[silk] Test

2009-09-25 Thread ss
Sorry folks - gmail has reset my POP3 checking ability without my permission and I am just checkin.. This isn't the first time this has happened shiv PS My Standard Chartered Bank account number is 456598002 My login name is google My password is google123 Just want to store this info on the

Re: [silk] Manchurian

2009-09-25 Thread ss
On Friday 25 Sep 2009 10:27:15 pm Thaths wrote: > chao mian Chao mian (Also called Chou En Lai) was also one of the early players in the game that led via Pakistan to an anti Soviet alliance between the US and China - with Pakistan being paid off with a tested design of a nuclear bomb and enoug

Re: [silk] Manchurian

2009-09-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Tharoor's got a long career as a senior UN bureaucrat, even making deputy secretary general as kofi annan's protege. Then ran against ban ki moon, lost and left That career would be two or three decades worth of effort, and certainly teaches people to be diplomatic and careful in what they say

Re: [silk] Manchurian

2009-09-25 Thread Amit Varma
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Amit Varma wrote: > [...] > >> > http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Whats-the-big-deal-about-Tharoors-tweet/videoshow/4327575.cms > >> > >> That was agonizingly stupid, all 4 of them. Thank heavens I don't w

Re: [silk] Manchurian

2009-09-25 Thread Lahar Appaiah
Well, to be fair, you smirked when you heard that Tweet was a very lonely man. I found that quite insensitive to Mr. Tweet. I'm not sure if you had even done the same amount of research Mr. Vadakkan had, or had any idea about the pain this Tweet person was going through, but you were being quite hi

Re: [silk] Manchurian

2009-09-25 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Amit Varma wrote: [...] >> http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Whats-the-big-deal-about-Tharoors-tweet/videoshow/4327575.cms >> >> That was agonizingly stupid, all 4 of them. Thank heavens I don't watch TV. >> > > All 4 of them? :) True, only 3 of them spoke in the firs

Re: [silk] Manchurian

2009-09-25 Thread Amit Varma
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:15 PM, divya manian > wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Thaths wrote: > >> Actually, Suraiya is wrong on at least this front. > > > > Probably comes from being "computer-illiterate" and being "proud

Re: [silk] Manchurian

2009-09-25 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:15 PM, divya manian wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Thaths wrote: >> Actually, Suraiya is wrong on at least this front. > > Probably comes from being "computer-illiterate" and being "proud of it" > http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Whats-the-big-deal-about-Tharoors

Re: [silk] Manchurian

2009-09-25 Thread divya manian
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Thaths wrote: > Actually, Suraiya is wrong on at least this front. Probably comes from being "computer-illiterate" and being "proud of it" http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Whats-the-big-deal-about-Tharoors-tweet/videoshow/4327575.cms - divya

Re: [silk] Manchurian

2009-09-25 Thread Thaths
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Deepak Misra wrote: > Then you would love > http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/jugglebandhi/entry/chinese-chakkars "To begin with, 'chow mein' (not to mention 'fried rice') does not exist anywhere in China, either in their kitchens or in their lexicons. To a

[silk] Manchurian

2009-09-25 Thread Deepak Misra
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Madhu Menon wrote: > > Er, yes, something like that. Mentioning "gobi manchurian" near me is > asking to get stabbed with one of my knives. ;) > > (Actually, I thought my sig would give it away.) > > > Madhu > > > Then you would love http://blogs.timesofindia.ind

Re: [silk] curious about whether this is a reasonable article...

2009-09-25 Thread Bharat Shetty
I second Biju, I believe lots of us have better things to do than calling names, or carrying out ad hominem personal attacks targeted at a single person. -- Bharat On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Biju Chacko wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Indrajit Gupta wrote: >>> > Was this propose

Re: [silk] curious about whether this is a reasonable article...

2009-09-25 Thread Biju Chacko
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Indrajit Gupta wrote: >> > Was this proposed by Kiran K? >> > I would take any theories promoted by Kiran very >> > judiciously indeed; he tends to leap before he looks. >> >> You have this tendency to grossly understate. >> >> Lukhman. > > > I know; I was just bei

Re: [silk] curious about whether this is a reasonable article...

2009-09-25 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Fri, 25/9/09, Luqmaan wrote: > From: Luqmaan > Subject: Re: [silk] curious about whether this is a reasonable article... > To: silklist@lists.hserus.net > Date: Friday, 25 September, 2009, 9:02 AM > > The version I know is that the > Hindutvabadis think > > everything originated in Indi