Biju Chacko wrote:
[...]
OK, time for a quick, unscientific, politically-incorrect poll: How
many brown people on this list have been hassled at security? How many
white people on this list have been hassled at security? Those of you
who can't fit yourself into one category or other: please go b
anyone following the newspaper coverage of the Pakistan ball-tampering controversy in cricket? The Hindu headline said 'Hair Needs Conditioning'. For those who dont follow cricket: Hair is the umpire that accused Pak of ball-tampering.
On 9/2/06, Nishant Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I went to m
On 9/6/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't suppose you have even spent Christmas eve in a business establishment
or hospital in Bradford in the UK?
I don't know why, but I was holidaying in the UK in June and it just
never occurred to me to go to Bradford.
No, I haven't spent Christ
On 9/6/06, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, time for a quick, unscientific, politically-incorrect poll: How
many brown people on this list have been hassled at security?
Once, at Delhi, because some threads that were part of the binding of
my passport were frayed.
The nice gentlemen
On 9/6/06, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quick side swipe, eh? ;-)
Just a device to increase list traffic. I was planning to put in a after that line, but linguistic scruples overcame me.
Ram
On 9/6/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Where did I say that anyone on this list has been blindly critical of
something?
You didn't. My mistake.
Where have I done that? I suspect that you are confusing offline statements I
have made with what I have said on this list.
I did respond to
On 9/6/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But in India security agencies need to be able to work in an environment
unfettered by political interference and corruption so that known criminal
aand known crimianl activity can be curbed. For India the question of
Agreed. But any security agency
On Tue September 5 2006 8:43 pm, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
> I have worked for two large employers in India. One was a state-owned
> life insurance company, with over a 100,000 employees. The other was a
> family-owned business.
>
> In both, every time a Hindu religious festival came around (wh
On 05/09/06, ashok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
apart from that, i have been detained for shorter durations both in india
and in another country in africa ...so i guess
the frequency of detentions is quite high.
Maybe you're just a suspicious looking character. :-)
I've never been hassled at
On 05/09/06, Ramakrishnan Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/5/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By blindly being critical of anti-terrorist action some people in India are
> weakening the people within and outside the security forces (in India) who
I may have missed some earlier p
On Tue September 5 2006 8:43 pm, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
> On 9/5/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I may have missed some earlier posts, but has anyone on this list been
> _blindly critical_ of anything, ever?
Where did I say that anyone on this list has been blindly critical of
so
On Wed September 6 2006 2:00 am, Dave Long wrote:
> Is it not preferable for innocents to get away, criminals to get
> incriminated, and everyone to be spared from terror?
I don't think anyone can argue with this - which is the ideal situation.
But let me use this opportunity to try and explain w
Hindu dominated India has some peculiar problems of its own resulting
in a
caste system of criminals. Certain criminals always get away, and
certain
people are always spared from terror. Certain people always get
incriminated
and another group always is at greatest risk from terror.
OK -- no
On 9/5/06, ashok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
in 2000 i was stopped while entering nairobi for carrying a 'day-of-dead
tableau' in my luggage (not the george romero
'day of the dead' but the mexican festival of holy communion). the
tableau had a bunch of small clay skeletons climbing
out of co
i think arbitrary detentions at airports
and in airplanes have been happening all the time, its just that we hear
about
them nowadays because many of the detentions
nowadays appear to be triggered by terror perceptions.
in 2000 i was stopped while entering
nairobi for carrying a 'day-of-dead tabl
On 9/5/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
By blindly being critical of anti-terrorist action some people in India are
weakening the people within and outside the security forces (in India) who
I may have missed some earlier posts, but has anyone on this list been
_blindly critical_ of anyt
>By just moving the gene, it doesn't mean that somescientist has invented any gene. It is in the commons," she added.I think this is trivializing the effort quite a bit. This is also a clever use of semantics: 'invented' Vs 'discovered'. To 'move' the gene you have to find it first. It can take up
On Tue September 5 2006 5:32 pm, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=593708&page=31&pp=15
Hey thanks for the link, The email (if genuine) basically corroborates what
was said when the 12 were interviewed on TV except the "Al Qaeda in Africa"
bit
shi
sastry wrote:
> Northwest Airlines has said nothing in public about the incident - other than
> stating what the air marshals thought the passengers were doing. If you
> Google for passenger misbehavior on aircraft, using cellphones and exchanging
Nothing officially. But there's a thread on fly
On Tue September 5 2006 4:42 pm, Anil Kumar wrote:
> Third, when the western world is suspicious of Muslims
> behaving irresponsibly to choose to deliberately fall into that category is
> rank stupidity. But if you insist let it be at your own risk.
h...
But it's karan thapar isn't it? So be
On 9/5/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:33:04 +0530From: sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Re: [silk] security and choosing sidesTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net
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