--- On Thu, 1/21/10, Vijay Anand wrote:
> There is this rather large community aided by this
> organization called CKS (Centre for Knowledge Systems) and
That would be Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems. http://www.ciks.org They
sell organic produce of consistent quality under the brand Aarogy
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:58 PM, ss wrote:
> On Friday 22 Jan 2010 9:38:53 am Charles Haynes wrote:
>> Wikipedia is the wrong place to look up the original jargonish meaning
>> of hack. ESR's editing of the Jargon File is better.
>> http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html#The%20Meaning%20of%2
On Friday 22 Jan 2010 9:38:53 am Charles Haynes wrote:
> Wikipedia is the wrong place to look up the original jargonish meaning
> of hack. ESR's editing of the Jargon File is better.
> http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html#The%20Meaning%20of%20Hack
The definition in this source written in 20
> Don't underestimate the power of caste to fight back.
> I noticed this last month when I was in Madras, there is an increased
> profusion of caste based welfare associations around the city than
> from a few years back.
I agree -- this is one of the way caste perpetuates itself. In one case it
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> (Don't want to make a big deal of it, but that quoting was weird)
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:) Have always used italics in my other mails, so just a question of habit I
guess.
> Large scale middle class mobility is a recent phenomenon; since
> perhaps the '90s[0]. The poor and destitute have been mobile for a
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Salil Tripathi wrote:
> is that with greater urbanization a reality in India, it will get
> harder to divide polyglot regions into exclusive ethnic enclaves.
Don't underestimate the power of caste to fight back.
I noticed this last month when I was in Madras, t
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Sruthi Krishnan wrote:
> It never makes sense to me that one of the conditions for registering to
> vote is that you must have lived at the present address for six months. Why
> is this necessary?
> Logistics?
(Don't want to make a big deal of it, but that quotin
Charles Haynes [22/01/10 20:39 +1100]:
On the other hand, it sounds like appropriation of the term "jugaad"
by rich multinational corporations to describe some supposedly unique
Indian corporate mindset enabling white collar solutions to foreign
problems is a more than a little smug.
More than
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Charles Haynes
> wrote:
>> of hack. ESR's editing of the Jargon File is better.
>
> The canonical location of course is, http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html
Actually the canonical location is jargon.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> Jugaad is the wile of the poor, and hack the pastime of the cerebral.
The question is if a Jugaadu and a Hacker passed each other on the
road, will they recognize each other?
Thaths
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"Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Charles Haynes
wrote:
> of hack. ESR's editing of the Jargon File is better.
The canonical location of course is, http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html
Hacks and Jugaads are close relatives, but they are IMO not the same.
The "hack" in the jargon file sense evo
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