. And we keep writing about it. Do people read

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2011

My recommendations for this year are: 1. Max Hastings' excellent All Hell Let Loose. A rather compelling, very well balanced retelling of WW2. Most excellent. 2. VS Ramachandran's The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human. I have a gigantic man-crush on VS. Very

Re: [silk] Query on wines.... and snobbery

I thought all whisky tasted the same till I went for a distillery tasting recently. Where I was taught, a little, by a wonderfully down to earth master distiller on tasting whiskies and generally drinking them with a little insight. He said rather than worrying about whether I got the same honey

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

On Friday, 19 August 2011 at 14:44, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: On 19 August 2011 19:10, Kragen Javier Sitaker kra...@canonical.org (mailto:kra...@canonical.org) wrote: And if you don't agree with them, they're nonsense. Ram Perhaps someone could go on an additional fast so that

[silk] John Julius Norwich's The Popes

I'm almost done reading this book, for the purpose of a review albeit, and I am enthralled. This is the second history of the popes I'm reading in two months. And I am utterly not bored. Those guys were... dudes. Must read. Two thumbs up.

Re: [silk] John Julius Norwich's The Popes

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Sidin Vadukut sidin.vadu...@gmail.com wrote: This is the second history of the popes I'm reading in two months. And I am utterly not bored. Those guys were... dudes. Indeed

Re: [silk] Yay, we are number 11

On 21 Jul 2011, at 16:08, Anand Manikutty wrote: Thanks to IIMA's PGPX #11 ranking in the FT Global MBA rankings (http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-rankings-2011), demand has risen for the program, I understand, and so the batch size has been increased. I wonder

Re: [silk] Thief in the night

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: On 7/17/2011 10:36 AM, Julian Philips wrote: Sidin, Very touching article. http://www.livemint.com/2011/07/15204615/Thief-in-the-night.html?h=D Not sure why Julian's post was in the Mumbai Blasts thread, but agree,

Re: [silk] samsung 8.9 tablet

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:39 AM, naresh v xxx...@yahoo.com wrote: I have been putting off buying a tablet ,particularly after Silklister Kingsley's comment that ' there is the iPad2 and then there are tablets.. The 10.1 size for tablets is too large to hold in one hand comfortably and the 7

Re: [silk] samsung 8.9 tablet

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Xxxrum xxx...@yahoo.com wrote: But it doth have a USB port,better one hand form factor and honeycomb,no? 'Naresh' Narasimhan Sent from my Phone Yes. I've never used Honeycomb though. And I've never really struggled with the iPad on the first two counts.

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

On 11 Jun 2011, at 21:17, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: though .. twitter != social networking .. I don't see @ShashiTharoor. I believe he's pretty influential on twitter in India, isn't he?

Re: [silk] Norwegian/Swedish

On 20 May 2011, at 06:44, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: On Friday 20 May 2011 05:50 AM, Sidin Sunny Vadukut wrote: ^^^ Sidin/Amit/Rahul So you're Sidin/Sunny/Amit/Rahul, right? Cheerio... Unless I'm being Blossom.

Re: [silk] Sidin Vadukut - Introduction

On 18 May 2011, at 08:03, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: On Wednesday 18 May 2011 12:10 PM, Madhu Menon wrote: Holy crap, a thread about Sidin has morphed into one about my knives, and we have Deepa's jokes to blame for this? This is true Mallu-Mallu bonding. Sidin, welcome. I

Re: [silk] Sidin Vadukut - Introduction

, Sidin Vadukut wrote: Hello All, Udhay has just graciously added me to your august grouping here. I am a journalist with the Mint business newspaper in New Delhi. I write about anything the paper tells me to, but usually write about office culture, consumer tech, watches, travel and books. I have