On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:43 PM Madhu Menon wrote:
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> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 19:35, Ramjee Swaminathan
> wrote:
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> > You meant un scribe? Do you have any inkling of what you just wrote? O
> > tempora, O mores!
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> Er, whaaat?
>
> I've been an
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 6:50 PM Madhu Menon wrote:
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> Unsubscribe
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 18:45, Lakshmi Pratury wrote:
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You meant un scribe? Do you have any inkling of what you just wrote? O
tempora, O mores!
...In which case, it is a crime punishable under Inkian Penal Code;
for inkciting
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Thaths wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:45 AM Ramjee Swaminathan <
> ramjee.swaminat...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Deepa Mohan
> > wrote:
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> > > Less ancient would be the
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> Less ancient would be the time when the Thyagaraja Cretes were composed.
Accrete, but in creteyuga too, puns were a-round. Apparently they were used
to punish cretins.
Cretefully yours:
__r.
On 4/1/10, Amit Varma wrote:
> The thing with GOST is that your reaction to it is likely to depend on your
> reading aesthetic. I happen to like clear, spare, functional prose, and
> dislike the baroque expressionism of the likes of Roy and Rushdie. I see
> style as being a slave to substance, and
> > it is somewhere near either *Jayanagar oedipus complex* or off mark's
>
> Care to explain more about this complex? :-)
>
> Cheeni
oh I used to joke about this complex of the horde of wannabe IT
entrepreneurs (a decade back or so) - primarily from the
basavanagudi, jayanagar kinda middleclass,
On 12/18/08, . wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can someone point out a bookstore** that exclusively sells Sanskrit
> books in Bangalore please !!
>
Off Malleshwaram 8th Cross, very near the sampige road - not towards
margosa but towards the other direction; this is a very small shanty.
Good guy. - vends/sells
This is surprisingly short.
On 12/16/08, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Ramjee Swaminathan <
> ramjee.swaminat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> In the same way, Ashok, you have chosen your petpeeve and have done
> > (probably among many
heh! I s h o u d n o t take t h e ... b a it
On 12/16/08, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Eugen Leitl wrote, [on 12/15/2008 6:05 PM]:
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> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/12/mumbai-arundhati-roy/print
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>
> This is interesting:
>
> http://greatbong.net/2008/12/16/the-a
Warning: This is looong.
On 12/14/08, ashok _ wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:49 AM, ss wrote:
> > Nearly two years after the book went online - I find it satisfying that this
> > is as far as criticism gets. The inability to counter the content speaks
> > for
> > itself. :)
> >
>
> Perhaps
On 12/3/08, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 Dec 2008 9:31:13 pm Deepa Mohan wrote:
> > The point is, so what if she's guilty of less than civil writing? So
> > what if she's got a few facts wrong? If we the public were as effective in
> > scrutinizing and passing judgment on the
Onti, scroll down deepa and see please!
On 12/3/08, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Deepa Mohan wrote, [on Tuesday 02 December 2008 09:31 PM]:
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> > > By Kanishka Lahiri, a Bangalore-based professional in t
Nobody home, Miss Armoured Division.
On 12/2/08, Zeenath Hasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Poison of your choice in exchange for your
> valuable time.
I really appreciate the spirit of democracy and right to choice here.
However I would currently restrict myself to the choicest of poisson
dis
> I think the name you are looking for is Sampradaya.
>
> Deepa.
Oh thanks Deepa, a self-respecting chennaiite! (are you?) I can
always countess on you. Now a sampradaya search :-) reveals more about
it.
http://www.sampradaya.org/
To think that I had already wasted precious 1 hour at my lib try
On 11/24/08, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Tania Pérez Bustos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi A friend from Colombia who is coming to the FSFS.in in Trivandrum is
> doing research on creative commons and traditional music and would like to be
On 9/3/08, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I've been casting a bit for an educational toy for our kid
> (20 months, likes letters and gadgets). So far the only decent
> system I've been able to find is LeapFrog Leapster.
>
> Any alternative suggestions?
Eugen,
Dunno whether the followin
On 9/10/08, Giancarlo Livraghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This isn't really a silly question. I am working on a book and there is a
> page where I am quoting examples of myth, legend, folklore, fairy tales,
> fiction or whatever where a picture or a statue or an "idol" or an "icon"
> turns into
On 8/15/08, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> You've said quite a mouthful, Ramjee. You palate has many colors.
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> Thaths
>
Thaths your opinion, and I would have actually preferred
tongue-in-cheek rejawinders as opposed to pontiusficating about my
pilate!
Sorry, the moral of the story is - d
On 8/15/08, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Tania Pérez Bustos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why do you call FLOSS a peculiar movement? (I am NOT involved in any
> of it...I can barely send email!)
>
> Cheers, Deepa.
>
O Deepa, do you see any character f
On 4/10/08, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I was growing up, my parents lacked the money or connections or
> even knowledge to be able to send me to schools like Rishi Valley.
> They did send me to pretty good mainstream disciplinarian, 100%
> success rate ("Most of our students get into
On 4/10/08, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Ingrid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Except that in choosing both residential neighbourhoods and schools,
> parents
> > (usually) determine peer group as well.
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>
> Which brings us back to square one -- my
On 4/10/08, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We home schooled our children. Not a popular option in India I think,
> > and one can argue whether that puts our kids in the "good peers" or
> > "bad peers" equation, but I'm pretty happy with the results.
> >
> > -- Charles
>
> NOT an opt
On 4/7/08, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Madhu Kurup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think you meant this link:
> >
> I'm still trying to figure out what kind of school to send Ben to. On
> one side, I'm hearing stories of rote learning and exam drills
On 3/2/08, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> > (though I forget exactly how). I was sufficiently annoyed that I decided
> > to get the license the "right way", i.e. by going to the nearest RTO and
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> I have had a very good experience with the RTO in Yeshw
Same here. ABEbooks is one of the finest. A neat, reliable collection
and good service too.
Also there are two other services that I have found very, very useful.
BiblioFind - http://www.bibliofind.com/ - but this seems to have been
acquired by Amazon - but still. - they used to provide a great s
On 2/9/08, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 09 Feb 2008 12:31 am, Ramjee Swaminathan wrote:
> > On 2/8/08, Vinayak Hegde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Great! What a pleasant surprise. :-) I didn't expect to find so many
reasonably happy users of the pub
On 2/8/08, Vinayak Hegde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 2/8/08, Linda L. Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> How's the public transportation in Bangalore?
>
> Public transportation is pretty much non-existent in Bangalore. (unless your
> starting point or destination is Majestic). The traffic
xander's time that refers to the sugarcane
> as producing "honey without bees".
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> On Feb 8, 2008 8:35 AM, Ramjee Swaminathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
:-) the rambler strikes again. Probable reason: too much sugar.
On 2/7/08, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > (but again, not in all languages - in Malayalam and Tamil, they are
> > respectively called charkarai and chakkara, AFAIK - there are also
> > cheenchakkari, chenjeeni etc i
On 2/7/08, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2008 9:05 AM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > No...gur is called "vellam"...and palm sugar is "panam kalkandu".
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> There is also this liquid palm sugar syrup, in Kerala, that is called "paani".
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>
:-) Sugar daddy wants to
On 2/7/08, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Cinn_cas.html
The reference/details in this page appear to be incorrect. - at best
it confuses between cassia tamala and cinnamomum cassia. sad. The
saving grace is that, it is all in the (lauracea) fami
On 2/7/08, Hassath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :-) I think the list introduced itself to me as well.
>
NO, not yet!
What the hell, let me hassath a guess too.
We (meaning: my spouse and her grouse) used to know one hassath, in a
few avatars of her - very many years ago.
If it is OR you are *t
Thaths,
I do not know about Mumbai - so will inject some noise about chennai
and bangalore stuff.
In chennai there are (at least 'were') two reasonable schools - one
is/was called abacus (adyar/taramani) and the other is in velachery
(think it is/was called navadisha or some such thing - google
Not to be dismissed as crass pollanation. A very good read,
considering the fact that I vegetate a lot.
__r.
On 1/30/07, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Read the whole thing - it makes for fascinating food (sorry!) for thought.
Udhay
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nut
Shiv, I too agree with you in toto. :-) Thanks.
The one at Coimbatore is called Annalakshmi (near mardudamalai and not
the one on racecourse road) - and this is part of a chain of hotels
(and much else run by a group called 'shiva family' in australia,
singapore, coimbatore, madras...) - I know m
It is also available in the genre of stores called 'lab supplies' -
there is one called 'vasa scientific supplies' on Avenue Road;
directions:you enter Av road from the Mysore Bank circle and walk for
some 100 meters or so; there is a dilapidated building on the left
with a lot of lawyers' dens.
On 10/31/06, Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Cue reference to The Mythical Man Month. A good programmer is 10 times
as productive as an average one. Nationality doesn't matter.
I agree with Devdas on the notionality angle; luckily melanin does not
seem to play a role at all. :-)
Per
an excuse to inject some more noise into the list...
A taxonomy of Interview Candidates:
http://www.qsl.net/vu2sro/interview_species.html
Best:
ramjee.
On 10/31/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: [ on 10:11 AM 10/31/2006 ]
>It would be misleading if I did
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