Re: [silk] Are you a different person when you speak a different language?

2008-07-07 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: Am I the only one who feels weird that this conversation is happening on Silk? Am I to assume that there are listers who need to be convinced of male-female equality? What equality? :-)

Re: [silk] Are you a different person when you speak a different language?

2008-07-07 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Vinayak Hegde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There is no doubt that we Indians make great followers, but there are so >> many people to follow! Convince my parents or peers, and in no time

Re: [silk] Are you a different person when you speak a different language?

2008-07-07 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no doubt that we Indians make great followers, but there are so > many people to follow! Convince my parents or peers, and in no time watch > me believe any damn thing. > > L Ron Hubbard picked the wrong country

Re: [silk] Are you a different person when you speak a different language?

2008-07-07 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Sunday 06 July 2008, Charles Haynes wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - There is a wide range of bands of thought if sampled across the > > population of India, but a given Indian person chooses far too few. > > You really think so? I wa

Re: [silk] Are you a different person when you speak a different language?

2008-07-07 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You really think so? Relative to what - the world wide range of > thought? I think that in general Indian cultural thinking is both less > liberal at the more liberal extreme (say relative to Scandanavian > countries) and l

Re: [silk] Are you a different person when you speak a different language?

2008-07-07 Thread Mekin Maheshwari
> > You really think so? Relative to what - the world wide range of > thought? I think that in general Indian cultural thinking is both less > liberal at the more liberal extreme (say relative to Scandanavian > countries) and less conservative at the more conservative extreme (say > relative to the

Re: [silk] melanin distribution

2008-07-07 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 18:17 -0500, Tea BeeDi wrote: >> I feel that by allochtoon they mean alag tone >> after asking my friends to indicate/identify to me some allochtoonen > > it's true that allochtoon seems to be used mainly for non-whites; > howe

Re: [silk] hoist by his party's own petar...

2008-07-07 Thread Indranil Das Gupta
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The biter bit, hoist by his own petar .. I'm running out of cliches. > > > http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/WB-minister-gets-a-feel-of-Leftsponsored-bandh/319452/ And if you are looking for the photo... he

[silk] hoist by his party's own petar...

2008-07-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The biter bit, hoist by his own petar .. I'm running out of cliches. http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/WB-minister-gets-a-feel-of-Leftsponsored-bandh/319452/ Commies call one of their usual bangla bandhs - this time for the nuke deal. Some WB minister is in a train that stopped in the midd

Re: [silk] Are you a different person when you speak a different language?

2008-07-07 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Radhika, Y. [06/07/08 23:27 -0700]: > >> these articles tend to be all from a male perspective-would love to see >> one >> from a female perspective. >> > > Well, I cant think all women are much more interested in

Re: [silk] Are you a different person when you speak a different language?

2008-07-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Radhika, Y. [06/07/08 23:27 -0700]: these articles tend to be all from a male perspective-would love to see one from a female perspective. Well, I cant think all women are much more interested in the titanic ost .. having known several women with just as eclectic a taste in music as mine is (no

Re: [silk] Are you a different person when you speak a different language?

2008-07-07 Thread ashok _
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> these articles tend to be all from a male perspective-would love to see >> one >> from a female perspective. > > Try this: > http://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Anita-Quest-Love-India/dp/1596911859 > > An extract is visible at

Re: [silk] Are you a different person when you speak a different language?

2008-07-07 Thread va
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Radhika, Y. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > these articles tend to be all from a male perspective-would love to see one > from a female perspective. oh but it is. written by a woman i mean ;-)