Is anyone else seeing the giveaway in bold at the very top of the page:
"Brought to you by Enron"?
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Pavithra Sankaran
--- 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
> >> (Nobel Committee head Thorbjoern Jagland said:)
> >> "It was because we would like to support what he
> is trying to achieve".
Surely the Nobel is given for actual achievement rather than intention? I am
yet to hear of someone who gets it simply for wanting to find a cure for AIDS.
Pavithr
Not really science, but natural history:
1. Song of the Dodo - David Quammen (and everything else by him, especially
this essays)
2. The Beauty of the Beastly - Natalie Angier
3. Consilience, Future of Life and all other books by - E O Wilson
4. Stones of Silence - George Schaller
And if you wa
And I.
--- On Wed, 12/17/08, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> I'm in.
>
> Udhay
>
> On 12/17/08, Thaths wrote:
> > When: 12:30 pm on Dec 27th 2008
> > Where: Sree Annapurna of Calcutta restaurant, Egmore,
> Chennai
> >
> (http://chennai.burrp.com/listing/restaurant/131398178_sree-annapurna-of-calcut
To muddy the waters of this conversation some more, let me introduce a
sociologist who, umm, fooled physicists into thinking he was an expert on
gravitational waves. Prof. Harry Collins of Cardiff University also
participated in Turing's test-like experiments where 'real' physicists posed
quest
--- ashok _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Curious to know how this story ha been covered by
> the indian newspapers ?
AFAIK, it hasn't been covered at all. With luck it'll
make the news briefs in Down to Earth next fortnight.
Pavithra
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--- Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> About your translated indian lit - DO read ponniyin
> selvan, and AK mahadevan's
> translations of sangam era tamil poetry.
Surely you mean AK Ramanujam?
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--- Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/28/07, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> but what we have in India is a spiraling
> inflation of urban land
> prices while rural land continues to lie untouched
> by the Indian
> economic miracle unless it has some potential of
--- Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The food is very tasty indeed. But very very bland.
> If you want spicy
> food, that's not the place for you.
It is meant to be bland, owning to some sattvic funda.
But bland doesn't mean tasteless in this context.
Deepa - do make a bookin
I vouch for the Sanjeevanam lunches. If you go on a
weekday (when there isn't a crowd and when you won't
need to book a place) their waiters usually have the
time and patience to explain the order and reasoning
for the courses to you. The vazhai thandu pachadi and
olan (banana stem in yogurt and pu
I wonder if anyone remembers the Gujarati Bhavan on
Broadway. I have delicious memories of their unlimited
Rs. 20 lunch which included a magnificent aamras
(blended mango pulp) during the season.
It is (was?) wholly vegetarian, but also a very
basic, functional place meant to serve working
Gujar
--- Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Coincidentally, teh British Library in Bangalore is
> soon going to
> have a sale. YAROOOHH!
Please, could you post details when you have them?
Thanks!
Pavithra
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--- Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Drug lord's legacy: Herd of unwanted hippos
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I'll probably get flamed for this, but anyway.
They should shoot the hippos. There are bigger
problems in letting exotic animals loose in a place
they don't belong, than there are in simply getti
Shiv Shastry,
I am curious -- have you lived/traveled in Kashmir or
in the Northeast?
Pavithra
Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now.
--- Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The continuing saga of Darwin's Nightmare:
The President's response is so typical, it hardly
merits attention or comment, except for the harassment
of innocent people it has triggered. Politicians the
world over invariably choose to attack the
messenger/mes
I remember an older version of the seven stages of drunkenness, which went something like this: verbose, grandiose, amicose, bellicose, morose, stuperose, and comatose.Pavithra- Original Message From: Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/student_life/beer_clever.
--- ashok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The other well known environmental disaster is that
> of lake victoria - the nile perch was introduced
...
> destroyed other
> indigenous flora and fauna
The story doesn't stop there. See:
http://www.darwinsnightmare.com/darwin/html/startset.htm
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Something ate my lines. It should have been "An evolutionary biologist will tell you that the gases we label 'noxious', once filled the atmosphere, and today's benign (?) oceans were rather like the vats of oil awaiting us in Hell."
P
Udhay
I work with a wildlife conservation non-profit in Mysore, and this is exactly how all my mornings start off. Each day research throws up ever more horrible facts, each day the government tramples over environmental and human concerns, each day my own footprint on the planet grows larger.
Fro
CenSorship, of course.
--- Pavithra Sankaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > I believe - from newspaper reports - that about 22
> > blogs were sought to
> > be blocked, but some incompetent i
--- Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe - from newspaper reports - that about 22
> blogs were sought to
> be blocked, but some incompetent indian isp
> employees (am I repeating
> myself there?) blocked all of blogspot
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For the birdwatchers on Silk:http://www.surfbirds.com/video/?p=18 "For David Attenborough’s 80th birthday celebration, the public voted on
their favourite Attenborough TV moment. Number one was this clip of the
Lyrebird. The lyrebird, which Sir David Attenborough meets on a log in
a dense for
- Original Message From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Can some kind soul tell me where i can get genuine hyderabadi biryani in madras (i've seen some poor imitations - but anybody used to eating at Garden, Paradise, Alpha, Medina etc is not going to touch that stuff)-Try t
- Original Message From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>From: Pavithra Sankaran >Would there be a quorum, if I were to suggest a Chennai Silklist meet? I'm>in the city between 26 June and 1st July, hence the q.>damn. just when i'll be out of town. earli
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...Bangaloreans? I guess I can't, I've only been here 12 years now.[1] How many are natives of anywhere? I've lived in Bangalore longerthan I've lived anywhere else, but I can't call myself a native. Iguess I'm just a homeless nomad. :(
I'm sorry - I never expect
Would there be a quorum, if I were to suggest a Chennai Silklist meet? I'm in
the city between 26 June and 1st July, hence the q.
Pavithra
- Original Message From: Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>JetStarAsia.com has Bangalore-Singapore tickets for Rs 3500 each way.
Plus Rs. 2K odd in taxes on each ticket, of course. :)E Apple India makes the trip worthwhile despite the taxes! Considering their quote of Rs. 1,53,000 fo
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If you want to know the price which they sell in India, I can find
out. The Apple Store is
right across the road from my office in Bangalore.
--> Vinayak H
Thanks, Vinayak! But I've spoken to the Apple people in Bangalore. Not only are
they pretty clueless (they had n
---Vinayak H wrote---
Yeah for some strange reason, IT is very easy to get hardware and books at real
cheap prices in hyderabad. I have found that buying commodity hardware
(hard drives, graphic cards, speakers) in Hyderabad is cheaper by as much as
30-35% sometimes compared to Bangalore or Bombay.
More on the theme from:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=12157&R=EC5A29952
Natural Selection
Yet another reason to admire the author of 'The Origin of Species.'
by James Seaton
05/08/2006, Volume 011, Issue 32
Darwinian Conservatism
by Larry Arnhart
Imprint
- QuoteAshok Hariharan
This is a universal disease...the last
time i was in india, i overheard two people talking. one was going to delhi
for the
first time, and the other was recommending
that the very first thing they must do is see Gurgaon. why? becuase it
looks
like.'Singapore' !
--- Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I too have struggled to bring some "ghanam"
...
> remarks do touch a sore point
> with me!
Oh, this isn't about pitch at all! Only about volume.
I will admit, though, that Nityasree's swara sthanam
is normally faultless.
Sowmya I like, but like pe
--- Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wonder if Nithyashree
...
> [ouch. i dont want to know..
Me neither! She's never performed here, but no one I
know laments the lack :-)
P.
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Might I gatecrash into this conversation?
Here in Mysore we have some wonderful concerts around
Ganesha Chathurti (mid-August normally), held in the
middle of a small street, shaded by a small shamiana
and amplified by large speakers from the 1960s.
Organised by a small association of shopkeepers
Might I gatecrash into this conversation?
Here in Mysore we have some wonderful concerts around
Ganesha Chathurti (mid-August normally), held in the
middle of a small street, shaded by a small shamiana
and amplified by large speakers from the 1960s.
Organised by a small association of shopkeepers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> - I had an occasional image quality problem that I
> didn't understand - a black shadow
...
>you took the hood off - no problem.
I should add (to my earlier post about the D70) that
if you use a wide angle lens (including the standard
18-70 lens available with the D7
I've had the D70 for close to 2 years now, and would
recommend it to anyone without hesitation. No matter
what you plan to use it for (though I've largely shot
wildlife and landscapes with it) it's likely to be
excellent. The metering is perfect, the five spot
focusing and continuous focus are trul
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: krishna etc described as blue (or shiva with the blue throat) is poetic licence in indian literature. to literally depict them graphically as blue, rather than very dark-skinned, is an instance of latent indian racism - we don't want to remember tha
Thank you, Udhay. If (the rest of) you scroll down Udhay's mail you'll find a short description of me. I should like to add one thing to that -- while I always enjoy a lively debate, I am equally happy just listening. So it's likely that I'll sit quietly in a dark corner of the actual list, eve
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