On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Xxxrum xxx...@yahoo.com wrote:
Let's meet on the terrace open area. I hate AC !
I hate AC too!
Okay this seems far from where I stay (HSR Layout), is there anyone
going there from near abouts HSR Layout? Would be grateful for a list
for me and Deepak Jois (who lurks here).
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:12 PM, divya manian divya.man...@gmail.com wrote:
going there from near abouts HSR Layout? Would be grateful for a list
for me and Deepak Jois (who lurks here).
err lift not list.
Helloo everyone
To flog a dead horse, seems like Nov 1st would be best for me and
deepak if everyone else is up for it! Obviously I am clueless to
suggest venue and time, but ideally dinner/drinks somewhere.
- divya
Norway has a lot of Pakistani refugees (you should corner one at 7/11s
in Oslo) who seem to only speak Norwegian or Urdu (or very broken
English). I did not think it was familiar, just seemed slightly more
guttural.
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Sidin Sunny Vadukut
sidin.vadu...@gmail.com
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Sidin Vadukut sidin.vadu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello All,
Udhay has just graciously added me to your august grouping here.
Welcome! You will find so many familiar faces :))
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
And the dividing line between self help rubbish and sensible management
books is rather thin. Some of them are definitely not bite size platitudes
Or non-existent? I think Cheeni wants us all to believe we have a
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Bharath Chari ch...@arachnis.com wrote:
I notice that you refuse/omit to preface a lot of your posts about
Pakistan/Islam with I think/I believe. Sacrosanct? Borders? Nation
States? Somehow, implicit in (now over a decade) your arguments, is that
_India_, as a
Ha ha ha ha. Randomly I will be in NY from 19th - 22nd :) :)
- divya
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Folks,
Its that time of the year where I am making some travel plans and am to be
in New York from the 19th of this Month, till the 30th (I
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote:
someone mentioned color ? - http://goo.gl/RoDU
this is tempting.
~ashwin
The nook got universally bad reviews for their previous version. Will
have to see what they bring to the new one.
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:14
I strongly think a kindle is not something a kid would warm up to. As
a kid (3-9), I really loved books with illustrations a lot more than
text heavy books. I think a kindle will not be as interesting as a
graphic book at that age. But, for someone who is 14 and above a
Kindle would be a good
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:.
How about well-written applications on the iPad? I saw this awesome
version of Alice in Wonderland including illustrations on the iPad
that looked visually beautiful and had excellent UI (sort-of like
pop-up books).
It does
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't have an iPad or Kindle or Nook...you mean, they don't have many
books with illustrations?
It is hard to read an illustration heavy book like Tintin or Asterix.
It needs a touchscreen for comics to be readable.
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
My uncle Google tells me that Kindle currently displays only 16 shades of
grey.
I am a serious reader of heavy books and get caled to do book reviews now
and then. For that I make *copious* notes and annotations. It that possible
I had a bedbug issue in my apartment in seattle and I can confidently
say it is hogwash.
They had this so-called bedbug detecting dog in, and it detected the
bed bug exactly in the room where we moved the bed to AFTER we
detected the bugs in the other room.
The dog detected no bug in the other
I am leaving at 6am on 28th morning to BLR :'(
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Samanth is a good friend - and writes some very fishy stories indeed - as
you can see from this excerpt -
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Just pick a place and we will meet there.
Cafe Ashvita then! :)
Hi people,
The Almighty Udhay is going to be in Chennai on May 23rd and I thought
it would be a good time to renew my plea (request) for a meetup in
Chennai. I am clueless on what constitutes good place for conversation
+ food, and am hoping Chennai residents will suggest a place and time.
I
Yes Saturday would work, but I need to get back by 9.30pm :/
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Xxxrum wrote, [on 5/3/2010 4:58 PM]:
Can this happen on Saturday evening 8th instead? Schedule conflict !!
Works for me. What about the others?
I count
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Xxxrum xxx...@yahoo.com wrote:
Yes of course.come by and check it out.99% complete by tommorrow
Yay! Bangalore meetup all set at 7th May at Jaaga? 7pm?
Hi peoples
I am on my annual pilgrimage to the sub-continent and as usual would
love to meet you all and have interesting conversation! So, here is
when I will be where:
Bangalore: 6th - 8th May 2010
Chennai: 14th May - 30th May 2010
Do let me know if we can have a silk-meet at (preferably)
On Thursday, April 29, 2010, Krish Ashok krishas...@gmail.com wrote:
On 30-Apr-2010, at 8:18 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Can do one on a sunday, madras
no calendar in front of me, do suggest a date! Also suggest location.
I am clueless about that.
Obligatory this is epic comment.
(no excuses for top-post)
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Charles Haynes
charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
Accidental top-post
[sent from my smart phone]
-- Charles
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Thaths wrote, [on
On 3/6/10 11:08 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, just catching up on older emails.
But I am curious, what would you expect in an objective photograph ?
Wars, famines, child soldiers, suicide bombers etc are usually results
of irrational,
subjective reasoning of a narrow group
On 3/2/10 2:38 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I don't have any A Priori objection to
activism
activism. I *do* take serious
exception to _dishonesty_ masquerading as jounalism - whether it is
Sainath, Tom
You cannot interpret facts without adopting a subjective opinion -
however slight.
Yes, the very act of interpreting should mean you consider the context
for why the act occurred, which means you hear from both sides of the
story the perceived aggressor and the victim. Not all stories are
black
On 3/2/10 9:24 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Before you write off photojournalists as manipulators out just tug at
your heartstrings with a hidden agenda, you should read about what
happened to the photographer who took the iconic photograph of that
starving child with a hovering
On 3/2/10 9:24 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Before you write off photojournalists as manipulators out just tug at
your heartstrings with a hidden agenda, you should read about what
happened to the photographer who took the iconic photograph of that
starving child with a hovering
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:57 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
Bengalooru Blahnteru
(Secretly taped snappy snippets of day to day Benglur talku)
http://bengaloorubanter.blogspot.com/search/label/Audio Blog
This is the correct URL:
On 1/11/10 8:47 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Thaths wrote:
http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/gambetta/Engineers%20of%20Jihad.pdf
Bah. Almost everybody in the developing world gets himself an
engineering /
On 1/9/10 5:26 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
A 5 minute talk is harder IMO to pull off than a longer one. But you
make it sound like an evening outing, I am confused.
I saw the first youtube video on the website and I don't have the
appetite to watch anymore.
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
I do love hyper loquaciousness (sp?) in principle (c.f., Wodehouse,
P.G.). However, these particular ones are somehow archaic, chintzy and
even awkward.
You have, er, hit the nail on the head. English is taught using old,
On 11/24/09 8:27 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
But is is only Indians who seek to mimic a particular variant of spoken
English and virtually haul over the coals other Indians who are unable to
conform.
Shiv, you are right to an extent. My pain point is when it becomes so floral
that the
On 11/14/09 10:24 AM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone recommend a professional home cleaning service who can come
and thorough job once a month ? I dont mind paying above market rates
I am just curious why it is so hard in cities to find professional labor
despite being
Folks
My grandma is 78 and is quite fragile. She has already fractured her bones
twice and docs have advised it better not happen again. My mom had
employed a sort-of nurse who used sleep next to her in the night and give
her bath once she wakes up and wash dishes/sweep house for extra money. But
On 11/3/09 1:36 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
Divya, what you could do is to go to Malar hospital and ask to talk to the
nurses and get some leads. Well...you probably have already done this, but
your mother will have to put up with a full-time live-in help.The visiting
sort
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, I handed out all the ones I had - mostly to people on this
list, so Udhay, Sirtaj, Divya to name a few benefactors might have
their quota to hand out.
My quota got over within seconds. :(
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
Exactly what I think.
And...I think that reducing the stature of the person whom a prize is given
to reduces the stature of the prize itself. Mother Teresa...yes. Obama...no.
NOT in the same league.
I wonder why such a
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
Four comments on silk is not = furore!
:) No, I meant outside of Silk too, not just within it!
On 10/3/09 10:18 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
To be fair Indian women too are often guilty of this - a least in my personal
experience. I have found friends and collegues beginning to imagine that I am
about to express lewd thoughs or tell a dirty joke when nothing of the sort
is
On 10/3/09 9:25 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
So why not move with the times and call a boob a boob and not consider it a
booboo to do that?
Nothing like Shiv calling a Ball a er..ball. I wholeheartedly agree.
Meanwhile, I still find (my stereotyped view of course) attitude of Indian
men
Adding silk-lurker Deepak Jois to the list:
Divya
Freeman
Udhay
Kiran Karthikeyan
Vinayak Hegde
Venkat
Pranesh
Deepak Jois
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Giancarlo Livraghi g...@gandalf.it wrote:
Any words of wisdom?
I google mainly for webdesign/tech information which I think
delicious.com covers very well. I use it like a curated search
engine, but their search could be a LOT better than what they offer
Hellow all
Udhay asked me to ³scream² about a SILK MEET here, so here I am trying to
politely SCREAM.
I will be in Bangalore from Oct 17th to Oct 21st. Would love to meet whoever
will be around at that time.
I will be located in HSR Layout, but can travel to whatever Bangalore deems
On 9/30/09 8:58 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm available except on weekdays when I work for my employer and
weekends when I work for my wife.
Twilight on Friday evening?
Are we talking of
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, Suraiya is wrong on at least this front.
Probably comes from being computer-illiterate and being proud of it
http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Whats-the-big-deal-about-Tharoors-tweet/videoshow/4327575.cms
- divya
On 8/20/09 9:10 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com
wrote:
I assure you I had no such intent. My reason for posting it was simply to
see what silklisters thought could be the reason/motivation for this quite
significant change in religious thought among Americans.
I go all
On 8/20/09 10:20 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com
wrote:
Your derision for the science of statistics notwithstanding :), to me it
does seem interesting.
I have great respect for that science. I have no derision for it. It is good
to know the numbers, but not stereotype
On 7/30/09 8:31 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
I have (home delivered) freshly ground coffee called Mysore nuggets
from Kalmane coffee in Jayanagar. It costs a bomb - @ Rs 220 for 500 grams,
but I like coffee minus chicory and use only a cappucino maker that typically
extracts almost twice
On 7/20/09 7:07 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
We also have the culture of kill-the-messenger...the person who proves you
an idiot is, in a reflex reaction, proved to be an idiot hesself, and
hence, incapable of passing judgement on us or our work. The
not-so-good-friend who
On 7/8/09 5:53 PM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
It's not difficult to imagine, what is difficult to imagine is that it
will improve things. Literacy requirements (for example) have been
tried in the past. The actual effect is to disenfranchise minorities
and lower classes
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Kiran Jonnalagaddaj...@pobox.com wrote:
I figured the only way to remain sane was by joining the mainstream and
leading an unhurried life.
If this puts me in the category of those people who are mysteriously of
lower productivity when in India, so be it. The
On 5/17/09 9:10 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
If you take a country that is wholly Christian in ethos, lighting up an entire
street with a string of lights, playing loud devotional music and pulling
around a chariot with an idol of Ganesha accompanied by incredibly loud drums
at 10 PM
On 5/17/09 11:19 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
AFAIK, Singapore is NOT a Muslim nation. Perhaps you meant Malaysia.
It is in Malaysia that Muslims can't marry non-Muslims. My cousin, a
Malaysian Tamilian had to move to Singapore with his Malay Muslim girlfriend
to marry
On 5/17/09 11:45 PM, Divya Manian divya.man...@gmail.com wrote:
Your cousin might have gotten married before the Women's charter came into
effect. I do know singapore follows all festivals, but it gives a lot of
freedom to practice your religion which goes above and beyond what any other
non
On 5/17/09 5:00 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
but the terms you used are exclusively the province of the hindutva parties
out here.
I think it is ridiculous to censor words just because it is a jargon
employed by some hardliners. Bharat is trying to present a view point
Came across this, and found it too funny!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123896998996190775.html
Here is an extract:
Given the difficulty in finding matches for Indians abroad, some
matchmakers are now charging them more. Mr. Dave of Klassic Match charges a
minimum fee of $100, versus $50 for
Found this in another mailing list, thought it might be helpful to the top
posters here :)
- How to Write Effective Mailing List Email
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/how_to_write_effective_mailing_list_emai
l/
- A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email
On 3/17/09 10:28 AM, Priyanka Sachar priyan...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/3/17 Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com
Twitter is perfect
if you want quick conversations and instant answers to questions. It is
less
of a blogging medium for me than, say, flickr is.
Twitter
On 3/17/09 10:53 AM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Hmmm.
So are the Indian posters keeping this activity as one of the last things at
night? Presumably the Amriki and other ones are doing the same.
I check in whenever I am in between tasks at work.
On 3/16/09 7:57 PM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
I disagree. While this may have been true in the past, with the advent
of electronic communities, I think you will find tribe-like groupings
that have nothing to do with blood, or physical proximity. The
question that started
On 3/14/09 8:55 AM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote:
And it seems wrong. While helium might possibly be less dense and
lighter than what you're shipping, will it reduce the weight of the
package?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighter_than_air
On 3/10/09 8:38 PM, lukhman_khan lukhman_k...@yahoo.com wrote:
If divorces are becoming rampant, somehow the broken families will deal with
themselves. The society will also find a way. The people whose families broke
will get along.
(A breakup)? it will all be normal.
Getting along is
On 2/28/09 8:19 AM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Jai Iyer iyer@gmail.com wrote:
Animator Nina Paley's much anticipated 'Sita sings the blues' is now
online, for free viewing :
On 2/27/09 4:55 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
From a reporter friend. Any ideas?
He could talk to K Srikrishna: http://twitter.com/ksrikrishna
He has a startup here and returned from the US about 2 years ago (I think).
- divya
On 2/17/09 3:00 AM, Jai Iyer iyer@gmail.com wrote:
Known super powers include amazing autorickshaw-fu.
-Jai Iyer
http://iyermatter.wordpress.com
Wow, the cartoons on the blog are amazing! Does autorickshaw-fu involve
knowing the magic of haggling with auto drivers?
On 1/31/09 6:53 AM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone in the Seattle area? I'm there the 15th through the 20th of February.
A meet-up?
I live there with Deepak Jois (a lurker). We could discuss off list where
and when.
Regards,
Divya
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I'm trying to get some recommendations, and further disturb the balance
of the TBR pile on my shelves. What were the best books you read last year?
These are my favourites from what I read last year:
1. Kitchen by
On 11/26/08 4:53 PM, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Time 7.00pm. Want to leave early.
Even I could make it for the meet up. In Bangalore on 26th night.
- Divya
On 11/26/08 5:27 PM, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Divya Manian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/26/08 4:53 PM, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Time 7.00pm. Want to leave early.
Even I could make it for the meet up. In Bangalore on 26th
Here is mine:
1. Learn swimming
2. Be consistent in working / out get a trainer to work out
3. Run a marathon
4. Become a full time illustrator.
5. Write at least 1 book (on any topic).
6. Travel all continents specially Africa.
7. Be the owner of a big (finger-in-many-pies) company (like Martha
On 9/29/08 2:46 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know of the South Indian Parotta as the Ceylon parotta or sometimes
the Kerala P{a,o}rotta. I speculate that this comes from the term
purattu in Tamil which means thrash about, which is roughly
similar to the process of
On 9/27/08 11:57 PM, . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In school, my Bong friend kept insisting he was a veggie, until his
mother would stop our arguments with besides Bong's none else think
so.. so too with Maharashtrian konkanastha brahmins who eat
non-veg. I still dont grok how a fish-eater
I am a philosophy newbie and came across this from Two Bits by
Christopher M Kelty (it was cited a few months ago on Silk-list for
its references to Silk-list). I couldnt resist enjoying what Mr. Kant
has written about Immaturity.
Here it is in full:
IMMANUEL KANT
An Answer to the Question:
What
On 8/20/08 12:58 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That brings me to wonder, why capital letters came to be, at all...or, to be
more precise, why there are capital and small letters, some of which
actually look different from each other? Are there scripts other than
the Roman,
On 7/23/08 4:17 PM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Umm...According to a roshi/zen master, for people in India (and
probably elsewhere) he/his statue represents the closest they get to
God (this despite Buddha preaching an 8-fold path/concepts as against
idol worship). In some Japanese temples
On 7/23/08 1:33 PM, Ashwin N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only Batman I knew was from the TV series too. This must be 10
years ago or earlier, I had nothing better to watch at that time slot
and so I must've seen every single episode, a few times over. (Star
Plus in India used to air it daily
On 7/14/08 10:46 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Who are the other SGers here? :-)
Divya Balaji are in.
Me, Ashwin K, Deepak Jois, Balaji Dutt AFAIK
On 7/14/08 1:44 AM, Bharat Shetty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, how do you people manage when devouring and dissecting hordes of
information which is up for grabs in today's globalized world ? Am I not
managing Google reader categorizations well ? Am I missing something ? Am I
not systematic
On 7/1/08 3:08 PM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I drink, I used to smoke and I eat meat. Am I still considered a
tambram? Did I say I love wine? :-)
I find it very interesting and curious that we tambrams love to analyze
ourselves to death. Non-tambram brothers and sisters[1] of
On 6/19/08 4:58 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the article is a bit presumptuous to assume that its the end of the
banana simply because a variety of banana eaten by americans is dying
out because of the botanical equivalent of incest. i have never eaten or seen
this
On 5/23/08 1:58 PM, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
Tiger Airways is starting discount flights between Bangalore and
Singapore from June 1. The price for a round trip is about Rs 10,500.
Excluding taxes and fees, of course.
I think it is including. Tiger
On 4/24/08, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given how inexpensive these are, I'm looking forward to the improvements
ASUS can come up with in a year. The 7-incher can affordably be retired to
some corner of the home.
Probably to the kitchen as a recipe manager/meal planner?
On 4/23/08, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What bugs me is the lack of a decent outliner on Linux. FreeMind is
unusable on the small screen.
I find it best useful for viewing PDFs or writing blog entries on the
go - in a starbucks while sipping coffee.
I have a pink one without
I wonder who brainwashes these relatives of ours. Probably their
parents. And them? their parents again. Seems like a never ending
cycle of brainwashing!
On 4/15/08, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you mean, AN aunt..I have whole hordes of relatives and
friends whose only aim in
On 4/15/08, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aiee! Von Neumann machines on the loose! Flee!
Reminds me so much of Tintin and the lake of sharks[1] where Calculus
invents a 3D duplication machine!
divya
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Tintin-Lake-Sharks-Herge/dp/1405206349/
On 4/14/08, Badri Natarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you design a bureaucracy that works? I've heard a lot of good
things about Singaporean civil servants. Is the reputation justified? I
believe they are very well paid..presumably that's one thing which sets
them apart.
I think
On 4/10/08, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Different is not better
At Intel's advanced-chip plants, normal
consistency doesn't cut it: The company even
copies the air in the room
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1194591355141180.xmlcoll=7
Isnt
On 4/8/08, Ramjee Swaminathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seriously, if pa feels that it is important enough to be part of such
tamaashas, there is nothing wrong in the kid following in the
footsteps of pa? On the contrary, assuming that he had gone to some
museum or library or had some fun
On 4/4/08, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My wife's tastes and mine do not overlap at all. Neither, for that
matter, do our music tastes. Doesn't seem to make the slightest bit of
difference, though.
-- b (happily into his 7th year of marriage without an itch in sight)
Interesting!
WOW
On 4/4/08, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://cheeni.net/books/
That's our book collection as of a few months ago, my wife and I
intersect about 20% of the time. I wonder if you can make that out
from this combined list.
Alexander McCall Smith and Dorthy L Sayers
On 4/4/08, Abhishek Hazra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and to you dear reader, who didn't question the crude credentials of this
verse / but backed your brashness with your purse
(from golden gate. approx)
which is your favourite Seth?
You know, I first came across him in my 9th standard
HOLY #$$$%
This is the beginning of the end as they say in Animatrix. :)
- divya
On 3/28/08, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
I've been waiting for this to show up on Silk, I guess I'll get the thread
started then.
Cheeni
On 3/27/08, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can see a number of directions implied by those two articles, I'd be
curious which of them are the ones you had in mind. The implication I
see from them is towards more violence, misogyny, prudery, sexism and
intolerance.
The first
Hi
My parents are looking at getting a satellite radio to listen to their
favourite old music. Currently the only publicized option in India is
Worldspace.
Are there any other alternatives? I really dont like the design of
their radio. Looks almost like one of those devices in the physics
lab.
On 3/2/08, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
divya manian [02/03/08 17:56 +0800]:
I do not see what is feminist in her ensuring her husband had clean
shorts in the morning and dinner at night. :) Seems kinda
anti-feminist!
Yup but saying that at a feminist convention? Me
On 3/2/08, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pull Out a Spare
Meanwhile, Elizabeth Joseph was the keynote
speaker at a conference of the Utah chapter of the National Organization of
Women. She told attendees she has discovered the ultimate feminist lifestyle:
polygamy. Ms
On 3/2/08, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I mean that if I feel insulted I will protest and say that I have been
insulted.
That seems to be the norm for India and I am merely continuing a tradition.
Nothing wrong with that is there? What with all this talk of swinging fists
and noses, a
On 2/29/08, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought much of the objection was to converting to Buddhism?
Buddhism does not say that only one god is correct and that other gods
are wrong.
As far as I know, Hindus consider Jainism and Buddhism as offshoots of
Hinduism and do not
I had ok-ok teachers of Carnatic music and, as you all mention, was
forced to learn singing and dancing for a while. I then started
learning to play the Veena, but stopped it in time for my X standard
preparation.
My interest in carnatic music deepened only after coming to Singapore
and being
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