Re: [silk] Fwd: Did you happen to catch the UFO?

2007-06-01 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 6/1/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to recall some small item in the newspaper saying this was a hoax, but can't find it now. Does anybody here know more? Oooh... well isn't there supposed to be some historian school of thought that records space ship flights in ancient

Re: [silk] Fwd: Did you happen to catch the UFO?

2007-06-01 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On 6/1/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to recall some small item in the newspaper saying this was a hoax, but can't find it now. Does anybody here know more? Udhay I also recall seeing an article when such a UFO sighting was reported. I saw it last time. It was a light

Re: [silk] Fwd: Did you happen to catch the UFO?

2007-06-01 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Gautam John wrote: *Swaroop R writes:* *Very happy that someone had their cameras ready when this thing flew past! Infact, I had seen the similar thing in 2004 November 5 and when I had called the newspaper offices, they laughed and ridiculed me and advised me to stop calling. However, I

Re: [silk] Fwd: Did you happen to catch the UFO?

2007-06-01 Thread Gautam John
Looks like the UFO did some travelin'! *Srinivasa Rao writes: * *My Name is Srinivasa Rao, working as a software engineer in Lifetree Convergence. Yesterday when we are coming home (with my borther) on a bike, I saw the special bluish colour object traveling at a high speed towards the earth. I

Re: [silk] Fwd: Did you happen to catch the UFO?

2007-06-01 Thread Aditya Kapil
Does stealth need bright lights? Adit. On 6/1/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But strangely, it looks like a stealth fighter to me. Anyone else thinks so?

Re: [silk] Fwd: Did you happen to catch the UFO?

2007-06-01 Thread Thaths
On 6/1/07, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like the UFO did some travelin'! *Srinivasa Rao writes: * *Sujith says:* *Ramani from West Mambalam, Chennai: * *Animesh writes:* *Hemachandra Kavoor writes:* *Swaroop R writes:* These UFOs must, apparently, somehow affect our language

Re: [silk] Fwd: Did you happen to catch the UFO?

2007-06-01 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 01-Jun-07, at 4:53 PM, Gautam John wrote: Looks like the UFO did some travelin'! I can't recall seeing anything, but I'm sure if I read some more reports, my memory will come back. Must be the work pressure. Darn thing. Can no longer even remember what I was supposed to be working on.

Re: [silk] Fwd: Did you happen to catch the UFO?

2007-06-01 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-06-01 07:08:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These UFOs must, apparently, somehow affect our language centers. Almost every one of these eyewitness reports is written in crappy English. Then it's true, they must have started acting on ancient India, because this is pretty much how

Re: [silk] Fwd: Did you happen to catch the UFO?

2007-06-01 Thread Deepa Mohan
At 2007-06-01 07:08:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These UFOs must, apparently, somehow affect our language centers. Almost every one of these eyewitness reports is written in crappy English. Thaths...here's an exception to your rule ** Email Address:

Re: [silk] Indian Economy's list of best Indian books.

2007-06-01 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Vardhini Shankar wrote: [ on 10:00 AM 5/30/2007 ] A Tamil writer well worth reading is Asokamithran , if you can find good translations of his novels or short stories. I have a bunch of translations of Jayakanthan's [1] work, by my uncle Dr. KS Subramanian. Lendable to any silklister who

Re: [silk] Fwd: Did you happen to catch the UFO?

2007-06-01 Thread Thaths
I did cover my behind saying 'almost'. :-) Seriously, though. The English in which almost all the 'me too' replies are written on that board is terrible. I do not subscribe to ams' view that this is the sort of English that a majority writes (What I call the we are like that only school of

Re: [silk] Indian Economy's list of best Indian books.

2007-06-01 Thread Deepa Mohan
Lendable to any silklister who asks. Udhay One Of These Days, I will get a Round Tuit. Deepa. On 6/1/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vardhini Shankar wrote: [ on 10:00 AM 5/30/2007 ] A Tamil writer well worth reading is Asokamithran , if you can find good translations of his

Re: [silk] Fwd: Did you happen to catch the UFO?

2007-06-01 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 1 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are quite a few Indians who write pretty good English. Judging by the comments on /., digg and others, there are precious few of them worldwide. (People using English 'well' worldwide, not Indians who have above average facility with the language).