You are right -having a local middleman does help.
Salil
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Andy Deemer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:15 PM, ashok _ wrote:
> >
> > According to the Myanmar government website, Indian passport holders can
> > get a visa on arrival (upto 70 days for a busine
You need a local sponsor to sign a letter confirming it, and send you a
fax. You will need it to board.Then need to show it to the immigration on
arrival - there's a separate queue - and they'll verify with the fax they
have received. You will need a Myanmar-registered business inviting you for
a
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:29 AM, salil tripathi wrote:
> **
> And ec(n)r prevented school-drop-out artists from travelling, since if you
> hadn't finished hi school, assumption was that sarkar maibaap would be
> needed to l
And ec(n)r prevented school-drop-out artists from travelling, since if you
hadn't finished hi school, assumption was that sarkar maibaap would be needed
to look after you and decide if you were eligible to travel abroad.
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Globally-mobile Indians also include labourers who go to middle east/SE Asia.
Creating a two-tier passport system would concretise class/caste system. If you
wear suits, have credit cards, and speak english and work for mncs, one queue;
if you look like a construction worker, go to the back of t
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 22:32, salil tripathi wrote:
> Udhay,
>
> Jan Lok Pal, or Mr Hazare will enforce the code, don't you worry.
or the judiciary doling out 100-crore fines,
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/
Udhay,
Jan Lok Pal, or Mr Hazare will enforce the code, don't you worry.
Salil
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Thanks, Aadisht and Sruthi, for dragging the discussion back to a sensible,
non-juveline plane.
I agree with Aadisht, of course.
Also see these:
Look at Deaton and Dreze (yes, the same Jean Dreze):
http://www.princeton.edu/~deaton/downloads/Food_and_Nutrition_in_India_Facts_and_Interpretations.
cast aspersions
without offering much in the way of evidence or even argument. Sorry,
but you asked.
I'd also recommend you read up on Godwin's law.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Salil Tripathi wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan
> wrote:
it is me, have you bothered to explore what I
write about?
> Journalism today is the inheritor of hard won freedoms that people
> have given up their lives to protect. To run it like it was a business
> of selling french fries is just not on.
>
>
Fine, will you subsidise fin
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On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 16:49, Salil Tripathi wrote:
> Some responses, interspersed.
>
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:2
Sidin's points below are a fairly accurate description of the newsrooms I
have been part of (between 1986-1991, and later, in different contexts,
abroad, where, too, we "the foreign press" were criticised for not writing
the "real story".
Salil
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Sidin Vadukut wrote:
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Nikhil Mehra wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
>
>> What with the Kapil Sibal brouhaha, I thought I'd better find out more
>> about what rights I actually have. I do know that freedom of speech in
>> India is not absolute and has constitu
Some responses, interspersed.
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> I'm not an expert in anything, and therefore I suspect I am eligible to
> hold opinions on everything.
>
> If the newspapers and media organizations of today believe in the "pen is
> mightier than the swor
Johann Hari, who wrote this, has been accused of various journalistic sins
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/16/johann-hari-debacle
That doesn't make Dubai a terrific place, but raises questions about the
source.
Salil
Correlation, causality, etc.
Sorry, am late in coming in, but has anyone pointed out this
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/10/the-network-of-global-corporate-control.htmlor
this
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/10/21/150-companies-control-the-world/
?
Salil
Here's the link to our report on water as a human right - implications for
companies.
http://www.ihrb.org/pdf/More_than_a_resource_Water_business_and_human_rights.pdf
Thanks;
Salil
I'd really like a copy of this, Zainab. Can you send it to my work address -
salil.tripa...@ihrb.org? We published a report on corporate responsibility and
the right to water. Happy to share that link here, but it is accessible and
downloadable here - www.ihrb.org.
Thanks
Salil
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Here's what I had written about it. There are some entertaining responses,
too.
http://www.livemint.com/articles/2011/07/20214319/The-right-to-write.html
Salil
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:44 PM, ss wrote:
> On Friday 20 May 2011 8:03:23 am divya manian wrote:
> > Norway has a lot of Pakistani refugees
> >
>
> Pakistani refugees? From the murderous Indians I suppose? Otherwise I am
> guessing life should have been pretty rosy for them in the land carved ou
Chetan,
A range of us came to London for different reasons. I don't think there's
pattern.
And yes, the City is capitalist, but the rest of UK isn't. And the political
mood, as Americans describe UK politics, has always been that UK has two major
parties - Conservatives, who are socialists, a
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Sent: 18 May 2011 10:38
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 03:05 PM, salil tripathi wrote:
> I ask you - since I live in London, am a desi journo, don't think london
> is capitalist mecca, and don't think desi
I ask you - since I live in London, am a desi journo, don't think london is
capitalist mecca, and don't think desi journos are left-leaning - hence my
query!
Salil
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I agree. But I blame Blackberry.
Salil
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There is Connaught Place, Kingsway, Queensway, and a statue of Gandhi in
London, if it makes it easier. And a crown prince, too. To confuse, there is
also a tall thing that looks like Rajabai Tower, but this town ain't Bombay.
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Sidin is rahul because he aspires to be India's PM when no one is looking.
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London is a capitalist paradise? Are desi journos in London left-leaning?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Salil
(Legalese: I blame blackberry)
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Ah good, Madhu, thanks, peace is restored. I missed that because when I saw
yours at 1059 am IST, here in London, it was still the crack of dawn.
:-)
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10:59 am IST is early morning?
Salil
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On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
> wrote:
> > On Saturday 23 April 2011 08:06 AM, ss wrote:
> >> Avoid high risk work. Like driving in India. Mining. Deep sea diving,
> Avoid
> >> sickness, or if sick, avoid doctors b
>
> Silk seems to becoming Messianic, or perhaps cable-news-ic. We have gone
> from "Is sugar toxic" to "Is Sitting a Lethal Activity". Next, I expect
> "IS BREATHING BAD FOR YOU? THE SHOCKING TRUTH!!!"
>
>
Life causes cancer.
Salil
> --
> Regards,
>
> Aadisht
> Email for lists: li...@aadis
Fascinating thread.And since Eugen asked what booth-capturing, may I
attempt a description of what it does, and why EVMs were thought of as
a solution in the first place?
In many parts of India, primarily in the North, all political parties
tried what's called booth-capturing. Armed thugs of parti
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Sriram Karra wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Mahesh Murthy
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Figuring out where to go this weekend onwards, I spent a few hours on
>>> Timatic doing up this list.
>>
>> muchas gr
I don't like nom de lists. That's a cop-out. I prefer to know the name
of the person I'm talking to on such lists, and know a bit more about
that individual. If I speak at a public platform, someone gets up and
asks a question, I may have one kind of reply. At a cocktail party,
another (more nuance
I'd like one, thank you, if anyone has one spare.
Salil
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 December 2010 01:42 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
>> Charles_Haynes, thanks Venkat.
>
> I already see you on my list/aspect. Do you see my profile already?
> Curious to kn
Sorry I haven't debated this point here, because I've been debating on
three different facebook pages, and with readers who responded to my
piece.
My basic points are:
1. The real story is about how the Raja scandal has been forgotten in this.
2. How Ratan Tata's reputation will take a hit.
3. Ho
Speculation is that the foundation is UNOITC - which does not exist - claiming
to be based in Thailand.
Amazing tale.
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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
The flickr photostream, if evidence was needed:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35803...@n03/sets/72157623747999438/show/
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Salil Tripathi
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> >
>> > I think AES is better than GOST.
>>
>> I think her best w
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Nikhil Mehra wrote:
>
> Apparently, he did a press conference as well. If he pulled an April Fool's
> joke, then he can go and f*ck himself. I doubt he'd do that though.
>
It is true. I have the judgment; I've been talking to him; and the BCA
has issued an ungraci
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>
> I think AES is better than GOST.
I think her best work was - honestly - IWAGITO.
Salil
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Shoba Narayan wrote:
>> ---
>>
>
> Why were you in court on that day? Just curious. Are you a lawyer?
>
>
Yes, Nikhil is a fine Supreme Court lawyer, and a brilliant mind.
Salil
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> Salil Tripathi [23/03/10 09:55 +]:
>>
>> Many years ago, as I faced the keyboard, I remembered that distant
>> afternoon when a journalist near Ayemenem carefully destroyed
>> Arundhati Roy's pl
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
>
> Yes. I haven't had a chance to read any of Modi's writing, but as an amoral
> politician he is par for the course - certainly not admired, but _not
> surprising_ either. If this thread was named "For the Modi haters out there"
> I'm pre
Sorry Shoba, the first response was from my bed, on a blackberry. Now:
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Shoba Narayan wrote:
>
> Salil, you are clearly very well-read and I don't mean that in a snarky
> way-- my Dad's an English prof. so I have a great deal of respect for
> literature even if I s
Mahesh,
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
>
>
>
> I'm a Tam-Brahm and I've seen this contempt-for-Arundhati thing among men
> AND women, and not just of the Tam-Brahm persuasion either.
> What's common to the lot that despise her is that they're all intellectuals
> (or liter
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> At 2010-03-23 16:25:18 +, sali...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>
>> … and her ignoring the more serious criticism from Gail Omvedt.
>
> Thanks, I hadn't read Gail Omvedt's letter and response to some of
> Arundhati Roy's writings on dams. I
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Shoba Narayan wrote:
>
>
> I could go point by point and refute everything the Indian Express article
> said. We all know of older Indian aunties with necks that have threads of
> talcum powder. I think GOST was more an autobiography than plagiarism.
> Ammu see
e her. That, and her childish counter-attacks on BG Verghese and
Ramchandra Guha (who challenged her on dams) and her deliberate
ignoring of Gail Omvedt's criticism of her work, meant I lost interest
even more.
Enough of preamble: here's that post:
From: "Salil Tripathi"
Subject: Mor
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> Kiran K Karthikeyan [22/01/10 01:15 +0530]:
>>
>> I read this article[1] by silklister Salil Tripathi a few days back,
>> and today I was told that unless I register with the local Karayogam,
>> I can&#
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Salil Tripathi wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Indrajit Gupta wrote:
>>> When Diana was divorcing Charles, Teresa apparently said:
>>> Poor thing,
>>> she has suffered so much. In public though, she was always
>>>
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Indrajit Gupta wrote:
>> When Diana was divorcing Charles, Teresa apparently said:
>> Poor thing,
>> she has suffered so much. In public though, she was always
>> opposed to
>> divorce, following the Catholic doctrine - example of
>> another
>> hypocrisy, the title
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> I find the association with fine, upstanding world statesmen like
> Haitian dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier icky, but not otherwise worthy of
> the kind of bile I spewed earlier.
>
And the Keating 5.
> The one single thing that (for me) push
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>>
>>
>> > There are only three 'r's in errors.
>>
>
>
> No, if you hesitate and make a mistake it's errror or as many
> ..errr...r's (don't spell it any other way) as you hesitate.
>
>
To err is human, to er-er is unforgivable.
Salil
The use of grievances may be time-tested method, but one should at
least dispassionately be able to figure out if the grievance has
merit. And while each community or caste has some grievance, it is a
stretch to argue that "Hindus are second-class citizens in India." It
flies in the face of logic,
Shiv,
You are positing the argument in a binary way: it is either this, or
that. So caste-system is fundamentalism, not being casteist brings
about homogeneity. Victorian morality was imposed at one point, now it
is being disregarded. Gandhi single-handedly convinced a vast majority
of Hindus to c
Thanks Kiran and Deepa...
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Kiran K
Karthikeyan wrote:
>
>>
>> The RSS goes back to 1920s, but a range of events, apparently
>> unconnected, coalesced in mid-80s, leading to the environment in which
>> Hindutva could flourish. It did not emerge out of vacuum; ther
Shiv,
I'm Salil, new to the list, and wrote the book.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:42 AM, ss wrote:
> 1) One set are the Hindus ho believe that sanatana dharma as an eternal
> philosophy survives anyway - whether religion or people exist or not. It is
> an eternal philosophy for the universe.
>
>
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