Re: [silk] In UP, Brahmins do tactical voting, not Muslims

2009-05-03 Thread Bonobashi
--- On Mon, 4/5/09, ss wrote: > From: ss > Subject: Re: [silk] In UP, Brahmins do tactical voting, not Muslims > To: silklist@lists.hserus.net > Date: Monday, 4 May, 2009, 10:13 AM > On Monday 04 May 2009 8:59:06 am > Bharat Shetty wrote: > > > > At independence Hindus decided "OK - so you >

Re: [silk] In UP, Brahmins do tactical voting, not Muslims

2009-05-03 Thread ss
On Monday 04 May 2009 8:59:06 am Bharat Shetty wrote: > > At independence Hindus decided "OK - so you > > folks have no caste - your religion unites you right? So we Hindus will > > handle caste matters and you look after your affairs" (This has a bearing > > on the "rise" of Hindutva - which I wi

Re: [silk] Another Incarnation (Book Review of 'The Hindus, An Alternate History')

2009-05-03 Thread ss
On Wednesday 29 Apr 2009 1:11:34 am Thaths wrote: > Repelled by such pagan blasphemies, the first British scholars of > India went so far as to invent what we now call “Hinduism,” Relevant here are the British views that endured and played a role in the British Liaison with the Muslim league and

Re: [silk] In UP, Brahmins do tactical voting, not Muslims

2009-05-03 Thread Bharat Shetty
Shiv, > At independence Hindus decided "OK - so you > folks have no caste - your religion unites you right? So we Hindus will > handle caste matters and you look after your affairs" (This has a bearing on > the "rise" of Hindutva - which I will post in a separate message if anyone is > interested)

Re: [silk] Another Incarnation (Book Review of 'The Hindus, An Alternate History')

2009-05-03 Thread ss
On Wednesday 29 Apr 2009 6:35:49 pm Bharat Shetty wrote: > So I would pick a low priced copy of this book just for the reading fun I intend to buy this book too - the woman has some interesting thoughts. shiv

Re: [silk] In UP, Brahmins do tactical voting, not Muslims

2009-05-03 Thread ss
On Monday 04 May 2009 12:00:50 am Zainab Bawa wrote: I have some views on the situation of Muslims in India which have been gelling in my mind for a few months now. I will try and be brief - I feel a book coming out of all these thoughts. But first let me start with this quote from the article:

[silk] In UP, Brahmins do tactical voting, not Muslims

2009-05-03 Thread Zainab Bawa
Cross posting from another list. Found this article quite interesting in the light of some of the recent discussions that we have been having on Silk. Cheers, Zainab In UP, Brahmins do tactical voting, not Muslims' Dr Abdul Waheed | May 02, 2009 10:18 IST Last Updated: May 02, 2009 10:25 IST

Re: [silk] Lenovo hardware password manager

2009-05-03 Thread Pranesh Prakash
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 18:42, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Now that's an interesting way to do encryption - not many I've seen around > offered to the general public > http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=224 > > TrueCrypt is capable of system encryption as well

[silk] Lenovo hardware password manager

2009-05-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Now that's an interesting way to do encryption - not many I've seen around offered to the general public http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=224