Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

Your colleague must have an employment contract which has a clause indicating all work done for the organization is work for hire etc - and that covers work done related to the office. If this states that the company owns rights to code written during work timings -and while pursuing a task

Re: [silk] The Arranged Marriage That Ended Happily Ever After, 30 Years Later

On 3 July 2014 10:32, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: The interesting thing about Radhika's list (quoted below this post) is that of the 12 factors,only 5 relate to the individuals. 7 relate to the family. Arranged marriages are (ideally) designed to remove family related incompatibilities,

Re: [silk] Child sex abuse and child rights

Reminded me about this terrible case from the Mennonite community in Bolivia : http://www.vice.com/read/the-ghost-rapes-of-bolivia-000300-v20n8 On 6 September 2014 09:04, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: The story in the link below, which reveals how 1400 girls were sexually abused in

Re: [silk] Financial planning

Having lost large amounts of money on assorted useless things, enterprises and vices at different points what I can tell you is : 1) don't put your money into something you don't really understand. If someone has to explain it to you as to why its good for you should put your money into something

Re: [silk] What book changed your mind?

The loss of el dorado - VS Naipaul - I read it many years ago and read it again. It really influenced me in terms of how one could think about a place. A couple of others -- Ficciones, Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges Independent People - Halldoor Laxness On 15 November 2014 at 03:59, Thaths

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2014

I can recommend this one, its not a work of fiction, neither is it a paperback, its actually a coffee-table sort of book (but far more readable) : http://www.amazon.in/Handmade-India-Geographic-Encyclopedia-Handicrafts/dp/0789210479/ I had been looking for a book that documented all the

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2014

Would also recommend (though not connected to India) The people in the trees - Hanya Yanagihara ... ashok On 3 December 2014 at 00:12, harry listmans...@gmail.com wrote: I can recommend this one, its not a work of fiction, neither is it a paperback, its actually a coffee-table sort of book

[silk] best indian whisky and rum ?

Any recommendations on good indian whisky and rum (I don't want the scotch blended stuff) ? I want to give it as a gift to some wine drinkers, but since Indian wine is so terrible I would rather give alcohol. Unfortunately, I am a bit out of date with whats current ...

Re: [silk] Renaming Aurangzeb Road

I remember visiting various government offices in Addis Abeba in 2009 - and some of the buildings still had inauguration plaques on the walls from the time of the Derg regime(one of the most brutal periods in Ethiopia), and some buildings had been named after marxist heroes. Many buildings still

Re: [silk] On the Road

On 13 September 2015 at 23:51, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote: > > And the attitude I mentioned? The week before we arrived, some moron put > her cell phone on a selfie stick and leaned up against a bison for a photo. > She does not have a photo. She does not have an unbroken

Re: [silk] Anyone with experience being deported ?

(lots of > contradictory information), they HAVE merged OCI and PIO statuses together, > so that all PIO cards are now treated as OCI cards and PIO basically > doesn’t exist anymore. But there’s also a lot of contradictory information > saying that it is preferable to get an “official” con

Re: [silk] Anyone with experience being deported ?

On 8 February 2016 at 09:36, Nikhil Mehra wrote: > There was a recent drive to convert a PIO card to OCI. I'm assuming your > friend is actually of Indian origin whose has foreign citizenship. Doesn't > matter where he was born. PIO actually has more grounds for

[silk] Anyone with experience being deported ?

I am particularly interested in the Indian deportation experience ... someone ?

Re: [silk] What happens to pilots of planes that are hijacked?

friend of mine used to be a bush pilot in the congo [1]. He got hijacked once, of course it wasn't a jet liner, it was a 9-seater caravan, and the hijacker was a mentally unstable person with a grenade and a gun. The story had a happy ending, because my friend is still alive, the hijacker ran

[silk] sanitary napkins in brown paper bag ...

I have been back to live in India after 15 years. One of the things that I find very odd is the way sanitary napkins are treated. for example, if I buy it in a pharmacy -- the guy will either wrap it in a newspaper or a brown paper bag before putting it inside a plastic bag (not done for

Re: [silk] Cable Cars - A viable urban rapid transport system?

On 8 May 2016 at 13:32, Shenoy N wrote: > > > > > Aerial Tramways. Mumbai has no room for 1 and 2. Hills are not required, > Thaths, it's just that cable cars are usually seen in hilly places because > of the difficulty and cost involved in building roads there. > > Mumbai

Re: [silk] Anyone with experience being deported ?

t happened and who was responsible ... and also pursuing it through the government's complaint portal. Now, I am not really sure if that is a good idea ... On 9 February 2016 at 12:54, Nikhil Mehra <nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08-Feb-2016, at 10:37 PM, harry <lis

Re: [silk] Eating Millet

one of the variations on the Ethiopian Njera uses leavened Millet flour instead of Teff ... it looks like a Dosa, goes well with spicy food. Its basically bread cooked on a pan ... On 8 August 2016 at 13:06, Rakesh Raghunathan wrote: > Yum! > > I tried this for my show and

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

I saw this brilliant, brutal movie last year on a long-haul flight called "Titli" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3019620/) about a family of car-jackers in Delhi...perhaps a candidate for the Gangster genre ... On 22 January 2017 at 09:28, Thaths wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2017

[silk] Indian authors in english for 8-10 year olds

I am looking for Indian authors for 8-10 year olds. My son has read a lot of fiction by western authors (jk rowling, philip pullman, philip reeve). I have been struggling to find things by indian authors. He didn't like the typical ruskin bond -- i imagine there are a whole new generation of

Re: [silk] Indian authors in english for 8-10 year olds

On 21 August 2016 at 10:16, Arjun Guha wrote: > My 11 year old daughter recommends RK Narayan and Deepak Dalal. > Deepak Dalal looks very interesting too, thanks

Re: [silk] Indian authors in english for 8-10 year olds

Yeah have seen those, but he is reading full-length novels, while these are much shorter and below his reading level. He has finished the first 3 harry potters, and I had to stop him after that since I felt the age group for the 4th book onwards was a bit above him in terms of content. I am

Re: [silk] Introducing myself

On 30 July 2017 at 07:26, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 1:16 AM, harry <listmans...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I just came across this thread. I did something like this many years ago. > > I made a amateur > > video with me and som

Re: [silk] Introducing myself

On 27 July 2017 at 12:34, Adrianna Tan wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Cindy Gallop > wrote: > > > To the kind respondents on this thread - I thought you might like to see > > this report from Godrej India Cultural Lab on the

Re: [silk] Travel advice for a visitor to India

Yeah I would also think 4 maybe 5 cities in 2 weeks makes sense ... they aren't whistle-stop, take-picture and move on type tourists I imagine. If they are first timers factor in an extra day for diarrhea and shock. Secondly what is Mumbai doing on that list like a very sore thumb ? On 19

Re: [silk] Kids and porn

On 6 September 2017 at 19:06, Cindy Gallop wrote: > You may find this interview I gave to Summerill & Bishop on why it's so > important nowadays that parents talk to their children early about sex and > about porn, interesting/helpful (I explain exactly how to have the >

Re: [silk] War on Science?

On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 at 10:07, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 3, 2019, 9:37 AM Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > > > > WHO has defined vaccine protocols that address your concern > > > > "The politics of polio" by Dr. Pushpa Bhargava an eminent microbiologist > who returned his

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

1. Who we are and how we got here by David Reich 2. Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world by Jack Weatherford 3. Blueprint by Nicholas Christakis 4. The secret history of the mongol queens by jack weatherford 5. Panthers in Parliament: Dalits, Caste, and Political Power in South India by