[silk] a rare instance of official humour

2007-06-09 Thread Ingrid
...a government condom brand called Dipper, which is word play on the advice painted on the backs of many trucks, Use Dipper at Night, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/world/asia/08aids.html?pagewanted=2_r=1themc=th -- The future is here; it's just not widely distributed yet. - William

Re: [silk] Silkmeet in Mumbai on Sunday 24th June?

2007-06-16 Thread Ingrid
brunch at seijo? lunch at mangiiferra in jvpd? On 6/16/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling all Mumbai silklisters - I'll be in Mumbai over the weekend of 22-24 June, and would love to meet up with whoever's interested for lunch / dinner on Sunday, 24th June. Ideally, this

Re: [silk] Silkmeet in Mumbai on Sunday 24th June?

2007-06-18 Thread Ingrid
mahesh lunch home at juhu? basilico? royal china? lunch or dinner. On 6/17/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingrid wrote: [ on 12:51 AM 6/17/2007 ] brunch at seijo? Burrp calls it very expensive which doesn't sound promising - unless you say different? http://mumbai.burrp.com

Re: [silk] IPhone - Thoughts?

2007-07-06 Thread Ingrid
Blogger in Upper Turkfakistan has Absolutely No Opinion on the iPhone. He was of course arrested shortly afterwards. Interrogations so far have failed to determine the reasons for his refusal to write about the popular product. Ahmed can now be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] He seemed unaware of

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Ingrid
going back to the original outlook article, why do you think women in tamil nadu are reporting such disproportionately high levels of spousal violence? *How Women-Friendly?* *In TN, 69.2% have a say in family matters * *A.P* *T.N* *Kerala* * Karnataka* *INDIA* *U.P* *Gujarat* No. of females

Re: [silk] Someone on this list with CRY ?

2007-07-28 Thread Ingrid
Hi Deepak! I do work with CRY. What may I do for you? - Ingrid Srinath On 7/28/07, Deepak Misra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for this blast-o-gram Isnt someone on this group with CRY ? I needed to communicate in this regard Ping me off-list to reduce noise Thanks Deepak Misra

Re: [silk] Someone on this list with CRY ?

2007-07-28 Thread Ingrid
apologies! meant to respond to deepak off-list. On 7/29/07, Ingrid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Deepak! I do work with CRY. What may I do for you? - Ingrid Srinath On 7/28/07, Deepak Misra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for this blast-o-gram Isnt someone on this group with CRY

Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India

2007-08-04 Thread Ingrid
On 8/2/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right-ho! Finest minds by whose standards? Another example: www.tallbergfoundation.org. -- The future is here; it's just not widely distributed yet. - William Gibson

Re: [silk] New Yorker book review re: partition

2007-08-13 Thread Ingrid
On 8/12/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for posting this. There are some minor factual inaccuracies, but I write to express my delight at seeing the author echo something that I have felt and stated in various places - i.e that the birth of Pakistan was the first blow in

Re: [silk] Re-architecting the music business

2007-08-14 Thread Ingrid
*another model:* *Amiestreet* http://www.amiestreet.com/ (www.amiestreet.com) , where every song starts off free, just closed a Series A financing round led by Amazon.com. The amount of Amazon's investment hasn't been disclosed, but it's an interesting development in the online music arena.

Re: [silk] Pakistan at 60 from Rafiq Dossani

2007-08-25 Thread Ingrid
On 8/25/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Classic parameters that are considered good seem to be low infant and maternal mortality, high literacy, high per capita income, low GINI coefficient, low unemployment rates and a whole lot of similar parameters that can be dug up in any study

Re: [silk] Cybercafes to have keystroke loggers

2007-09-13 Thread Ingrid
all the above arguments equate demanding bribes with criminality but somehow exclude/excuse the payment of bribes? given the sheer number of bribe-givers to bribe-takers and their respective classes, wouldn't it be fair to conclude that it is, in fact, the middle and upper classes that are the

[silk] mumbai quote of the week

2007-09-22 Thread Ingrid
There are simply too many suffering, one socialite explained. So we focus on things we can actually have an impact on, like arthttp://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/art/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifierand gardening

Re: [silk] Life of a poor man in India

2007-09-26 Thread Ingrid
The merits of this article aside, Gini coefficients, that measure income inequality, have risen steadily in India since 1980 from 0.32 to 0.38. For the record, a Gini above 0.35 is generally believed to be unsustainable socially and politically. If it's any consolation the comparable Ginis for

Re: [silk] Life of a poor man in India

2007-09-27 Thread Ingrid
On 9/26/07, Venky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so as expected, the gap is widening. Though, from what I understand about Gini coefficients from Wikipedia, a country as large as India with its economic diversity would end up exaggerating the value. To quote Wikipedia -- When measuring

Re: [silk] Anyone on Dopplr?

2007-11-15 Thread Ingrid
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/cheeni In case anyone is on it... Udhay is for sure. So am I. If any of you want invites, just ask. me too? -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur

Re: [silk] FoU camp - logistics

2007-11-26 Thread Ingrid
may i block a seat in one of those cars, please? -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur

Re: [silk] QotD

2007-12-06 Thread Ingrid
On 06/12/2007, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At some level, sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. From: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001011.html A variant of Hanlon's Razor? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor *Hanlon's razor* is

Re: [silk] A new deal in Pakistan

2008-03-20 Thread Ingrid
On 19/03/2008, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 Mar 2008 6:10:04 pm Udhay Shankar N wrote: Tarun Dua wrote: [ on 04:18 PM 3/17/2008 ] http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21194 This article does not gel with this one

Re: [silk] rant - Re: Wanted: Exceptional parents

2008-04-10 Thread Ingrid
On 10/04/2008, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote, [on 4/10/2008 7:35 AM]: Aren't there a number of studies that say the peer group matters more than the parenting? Citations? Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] Disadvantages of an Elite education

2008-07-20 Thread Ingrid
On 19/07/2008, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to Fiji (which is where Lal was born). He bemoans the lack of research into immigration to East Africa specifically (apparently there is a lot of work done on colored

Re: [silk] Bill Gates and Indian NGOs

2008-07-24 Thread Ingrid
On 24/07/2008, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have heard and read negative reports regarding BMGF, I wonder why ngo's accept the philanthropy first and cry foul later. 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

Re: [silk] Kids' poverty charity in Mumbai?

2008-09-26 Thread Ingrid
2008/9/26 Cory Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone got a favourite secular kids' poverty charity in Mumbai? I feel like my randomly arrived-at donations to beggar kids (plus the weird baby-food scam in Colaba) have been an infinitesimal drop in the ocean and I'd like to contribute to

Re: [silk] Kids' poverty charity in Mumbai?

2008-09-26 Thread Ingrid
2008/9/26 Cory Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems like only people with Indian-billed credit-cards can donate to CRY? nope. at least 60% of online transactions on www.cry.org are from overseas donors. just choose 'foreign national' at the bottom of the form at:

Re: [silk] Kids' poverty charity in Mumbai?

2008-09-27 Thread Ingrid
Thank you for your persistence. On begging and the stratagems adopted to maximise income: All the more reason, IMO, to support the kind of work that addresses poverty, displacement, access to education and sustainable livelihoods at its roots in rural and slum communities. Too much philanthropy,

Re: [silk] Kids' poverty charity in Mumbai?

2008-09-27 Thread Ingrid
2008/9/27 Ingrid [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for your persistence. On begging and the stratagems adopted to maximise income: All the more reason, IMO, to support the kind of work that addresses poverty, displacement, access to education and sustainable livelihoods at its roots in rural

Re: [silk] Kids' poverty charity in Mumbai?

2008-09-27 Thread Ingrid
2008/9/27 Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks, ingrid. was this published somewhere? google can't find it. it's from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 'Optimists refuse to acknowledge reality. Idealists remind us that it isn't fixed.' -Susan Neiman

Re: [silk] Kids' poverty charity in Mumbai?

2008-09-29 Thread Ingrid
2008/9/28 . [EMAIL PROTECTED] you missed the weasel keywords shall endeavour. in fact, the 93rd Amendment to the Constitution (2002?) made the right to free and compulsory education absolute. And the Finance Ministry's been collecting a 2% cess on Income Tax ostensibly to fund

Re: [silk] Bruce Schneier (was Re: The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists)

2008-10-21 Thread Ingrid
2008/10/21 Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3230452/Centuries-of-British-freedoms-being-broken-by-security-state-says-Sir-Ken-Macdonald.html Outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald warned that the expansion of

Re: [silk] When I Have The Time

2008-11-17 Thread Ingrid
2008/11/16 Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Make sense of how the rational (logical) and irrational (moral) sides of the brain reconcile Have never seen the brain hemispheres labeled that way. Are morality and rationality mutually contradictory?

Re: [silk] Favourite books read in 2008

2009-01-12 Thread Ingrid
in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Dark Pencil – Christopher Brookmyre Non-Fiction: A Falling Off the Edge – Alex Perry Bring on the Apocalypse – George Monbiot - Ingrid

Re: [silk] wow, what an editorial from the grave...

2009-01-13 Thread Ingrid
Try Gideon Levy in Haaretz: http://makom.haaretz.com/face2face.asp 2009/1/14 Alok G. Singh alephn...@hcoop.net Rishab Ghosh wrote: or even a palestinian one. Sure. I am just looking for similarly intellectually honest editorials from Israel. -- Alok About the only thing on a farm

Re: [silk] Favourite books read in 2008

2009-01-14 Thread Ingrid
Has anyone here read Roberto Bolano's 2666? If yes, what did you think of it? - Ingrid

Re: [silk] What is Indian culture?

2009-03-09 Thread Ingrid
—that make up Indian society’s gestalt. Any list of 'Indian' cultural values that does not include syncretism and tolerance would not, IMO, be complete. - Ingrid

Re: [silk] What is Indian culture?

2009-03-11 Thread Ingrid
that something else is equally good or better. shiv monogamy and the control of women's sexuality in general, are only necessary when patrilineal private property is the norm. all communal forms are, therefore, viable alternatives. - Ingrid

Re: [silk] What is Indian culture?

2009-03-11 Thread Ingrid
2009/3/11 ss cybers...@gmail.com On Wednesday 11 Mar 2009 4:34:15 pm Ingrid wrote: monogamy and the control of women's sexuality in general, are only necessary when patrilineal private property is the norm. all communal forms are, therefore, viable alternatives. Could you expand

Re: [silk] Need some help

2009-03-12 Thread Ingrid
2009/3/12 Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com Our landlord was a Muslim but they were some of the nicest people we met. but?

Re: [silk] What is Indian culture?

2009-03-13 Thread Ingrid
so, do the religious/ethical/moral aspects of culture exist/evolve to counteract biological impulses/instincts that are hazardous to the prevalent social hierarchy? do they serve any other purpose?

Re: [silk] Tribal Dance

2009-03-17 Thread Ingrid
lifelong experience of being discriminated against by the shoe trade ;). - Ingrid

Re: [silk] the business of charity!?!

2009-03-26 Thread Ingrid
one aspect of civil society. One that compensates for the failures of those paragons of efficiency and accountability - markets and states. - Ingrid

Re: [silk] Is voter ignorance killing democracy?

2009-07-08 Thread Ingrid
of correlation between levels of educational attainment and quality of democratic governance for countries? Ingrid

Re: [silk] Barah anno

2009-10-15 Thread Ingrid
2009/10/15 Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com Srini RamaKrishnan wrote, [on 10/15/2009 7:26 AM]: I will be in India between 13 Dec 5 Jan. How about the weekend of 18th Dec for the meetup? And where? Works for me, but at that time, it'll have to be in Bangalore - I'm leaving to Singapore

Re: [silk] Sand Animation in Ukraine's Got Talent

2009-10-19 Thread Ingrid
2009/10/17 Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Vinayak Hegde wrote, [on 10/17/2009 2:01 PM]: Simonova's sand story portrays the human loss after the German invasion in 1941. The opening scene shows a couple sitting on

Re: [silk] Visiting South Africa

2009-11-18 Thread Ingrid
Regrettably, I won't be home in Johannesburg through those dates. Would be glad to answer any questions you might have. Ingrid P.S. The usual apology for top-posting courtesy Blackberry. On 11/17/09, Zainab Bawa bawazaina...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Writing to check if any Silk Listers are Cape

Re: [silk] testing

2009-12-10 Thread Ingrid
Yep. On 10-Dec-2009, at 11:48 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) ___ silklist mailing list silklist@lists.hserus.net http://lists.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/silklist

Re: [silk] The Neuroscience of Screwing Up

2010-01-13 Thread Ingrid
2010/1/13 J. Andrew Rogers and...@ceruleansystems.com To point out a significant bias, in most militaries I am familiar with the standards of behavior, compliance, and myriad other things for females are substantially laxer than for males. Explicitly so, not just as a matter of practice.

Re: [silk] Engineers of Jihad

2010-01-13 Thread Ingrid
2010/1/12 Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com Actually, I find myself nodding in agreement here. My 'logic' is nothing more than the gut-feel that, at least in the case of students from developing nations, the ones more driven to do something with their lives typically tend to take the

Re: [silk] of snoozing and retirement

2010-01-19 Thread Ingrid
2010/1/18 Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com Oh, but you can. It's getting a lot harder with every passing year, but there are still places on this planet where one can be a hermit on the mountain, leading an existence disconnected from society. It's sub-optimal to living with society, but

Re: [silk] The silliness and corruptness of Indian media

2010-03-08 Thread Ingrid
If the Government does not have this legitimacy, who does? Simply put these theories say, it is capital.Whoever has capital has the acquiescence of media. Who has capital? Monsanto, maybe? Prabhat Patnaik's lecture elaborates this theory nicely :

Re: [silk] In India, Sometimes News Is Just a Product Placement

2010-06-01 Thread Ingrid
On 1 June 2010 12:22, Sruthi Krishnan srukr...@gmail.com wrote: I think in the last thread on paid news too this piece by Sevanti Ninan was mentioned. Don't remember too well, but it is worth another dekko -- 'Paid news for dummies'.

Re: [silk] Chennai meetup?

2010-09-02 Thread Ingrid
On 2 September 2010 08:32, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:55 PM, gabin kattukaran gkattuka...@gmail.comwrote: . mein usee din chalA gayA can only be sort of translated to I went that very day (or as we sometimes say, I went that day itself.) Shouldn't

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Ingrid
This guy appears spoiled from not having to fill out too many visa applications. Good for him, though. UK visa application form was 21 pages not too long back; More recently it is down at about 10 pages for many categories. Ofcourse he can argue about the 'nuclear engineer skills' required

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-23 Thread Ingrid
On 23-Nov-2010, at 7:05 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: I think we had a similar thread lo, these many years ago, but still. Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. Maybe Charles can post

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-24 Thread Ingrid
On 23 November 2010 23:12, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Don't know what a mopane worm is so I probably haven't eaten it, though I've eaten other grubs and caterpillars.

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

2011-01-13 Thread Ingrid
On 13-Jan-2011, at 8:29 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:49 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: The religious leader who calls for violence in the name of god in his weekly sermon is the most obvious and common example of this. So this stochastic

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-18 Thread Ingrid
On 19 January 2011 09:30, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: What's on *your* bucket list? Udhay -- Write my novel.

Re: [silk] Kragen's essay on Egypt

2011-01-29 Thread Ingrid
On 29-Jan-2011, at 11:08 AM, underscore listmans...@gmail.com wrote: The Obama administration has, in fact, significantly cut US funding to human rights and democracy groups in Egypt. I think its only a few americans who care about such things. Fact is, without american aid and big

Re: [silk] Books on Words Language

2011-02-13 Thread Ingrid
On 13-Feb-2011, at 4:34 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Anything from Guy Deutscher is good on WL. I was also immensely fond of Steven Pinker's Words and Rules which draws some remarkably amusing lessons from a ridiculously deep dive on a small number of English irregular verbs.

Re: [silk] Writing with the pack

2011-02-28 Thread Ingrid
On 27 February 2011 00:30, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: And the article that is mostly a rehash of a press release strikes again: http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/article1492697.ece This is part of

Re: [silk] Sidin Vadukut - Introduction

2011-05-19 Thread Ingrid
government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it. Versus Karl Rove: As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. - Ingrid P.S. Welcome, Sidin.

Re: [silk] Why do we hate our girls?

2011-05-25 Thread Ingrid
On 25 May 2011 12:44, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: I completely agree. This tradition bullshit is too much and questioning it is a big taboo. Isolated pockets such as this mailing list cannot change this sickness. And this cancer is so big, it needs organized effort to

Re: [silk] seeking Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) contact info.

2011-06-02 Thread Ingrid
On 2 June 2011 11:29, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote: No clue, was hoping Delhi-walla's here would know. I suspect they do exist as they seem to be filing all the PIL's[0] in the SC, in the 2G-in-3D scam cases. [0]

Re: [silk] The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

2011-06-14 Thread Ingrid
On 14 June 2011 10:03, J. Alfred Prufrock another.prufr...@gmail.comwrote: *Chestnut alert - If you can get paid for doing what you enjoy, you never have to work another day in your life. I have a 5 year deadline to get to that state. * Can absolutely vouch for that old chestnut. Have been

Re: [silk] Subramanian Swamy

2011-08-04 Thread Ingrid
On 4 August 2011 15:03, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:50 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: But as far as i know - it is only in India here there are big debates where the members of the majority religion are debating with each other as to whether

Re: [silk] Subramanian Swamy

2011-08-05 Thread Ingrid
On 5 August 2011 04:18, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: What is a secular democracy? How would a non secular democracy work? Does anyone have any examples of a non secular democracy? Democracy and secularism go very easily together if the country has an overwhelming majority of one single

Re: [silk] I don't. And not with Nitin Pai / Amba Salakar either.Re: Red-letter day: I agree with Arundhati Roy

2011-08-23 Thread Ingrid
On 23 August 2011 04:30, Shoba Narayan sh...@shobanarayan.com wrote: Look, I agree with you. The thing I am pondering is: what now? So you throw your hat in the ring. You call it. I have qualms about the bill, but I am now a banner-carrying anti-corruption protestor who was at Bangalore's

Re: [silk] an-NRI again

2011-10-22 Thread Ingrid
On 23-Oct-2011, at 6:43 AM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote: To me it's a seemingly-eloquently argued defense of cowardice. Isn't that a defining trait of NRIs : to move to an oasis that someone else built rather than transform one's own desert surroundings?

Re: [silk] an-NRI again

2011-10-23 Thread Ingrid
On 23-Oct-2011, at 8:26 AM, Sriram ET. karra@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 23, 2011 11:23 AM, Ingrid ingrid.srin...@gmail.com wrote: On 23-Oct-2011, at 6:43 AM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote: To me it's a seemingly-eloquently argued defense of cowardice. Isn't

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2011

2011-11-28 Thread Ingrid
: Amitav Ghosh Ingrid Srinath

Re: [silk] aqvavit

2012-02-21 Thread Ingrid
On 21 February 2012 07:23, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote: I found this really weird in NREGA ... the requirement that no mechanized equipment can be used. What was the motivation behind it ? Limiting NREGA work to back-breaking physical labour at less than minimum wage available

Re: [silk] Quick question - Johannesburg

2012-03-09 Thread Ingrid
On 10-Mar-2012, at 5:07 AM, Charles Haynes hay...@edgeplay.org wrote: It looks like I am going to Johannesburg for 4 weeks, are there any Silklisters there? -- Charles Drat! I end my 4 year stint in Joburg to return to Bombay tomorrow. Let me know if I can provide any information on

Re: [silk] Whose morality is being protected?

2012-05-02 Thread Ingrid
to give up his property for a cause which *you* see as a just one. Anti-libertarian on these lines? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/30/stephen-king-tax-me-for-f-s-sake.html Ingrid

Re: [silk] Fwd: Re: Why I Gave Up On 'Social Activism'

2012-05-04 Thread Ingrid
instead to rely on caricatures. Ingrid

Re: [silk] LOTR and Ayn Rand

2012-08-09 Thread Ingrid
On 9 August 2012 09:58, John Sundman j...@wetmachine.com wrote: *Ugarte http://www.imdb.com/name/nm048/*: You despise me, don't you? *Rick http://www.imdb.com/name/nm007/*: If I gave you any thought I probably would. jrs It seems to me that those ranked highest are least

Re: [silk] Easily avoidable food ?

2006-05-05 Thread Ingrid
A bacon cheeseburger on a krispy kreme dougnut. That IS stomach turning. On 5/4/06, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Silklisters,Since we are talking about unpalatable food on some other threads. Ithought the following link might be interesting to those who have a adventurous heart and a

Re: [silk] Easily avoidable food ?

2006-05-05 Thread Ingrid
almost as horrific as mis-spelling doughnut. On 5/5/06, Ingrid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A bacon cheeseburger on a krispy kreme dougnut. That IS stomach turning. On 5/4/06, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Silklisters,Since we are talking about unpalatable food on some other threads

Re: [silk] Why your Boss is overpaid ?

2006-05-26 Thread Ingrid
what's the multiple of top salary to bottom at the organisation you work with? i recall narayan murthy advocating 19:1 for the indian corporate sector. cry follows a 9:1. On 5/26/06, Manish Jethani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/25/06, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [silk] Silk Mumbai Meet?

2006-05-27 Thread Ingrid
: Fri, 26 May 2006 19:16:50 +0530 To: silklist@lists.hserus.netSubject: Re: [silk] Silk Mumbai Meet? Hey Ingrid, is that an inclusive range?Is 29th OK?I guess Colaba gets the most votes :)Tentative schedule: 29th May (Monday), 7PM, Basilico Colaba.-KarraOn 5/26/06, Ingrid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [silk] Beer Belly? No such thing.

2006-06-12 Thread Ingrid
I know someone who'd pay good money for that one. On 6/13/06, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mahesh Murthy wrote: [ on 05:06 PM 6/12/2006 ]Brian May said itearlier: http://www.queenwords.com/lyrics/songs/sng11_04.shtmlhttp://www.queenwords.com/lyrics/songs/sng11_04.shtmlThe 1978 single

Re: [silk] Beer Belly? No such thing.

2006-06-13 Thread Ingrid
the poster. On 6/13/06, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingrid wrote: [ on 11:21 AM 6/13/2006 ]I know someone who'd pay good money for that one. The poster or the box set?Udhay--((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) -- Only two things are infinite, the universe

Re: [silk] Buffett leaves fortune to Gates Foundation

2006-07-05 Thread Ingrid
In India I know from personal experience inMaharashtra and Manipur at least, that the Gates Foundation is one of the largest privatecontributors to a range of HIV AIDS programmes covering the gamut from awareness through tofree testing, ART, de-tox/needle-exchange programmes etc. They work with

Re: [silk] Bombay Blasts (again!)

2006-07-11 Thread Ingrid
likewise. just got home after a 3 hour commute that ordinarily takes 30 minutes. On 7/11/06, Yazad Jal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This silklister is ok. For news on the ground, your best bet would be http://mumbaihelp.blogspot.com/-yazad- Original Message -From: Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:

Re: [silk] Geographic spread

2006-08-03 Thread Ingrid
I'm native to Mumbai, wasborn andraised here and have been a resident of our fair metropolis for 84.92% of my life. Work takes me to Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata frequently and to more exotic locales in India and overseas occasionally. On 8/3/06, Mahesh Murthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bombay

Re: [silk] human rights and policing (was Re: security and choosing sides)

2006-09-08 Thread Ingrid
on groupmembership is even worse than random arbitrary detentions, because it causes that group to become isolated and likely to fight back.= Ingrid writes: amartya sen uses an interesting (and culturally-neutral) analogy to describe this phenomenon in ''identity and violence''. his

Re: [silk] WSF time again

2006-11-23 Thread Ingrid
issues? should they voice them? especially in a media market that will pay scant attention to the issue unless they do? even if all they're bringing to the party is their celebrity? On 11/23/06, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/23/06, Ingrid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: inevitably

Re: [silk] WSF time again

2006-11-27 Thread Ingrid
speaking personally, and not on behalf of either, the wsf or the anti-globalisation movement, i think coherence can be over-rated. carry it far enough and you wind up with fundamentalism, totalitarianism and fascism. there's clearly some balance between perfect coherence and perfect chaos that

Re: [silk] WSF time again

2006-11-27 Thread Ingrid
On 11/27/06, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The underlying assumption behind free market seems to be that *somebody* who is currently bankrolling these groups is free to vote with their feet? yep. event sponsors, people who pay for stalls/seminars etc., and those who underwrite

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] 'Is Afzal now justarallyingpointforintellectuals?'

2006-12-14 Thread Ingrid
Going back to Afzal for a moment, has anyone here seen an argument from those pressing for his immediate execution that is based on his guilt? I've heard a number of the attack on Parliament was a dastardly act and someone should hang for it so we can all achieve closure/revenge arguments. But

Re: [silk] Save the hippos

2007-01-04 Thread Ingrid
this thread seems to be progressing quite nicely without my inputs (as the sole alleged resident hippomaniac). For what it's worth however, you don't stir fry them. you wrap them in banana leaves and roast the package: http://www.congocookbook.com/c0022.html -- To make this, a thing well worth

Re: [silk] Save the hippos

2007-01-04 Thread Ingrid
to yazad, and some of us naturalised bawas, patra ni potamus. On 1/4/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingrid [04/01/07 17:32 +0530]: this thread seems to be progressing quite nicely without my inputs (as the sole alleged resident hippomaniac). For what it's worth however

Re: [silk] Save the hippos

2007-01-08 Thread Ingrid
depending on your definition of cute... the definitive sumo hippo thong song: http://www.koreus.com/media/kozodansesumo.html On 1/8/07, Neha Viswanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2007/01/post.html Trust Cute Overload to do the Hippo Action. Oh god the

Re: [silk] Miss India..NOT representative of her country

2007-01-31 Thread Ingrid
will unlurk just long enough to register the presence of one Indian woman who is genetically endowed enough to qualify for the miss india norm (well, height-wise, at least) and whose name seems to connote no particular gender in most parts of india. my favourite mis-spelling of it to date is

Re: [silk] Miss India..NOT representative of her country

2007-02-01 Thread Ingrid
On 2/1/07, Neha Viswanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The market doesn't have to have a conscience. why not? -- The future is here; it's just not widely distributed yet. - William Gibson

Re: [silk] Miss India..NOT representative of her country

2007-02-01 Thread Ingrid
i'm curious. is there any other human institution that is licensed to be sociopathic? On 2/2/07, Neha Viswanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still, the seller doesn't have a conscience on his or her own. Only the astuteness to perceive the consumer's conscience. -- The future is here; it's

Re: [silk] Bay Area/New York/Nairobi Silklisters

2007-02-06 Thread Ingrid
By any chance does anyone here know if Indian passport holders can get visas-on-arrival at the above three countries? (Especially when arriving by land as I will be for Uganda/Tanzania?). if your passport is indian, you can get a visa on arrival in kenya. a yellow fever shot, with

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-08 Thread Ingrid
, unkempt, khadi-clad revolutionaries OR silk-sheathed socialites is a real barrier to sane people considering jobs in the sector. I could mail the text or a scanned copy to anyone here who is interested. On 3/8/07, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is specifically to Ingrid Srinath, whose

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-08 Thread Ingrid
on a lighter note, the most amusing response to the article thus far: --- The article of yours (in the E.T) engenders the de-gendering or deconstruction of the hegemony of patriarchy which has constructed specific norms of masculinity and femininity. This construction has confined people to

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-08 Thread Ingrid
On 3/8/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingrid wrote: [ on 06:55 PM 3/8/2007 ] This misguided belief and the general perception of NGO-wallahs as either, unkempt, khadi-clad revolutionaries OR silk-sheathed socialites is a real barrier to sane people considering jobs in the sector

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-09 Thread Ingrid
hurree jamset ram singh lives, ok! On 3/8/07, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OOH Ingrid, loved that response. The best reply to this is the one Udhay made, further down the thread. Let the Polysyllabic War begin! Deepa. On 3/8/07, Ingrid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a lighter note

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-10 Thread Ingrid
On 3/10/07, Neha Viswanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I was one of the alumni co-ods in undergrad. We were trying to prepare a list for some alumni event. In the eighties - someone had completely messed up the alumni lists - which meant that all we were left with was a lot of maiden

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