Re: [silk] india's seat at the security council

2008-09-02 Thread Vinit B
This brings me to a huge economic presence in India which keeps a very low profile..the administration of funds of religious bodies, like the Wakf Board, the Church of South India, and so on. The CSI owns immense amounts of property, and I simply have no clue how the money is

Re: [silk] india's seat at the security council

2008-09-02 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Vinit B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, it is a bit unfair to directly compare individual temple trusts to the Wakf or CSI which control vast swaths of property under a single organization. It's a common enough setup. Even the Queen of England makes her

Re: [silk] curious about whether this is a reasonable article...

2008-09-02 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
That would depend on the sentence, wouldn't it? Or were we just trying to be clever? On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 2008/9/2 Amit Varma [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Found a superb old piece by Sauvik Chakreverti from 2001 on the same subject as the

Re: [silk] Casual Hellos and Food

2008-09-02 Thread ss
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2008 9:59:09 am Deepa Mohan wrote: We are excellent at eliminating waste from what we consider our space, whether bodily, or geographical;  but ...er...refuse to think about that waste after that point. For a Hindu Thinking about waste after getting rid of it is the hallmark

Re: [silk] Casual Hellos and Food

2008-09-02 Thread Sean Doyle
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy Bornstein wrote, [on 9/1/2008 10:24 PM]: I was told once that the now common (in the USA anyway) How are you? was a shortened form of How are your bowels? Apparently, a not-uncommon greeting in Texas(s) is

Re: [silk] curious about whether this is a reasonable article...

2008-09-02 Thread Perry E. Metzger
ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see it as follows. I believe that both Islam and Christianity were goals that sought to suppress ancient tribal differences and tribal wars by suppressing tribe and creating a unified super-tribe of Christianity and a super-tribe of Islam. This process was by

Re: [silk] Casual Hellos and Food

2008-09-02 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Sean Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently, a not-uncommon greeting in Texas(s) is Shit Howdy. Ah, Texas. Different culture. :-) Same shit though. -- Perry E. Metzger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [silk] curious about whether this is a reasonable article...

2008-09-02 Thread Bonobashi
Shiv, How enfuriating of you to write this just when I'm unable to do more than drop in for a few minutes at a time! I've always believed that this is the easiest way to explain some of the oddities we see, historically and in current contexts, and wish you had said this a few days earlier or

Re: [silk] curious about whether this is a reasonable article...

2008-09-02 Thread Bonobashi
And about the only match to Genghis Khan's pyramids of skulls comes from this war too - the siege of Magdeburg, or rather, the sack after the siege. bonobashi --- On Tue, 2/9/08, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [silk] curious

Re: [silk] curious about whether this is a reasonable article...

2008-09-02 Thread ss
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2008 10:48:23 pm Perry E. Metzger wrote: ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see it as follows. I believe that both Islam and Christianity were goals that sought to suppress ancient tribal differences and tribal wars by suppressing tribe and creating a unified super-tribe of