Re: [silk] congrats Biju...

2007-01-06 Thread ashok _
I once saw what appeared to be a decent book on christianity in south india, but it was published by the Paulines publishers (who are the primary publishers for the catholic church.) .so i believe the history had a certain catholic bent to it. I cannot remember the name now... On

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2007-01-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: Also among Palakkad Iyers. Venkatesh Hariharan (whose father is Hariharan Venkatesh) Now that gets me even more confused :( - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say

Re: [silk] congrats Biju...

2007-01-05 Thread Thaths
On 1/4/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's true. However the nit-picker with me insists on pointing out that I am Syrian Orthodox. Catholics broke away from us relatively recently and believe Protestantism is some kind of internal wrangling amongst those heretics. ;-) Relatively

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2007-01-05 Thread Biju Chacko
On 05/01/07, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/4/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's true. However the nit-picker with me insists on pointing out that I am Syrian Orthodox. Catholics broke away from us relatively recently and believe Protestantism is some kind of internal

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2007-01-05 Thread Abhishek Hazra
susan vivanathan's book The Christians of Kerala (OUP) is interesting. it is not from a church/hagiographic position and located within the context of contemporary critical historical scholarship. and interestingly she never tries to erase herself from her subject of study, and her own

[silk] congrats Biju...

2007-01-04 Thread Jess
on joining the 'family' wing! :) Jess

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2007-01-04 Thread Biju Chacko
Thanks. :) For a bit of context, here's a mail I sent out a little earlier in the day to an internal mailing list in my office: --8-- Hi, My wife Beena delivered our first child, Benjamin Jacob Philip[1], at about 8pm (IST) yesterday by ceasarean section. He weighed 2.83kg (about 6 lb)[2] at

Re: [silk] congrats Biju...

2007-01-04 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
Biju Chacko wrote: Thanks. :) For a bit of context, here's a mail I sent out a little earlier in the day to an internal mailing list in my office: Congratulations! [1] Yes, that's his full name. The reason why he doesn't have the same last name as me is lost somewhere in the mists of

Re: [silk] congrats Biju...

2007-01-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Biju Chacko wrote: Thanks. :) For a bit of context, here's a mail I sent out a little earlier in the day to an internal mailing list in my office: Ah. Join the club then.

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2007-01-04 Thread Ramakrishna Reddy
[1] Yes, that's his full name. The reason why he doesn't have the same last name as me is lost somewhere in the mists of bizarre family tradition. Wld that be PhilipOase KariLaAl Joseph Jr. in family tradition :D P.S :: PhilipOase KariLaAl Joseph is Biju's real name. -- Ramakrishna Reddy

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2007-01-04 Thread Deepa Mohan
Wow, Beena Biju Benjamin...Congratulations! Deepa. On 1/4/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. :) For a bit of context, here's a mail I sent out a little earlier in the day to an internal mailing list in my office: --8-- Hi, My wife Beena delivered our first child, Benjamin

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2007-01-04 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
Dear Biju, Congrats. I guess, Mr. Benjamin Jacob Philip has no choice but to tolerate your whacky sense of humor! Congrats once again! Venky On 1/4/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. :) For a bit of context, here's a mail I sent out a little earlier in the day to an internal

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2007-01-04 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Ramakrishna Reddy wrote: P.S :: PhilipOase KariLaAl Joseph is Biju's real name. Biju, Congratulations. Now I am really trying to figure out the equation Philipoase Karilaal Joseph = Biju Chacko. Please help!

Re: [silk] congrats Biju...

2007-01-04 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Biju Chacko wrote: The baby is currently not showing any preference between vi and emacs -- no doubt this will become more clear in the days ahead. Any musical preference yet? My daughter went through a wide range... Kenny G and Adnan Sami figured quite prominently. Now, at 5 and a half, she

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2007-01-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venkat Mangudi wrote: My daughter went through a wide range... Kenny G and Adnan Sami figured quite prominently. Now, at 5 and a half, she is a big fan of Queen. She thinks that The Wiggles [1] listened to Queen when they were kids. :-) My daughter at 2 seems to like M.S.Subbulakshmi - but

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2007-01-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: Wow, Beena Biju Benjamin...Congratulations! Bedazzling :) - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

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2007-01-04 Thread Madhu Menon
gabin kattukaran wrote: I suspect it's because --b would prefer not to live his latter years in mortal fear of his own son who by then would be old enough to know that by no stretch of imagination can Ben Biju [1] ever be a cool name :) Come, come. He could always be called Benji Biju. That

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2007-01-04 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 04/01/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My wife Beena delivered our first child, Benjamin Jacob Philip[1], at Congratulations, welcome to the club and all that. [1] Yes, that's his full name. The reason why he doesn't have the same last name as me is lost somewhere in the mists of

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2007-01-04 Thread gabin kattukaran
On 1/4/07, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gabin kattukaran wrote: I suspect it's because --b would prefer not to live his latter years in mortal fear of his own son who by then would be old enough to know that by no stretch of imagination can Ben Biju [1] ever be a cool name :)

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2007-01-04 Thread Venkat Mangudi
gabin kattukaran wrote: Going by the old combine names while mixing chromosomes rule that should probably be Benju Many of my mallu friends have siblings who are common syllables in their names viz. Sheeba, Shibu and Shiju :-) Biju, getting tired of this thread focusing on the name?

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2007-01-04 Thread shiv sastry
On Thursday 04 Jan 2007 3:41 pm, Deepa Mohan wrote: Wow, Beena Biju Benjamin...Congratulations! Hmm Biju's been a busy hasn't he! Well done. I believe that there are physical changes in brain structure that occur in a parent's brain once a baby is born. Something changed inside me when we

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2007-01-04 Thread Biju Chacko
On 04/01/07, Ramakrishna Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [1] Yes, that's his full name. The reason why he doesn't have the same last name as me is lost somewhere in the mists of bizarre family tradition. Wld that be PhilipOase KariLaAl Joseph Jr. in family tradition :D P.S :: PhilipOase

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2007-01-04 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 05-Jan-07, at 11:13 AM, Biju Chacko wrote: Philip Chacko Kalayil is what you mean. You mean you're not Biju at all? You've never been Biju?

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2007-01-04 Thread Biju Chacko
On 04/01/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ramakrishna Reddy wrote: P.S :: PhilipOase KariLaAl Joseph is Biju's real name. Biju, Congratulations. Now I am really trying to figure out the equation Philipoase Karilaal Joseph = Biju Chacko. Please help! Arrrghh, I was hoping not

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2007-01-04 Thread Biju Chacko
On 04/01/07, Binand Sethumadhavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/01/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My wife Beena delivered our first child, Benjamin Jacob Philip[1], at Congratulations, welcome to the club and all that. [1] Yes, that's his full name. The reason why he doesn't have

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2007-01-04 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Biju Chacko wrote: christian name family name father's christian Name . This is very similar to many TamBram names... Now, you don't want to know my full name. ;-) I was so upset with my parents when I went to the US and had to struggle with four words in my name, non-hyphenated. I am

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2007-01-04 Thread Biju Chacko
On 05/01/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05-Jan-07, at 11:13 AM, Biju Chacko wrote: Philip Chacko Kalayil is what you mean. You mean you're not Biju at all? You've never been Biju? If you use a statistical definition of name as What do people actually call you, my name