Ah yes, haven't heard those names in a long time. Ramesh later wrote a few
pieces on Sulekha too. That whole scene was the equivalent of the Well for
desis.

On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 8:34 AM Thaths <[email protected]> wrote:

> Welcome to Silklist, Venkatesh. I used to hang around soc.culture.india
> (and soc.culture.tamil (baiting keyboard Tamil Tigers posting from
> carleton.ca) and a few other usenet groups) around that time as well. If
> you were reading those groups you may remember Rajan Parrikar (who
> continues to post some amazing photos in his blog
> <https://blog.parrikar.com/>) and Ramesh Mahadevan (who sadly passed away
> <https://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2016/03/rip-ramesh-mahadevan.html> a
> few years ago).
>
> Thaths
>
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 6:41 PM Venkatesh Rao via Silklist <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Udhay for adding me to this list.
>>
>> To introduce myself briefly,  I’m Venkatesh Rao, blogger at
>> ribbonfarm.com since 2007, and indie consultant. More about me at
>> venkateshrao.com. Based in Seattle. Since this is an old desi list… I
>> used to lurk on soc.culture.indian back in Usenet days (94-97 via the
>> limited internet access at IIT-B) and was an early regular contributor to
>> Sulekha when it was still a writing site.
>>
>> Looking forward to the conversations here.
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