thanks the minister's parents, or the clerk who filled in his birth certificate made a mistake .. i do think his surname is actually "moron" and not "maran"
srs On 26/08/05, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... at three NIXI (www.nixi.org - the indian IXP) POPs - Delhi, Bombay > and Madras. > > About time too. > > There's a fourth metro in India - Calcutta, which is the capital of a > state that has one of two democratically elected communist governments > in the world, by the way - the other being the Indian state of Kerala. > > [and the party in power in Calcutta is also part of the ruling > coalition in the Indian government]. > > Now for comments in that admirable institution, the Indian press. > > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1211092.cms > > Two things - > > > The move will help bring down the cost of accessing Internet in > > India, where the clone root servers have been set up in Delhi, Mumbai > > and Chennai. "Normally, other countries get to host only two such > > services, but we fought hard and got three," said communications and > > IT minister Dayanidhi Maran. > > Maran seems to think this is as big an achievement as a kid throwing a > tantrum to get three chocolate bars instead of two, which it is not .. > > and, from a post on another mailing list that I read - > > > Mr. Paul Wilson, Director General APNIC and Mr. Axel Pawlik, Managing > > Director - RIPE will be in Delhi between 25-26 August 2005 in connection > > with Integration of Internet Root Servers in India. > > Ah. Calcutta left out of the race, and those dreaded foreign > imperialist powers are behind it all. > > I confidently expect our friendly comrades in Calcutta will feel duty > bound to call for a general strike (something they were proverbial for > doing at the drop of a hat, till quite recently ...) > > > -- > Suresh Ramasubramanian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])