Re: [silk] The Paris Time Capsule Apartment
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Anil Kumar anilkumar.naga...@gmail.com wrote: I like the fact that the apartment does not seem to have been burgled or occupied. - Anil Kumar I expect, shortly, to see this as a movie...what a delicious script! Who paid the rent?
Re: [silk] Old Readers Digest
On Monday 16 Jul 2012 10:51:01 am Deepak Misra wrote: ou disapprove in principle of Readers Digest or Udhay giving them ?? No that was a joke. I used to enjoy Reader's Digest very much in the 60s and in the 70s the Indian edition paid for the education of a classmate of mine - also a very close friend, because his father was the publisher. But after the 80s it seemed to lose its magic. After that it seemed to me that RD was just a load of raddi paper shiv
Re: [silk] Old Readers Digest
That might have to do with V Gangadhar leaving RD? He was there for several years till the early 90s I think. suresh -Original Message- From: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net [mailto:silklist- bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of ss Sent: 17 July 2012 17:17 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Old Readers Digest On Monday 16 Jul 2012 10:51:01 am Deepak Misra wrote: ou disapprove in principle of Readers Digest or Udhay giving them ?? No that was a joke. I used to enjoy Reader's Digest very much in the 60s and in the 70s the Indian edition paid for the education of a classmate of mine - also a very close friend, because his father was the publisher. But after the 80s it seemed to lose its magic. After that it seemed to me that RD was just a load of raddi paper shiv
Re: [silk] Old Readers Digest
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:16 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 16 Jul 2012 10:51:01 am Deepak Misra wrote: ou disapprove in principle of Readers Digest or Udhay giving them ?? No that was a joke. I used to enjoy Reader's Digest very much in the 60s and in the 70s the Indian edition paid for the education of a classmate of mine - also a very close friend, because his father was the publisher. But after the 80s it seemed to lose its magic. After that it seemed to me that RD was just a load of raddi paper shiv I personally found RD a very sophisticated version of a soviet magazine. I think it was called Sputnick but maybe Sputnick was a clone of SPAN which was published by USIS. In any case, RD was a subtle propaganda for the American way of life. Yes you are right that deterioration started soon. What is interesting with the old issues is the advertisements from those days. Deepak
[silk] Wonder bean or has bean?
LORDI, India — Sohan Singh’s shoeless children have spent most of their lives hungry, dirty and hot. A farmer in a desert land, Mr. Singh could not afford anything better than a mud hut and a barely adequate diet for his family. But it just so happens that when the hard little bean that Mr. Singh grows is ground up, it becomes an essential ingredient for mining oilhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/energy-environment/oil-petroleum-and-gasoline/index.html?inline=nyt-classifierand natural gashttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/energy-environment/natural-gas/index.html?inline=nyt-classifierin a process called hydraulic fracturing. Halfway around the world, earnings are down for an oil services giant, Halliburtonhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/halliburton_company/index.html?inline=nyt-org, because prices have risen for guar, the bean that Mr. Singh and his fellow farmers raise. Halliburton’s loss was, in a rather significant way, Mr. Singh’s gain — a rare victory for the littlest of the little guys in global trade. The increase in guar prices is helping to transform this part of the state of Rajasthan in northwestern India, one of the world’s poorest places. Tractor sales are soaring, land prices are increasing and weddings have grown even more colorful. “Now we have enough food, and we have a house made of stone,” Mr. Singh said proudly while his rail-thin children stared in awe. Guar, a modest bean so hard that it can crack teeth, has become an unlikely global player, and dirt-poor farmers like Mr. Singh have suddenly become a crucial link in the energy production of the United States “Without guar, you cannot have fracturing fluids,” said Michael J. Economides, a professor of engineering at the University of Houston who is a fracking expert. “And what everybody is worried about is that there is virtually no guar out there now.” India produces about 85 percent of the world’s guar. As worries rose about the prospects for this year’s monsoon, which is vital for an adequate crop, speculation over guar production built to a frenzy. Trading in guar futures was even suspended, and with the monsoon still behind schedule, it remains postponed. Ramesh Abhishek, India’s chief commodities market regulator, said guar trading would resume when supplies proved adequate. For centuries, farmers here used guar to feed their families and their cattle. There are better sources of nutrition, but few that grow in the Rajasthani desert, a land rich in culture but poor in rain. Broader commercial interest in guar first developed when food companies found that it absorbs water like a souped-up cornstarch, and a powdered form of the bean is now widely used to thicken ice cream and keep pastries crisp. But much more important to farmers here was the recent discovery that guar could stiffen water so much that a mixture is able to carry sand sideways into wells drilled by horizontal fracturing, also known as fracking http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/world/asia/fracking-in-us-lifts-guar-farmers-in-india.html?_r=1hp __._,_.___
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Re: [silk] Old Readers Digest
What is interesting with the old issues is the advertisements from those days. Deepak I loved the advertisements too! I particularly remember those written as advertorials, from a chatty lady giving advice on the best slimming biscuits and sliver polish. Unfortunately (or not), the most proliferated advertisements I come across have to do with recipes for making jello salads: http://www.midcenturymenu.com/
Re: [silk] Old Readers Digest
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:16 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: But after the 80s it seemed to lose its magic. After that it seemed to me that RD was just a load of raddi paper shiv What would you recommend today. The Caravan?
Re: [silk] Old Readers Digest
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Sriram Karra karra@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:16 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: But after the 80s it seemed to lose its magic. After that it seemed to me that RD was just a load of raddi paper shiv I don't know the dates...but I remember that if one (or one's parents) was subscribing, The Illustrated Weekly of India, Stardust and the Reader's Disgust never seemed to have much to offer...but when I saw these magazines on a train, a waiting room, or in a public place, I could never resist picking them up, and they always seemed to have interesting stuff, especially if some of the pages were missing. I used to love the fiction in what our magazine vendor used to call The Lusted Weekly.
Re: [silk] Old Readers Digest
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: interesting stuff, especially if some of the pages were missing. I used to love the fiction in what our magazine vendor used to call The Lusted Weekly. Are you really saying that You Read It For The Stories? Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
Re: [silk] Old Readers Digest
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: interesting stuff, especially if some of the pages were missing. I used to love the fiction in what our magazine vendor used to call The Lusted Weekly. Are you really saying that You Read It For The Stories? No, Vod ka Raja, I used to look at the pictures..esp those of Mario Mirandaand when I was very very young, I would love to look at the pics of newlywedswhoever started this thread has set me off on the journey through memory lane. I remember the serials, especially My Life by Kamala Das. I remember growing up with lots of magazines...Life, Time, several British magazines, the Lusted Weekly, Fillumfare, some small rag called Peshum Padam, all the Tamil magazines that I never used to read (except for Kalaimagal), and the Kumudam magazine occasionallysmelling of Cunega a dreadfully strong scent (that was for you, Udhay), the feeling of festivity during Deepavali never being complete without the Deepavali Malar of all the magazines, with the photos of various gods, and stories Magazines ruled my young life, and shaped my thinking a lot.
Re: [silk] Old Readers Digest
On Tuesday 17 Jul 2012 5:25:02 pm Deepak Misra wrote: What is interesting with the old issues is the advertisements from those days. Oh! Now you've grabbed my attention. What are the oldest issue you have? If it is the Indian edition I would like to scan the ads and then return/give away the mag. shiv
Re: [silk] Old Readers Digest
On Wednesday 18 Jul 2012 7:40:31 am Sriram Karra wrote: What would you recommend today. The Caravan? Save trees. Use the www. shiv
Re: [silk] Old Readers Digest
On Wednesday 18 Jul 2012 8:24:06 am Deepa Mohan wrote: I used to look at the pictures..esp those of Mario Mirandaand when I was very very young, I would love to look at the pics of newlywedswhoever started this thread has set me off on the journey through memory lane. I remember the serials, especially My Life by Kamala Das. I remember growing up with lots of magazines...Life, Time, several British magazines, the Lusted Weekly, Fillumfare, snip Magazines ruled my young life, and shaped my thinking a lot. I would say that my own childhood was similar, with the Lusted weekly, and Femina (for the wimmens) at home and Readers Digest and Filmfare, Time, Life and the newspaper called Blitz at the club My favorite in the Il-Lust(rat)ed weekly was the Phantom comic where a masked white man who wore his black underpants outside his purple costume would rule justly over savage natives who looked like Africans in grass skirts in places that had strangely Indian sounding names. Taught me who was who in the world. shiv
Re: [silk] Old Readers Digest
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:24 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: My favorite in the Il-Lust(rat)ed weekly was the Phantom comic where a masked white man who wore his black underpants outside his purple costume would rule justly over savage natives who looked like Africans in grass skirts in places that had strangely Indian sounding names. Taught me who was who in the world. shiv Phantom was the commander of the Jungle Patrol and the top honcho was a white man - Colonel Weeks. They decided to get politically correct they replaced him with a native colonel Worubu. Deepak
