Re: [silk] Prime Ministerial candidate

2009-03-22 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
Peccavi. Isn't that in Pakistan? There is an urban legend linking this word to the province of Sind in Pakistan, and it depends on an awful pun. And yes, Sindh is in Pakistan, which indicates that Biju probably had prior knowledge of this most atrocious pun. -- Sumant Srivathsan

Re: [silk] Prime Ministerial candidate

2009-03-22 Thread Bonobashi
--- On Sun, 22/3/09, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com wrote: From: Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [silk] Prime Ministerial candidate To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Sunday, 22 March, 2009, 11:30 AM Peccavi. Isn't that in Pakistan? There is an urban

Re: [silk] Prime Ministerial candidate

2009-03-22 Thread ss
On Sunday 22 Mar 2009 11:30:38 am Sumant Srivathsan wrote: Peccavi. Isn't that in Pakistan? There is an urban legend linking this word to the province of Sind in Pakistan, and it depends on an awful pun. And yes, Sindh is in Pakistan, which indicates that Biju probably had prior

Re: [silk] Prime Ministerial candidate

2009-03-22 Thread Bonobashi
--- On Sun, 22/3/09, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: From: ss cybers...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [silk] Prime Ministerial candidate To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Sunday, 22 March, 2009, 1:08 PM -Inline Attachment Follows- On Sunday 22 Mar 2009 11:30:38 am Sumant Srivathsan

[silk] Thanks for a warm welcome

2009-03-22 Thread Amit Somani
Hello Folks: Sorry for the delay in my response; I am trying to figure out how to make a GMail address work well with Yahoo! Groups and some sort of a digest option (of course, without top-posting in one's response ;-)) Deepa, Radhika thanks for the warm welcome and the support for both my ideas

Re: [silk] Thanks for a warm welcome

2009-03-22 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Amit Somani wrote, [on 3/22/2009 5:15 PM]: Sorry for the delay in my response; I am trying to figure out how to make a GMail address work well with Yahoo! Groups While that may be a worthwhile project, it is not required for this list. For historical reasons, this list is *archived* on yahoo

Re: [silk] Prime Ministerial candidate

2009-03-22 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
2009/3/22 Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in: Ram will swing by on a curtain, brandishing his Smith and Wagah. Swat a Wagah, you mean. Ram

[silk] Major differences between Indian and Western music

2009-03-22 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
Hello silklister, I am hoping that the many clever people on this list can provide me with some credible resources examining the major theoretical and practical differences between Indian and Western music, particularly the classical forms of each. I'm just an enthusiastic n00b, but some of

Re: [silk] Major differences between Indian and Western music

2009-03-22 Thread Krish Ashok
On 22-Mar-09, at 9:01 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: Hello silklister, I am hoping that the many clever people on this list can provide me with some credible resources examining the major theoretical and practical differences between Indian and Western music, particularly the classical

Re: [silk] Thanks for a warm welcome

2009-03-22 Thread Ravi Bellur
I second that emotion. Thanks for the warm welcome. And the incisive interchange that I've been a voyeur to in the past few days. I'll tell my native species, from the planet where the sentient race is logical and fair, to send back the assult fleet -- there is, indeed, intelligence on this watery

Re: [silk] Major differences between Indian and Western music

2009-03-22 Thread Radhika, Y.
Could someone tell me why the harmonium is a terrible instrument? for sentimental reasons, i have recently requested my mother to bring my grandmom's harmonium as i am learning hindustani classical and it is my teacher's preferred instrument. all I know is that harmonium is either foreign or

Re: [silk] Prime Ministerial candidate

2009-03-22 Thread Biju Chacko
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Peccavi. Isn't that in Pakistan? -- b It means I have committed a sin. It's in Latin. It was my way of apologising to Venkat and sending him away somewhere else before his rollicking sense of humour completely

Re: [silk] Major differences between Indian and Western music

2009-03-22 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Mar 23, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Radhika, Y. wrote: Could someone tell me why the harmonium is a terrible instrument? for sentimental reasons, i have recently requested my mother to bring my grandmom's harmonium as i am learning hindustani classical and it is my teacher's preferred instrument.

Re: [silk] Major differences between Indian and Western music

2009-03-22 Thread Aditya Kapil
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone tell me why the harmonium is a terrible instrument? The harmonium is extremely whiny. Its the instrumental equivalent of 10 hrs of K. L. Sehgal. Every time I here it I'm thinking deenyaan jalaaoonn... I can't

Re: [silk] Major differences between Indian and Western music

2009-03-22 Thread Radhika, Y.
well i am sitting in vancouver and don't have any control over the instrument used by my teacher-it is her decision! oh, well, i am learning to sing so hopefully the harmonium won't affect that too much. On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Aditya Kapil blue...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 23,