Re: [silk] [intro] Hello people of silklist!

2013-09-06 Thread Kingsley Jegan Joseph
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 9:38 AM, SS wrote: > On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 10:43 -0700, Thaths wrote: >> What is to explain? For populations to exist side by side exchanging >> cuisines, culture, genes and words is self explanatory and not >> profound. >> One sees Tamil and Malayalam blending in Palghat. T

Re: [silk] [intro] Hello people of silklist!

2013-09-06 Thread SS
On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 10:43 -0700, Thaths wrote: > What is to explain? For populations to exist side by side exchanging > cuisines, culture, genes and words is self explanatory and not > profound. > One sees Tamil and Malayalam blending in Palghat. Telugu and Tamil > blending > in Tirupathi. There

Re: [silk] Silklisters in New Haven

2013-09-06 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Dave Kumar wrote: after I had finished my first year > of law school at a well known law school in Cambridge > I see what you did there. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] Silklisters in New Haven

2013-09-06 Thread Dave Kumar
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote: > Does this mean you are going to be studying at Yale, Solipsist? > > I must remark on the modesty of those who go to Ivy League schools. If they > are at Harvard, they say "Cambridge"...if at Stanford, they say, > "California"...if Yale, it's "

Re: [silk] Silklisters in New Haven

2013-09-06 Thread Deepa Mohan
Does this mean you are going to be studying at Yale, Solipsist? I must remark on the modesty of those who go to Ivy League schools. If they are at Harvard, they say "Cambridge"...if at Stanford, they say, "California"...if Yale, it's "New Haven"...someone even told me he's going to "Alameda Coun

Re: [silk] [intro] Hello people of silklist!

2013-09-06 Thread Kingsley Jegan Joseph
> An entire political class and "Dravidian" political parties have been > built up on cooked up history. There is no such thing as Dravidian, any > more than there is "Aryan", although the southern languages tend to be > called "Dravidian" languages. There are links with these southern > languages

[silk] Silklisters in New Haven

2013-09-06 Thread Pranesh Prakash
Folks, I was wondering if there are any silklisters in New Haven, Connecticut. Do let me know if you're lurking about: I'll be heading that-a-side next week (and will stay put for a while), and would love to catch up. Cheers, Pranesh

Re: [silk] [intro] Hello people of silklist!

2013-09-06 Thread Thaths
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:45 AM, SS wrote: > On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 09:29 +0530, Kingsley Jegan Joseph wrote: > > You know, sometimes I think that Mr. Mahadevan may be as > > over-enthusiastic in finding dravidian connections for Indus script > > Problem is that there are very profound linkages bet

Re: [silk] [intro] Hello people of silklist!

2013-09-06 Thread SS
On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 09:29 +0530, Kingsley Jegan Joseph wrote: > You know, sometimes I think that Mr. Mahadevan may be as > over-enthusiastic in finding dravidian connections for Indus script Problem is that there are very profound linkages between "Dravidian" and non Dravidian Indian languages

Re: [silk] [intro] Hello people of silklist!

2013-09-06 Thread Kingsley Jegan Joseph
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph > wrote: > >> You know, sometimes I think that Mr. Mahadevan may be as >> over-enthusiastic in finding dravidian connections for Indus script as >> some of the right-leaners are abou