Re: [silk] Book recommendations

[Srini RamaKrishnan]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Thaths  wrote:

> On Sunday, December 12, 2010, Suresh Ramasubramanian 
> wrote:
> > following fish, by samanth subramanian
>
> I read the first two chapters of this yesterday.  An excellent read.
> Beautifully written (brought Wodehouse and Douglas Adams to mind) with
> humor and candor.


I read through a chapter or two from the middle of the book and came to the
same conclusion and bought a copy along with thaths.

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Supriya Nair wrote:

> Pretty sure you're already down with Daniyal Mueenuddin and Gyan Prakash
> and whoever else came out in the US simultaneously.
>

Heh, I hadn't caught up on this thread then, but I warned Thaths away
from Daniyal Mueenuddin just yesterday.

'In other rooms' is interesting because it's not often one finds English
writing that deals with the daily struggles of the underclass in Pakistan;
Adiga's White Tiger is interesting in much the same way, and has better
writing. I recall Mueenuddin's writing style as being somewhat awkward and
cramped, like that of a first time author, which he is. Secondly the first
few stories I read gave me the impression that the entire book was going to
be narrated from the author's lotus eater lifestyle in the Pakistani upper
class. I found that hypocritical and decided against reading the rest of the
book.

Cheeni

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [06/01/11 11:55 +0530]:


in context. I've had the chance to speed read parts of the
Durgeshnandini translation and, I'd heartily recommend it to anyone
who'd love to read a reasonably rich and complex novel. The caveat is
that since I've read the Bengali and, other works from Bankim, I'd
probably be prejudiced :)


Only version of this I've read has been a pretty decent / better than
average Amar Chitra Katha.

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Supriya Nair  wrote:
> Random House has just published the first two translations in their new
> Classics series, both from the Bengali: one is Bankim's Durgeshnandini,
> which is widely considered the first novel written in an Indian language.
> The other is called "Three Women" and is a collection of three Tagore
> novellas.


in context. I've had the chance to speed read parts of the
Durgeshnandini translation and, I'd heartily recommend it to anyone
who'd love to read a reasonably rich and complex novel. The caveat is
that since I've read the Bengali and, other works from Bankim, I'd
probably be prejudiced :)

-- 
sankarshan mukhopadhyay

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

[Supriya Nair]

Random House has just published the first two translations in their new
Classics series, both from the Bengali: one is Bankim's Durgeshnandini,
which is widely considered the first novel written in an Indian language.
The other is called "Three Women" and is a collection of three Tagore
novellas.

I haven't finished the Tagore yet but Durgeshnandini is interesting and
absorbing for a number of reasons.

I loved Alice Albinia's 'Empires of the Indus,' which came out a couple of
years ago, both here and in the UK. Albinia treks up the Indus from mouth to
source, exploring geography, history and community over each region she
covers. She's a superb writer and the book deserved, I think, more
international attention than it got. I get the feeling this book keeps
cropping up on Silk discussions but since it hasn't in this thread, I bring
it up again.

Also there are reprints of four RK Narayan novels in the new Penguin Modern
Classics editions if you need to add/replace to your library. I'm not a big
fan of the new Modern Classics cover designs, or the Pico Iyer series
introduction that they've now appended to each, but they're shiny all the
same. And they'd probably make good gifts for first-time Narayan readers.

If you happen to be looking for frothy, frivolous novels I think Anuja
Chauhan wrote two of the best ones to come out in India over the last couple
of years, The Zoya Factor and Battle for Bittora: I kind of laughed
helplessly through the latter, in particular.

Pretty sure you're already down with Daniyal Mueenuddin and Gyan Prakash and
whoever else came out in the US simultaneously.

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> Suresh Ramasubramanian [05/01/11 19:59 -0800]:
>
>  Samanth is silklist material and udhay's been trying to entice him over
>> for
>> quite some time. Samanth being maxed out on email already, will probably
>> take time to do that.
>>
>
> amazon threw this out as a suggested link for following fish
>
> doesnt seem too bad
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/As-Was-Written-Sujatha-Hampton/dp/0312584121/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1
>
>


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Re: [silk] Book recommendations

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Suresh Ramasubramanian [05/01/11 19:59 -0800]:

Samanth is silklist material and udhay's been trying to entice him over for
quite some time. Samanth being maxed out on email already, will probably
take time to do that.


amazon threw this out as a suggested link for following fish

doesnt seem too bad

http://www.amazon.com/As-Was-Written-Sujatha-Hampton/dp/0312584121/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Samanth is silklist material and udhay's been trying to entice him over for
quite some time. Samanth being maxed out on email already, will probably
take time to do that.

Thaths [06/01/11 08:58 +0530]:

On Sunday, December 12, 2010, Suresh Ramasubramanian  wrote:

following fish, by samanth subramanian


I read the first two chapters of this yesterday.  An excellent read.
Beautifully written (brought Wodehouse and Douglas Adams to mind) with
humor and candor.

Even though I am not a seafood eater, I see no trouble in me devouring
this delicious piece of writing.

Thaths

writing.

--
Marge: Quick, somebody perform CPR!
Homer: Umm (singing) I see a bad moon rising.
Marge: That's CCR!
Homer: Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
Sudhakar ChandraSlacker Without Borders

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

[Radhika, Y.]

I suggest The Boy in the Moon by Ian Brown and The Golden Mean by Annabel
Lyon. Since I haven't followed this discussion on book recommendations, my
message might suffer from the Lurkers' Occupational Hazard i.e. completely
out of context recommendations. Blame it on my hangover from imbibing these
two books recently.

Radhika

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

[Thaths]

On Sunday, December 12, 2010, Suresh Ramasubramanian  wrote:
> following fish, by samanth subramanian

I read the first two chapters of this yesterday.  An excellent read.
Beautifully written (brought Wodehouse and Douglas Adams to mind) with
humor and candor.

Even though I am not a seafood eater, I see no trouble in me devouring
this delicious piece of writing.

Thaths

 writing.

-- 
Marge: Quick, somebody perform CPR!
Homer: Umm (singing) I see a bad moon rising.
Marge: That's CCR!
Homer: Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
Sudhakar ChandraSlacker Without Borders

Re: [silk] Lurkers, hidden audiences, and public archives

[Deepa Mohan]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Eugen Leitl  wrote:

Violators of such expectations, especially repeat offenders
> will be sliced thin and served with mint julep.
>
> And their names changed to Julie N.

Re: [silk] Silk meet in Kolkata?

[Andre Uratsuka Manoel]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 18:03, Volker Grassmuck  wrote:
>
> I didn’t respond to the meet request in Sao Paulo by Andre in October because 
> I was away in Europe. Didn’t even know there are
> other silkers in Sao Paulo. Now they will be −1 as unfortunately I have to 
> move back to Berlin.

There is one. I'm sorry you are leaving. I hope you enjoyed the city.
In fact, a quick meetup did happen with me and Tim Bray who was
passing by for Google Developer Day.

> Warm (29 degrees) regards from Recife,

It's always warm in Recife...


Andre

Re: [silk] Lurkers, hidden audiences, and public archives

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 02:38:34PM +0530, Vinit Bhansali wrote:

> However, many people still (want to) assume anything they "email" to an
> individual or group (that is being emailed) is private. I don't think this
> assumption/want on their part is unfair.

The consensus is that anything posted to a public mailing list
is public, while anything posted to a closed mailing list and
(especially) private mail needs explicit permission to be 
circulated to a wider audience.

Violators of such expectations, especially repeat offenders
will be sliced thin and served with mint julep.

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Re: [silk] How do I tell if I'm getting ripped off by the optician?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:56:46AM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:

> I see lots of people just typing "+1"that's two keystrokes and a "send"
> button, thrice as much effort!

No way to track such mana without a central server or a distributed P2P store.
 
> I find that I have had to re-evaluate the meaning of the word "like". When
> there is a moving picture of a wild animal that's become roadkill, or news
> that someone has lost her mobile, I felt that "like" is an inappropriate
> response...I wish FB had "vote" or "tick" or  something instead. It's like

Just using a scale of -5...0...+5 would do. Probably both in X-Headers
and the rich part of the multipart message, added by MTA-level rewriting.

Doable to add to a mail reflector, but probably not worth
it, as email is dying.

> "friends" on blogs, who may not really be friends at all.
> 
> Funny,  the directions in which the language evolves!
> 
> OK, now thread drift has been established.

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Re: [silk] How do I tell if I'm getting ripped off by the optician?

[Venkat Mangudi]

On Wednesday 05 January 2011 11:10 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Deepa Mohan  wrote:
>> ever consider Lasik surgery or contact lenses? the latter brought my diopter
> 
> Am I the only one who finds contact lenses vaguely stomach churning?
> I've been told that my byronic good looks could be enhanced further
> with contact lenses, but the very idea of shoving something into my
> eyes horrifies me.

I tried them for a while a few years ago. I was recommended the daily
use acuvue... supposedly breathing lenses. I want to gouge my eyes out
at the end of the day. :-) One time, I forgot to carry my spectacles and
had to drive wearing my prescription sunglasses late in the evening.
That's when I decided to go back to my good looks and regular glasses.
My better half thinks I am scary without my glasses. :-)

-Venkat