>
>
> 3. Enable 2FA EVERYWHERE that supports it. Ideally, with a hardware token
> such as a yubikey.
>
>
Are these available for purchase in India?
Folks, a request. Do you have any contacts of any organisation or
consultant who does carbon audits in South India? Chennai is best,
Bangalore can also work.
Where I'm coming from with this request:
1. I have a factory in Tamil Nadu which uses a PET Coke fired boiler
(which may have to be
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Thejaswi Udupa
wrote:
>
> That's Sundara Rao and not Sundaes as my autocorrect thinks it is.
>
>
>
So your autocorrect decided to put Sundaes?
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Thaths wrote:
> On Wed., 13 Sep. 2017, 12:56 pm Suresh Ramasubramanian
> wrote:
>
> > Hm. What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts? Qat? Kif?
>
>
> What is chewed. And is not hallucinogenic. More of a mild upper.
>
> There seems to be some confusion - the ca
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:37 PM, John Sundman wrote:
> This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine:
>
> "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the Arab-World-not-including-Israel?
> Also interested in hearing about novels concerning Jews in India. “
>
>
The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar is
On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 2:16 PM, WordPsmith wrote:
> Thanks, Aadisht. As it happens, my friend has a couple of people on her
> list who do make these bigger pilgrimages: Vaishno Devi, Badrinath and so
> on. But I may pass on your contact if she's drawing a blank with her folks,
> if that's okay wi
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Samanth Subramanian
wrote:
> Hello:
>
> A friend in the US is working on a photo feature, and she's looking for
> families in India (nuclear or joint) that go repeatedly to a particular
> place as an act of pilgrimage -- that consider this a kind of family
> vacat
>
> That's Constance Garnett, the great populariser of Russian novels in the
> West. She's still very widely read. But can I put in a word for Pevear and
> Volokhonsky? I finally finished War and Peace this year and I can't praise
> their translation enough -- it's clearly meticulous and well
> tho
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Ashwin Nanjappa
wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Aadisht Khanna wrote:
> > Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - I took two years to finish this, but
> enjoyed
> > it far more in 2015 than 2014. Tolstoy has this under-the-surface mil
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Thaths wrote:
> For the seventh year in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book
> recommendation
> this holiday season.
>
> What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? What are
> you eagerly looking forward to reading over the Christmas
>
>
> It basically makes your mobile phones and tablets another landline phone
> when you're connected to the same WiFi. Also lets you send contacts from
> your mobiles to the phone eliminating another task of manually entering
> contacts into this phone and keeping them in sync. Also, when you get
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Rajesh Mehar
wrote:
>
> Recently I read that farmers protesting the Jaitapur power plant (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaitapur_Nuclear_Power_Project) explicitly
> articulated their views on this. I'm paraphrasing from memory as "They take
> away our land and
Hello all,
does anybody have any experience or advice on doing a second bachelor's
degree program in one's thirties? In the past eight years, I've moved from
being entranced by the idea of doing a PhD, to realising that what I wanted
was the glamour of a Doctorate and not so much the actual work o
On 14-07-2012 21:39, Thejaswi Udupa wrote:
> I have no bones to pick with Kipling except one. His 'Kim' inspired
> Timeri Murari to write that utter tripe--'The Imperial Agent', a
> supposed sequel to Kim and filled with more sex and mystic mumbo jumbo
> than a hippie orgy.
If you are holding 'Th
On 14-07-2012 11:35, John Sundman wrote:
> I wonder what you-all think of Kipling's Just So Stories?
>
> Do you find them innocent & lyrical & funny & potent as I do, or do you find
> them obnoxious and all of the same cloth as his other "white man's burden"
> imperialist writings?
>
In the enti
On 22-05-2012 09:24, Chew Lin Kay wrote:
> Hello!
>
> So I was reading an essay about Indian food, when they mentioned the
> adoption of Sanskritized Hindi. Can someone explain what that is? I
> thought Hindi draws roots from Sanskrit, but this seems to be more
> complicated than that. Will offer t
On 29-03-2012 20:44, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
>
> Affluence is definitely a prime culprit - during the zenith of the
> Imperium Romanum there was a similar crisis when free Romans didn't
> want to marry, because it was a drag, orgies were much fun. Roman
> society had to introduce a variety of inc
On 13-12-2011 17:29, Sruthi Krishnan wrote:
>> See above - not only processed foods, other natural food items too.
>> Edible oil for example has shown a huge huge jump over the years thanks
>> to imports and oil actually reaching the rural hinterland. In general,
>> grain budgets have shifted to bo
On 13-12-2011 16:29, Sruthi Krishnan wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks Salil for those links. Will go through them.
>
> Went through your article on the Life on the 32 line.
> I don't think Utsa Patnaik refers to calorific intake - she's talking
> about absorption of foodgrains going down, defining absorption
On 13-12-2011 14:37, Sruthi Krishnan wrote:
> Hi,
> In 'media and moral outrage' I saw that statistics pointing to
> declining per capita availability of foodgrains was questioned.
>
> The source of that statistics is Utsa Patnaik -
> http://ideaswebsite.org/featart/apr2004/Republic_Hunger.pdf. She
On 09-09-2011 12:26, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>
> It was just that as an Indian, I've been the recipient of the kind of
> restrictions a doctor-after-eating-too-well places on a poor
> patient..."Don't consume too much! Eat less of pate de foie gras...
> and go easy on the caviar!"...Patient: "Huh? Wha
On 27-07-2011 14:44, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> It does take a long time to index (for a large datastore) and seems to
> be sucking up battery. Other than that, specifically, what annoyed you ?
It also seemed to kill the right-click context menu items for "move/
copy to folder" - dealbreake
On 19-05-2011 08:44, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Aadisht Khanna <mailto:li...@aadisht.net>> wrote:
>
> I'm in Thiruvannamalai, not Coimbatore, but the IEX is of no use when
> the electricity board cuts the grid itself off.
&
On 18-05-2011 12:20, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> At 2011-05-18 11:58:09 +0530, li...@aadisht.net wrote:
>>
>> I'm in Thiruvannamalai, not Coimbatore, but the IEX is of no use when
>> the electricity board cuts the grid itself off.
>
> Why do they do that?
Peak hour pricing runs from 6 pm to 10 pm.
On 16-05-2011 08:42, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> At 2011-05-16 00:56:49 +, sur...@hserus.net wrote:
>>
>> You'll find that power cuts are a regular feature in industrial areas
>> around india, most companies compensate by buying diesel generators
>
> (I happen to be doing some work in this area
Sure.
On 04-05-2011 15:36, Sumant Srivathsan wrote:
> I can try taking this into the Microsoft jungle, and see if this is
> something they're already working on (if it's for the XBOX, it might be
> portable to PC). Is that okay?
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:23 PM, A
Hello,
someone I know just passed a query on to me, and I thought people on
silk would probably be able to help.
He knows two school-age children with a neuromuscular disorder (but
doesn't have details of which one), which prevents them from writing or
typing. However, they are able to use X-Box
On 22-04-2011 20:43, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> Breathing in moderation is also good.
Do you take Deepa breaths in moderation?
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On 22-04-2011 21:15, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 08:41:23AM -0700, Heather Madrone wrote:
> Oh, and for some reason people are down on this
> whole euthanasia thing. Beats me.
I'm not sure about the usage of your colloquialism. By 'are down on' do
you mean 'in favour of' or 'agai
On 22-04-2011 20:25, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
> Quoting Shiv from another thread.
>
> "I think the old habit of doing "upvaasa" - fasting once a week - and on
> certain other days might be a good idea. Getting up and walking arond a lot
> more would help."
>
> Anecdotal evidence suggests this is righ
On 10-04-2011 10:31, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> On 10-Apr-11 10:21 AM, Aadisht Khanna wrote:
>
>>> in a situation where *muscle power* is of monotonically decreasing
>>> importance to survival, why would the sex ratio be as skewed as it is?
>>>
>>
>> Hy
On 10-04-2011 23:08, Shoba Narayan wrote:
> I didn't know the meaning on monotonically and hysteresis and looked them
> both up. I think the lag is at the tipping point, isn't it? Might it become
> what somebody (Bernhard I think) talked about-- dowry flipping genders? The
> future of this sad
On 10-04-2011 09:00, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
>> Naturally. Boys are a better bet.
>
> I don't get it (which is why I've left your message attached below for
> context)
>
> To me, this begs the question, which is:
>
> in a situation where *muscle power* is of monotonically decreasing
> importance
Dear all,
I'm interested in reading up on the Balkans in the middle ages/
Rennaisance, the Ottoman Empire, and the Golden Age of Islam/ Arabia
(Haroun al-Rashid, etc).
What are the popular history books that you'd recommend?
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On 16-12-2010 14:27, Lahar Appaiah wrote:
> I'd agree with whoever raised this- it belongs in the same category as that
> "PGP encryption" stuff someone else has. That said, this is an opinion, not
> a request.
After the Radia tapes and their leaking, and GoI's insistent demands for
GMail and Bla
On 15-12-2010 22:52, Thaths wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Mahesh Murthy
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Thaths wrote:
>>> I did not realize the countries where Indians could enter easily (visa
>>> free/visa on arrival) was a null set.
>> 58 countries isn't exactly a nul
On 23-11-2010 22:35, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> I think we had a similar thread lo, these many years ago, but still.
>
Squilla.
Locust grubs.
Red Bull.
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On 14-10-2010 13:24, Indrajit Gupta wrote:
>
> /She has never been known to be a lucid populariser; a female Carl
> Sagan she is not. However, contemporary studies in this space carry
> a vocabulary and, more than that, a syntax, which takes getting used
> to. If anyone is interes
On 13-10-2010 18:48, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> Ergo I expect to see a lot of shit flying around on the Internet
> criticizing this lady (who inexplicably hangs onto the last name of a
> man from many marriages back), but there isn't? All the heuristics
This may be a professional decision, so th
On 21-08-2010 20:51, . wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 14:53, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
>> Lively Hmmm. Hopefully the Parrot is not pining for the fjords.
> ...as opposed to becoming the cat's dinner or dog's lunch?
>
This dog and parrot seem to have discovered co-existence. Though looking
at the dog
On 29-07-2010 06:39, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Aadisht Khanna wrote, [on 7/28/2010 10:01 PM]:
>
>> I am trying to get the complete Just William series by Richmal Crompton
>> for a birthday present, but Macmillan has taken in out of print. Does
>> anybody have a collection
I am trying to get the complete Just William series by Richmal Crompton
for a birthday present, but Macmillan has taken in out of print. Does
anybody have a collection which they're willing to part with?
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On 18-07-2010 14:16, Anil Kumar wrote:
>
> Just in case there weren't enough schemes to scam on the exchange;
> but, the jolly part is that the Indian Income Tax Department seems to
> have granted Permanent Account Numbers to these dieties. Also, do not
> miss the distinction between private [
On 02-07-2010 17:11, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> American pop culture keeps producing endless variations on the omega
> male, who ranks even below the beta in the wolf pack. This
> often-unemployed, romantically challenged loser can show up as a
> perpetual adolescent (in Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up or
On 16-06-2010 10:07, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> There are several series I've given up on partway through. Some examples:
>
> * The Song of Ice and Fire
I am informed by those who know about such things that this is true of
the author as well.
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On 15-06-2010 14:10, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
>
> So, what are your hardest books to read?
>
> Udhay
>
Books I've abandoned:
* The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
* The God of Small Things
* Don Quixote (is a huge pain to get through unabridged)
Books I've struggled to complete:
* Vanity Fair
On 15-06-2010 12:38, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> I certainly agree with _Foucault's Pendulum_. I've bounced off it
> several times over the years.
>
Can't understand why. I read it in seven nights. It's like an action
movie with bonus conspiracy theorising and delicious satire.
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characters can easily enough go to livejournal. Playboy is demonstrating
that it's ten years behind the Internet.
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Mandela was jailed for a long time. Agreed.
>
> How did Mother Teresa suffer?
>
She lived in Calcutta.
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t senior Muslims were the advisory
council who passed judgement on whether the products devised were halal or
not.
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On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:14 PM, ss wrote:
>
> Now how's that for a bottom post?
>
> shiv
>
> Fascinating. You should name this particular bottom post The Shit Shastra
by Shiv Shastry.
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? How do you book with more miles than you
have, unless the airline is advancing miles on credit? Smells like a bubble.
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gion) and Mumbai Port Trust, which is the old port in
South Mumbai (and which is what the Harbour Line connects to). Both have
container handling facilities, though JNPT's are supposed to be slightly
less congested.
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n8217t-give-b.html
>
Actually some time after I sent the mail I remembered that Vir Sanghvi had
used the growing popularity of the salwar kameez and paneer butter masala to
claim that South India was Punjabi now, so the reverse statement has
definitely been done.
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taking advantage of this trend: http://www.reason.com/news/show/28779.html
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want
to know what Woody Allen's chances are.
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al pieces. Admittedly it is disappearing very fast now. Even so,
> Dalrymple's work is not to be considered as history.
>
So noted. :) But though Keay and Dalrymple are on opposite sides of the
line, they are not too far from each other as readability and popular appeal
go.
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at trick. Perhaps a magazine writer here can take it up to show
that the rice growing in Punjab is evidence of Tamizh or Bengali
colonisation of the Indus plain.
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e the
book a quick skim through facts and slightly short on analysis/ narrative.
That actually strips out bias.
His other books are not as skimmish and *The Spice Route* is particularly
good. *India Discovered* is also more detailed but gets a little fanboyish
about the original Orientals. Nowhere near
lot of this would be transaction costs
since we're talking a whole bunch of landowners. With the same money you
could buy up contiguous land, forest it, and offset the carbon dioxide the
air transport was generating, no?
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e fuel-efficient
than flying - but does that include the impact of the land you are turning
over to build the rails, terminals and depots on?
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>
> There are only two types of cases that ever come out of Kerala. One,
>
But presumably a lot of cases go into Kerala if the liquor consumption is
that high.
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interested to know what you think the source of these dislocations is
going to be. I can think of religious reform movements like Arya Samaj or
Brahmo Samaj (both of which have lost their iconoclasm by now), and new
public institutions. Are you thinking of the same things or something
completely diff
>
>
> I don't think 49-O ever allowed for anonymity, even with paper ballots.
>
Yeah I think .meant that with paper ballots you had the option to slip in a
blank ballot or deface the ballot. Not possible with EVMs.
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mainstream parties will be
more concerned with how to win the votes the spoiler candidate had received.
And then of course there's the warm fuzzy feeling you'll get for voting on
principle.
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organised by the team itself,
food and beer was the norm. Anything organised by HR was the silly games.
But I found those fun too. Textbook learning and exams were usually done by
the risk and compliance department.
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>
> It would
> be interesting to see where a self-improvement book, or series, places in a
> corporate ecosystem. Does it confirm or contradict "corporate values" [such
> as broad consensus can make them]? What else does it induce you to buy?
> Would an organisation distribute copies of Covey among
e next bits of the article were
interesting and largely on point.
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nt I had concluded that the makers had decided to reboot James Bond
as John Constantine of Hellblazer.
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ng calls for overdrafts or credit cards anymore. The only thing
preventing telemarketing calls for checking accounts (which banks are now
desperate for) is regulation which says you only bank employees can solicit
deposit accounts - it can't be outsourced.
It's going to be a very interesting
referendum' - there never was one to
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a bargaining solution with a
finite outcome is found. This is what must be done in Kashmir.
Stupid idea? OK, but has anything else worked? If not, why not try this, Mr
Vohra? As I said, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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six decades ago. Let us hold one now, and
give them three choices: independence, union with Pakistan, and union with
India. Almost certainly the Valley will opt for independence. Jammu will opt
to stay with India, and probably Ladakh too. Let Kashmiris decide the
outcome, not the politicians and armies of India
x27;s just a different category of experience.
>
But the gap in experiences is closing steadily. Large-screen TVs, home
theatre systems, etc. are becoming more and more affordable.
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hold truck with Heroic / Great Leader theories of innovation (Mozart
would have been a musical genius and written marvelous symphonies with or
without facing any conflict), or Random Walk theories of history (things
just happen. What the heck.), then conflict is not necessary for progress
either
ng about this. The export market for Indian
mangoes has traditionally been the Gulf and South East Asia.
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ion workers headed on to the highway and held up
traffic to protest their working conditions. The crackdown was on the
employer rather than the workers themselves.
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> They are indeed wonderful things. The world would be darker without
> art. I am not sure it would be darker without professional art
> analysis, however. I draw a large distinction between Shakespeare and
> the mounds of masters theses written about him that moulder in college
> filing cabinets.
>
> For years - for many decades, Indians have been surprised by Chinese
> > speaking to them in fluent Hindi. Someone wrote about it in the press
> > recently - a Chinese immigration officer welcoming a tourist in Hindi.
> >
> > But the opposite is not happening to a very great extent - i.e. Ind
I would like to pick the list's intelligence on an issue I have been facing.
CRY approached me this month for a contribution, and I gave them six
thousand rupees without very much thought. However, the following points
arise:
1. Five days ago, my pay review kicked in, and I can now afford to
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If there are enough of you (4-6 at least), I can rustle up something
> > different. In other words, you will be my guinea pigs. :)
>
> Well, I'm
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No comment. Make your own opinion.
If it wasn't for the fact that I had just finished Chapter 12 of *The Age of
Turbulence*, this would be the most beautiful thing I had read this month.
On 1/16/08, Bonobashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I was enjoying your rebuttal till the last line, where your English
> confused me.
>
> Quote
>
> Ah - two biases for the price of one - anti-banker and anti-Indian!
>
> Unquote
>
> Which part of "Indian with an impeccable reputation" gave you th
The level of financial FUD in this article is horrible. Ad-hominem attacks
on Shuakat Aziz, with no proper financial reasoning. Aziz *might* be a
crook, but this article doesn't prove anything.
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> Needless to say, over the past
> eigh
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