Re: [silk] A Capital Idea

2008-08-22 Thread Vinit B
Have to agree with Perry. Reminds me of an article/essay I actually used at a recitation competition in school titled Our crazy language from the Readers Digest http://www.astro.umd.edu/~avondale/extra/Humor/SchoolHumor/EnglishLanguage.h tml Here are bits of it... Sometimes I wonder if all

Re: [silk] What a cool name...

2008-08-22 Thread Vinit B
Jeez. Gets a whole new meaning to the term social engineering. - Vinit -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Venkat Mangudi Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 1:51 PM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] What a cool name...

Re: [silk] Vir Sanghvi on Kashmir

2008-08-22 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:02:33PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: Giving up Kashmir would be dumb. The major negative, as I see it, is reduced machismo. There would be a perception that whomever negotiated the deal had given in, was wimpy, rewarded terrorism, etc. All these seem like

[silk] indian parliament ict who-is-who ?

2008-08-22 Thread ashok _
Does anyone know who is currently who in the Indian Parliament in terms of ICT ? I mean a person...someone like a member of parliament or committee chair who is involved in ICT policy both within and outside parliament. Any ideas where i can get such info ?

Re: [silk] indian parliament ict who-is-who ?

2008-08-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
A Raja is the minister for telecommunications and IT I guess Dayanidhi Maran is around - but he tends to keep a low profile as he's in bad odor with karunanidhi so that the portfolio was taken away from him and given to Raja .. And the younger MPs are glued to laptops and PDAs - but that doesnt

Re: [silk] indian parliament ict who-is-who ?

2008-08-22 Thread ashok _
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Raja is the minister for telecommunications and IT I guess Dayanidhi Maran is around - but he tends to keep a low profile as he's in bad odor with karunanidhi so that the portfolio was taken away from him and

Re: [silk] indian parliament ict who-is-who ?

2008-08-22 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
couple of months ago i spoke at the UN on a panel along with nikhil kumar, the MP who chairs the IT committee of the indian parliament. he's very keen on (fighting) cybercrime. well, he was a former chief of the national security guards and commissioner of delhi police, so no wonder. On Fri,

Re: [silk] indian parliament ict who-is-who ?

2008-08-22 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: couple of months ago i spoke at the UN on a panel along with nikhil kumar, the MP who chairs the IT committee of the indian parliament. he's very keen on (fighting) cybercrime. well, he was a former chief of the national security guards and

Re: [silk] indian parliament ict who-is-who ?

2008-08-22 Thread .
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: very keen on (fighting) cybercrime. well, he was a former chief of the hmmm will the MP define cybercrime please. Back then[1] when a nut-case used to send a bunch of us abusive off-list mails[2] regularly, i had

Re: [silk] indian parliament ict who-is-who ?

2008-08-22 Thread Bonobashi
The closest fit is Rajeev Chandrashekhar, who after selling out of large portions of BPL, has decided on a political career, and as an elected MP, takes an abiding interest in 'ICT'. He asks a lot of formal questions, which have to be answered by Ministry staff, and contrives to be in most TV