Re: [silk] expat in india...

2007-03-09 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On 3/9/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And just to be cynical -- it's amazing how in India a white person's skills will be more advanced than those of an Indian with exactly the same skills. Or at least, that's the impression I get from all the press that Infosys's foreign intern

Re: [silk] expat in india...

2007-03-09 Thread ashok _
Just the word Infy always cracks me up I knew this old white kenyan guy... typical colonial cowboy, probably dead by now. but he used to call people he didnt like infy ( i wasnt sure if he mean inferior or infidel) On 3/9/07, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's another

Re: [silk] expat in india...

2007-03-09 Thread freeman murray
Im a white guy doing tech stuff in India for most of the past couple years. I started out doing freelance stuff, and then had a fulltime job with an American company for a year or so. From a beauracratic point of view I've just been on a series of very long tourist visits. I've started meeting

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-09 Thread Ingrid
hurree jamset ram singh lives, ok! On 3/8/07, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OOH Ingrid, loved that response. The best reply to this is the one Udhay made, further down the thread. Let the Polysyllabic War begin! Deepa. On 3/8/07, Ingrid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a lighter note,

[silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-09 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech, where technology meets society at large. At this event, we intend to share stories of technology implementations that affected society around us, and social norms that affected the course of technology. We have stories of e-governance, electronic record

Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-09 Thread ashok _
Are these things held at the same time worldwide ? the first barcamp of nairobi is being organized on the same day On 3/9/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech, where technology meets society at large. At this event, we intend to share stories

Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: For the regular Barcampers: this event may be somewhat different from what you may have come to expect. This time we’re not as interested in Anything at all you can do to stop it from sounding like a six month old edition of PC Quest would be a very good thing indeed

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-09 Thread Deepak Misra
On 3/9/07, Ingrid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hurree jamset ram singh lives, ok! Unusual to find someone who has read Billy Bunter. Anyone have an idea where one can buy old ones ? Deepak

Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-09 Thread Nishant Shah
Now this is SOMETHING! Suddenly i feel very sorry that I am going to miss it. Till now, all that I had heard about Barcamp Bangalore sounded like a mediocre technical blog coming to life. This, I heartily wish I could be a part of... I can see your hand in this. Awesome I say Nishant On 3/9/07,

Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-09 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 09-Mar-07, at 5:44 PM, Nishant Shah wrote: Now this is SOMETHING! Suddenly i feel very sorry that I am going to miss it. Till now, all that I had heard about Barcamp Bangalore sounded like a mediocre technical blog coming to life. This, I heartily wish I could be a part of... I can see

Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: For that, we'll need you or someone you recommend to come and talk about how exactly how this anti-spam business works -- and maybe outshine the presence of uninteresting folks. :) Seriously, the number of people who are unaware of how this works needs addressing.

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-09 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: [ on 05:57 PM 3/9/2007 ] Unusual to find someone who has read Billy Bunter. Anyone have an idea where one can buy old ones ? The british library? Coincidentally, teh British Library in Bangalore is soon going to have a sale. YAROOOHH! Udhay -- ((Udhay

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-09 Thread Deepak Misra
I have not been there in a while, but don't recall seing them. Deepak On 3/9/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepak Misra wrote: On 3/9/07, Ingrid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hurree jamset ram singh lives, ok! Unusual to find someone who has read Billy Bunter. Anyone

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-09 Thread Pavithra Sankaran
--- Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Coincidentally, teh British Library in Bangalore is soon going to have a sale. YAROOOHH! Please, could you post details when you have them? Thanks! Pavithra

Re: [silk] expat in india...

2007-03-09 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 3/9/07, Badri Natarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And just to be cynical -- it's amazing how in India a white person's skills will be more advanced than those of an Indian with exactly the same skills. Or at least, that's the impression I get from all the press that Infosys's foreign

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-09 Thread Neha Viswanathan
I remember when I joined Tata Institute of Social Sciences for a Masters in Social Work, I was amazed by the fact that there were far more women than men there. It has nothing of course to do with women having nicer hearts, but as many men explained - that women's families assume that it's a safe

Re: [silk] expat in india...

2007-03-09 Thread shiv sastry
On Friday 09 Mar 2007 10:14 am, Biju Chacko wrote: And just to be cynical -- it's amazing how in India a white person's skills will be more advanced than those of an Indian with exactly the same skills. LOL! And why not Biju? After all these same Indians go abroad and then return to tell me

Re: [silk] expat in india...

2007-03-09 Thread Thaths
On 3/9/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After all these same Indians go abroad and then return to tell me that they are so successful because their skill were betterthan equally qualified locals. I am also given advice on how to improve myself and chided about the state of things around

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-09 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Neha Viswanathan wrote: [ on 12:13 AM 3/10/2007 ] When we sat down to contact the many women who slipped through the sieves in these institutions, we realized that we couldn't contact most of them - because well - their names had changed. And in the institutions where there are far more men -

Re: [silk] expat in india...

2007-03-09 Thread Manar Hussain
Freeky. I've been pondering this for a while - registered geeknomad.com late last year. Recently gave a talk on it at barcamp2 and decided to get the site going push the concept this month (in time for etech). Small world yadda yadda. m On 3/9/07, freeman murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im a

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-09 Thread Neha Viswanathan
This sounds interesting. Can you expand a little more on this? Well, I was one of the alumni co-ods in undergrad. We were trying to prepare a list for some alumni event. In the eighties - someone had completely messed up the alumni lists - which meant that all we were left with was a lot of