Have heard and read negative reports regarding BMGF, I wonder why
ngo's accept the philanthropy first and cry foul later.
http://www.livemint.com/2008/07/02231409/Bill-Gates-and-Indian-NGOs.html?d=1
Bill Gates handed over charge of Microsoft last week, and — after a
brief summer break — will
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Ingrid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious. How did you reach the conclusion above? I'm not aware of any
NGO, in India or elsewhere, that has accepted BMGF funding and then
complained about their approach.
afaik, funding in India isnt direct, unless gov
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A common error. Religions do not require God. Religions may or may not
require faith but they certainly don't require God. Buddhism is a
religion by any reasonable definition of the word, but has no God.
Umm...According
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Radhika, Y. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
describing people by the way they look is far more common than one like
First Nations that addresses historical status. another example of a term
now considered offensive is the term Mongoloid used to describe people with
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Amit Varma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Those two don't seem connected to me. The movie-watching experience at a big
screen, whether at a multiplex or a stand-alone, is entirely different from
watching a VCD at home. How many people on this list think they are
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just for one example take Indian attitudes toward arranged marriage.
nail...head...hit.
a sublime look at the better half in the land of milk 'n honey[0]
[0]
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the guy has a rather intelligent taste in music. Pity his
intelligence doesnt extend to the beer that he drinks.
gender ?
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alas, alas,alas, it has to be said...I have found some of this
attitude on silk too. I find that if someone lacks social skills or a
command of English, they sometimes feel less than comfortable joining
this list, and say
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[1] My favourite are the red ones -- any idea what they're called?
chevazhai? or is it the malai pazham (but that is green-yellow, not red, afaik)
I've also very little experience with real mangoes -- the ones sold
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Bloody hell, that's not even the issue. Just eight jetways, no parallel
Of which only four can be used if it's wide-body jets. Epic fail.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:05 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was unable to locate this on Google earth. You might be able to give me the
coordinates of Shallah. Inshallah.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inshallah_International_Airport
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:10 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 22 Jun 2008 11:51:31 pm Gautam John wrote:
The weapons are so controversial that MoD weapons and legal experts
spent 18 months debating whether British troops could use them without
breaking international law.
One of the
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:52 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have spent a month helping to translate my son's Sanskrit lessons into
mostly English and other languages he can understand. This is an
extraordinarily difficult thing to do because Snskrit is compressed code.
The Sanskrit sentence
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:56 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 05 Jun 2008 11:30:36 am Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Kubera nimgaenirabaeku
... isnt nira (when said out loud) ==water ? so shouldnt
nimgaenirabaeku be 'do you want water?'
ho hum, as you can see my kannada knowledge is
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I even enjoy Carnatic music...
maybe deepa and i should have done an impromptu jig and driven away
all of Madhu's customers !!
Now *that* is very
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now *that* is very intriguing, because even to many Indians, Carnatic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Higgins , acquired it allright :)
Hi,
I would appreciate all the techie folks bits on this :: I had
volunteered to spend time teaching computers at a local special needs
school and it goes without saying that I was pushing for Libre
software. However i am unaware if Karnataka has Linux on its syllabi
and if so are any books
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:52 AM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe some of these regulations were incorrect to start with ? or maybe
businesses would have still come despite these regulations..? or maybe there
are other regulatory mechanisms not directly related which are to blame...?
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still not extreme enough. I could not find any good videos for
demonstration but the Virar Local (Churchgate - Virar) is way more
crowded. In fact so crowded that you should not bother trying to get
[snip]
1.
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
couple-swapping by dropping of car keys which is supposed to go on at
weekends at the Bangalore Club.) I first heard this as dropping the
duh, same legend (house keys, if you must) in Bombay...oops, Mumbai !
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting. I've noticed that my western friends who have lived in Japan
for a decade and gained totally fluency actually lose a great deal of
capability with just a few years living outside Japan. I guess you can never
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:03 AM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting. I've noticed that my western friends who have lived in Japan
for a decade and gained totally fluency actually lose a great deal of
capability
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
that invert-the-syllables, or shorten-the-last-syllable kind of
language with your friends and cousinsthe lingo that children
...reminds me of the new script a friend and I created for the English
language and i had
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:59 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What they actually do is partially fund computerization by providing
licenses gratis.
uh, oh... not gratis, isnt the cost inbuilt ? Its just that the buyer
is unaware of it. Partly why the reseller distribution channel works
so
Apparently someone at Mint was listening to Charles[0].
http://www.livemint.com/2008/05/03000507/Mother-knows-best.html
[0] http://www.mail-archive.com/silklist@lists.hserus.net/msg10543.html
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Aadisht Khanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to pick the list's intelligence on an issue I have been facing.
CRY approached me this month for a contribution, and I gave them six
my father used to donate to CRY and in return they used to send us
nice
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a 25-year old friend whose father is in the US, and is telling her
mother not to leave her alone for 4 days and go to Chennai, as she
will go out of control!
hmm... would he say the same if (let's say) she were
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 2:01 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe that in 50 to 100 years time, English as a dominant language - the
English is the most convenient business language today but as far as
numbers go Chinese has the highest number of native speakers closely
followed by Hindi
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fascinating. I didn't know this. Any comments, theories, pointers?
Udhay
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/29/german_trade/index.html
No theories but the first comment for that article summed it all : Quality !
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:43 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Easier said than done. People's body signals are not the same, and given
enough food, some people will eat more than necessary, while others imagine
that the excess eaters are somehow not following their body signals. Actually
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article3801614.ece
Adopted children: sometimes you can't mend them
==
A third of adoptions don't work out. A parent reveals the trauma of
attempting to raise a disturbed child and failing.
Penny Wark
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Shyam Visweswaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The conceptually simple
solution is to eat sparingly, eat only at
specific times (rather than at any time and any
place) and reduce your exposure to food ads.
Isnt it more sensible to eat *only* when hungry than
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So...you techies...tell mewhat IS so evil about this top posting
... more to do with context. Imagine reading bytes of data and trying
to figure out relevance waste of time , dont you think?
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, look at the way gmail automatically hides quoted text
gmail does that only when one top-posts, forwards messages and also
attatched signatures. Example, it did not do that for this message
which i have typed
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/
...payyoli express (PT Usha) anyone !?
is one of the subscribed lists
As I explained to her too, LC is mainly for women in libre s/w. We, as
is deal with a lot of negativity and each time she posts its not
worthwhile to play guess who wrote this.
I don't think I even
can recognize more of you than va
from the silk archives,
http
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Tea BeeDi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
va,
Not so much of a gender crisis I think. This id is shared by some friends.
...But your friend (Kavita Philip) wrote to me saying that she does
not remember the password and hence has not accessed tbd DOT lists AT
gmail
On 4/14/08, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Long wrote, [on 4/14/2008 10:56 AM]:
I can easily imagine pyramids of 4, 5, 10, and 14 stones but am coming
up blank on 7 stones. Is the opposing team allowed to throw the ball at
the partially rebuilt pyramid as well?
Rene,
IIRC you are involved with Janastu (incase you are in
Bangalore/India). Anyone else here know the folks behind Janastu ?- to
combine forces with schooltool.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Ronald Wertlen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:43:28 +0200
Subject:
On 4/15/08, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/15/08, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a guy from Janastu on silk .. TB Dinesh (cc'd)
Erm... Tea Beedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] said she(he?) was Kavita (whom
I met at foss in Dec07) on the Linuxchix-India mailing lists. /me
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramkrsna/2106560440/ is one Dinesh who was
there at the LCIN BoF - no clue if he was there was a Dinesh | Prashant
as well.
... was that picture taken at the LCIN BoF ? -which
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Alok G. Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I expect quite an adventure to get a refund I'm going to try and get for
the pre-installed Vista.
why bother with refunds hassle when one can get a laptop sans OS (free
dos actually)
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's one of the few things that parents think they have some control over.
Folks with grey strands (difficult to spot with hair coloring being
the rage an all) opine that they dont have any control over anything,
much less
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Mayank Dhingra
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Guys,
erm... there are girls (women, if you must) on this list too... /me waves :)
Remember reading about a meetup in bangalore, has anything been finalized ?
I'll be in Bangalore on coming 19th and 20th to
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
H I enjoyed that very,very much. (Udhay will probably kill me for
not adding a debatable opinion but only appreciating what someone else
has written..but so what!)...I suppose the only form of life you DID
regularly
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:52 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 09 Apr 2008 5:08:55 am divya manian wrote:
Completely agree with this! I grew up with minimal toys not even the
token robot or a barbie.
Same here, it was more fun climbing trees, playing football or 'goti'
(marbles)
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:52 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
forces him to rub shoulders with children of parents who bow to every
expensive tantrum their little devil has.
Maybe its time i forgave my folks for not allowing me to bring home an
elephant (no space, i was told) after my first zoo
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
or Ponniyin Selvan,
thanks for PS --- am not into tamil lit so it was fun watching the awe
on faces and hearing the note of surprise in their voices whilst
bragging that i just read it, besides kindling nostalgia ofcourse :)
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a one year old. Definitely not amusing. I'm hearing similar
stories in Bangalore.
atleast you have a year and half to get your which school (re)search right.
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Sriram Karra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Delhi: Nice roads, lousy people
Bangalore: Lousy roads, nice people
Come over to Madras, folks - all round nice place. Plus we'll throw in a
http://www.livemint.com/Articles/PrintArticle.aspx
Great, I whispered to Nitin. They are teaching her to read English
with made-up nonsense.
... had me choking on my morning cuppa kaapi.
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.livemint.com/2008/04/05001858/Wanted-Exceptional-parents.html
so she finally got into SPV, my alma mater (well, before i dropped out
at 12). hindi medium, cultural, gujarati, enough clues but they also
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Rishab Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:38:46PM -0400, Charles Haynes wrote:
Abuses? That seems like a strong word to describe something that I
would characterize as failing to adhere to a cultural expectation.
[...]
Let's see
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:33 PM, 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
Where Atithis Fear To Tread [1], a blog entry by Majumdar has
interesting views about women in India getting the short end of the
stick. With unfailing regularity we get to read a lot of tragic events
in the press [2]*, irrespective of the strata of society the woman
belongs too. Is this an
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know how far this is true though
http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fnskipauth=truepli=1
truly brilliant !
On 3/3/08, Divya Sampath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are many grounds for my objections to the
multiple personal laws in India; apart from strong
personal convictions about the separation of religion
from state, they are discriminatory, particularly
against women.
Women are usually
On 3/1/08, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But there may well be greater forces at work. If you look at the history of
For me, politics and religion dont mix...the former is about control,
greed for power and money whilst the latter (specifically Upanishad
texts and the like) is about *not*
On 2/29/08, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't care how offensive the book is, how can
violence, assault, and destruction of property be legitimate ways to
show your displeasure? Is book burning ever appropriate in a nominally
free, pluralistic, secular democracy?
ever heard
On 2/27/08, divya manian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
I started after class X and stopped Veena
On 2/28/08, The smaller the better [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So the bureaucracy is one justified 'time-efficiency' detractor. Maybe our
Indian civic responsibility should lead us to pledge to unravel one reel of
red tape per year, or something like that.
Suppose each of us were to follow up
On 2/26/08, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vid...I wish you could come and learn Carnatic music from me. I have
... would love to :)
not had a SINGLE student like you yet. They assimilate the info I give
them, but they don't ask questions on their own...if I don't know the
hehe,
On 2/26/08, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any of you near Marathahalli or nearby? My six year old daughter loves
I agree with Deepa, give her a year or two :) Besides MS, do listen to
other singers like DKP, Santhanam, NCVasanthakokilam, KBS [1]
there are a lot more though. It
On Feb 16, 2008 3:48 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, looks like Vijay TV has finally scraped up the guts to go beyond
Tamil (or Hindi) serials/movies with their retrograde, biased and suppressive
attitude towards women all in the name of preserving culture
On 2/24/08, rene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
so after posting a little bit now some intro, but who I am? (or who I
like to be? good question anyway)
A technophil and sometimes technophobic, India-loving
German, who came to India first time two years ago. Involved in a
Welcome to India
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:11 AM, rene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Ashok,
(yeah, I'm now on the list, a personal introduction will follow)
Hi Rene, wassup with the wi-fi group ?
--
|| vid ||
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:01 PM, rene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
good question? Formally existing, practically in wintermute?
Überwinterung ? ja, sehr lang :)
okok, long version:
There was only little response on the mailinglist. Last announcement,
that the map is online and everybody who
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:18 PM, rene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Winterschlaf. wow, impressed to read german here :)
danke :)
right. Missed this weekend, was to short after my come-back to India.
You should have created some noise on the list...
i didnt want to disturb anyone's sleep ;-)
On Feb 15, 2008 5:31 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now...THAT sounds more like meme, for example, I have no clue what
these words even MEAN:
Hoary Hedgehog
its the Ubuntu (animal friendly) naming system for an unstable (under
development guaranteed to break your machine) new
On Feb 11, 2008 6:38 AM, Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BEST drivers do wait for you to board the bus (unless the bus is really
ahh... i wish :-) Most times they go 'ting'ting' before stopping at
the bus-stop (if its crowded they zoom off). Never allow people to
board from the front,
Hi,
Seems like my kurtz intro got lost in the excitement of discovering
Hassath's gender/identity and address :-) so yeah /me is yet another
woman joining silk.
On Feb 7, 2008 6:48 AM, Hassath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because I couldn't think of a better introduction.
if '/me' implies
On Feb 8, 2008 2:47 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi VA, and welcome! But...being a non-geek and all, I must confess,
that I thought you were (like several others) a lurker who was
belatedly introducing..er..hesself...andvid or va don't give me a
clue to your name, either
On Feb 8, 2008 7:01 PM, Ramjee Swaminathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/8/08, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nice rant, Vinayak! :-)
But I completely disagree with the take on the public transport.
I too use the bus network a lot (especially when i get frustrated
after asking
On Feb 8, 2008 5:39 PM, Linda L. Julien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I crochet, and knit...mostly knitting these days. I've done
cross-stitch in the past, but not since I was a teenager. No tatting
(yet?). I also sew, though not nearly as often as I used to. Remember
what I said in my intro
On Feb 7, 2008 6:48 AM, Hassath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because I couldn't think of a better introduction.
if '/me' implies 'person' and 'person' implies 'www.svaksha.com',
then /me = www.svaksha.com
|| vid ||
...crawls back into her shell after waving a hello to Hassath :)
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