On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ceylon parotta doesn't involve as much smacking as
> the Kerala parotta, no? Actually, I can't seem to recall how the
> Ceylon one is made but it does look like a single layer as opposed to
> the multi-layer flakiness that
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know of the South Indian Parotta as the Ceylon parotta or sometimes
> the Kerala P{a,o}rotta. I speculate that this comes from the term
> "purattu" in Tamil which means "thrash about", which is roughly
> similar to
On 9/29/08 2:46 PM, "Srini Ramakrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I know of the South Indian Parotta as the Ceylon parotta or sometimes
> the Kerala P{a,o}rotta. I speculate that this comes from the term
> "purattu" in Tamil which means "thrash about", which is roughly
> similar to the pr
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> Aren't the Parotta/Porotta and the Paratha two different animals entirely?
Allow me to indulge in a little back yard etymology adventure.
I know of the South Indian Parotta as the Ceylon parotta or s
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:27 AM, . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> As if inspirational movies were not enough we just had to show the
> American (privatisation) and the German (socialist/public) model that
> we can do a better job of messing up.
Our education system is bankrupt. It's a dozen y
2008/9/28 . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> you missed the weasel keywords "shall endeavour".
> in fact, the 93rd Amendment to the Constitution (2002?) made the right to
> free and compulsory education absolute. And the Finance Ministry's been
> collecting a 2% cess on Income Tax ostensibly to fund un
Sumant Srivathsan wrote, [on 9/29/2008 11:40 AM]:
I blame Rick Rubin. IMO, the only Metallica album that sounds even remotely
well-produced is the 1991 Metallica (The Black Album). Bob Rock got it
right.
_And Justice For All_ sounds quite nice, I thought.
Udhay
--
((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay
I blame Rick Rubin. IMO, the only Metallica album that sounds even remotely
well-produced is the 1991 Metallica (The Black Album). Bob Rock got it
right.
--
Sumant Srivathsan
http://sumants.blogspot.com
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Airlines plying from India to the developed world would see increased
> business. We would become like Pakistan, much of the middle east and
> Africa, where most reasonably affluent parents move heaven and earth
> to
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Aren't the Parotta/Porotta and the Paratha two different animals entirely?
only the inventor of that term knows it. But I aint ever ordering a
parrot ...(n)ever Its definitely not what the hindikaran
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:14 AM, . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> OTOH, what if every politicians child had to study in the public
> school (since no private schools would exist with for-profit motives)
> and they also had no 5-star private hospitals to check themselves
> into. Do you think we
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:45 AM, . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > * amit_123 just cannot locate edible chappathi in Chennai
>
> and porotha (the southern equivalent of the paratha or so i'm told)
>
Aren't t
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> * amit_123 just cannot locate edible chappathi in Chennai
and porotha (the southern equivalent of the paratha or so i'm told)
> * amit_123 misses ogling at the figures in his hometown
s/figures in his hometow
At 2008-09-28 20:07:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> * amit_123 just cannot locate edible chappathi in Chennai
Not just that, but those Madrasis think it's spelled "chappathi".
-- ams
>
> All North Indian men are named Amit
>
This is true. We should agitate for a nation of Amits. Amitistan, perhaps?
Am I the only North Indian on this list?
--
Amit Varma
http://www.indiauncut.com
. [29/09/08 08:14 +0530]:
By that yardstick, vegetdravidians are only 40% . the hindikaran**
beat them afterall in moral superiority.
** a degrogatory term used to describe a N.Indian who speaks in Hindi,
not exactly popular down South.
I *love* Krish Ashok's coinage .. amit_123
http://kr
Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 06:06:43PM +0530, Bonobashi wrote:
>> Ah, I see that you haven't tried a good, ripe Gorgonzola. Just like
>> Perry saar hasn't tried some varieties of duly onioned, garliced
>> food. With apologies to Galileo for the distortion, if
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> ...the vegetaryans as opposed to the vegetdravidians?
I read a report which claimed in their survey (on food habits in
India), 60% of South Indians were Non-Veggies but North India had only
40% Non-Veggies.
By that yar
Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 01:13:55AM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>
>> If only all of us could use solar energy directlyI cannot even begin to
>
> Baseline human metabolism is only 100 W. That's 2.4 kWh/day,
> or an area of 4 m^2 at 20% efficiency, in my la
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> you mean banning private education, then? that's the only way it'd work.
ouch, ban is a harsh word to use to describe a business man who
charges Rs.10,000/year as Bus fees when the child stays a stone's
throw away f
When Maneka Gandhi was made environment minister in the 1989 government of
VP Singh, India Today reported this following conversation between two
mandarins (reproduced from memory):
Mandarin 1: She's some woman she is. She will eat up all the bureaucrats
under her.
Mandarin 2: She can't do that.
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 01:13:55AM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> If only all of us could use solar energy directlyI cannot even begin to
Baseline human metabolism is only 100 W. That's 2.4 kWh/day,
or an area of 4 m^2 at 20% efficiency, in my latitudes (it's
probably almost half that in yours).
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> Of course the truly hardcore vegetaryans do photosynthesis.
If only all of us could use solar energy directlyI cannot even begin to
visualize a world or a system without the need for
hunting/gathering...feeling qui
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:55 PM, ashok _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> My grandmother never could eat water melons... the red pulp of the
> fruit seemed horrifically similar to bleeding flesh...
It's interesting how much of this is in the mind...I was in someone's
kitchen at Thanksgiving, and
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 06:06:43PM +0530, Bonobashi wrote:
> Ah, I see that you haven't tried a good, ripe Gorgonzola. Just like Perry
> saar hasn't tried some varieties of duly onioned, garliced food. With
> apologies to Galileo for the distortion, if it doesn't move, it ought to.
http://en.wik
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 06:02:32PM +0530, Bonobashi wrote:
> Not just the Brahmins, the Jains share this aversion.
Of course the truly hardcore vegetaryans do photosynthesis.
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> Hah. There are people out here who think onions and garlic are "non
> vegetarian" (or at least "vegetarian food that good brahmins dont eat"
>
> Plenty of the older people in my family, for example.
My grandmother never could eat w
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Old message snipped at bottom for some context.
>
> Udhay
>
> http://www.charlotteobserver.com/business/story/217383.html
>
> Can a Metallica album be too loud?
Yes it can be. On a related note. I found this review on Am
Apropos of this amorphous thing called "vegetarianism".I am always
hearing people saying (with that high moral tone that you talk about), "I am
a pyoor vegetarian". Then of course I find that bit of choux pastry in
their hand, and that full tumbler of milk-filled filter
coffeeSingaporea
Ah, I see that you haven't tried a good, ripe Gorgonzola. Just like Perry saar
hasn't tried some varieties of duly onioned, garliced food. With apologies to
Galileo for the distortion, if it doesn't move, it ought to.
bonobashi
--- On Sun, 28/9/08, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Fro
Not just the Brahmins, the Jains share this aversion.
bonobashi
--- On Sun, 28/9/08, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [silk] Food and Empire
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Sunday, 28 September, 2008, 7:21 AM
in infinite wisdom Lawnun spoke thus On 09/26/2008 12:22 PM:
Although I'll admit that many legitimate works of the
type you rightly are concerned about have been targeted, most of the videos
targeted are not capturing 'discrete slices and slivers'--as you
suggest--but entire episodes of a given
On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 08:31 +0530, . wrote:
> constitutionally ingrained weasel keywords allows any govt. to
> continue the pipe dream for the next 500 years. If the education
> quality in state/govt schools sucks big-time, bringing every school
> under that sucky umbrella will force each parent to
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Martin Senftleben
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> As a German living in Germany and having 4 kids, I would like to
> correct the statement:
> in Germany, sending kids to school is basically free, but still costs
> quite a bit. We spend several 100s of Euro each year
Old message snipped at bottom for some context.
Udhay
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/business/story/217383.html
Can a Metallica album be too loud?
The very thought might seem heretical to fans of the metal band, which
has been splitting eardrums since the early 1980s.
But even though Metalli
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:26 AM, . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> quote from a fish-eating "veggie" : "it does not move when i eat it,
>> hence its veggie." That's a gem for sure.
>
> Hmmm ... I guess I'm vegetarian because
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> theres at least some cuisine thats live when it hits your plate
I'm aware of that -- and I object to it.
-- b
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