On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Why is a mix of cultures always seen as an imposition, and that too,
after centuries?
Logical arguments don't appeal quite as well as emotional arguments
do. Politicians understand this more than anyone else.
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Logical arguments don't appeal quite as well as emotional arguments
do. Politicians understand this more than anyone else. Cunning is the
dark sanctuary of incapacity says Earl Chesterfield, in politics
though
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I'd like to plug a book here:
_Ethnicity and Populist Mobilization: political parties, citizens and
democracy in South India_
by Narendra Subramanian (disclosure: the author is a first cousin)
Here's an
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Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
| Where can I get a copy? The link to Amazon doesn't work, but in any
| case Amazon also seems like a round about way of acquiring a book on
| Tamil Nadu when I am in India.
or maybe this is a clever scheme to raise public awareness of the
higgs
boson :-)
maybe it worked. Apparently 60'000 people came to visit the LHC
while it was open to the public last weekend.
http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/multimedia/picture_of_the_day.html?
I had the pleasure of travelling with Shubha Mudgal, the musician.
We spoke of many challenges faced my musicians. The lack of an organised
guild that takes care of artists and keeps the spirit of Indian music alive.
She spoke of poorly paid music teachers and rich commercial organisations
that
On Tuesday 08 Apr 2008 11:33:19 am Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
Modern Indian politics is sadly all about creating a contest
of cultures, races and castes. Mayawati, Karunanidhi, Jayalalitha,
Chandrashekar Rao to a name a few leading culprits.
Not just modern India. This is India by definition.
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Valsa Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had the pleasure of travelling with Shubha Mudgal, the musician.
We spoke of many challenges faced my musicians. The lack of an organised
guild that takes care of artists and keeps the spirit of Indian music alive.
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:49 +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:
Delhi is a nice place -- lotsa history and great architecture. Too
many Delhites, though. :-)
i think the problem is too _few_ delhi-ites, actually. everyone is from
somewhere else and doesn't really have a sense of place, and lots of the
that's where the conspiracy theory looks wild-eyed. bear sterns senior
managers made enormous personal losses, so they certainly couldn't have
been behind their own collapse. but they were pretty much among the best
in the business at playing the markets, and very well connected, so the
suggestion
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:47 +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:
Digital cameras have powers beyond what is immediately available to
the user. On a standard Canon, for example, the fastest shutter speed
option offered is 1/1,600 second, but the hardware can handle much
more than that -- up to 1/60,000
sounds fascinating! sounds a bit jim crace-ish.
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 15:09 +0530, Abhishek Hazra wrote:
a book that i am waiting to re-read
City of Saints and Madmen
by Jeff VanderMeer
Where can I get a copy?
british library in bangalore used to have one.
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
I'd like to plug a book here:
_Ethnicity and Populist
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or comments from people like Udhay, who do not seem significantly less
coherent when drunk.
Umm. I take it you haven't seen Udhay _really_ drunk.
I'm talking hold-me-back-someone-or-I'm-going-to-beat-up-random-stranger
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to plug a book here:
_Ethnicity and Populist Mobilization: political parties, citizens and
democracy in South India_
by Narendra Subramanian (disclosure: the author is a first cousin)
I picked up a copy of
some more of pandian
extract from:
{M S S Pandian | One Step Outside Modernity: Caste, Identity Politics and
Public Sphere}
full essay here:
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:S7D7AmvQmVYJ:www.sephis.org/pdf/pandian.pdf+caste+autobiography+M+S+S+Pandianhl=enct=clnkcd=1gl=ukclient=firefox-a
For a
I totally agree with Rishab; there's absolutely no sense of belonging in
most of the people here in Delhi, especially with the 'semi-literate /
illiterate' migrant class; it is seen as a place to work, make your money
and go back / or send it back home.
I have also felt this is probably one of
Aplogies. Missed out editing the subject line and deleting unrelated posts.
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From: Anil Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: silklist Digest, Vol 45, Issue 16
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
I totally agree with Rishab;
I totally agree with Rishab; there's absolutely no sense of belonging in
most of the people here in Delhi, especially with the 'semi-literate /
illiterate' migrant class; it is seen as a place to work, make your money
and go back / or send it back home.
I have also felt this is
On 4/7/08, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Madhu Kurup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think you meant this link:
snip
I'm still trying to figure out what kind of school to send Ben to. On
one side, I'm hearing stories of rote learning and exam drills for 3
ramjee, who has to warn his daughter to go read some good literature
and get a life, instead of fiddling with the bloody computer. You know
that I HAVE to respond to all mails that I receive thru all lists,
including fwd:fwd:fwds as soon as they land in my mbox, but SHE? What
excuse
On Tuesday 08 Apr 2008 9:21:15 pm Deepa Mohan wrote:
Ohwhatarelief, I am out of this which-school business! (and business
it is, most times.)
Getting a kid into school is only the tip of the iceberg.
You later have the problem of getting out of school - and the little matter of
adolescence in
ss wrote, [on 4/8/2008 9:49 PM]:
It would be interesting to dip into silk-list archives and compare the general
tone of discussions a decade ago versus now. How old is silk BTW?
Just over a decade.
As for tone, here's one message from almost exactly a decade ago, for
purposes of
On 4/8/08, Ramjee Swaminathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seriously, if pa feels that it is important enough to be part of such
tamaashas, there is nothing wrong in the kid following in the
footsteps of pa? On the contrary, assuming that he had gone to some
museum or library or had some fun
On Wednesday 09 Apr 2008 5:08:55 am divya manian wrote:
Completely agree with this! I grew up with minimal toys not even the
token robot or a barbie.
Many years ago my son had a theme birthday based on his (then) current
interest - aeroplanes. He got several aeroplane toys (and books, which I
A snippet from a mail received from Simon Singh [1], whom some of the
folks here will remember [2].
I suspect these sorts of skirmishes will become both more common and
more virulent in the short term as BigOil tries to squeeze the last
vestiges of profit out of the machine.
Udhay
[1]
Venkat Mangudi wrote:
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
OTOH, he's getting on in years and age (and marriage) have mellowed him.
Marriage is probably doing the trick. Knowing him, age doesn't really
matter. :-)
So he's now a proper family man.
I don't think I'm ever getting married. :P
M
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