Re: [silk] The Mother [was: Capitalism and Climate Change]

2018-10-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
It was within less than a minute after he'd sat down to 'meditate'. So unless he slipped into some extremely deep yogic state within seconds after shutting his eyes .. On 12/10/18, 9:38 PM, "silklist on behalf of Srini RamaKrishnan" wrote: It's quite likely he may have been doing his

Re: [silk] The Mother [was: Capitalism and Climate Change]

2018-10-12 Thread Ashim D'Silva
It’s well summarised in the oft misrepresented Frost poem: *I shall be telling this with a sigh* *Somewhere ages and ages hence:* *Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—* *I took the one less traveled by,* *And that has made all the difference.* The first line is generally omitted, practically

Re: [silk] The Mother [was: Capitalism and Climate Change]

2018-10-12 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 10:00 AM Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Well that was remarkably philosophical - and sincerely felt. More > power to you. > Thank you Suresh. > The one thing I remember about the Aurobindo Ashram [...] was having a gentle joke at the expense of that

Re: [silk] The Mother [was: Capitalism and Climate Change]

2018-10-12 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 7:18 PM Manu Bhardwaj wrote: > I'm uncomfortable with this. If you had ended up doing the opposite, you > might then either have > - forgotten about the incident altogether, or > - rationalized it with an entirely different story > in order to make it consistent with the

Re: [silk] The Mother [was: Capitalism and Climate Change]

2018-10-12 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 10:44 PM Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > It was within less than a minute after he'd sat down to 'meditate'. > > So unless he slipped into some extremely deep yogic state within seconds > after shutting his eyes .. > Now if that's not an apt use case for the Americanism,

Re: [silk] The Mother [was: Capitalism and Climate Change]

2018-10-12 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 9:16 PM Ashim D'Silva wrote: > The current art world is its own awful mix of capitalism gone mad and > exclusionary barriers of entry and so I can’t defend its excesses either. I > guess I have to remain stuck in the middle and confused. It doesn’t help > that Banksy

Re: [silk] The Mother [was: Capitalism and Climate Change]

2018-10-12 Thread Heather Madrone
Srini RamaKrishnan wrote on 10/12/18 10:20 AM October 12, 2018: Now if that's not an apt use case for the Americanism, shit happens... I don't know what is :-) I came down with an acute case of appendicitis while clerking a Quaker Meeting for Worship for Business. It's an interesting

Re: [silk] The Mother [was: Capitalism and Climate Change]

2018-10-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
A dread and hatred of time is ubiquitous in Shakespeare's sonnets - even in the ones that are about love.  So more than one undergrad has written papers on the themes of time and love in the sonnets ++ there are several peer reviewed journal articles on

Re: [silk] Opt-out Organ Donation Option in India

2018-10-12 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 7:19 AM Surabhi Tomar wrote: > Does anyone know what legal hurdles can legitimately stop an Opt-out organ > donation program in India? > > An example would be having an Opt-out box on the driver's license or aadhar > card. > > Also, would there be any privacy concerns? >

Re: [silk] The Mother [was: Capitalism and Climate Change]

2018-10-12 Thread Manu Bhardwaj
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:59 PM Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: When I didn't know as much about these things, I would be struck by some > experiences, unable to explain them logically. Many years ago I was in > Amsterdam, and I used to spend hours in front of a single painting by Van > Gogh, and