Re: [silk] Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?

2010-10-26 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 27-Oct-10 9:02 AM, Charles Haynes wrote: > Here's an Adobe Reader OCR'ed version of the file. > > https://docs.google.com/a/edgeplay.org/leaf?id=0B_oayye0KbyZZDFmNjM5OTctNmRkYS00NTRkLWIwNGYtNjgzOWE5Nzg0MDVl Slipped by Charles. I was just putting a copy up on http://silk.arachnis.com/anthro/

Re: [silk] Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?

2010-10-26 Thread Charles Haynes
Here's an Adobe Reader OCR'ed version of the file. https://docs.google.com/a/edgeplay.org/leaf?id=0B_oayye0KbyZZDFmNjM5OTctNmRkYS00NTRkLWIwNGYtNjgzOWE5Nzg0MDVl -- Charles

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Gautam John [26/10/10 20:47 +0530]: (which, for indian citizens at least, needs an affidavit sealed by a notary public) Really? I applied for an Argentine visa last year in Bombay and it was painless. And because I was going for a conference, they gave it to me gratis. Delhi, and the semi lit

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > And clearly hasn't applied for a US visa. Or maybe one from Argentina > (which, for indian citizens at least, needs an affidavit sealed by a > notary public) Really? I applied for an Argentine visa last year in Bombay and it was pa

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Biju Chacko [26/10/10 20:40 +0530]: In fact the most annoying part of the process is the ridiculous attitude of my Dad's travel agents. They seem to think any visa application should be handled as if they were sending a newly graduated software engineer working for a shady bodyshopper to the US o

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Biju Chacko
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Ingrid wrote: > I've had to get 9 new visas this year. I find that the key difference > between those that are onerous and not is the clarity and specificity of the > necessary documents and procedures, not the quantum and detail of > information required. The only

Re: [silk] Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?

2010-10-26 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote: > On 2010-10-26 16:56, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: >> >> Google search: 4th result: > > Silk-list: the place where your lack of google-fu becomes public. (Heck, I > even searched JSTOR!) I prefer, Silk-list: the place where you can crowd soruc

Re: [silk] Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?

2010-10-26 Thread Pranesh Prakash
On 2010-10-26 16:56, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: Google search: 4th result: Silk-list: the place where your lack of google-fu becomes public. (Heck, I even searched JSTOR!) http://www.cerium.ca/IMG/pdf/Is_there_an_Indian_Way_of_Thinking_An_Informal_Essay.pdf BTW, would anyone have a *text*

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Badri Natarajan wrote: > > Indeed. Once when I was a kid (1991), I was flying to New York with my > father. We transited through Heathrow and went through security again and > the security officer found a large wooden knife in my baggage. > Halcyon, indeed. Anja

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Badri Natarajan
On Tue 26/10/10 12:57 PM , Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com sent: > On 26 October 2010 17:19, Badri Natarajan om> wrote:> > > Nowadays airlines check visas of everyone > boarding a plane to most countries because otherwise the government of the > country in which the plane lands will

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai(OT)

2010-10-26 Thread salil tripathi
Carrier's liability is an old piece of legislation, dating to pre-9/11 times, and European and Asian airlines have routinely checked visas before people board, to keep out asylum seekers/refugees. Each non-visa-carrying passenger not given entry costs the airline something like $3000 the last ti

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
On 26 October 2010 17:19, Badri Natarajan wrote: > > Nowadays airlines check visas of everyone boarding a plane to most countries > because otherwise the government of the country in which the plane lands will > impose a fine for allowing someone to get on the plane without checking their > vis

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
On 26 October 2010 14:18, Mahesh Murthy wrote: > If it gives you any consolation, I (an Indian citizen resident in India) am > in the process of renewing my US visit visa. > The cost is higher, the form is longer, the questions are more onerous and If you have a problem with the form, pray that y

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Badri Natarajan
On Tue 26/10/10 12:42 PM , Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com sent: > On 26 October 2010 14:55, Sriram Karra .com> wrote: > > This guy appears spoiled from not having to fill > out too many visa> applications. > > > The guest hadn't bothered getting a visa because as a US citizen, >

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
On 26 October 2010 14:55, Sriram Karra wrote: > This guy appears spoiled from not having to fill out too many visa > applications. About ten years ago, my then employer, a large telco, asked me to organise a series of lectures by "tech celebrities" to publicise the launch of a new ISP. I duly in

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Badri Natarajan
On Tue 26/10/10 12:19 PM , Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com sent: > I have heard applying for Brazil visa is also painful for US citizens. > @timbray care to comment ? I believe Brazil is one of the few places that practices fairly strict reciprocity in terms of visas (most countries don't).

Re: [silk] Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?

2010-10-26 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
Google search: 4th result: http://www.cerium.ca/IMG/pdf/Is_there_an_Indian_Way_of_Thinking_An_Informal_Essay.pdf Cheeni On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote: > Dear all, > I read A.K. Ramanujan's 'Is There an Indian Way of Thinking: An Informal > Essay' many years back in the

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Vinayak Hegde
I have heard applying for Brazil visa is also painful for US citizens. @timbray care to comment ? -- Vinayak On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > On Tue, October 26, 2010 2:05 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Somehow he doesn't sound too happy... ;) > > And clearly hasn't a

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Badri Natarajan
On Tue 26/10/10 9:40 AM , Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net sent: > On Tue, October 26, 2010 2:05 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Somehow he doesn't sound too happy... > ;) > And clearly hasn't applied for a US visa. Or maybe one from Argentina > (which, for indian citizens at least, needs a

[silk] Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?

2010-10-26 Thread Pranesh Prakash
Dear all, I read A.K. Ramanujan's 'Is There an Indian Way of Thinking: An Informal Essay' many years back in the form of a photocopy. Since then I've wanted to send that essay to some others, but haven't been able to locate a non-paywalled online copy[1]. Would any of you have a digital copy

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai(OT)

2010-10-26 Thread anilkumar . nagaraj
UK visa office in New Delhi, India returned all the copies of documents that I submitted, when handing back my passport with visa stamp. This was for a short-visitor visa. I don't know if the procedure is different for other visa categories. -Anil Kumar Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Or

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Deepak Misra
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Sriram Karra wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > >> find. Then the actual application is something like five pages long, >> designed like an application to be a nuclear engineer and requiring >> simply useless information that's time

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Ingrid
> > This guy appears spoiled from not having to fill out too many visa > applications. Good for him, though. > > UK visa application form was 21 pages not too long back; More recently it > is down at about 10 pages for many categories. Ofcourse he can argue about > the 'nuclear engineer skills' re

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Sriram Karra
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > find. Then the actual application is something like five pages long, > designed like an application to be a nuclear engineer and requiring > simply useless information that's time and labor intensive to figure > out. This guy appears spoil

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Mahesh Murthy
> > > > Not that the Indian Embassy didn't try their hardest to blow it. If it gives you any consolation, I (an Indian citizen resident in India) am in the process of renewing my US visit visa. The cost is higher, the form is longer, the questions are more onerous and after my (usually highly ef

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Vijay Anand
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > On Tue, October 26, 2010 2:05 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> Somehow he doesn't sound too happy... ;) > > And clearly hasn't applied for a US visa. Or maybe one from Argentina > (which, for indian citizens at least, needs an affidavit sea

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Tue, October 26, 2010 2:05 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Somehow he doesn't sound too happy... ;) And clearly hasn't applied for a US visa. Or maybe one from Argentina (which, for indian citizens at least, needs an affidavit sealed by a notary public) I just suppose he's lucky that someone in the I

[silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
Somehow he doesn't sound too happy... ;) From: crip...@pitt.edu Reply-to: cc...@list.pitt.edu To: cc...@list.pitt.edu Sent: 10/25/2010 2:04:15 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time Subj: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT) Not that the Indian Embassy did