Re: [silk] Chennai Silk Meet

2006-06-16 Thread ekta bahl
Any silklisters in Hyderabad? On 6/16/06, Pavithra Sankaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would there be a quorum, if I were to suggest a Chennai Silklist meet? I'm in the city between 26 June and 1st July, hence the q.

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk Meet

2006-06-16 Thread Badri Natarajan
Would there be a quorum, if I were to suggest a Chennai Silklist meet? I'm in the city between 26 June and 1st July, hence the q. Hmm..I'm also on vacation in Chennai that week..25-28 June would be best for me.. Where *are* all the Chennai silklisters? Seems like they keep moving to

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk Meet

2006-06-16 Thread Pavithra Sankaran
- Original Message ...Bangaloreans?I guess I can't, I've only been here 12 years now.[1] How many are natives of anywhere? I've lived in Bangalore longerthan I've lived anywhere else, but I can't call myself a native. Iguess I'm just a homeless nomad. :( I'm sorry - I never expected

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk Meet

2006-06-16 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Biju Chacko wrote: [ on 04:41 PM 6/16/2006 ] How many Bangalore based silklisters can call themselves native[1] Bangaloreans? Me. I can curse fluently in Kannada, and often find myself talking about the old times in Bangalore (for multiple different values of old times, ranging from 5 years

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk Meet

2006-06-16 Thread Deepa Mohan
I think, if you love one place more than anywhere else, you are a native thatplacean. I *think* I am a native B'lorean...been here since 1988 ( I typed 1933 by mistake) with 2 gaps in between. My child, and Bangalore, grew from innocence to worldliness together. She won a Governor's prize for her

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk Meet

2006-06-16 Thread ekta bahl
On 6/16/06, Manish Jethani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Only* 12 years? Me, 3 1/2 years. Although I can't call myselfBangalore based (still need to base myself properly here - Bangalore is more like a halt on my journey to who-knows-where)*Sigh* I was in Bangalore for 25+ years before moving to

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk Meet

2006-06-16 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 16/06/06, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think, if you love one place more than anywhere else, you are a native thatplacean. I *think* I am a native B'lorean...been here since 1988 ( I In that case, I suppose I'm a native Mumbaikar. 10 years in Mumbai between 1991 2001 - education,

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk Meet

2006-06-16 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 16/06/06 14:53 +0200, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: snip cuss in Gujarati, Bengali and Bhojpuri too :) Every other city I have lived in I tend to compare with Mumbai (in almost all cases, unfavourably). Which ones have been covered favorably? Almost everyone I know who has actually lived and

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk Meet

2006-06-16 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 16/06/06, Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lived in I tend to compare with Mumbai (in almost all cases, unfavourably). Which ones have been covered favorably? Not one I have actually lived in, but only visited a couple of times - Vienna. The beauty of this city is simply

[silk] Now I am 64 -- says Paul McCartney

2006-06-16 Thread kalyan
McCartney Sang About 64 in '67, and Now It's Here By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: June 16, 2006Filed at 10:34 a.m. ET LONDON (AP) -- ''When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now,'' sang Paul McCartney on ''When I'm Sixty-Four,'' a jaunty tune from The Beatles' ''Sgt.

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk Meet

2006-06-16 Thread Manish Jethani
On 6/16/06, Binand Sethumadhavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16/06/06, Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lived in I tend to compare with Mumbai (in almost all cases, unfavourably). Which ones have been covered favorably? Not one I have actually lived in, but only visited a couple of

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk Meet

2006-06-16 Thread Deepa Mohan
If I get adequate notice of the Chennai silkmeet, I would love to come down for it...and meet some more interesting people! I am in the enjoyable process of getting to know, a little better,some of those I met at the Blr meet...and that includes our venerable founding father. Deepa. On 6/17/06,

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk Meet

2006-06-16 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 16-Jun-06, at 3:27 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: Bangalore is the new centre of the world. Or of India, at least. Even the Delhi LUG has a Bangalore chapter. Oh, and the Mumbaikars inevitably harrumph about how their city is it, but mysteriously turn out to be in Bangalore when they say