On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:24 PM Thaths wrote:
> Does anyone know if the archives of The Illustrated Weekly of India
> are being digitized?
>
> I am interested in G. V. Desani's columns from the Weekly in the 60's.
>
I asked, and the universe, after several y
ng able to go to events....
Thaths
On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 4:31 PM Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> So.
>
> Given the events of the past year and a half, many people are dealing with
> loss and grief. Coupled with the fact that people have been stuck in one
> place for most of this
o thin films. Ms. Smitha's oeuvre
<https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810426/> has been sadly static since 1996.
Thaths
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Homer: Woo-hoo!
to do? I take
some solace in the fact that when science finds clear evidence of these
harm causing agents (lead in paint and petroleum, CFCs in airconditioners,
etc.) science/governments step in and take steps to get rid of the harm
causing agent.
Thaths
> Thank you for forcing me to describe t
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 11:07 AM Tim Bray wrote:
> I've been doing this for years with fresh-cooked bacon, never noticed any
> ill effect.
>
That is easy to explain, Tim. The carcinogens in bacon kill the carcinogens
in paper. :-)
Thaths
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at
If that was causing
all kinds of problems wouldn't we have heard of it already?
Where do you draw the line with this contamination fear? Are you OK with
flour arriving to you in paper bags? How about a loaf of bread packaged in
paper bags?`
Thaths
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Carl:
"APRIL 1, 2021"
S.
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 12:13 PM Radhika, Y. wrote:
> scientific translators group! I got a few but clearly am handicapped.
>
> Enjoy.
>
> https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.17198.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2waF59OkJQvfJbO4RONxnrnaLgFeqH4X42yk82RBpXnK_oRyqRD8AuAvM
>
> --
> *Translator/Owner*
> *A
And this year's:
https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/510/State-of-the-World-2021-page01.html
Thaths
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 7:45 AM Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> This year's version:
>
>
> https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/507/State-of-the-World-202
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 1:17 PM Thejaswi Udupa
wrote:
> Ozzy was off key most of the time, but the Shoreline
> Amphitheatre venue and the lovely, friendly crowd of mostly metal thathas
> made for a lovely experience.
>
It was not I, I swear.
Thaths
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music concerts, but I cannot quite place
them in time.
Thaths
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 8:17 AM Radhika, Y. wrote:
> 1994 Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young
> 2005 Arturo Sandoval
> 2006 Unknown blues singer at Terra Blues, NYC
> 1986 Zakir Hussain and Birju Maharaj
>
&g
e of D&G I would start here:
https://www.basenotes.net/brand/dolce-and-gabbana
Thaths
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gt;
If you are looking for such a place in Bangkok, you cannot beat The Atlanta
<https://www.theatlantahotelbangkok.com/>. It is a relic. But one that
oozes history throughout.
Thaths
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Homer: Woo-hoo!
On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 8:44 PM Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> My list:
> - Fragrance. I look at these as art and collect them for regular use.
>
What are some of your favorites?
Thaths
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ng these coffees with recently roasted beans,
freshly ground and pulled through a Rancilio Silvia is worth it for me. The
burr grinder was expensive, but it has worked beautifully for years on end,
and the Rancilio Silvia is over a decade old and continues to work like a
champ.
Thaths
On Mon, Dec 7,
ernate way of living more
fully and engaging with this world.
Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies (Hilary Mantel) - You don't need me to
tell you how lovely these books are.
Thaths
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 7:59 AM Venkatesh H R wrote:
> Ah yes Samanth! Very much so. (Didn't
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 8:04 AM Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 9:00 PM Thaths wrote:
> Apart from caste being an interesting lens to bring to US (and Nazi
> > Germany) society, does the book offer insights about caste in India?
> This book (incidentally, by a
aste being an interesting lens to bring to US (and Nazi
Germany) society, does the book offer insights about caste in India? Not
that it has to. The excerpts I have read were good and just looking at US
society through the caste lens itself is quite interesting.
Thaths
--
Homer: Hey, what does th
dp/030011916X/> which might have been
recommended in Silk.
Thaths
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Carl: Nuthin'.
Homer: D'oh!
Carl: Unless you're crooked.
Homer: Woo-hoo!
ooh! This seems in the same genre as a book that I LOVED. I will talk
about it when I post my list.
Thaths
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Carl: Nuthin'.
Homer: D'oh!
Carl: Unless you're crooked.
Homer: Woo-hoo!
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:22 PM Jitendra Vaidya
wrote:
> Thaths, you asked about Covid - one of my coping mechanisms has been
> walking 10K steps every day while listening to Kate Baker read SF stories
> over at ClarkesWorld magazine.
Thanks, Jitendra. When the pandemic began I wen
left a mark on you? What are
you eagerly looking forward to reading over the coming holidays? How has
COVID19 affected your reading?
I will share my recommendations later in this thread.
Thaths
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Carl: Nuthin'.
Homer: D'oh!
Carl: Unless you're
ell’s by Powell’s delivers the wearer to a place
of wonder, discovery, and magic heretofore only known in literature."
Perhaps it smells of Biblichor?
Thaths
PS: Powells is a renowned bookstore in Portland, Oregan
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Carl: Nuthin'.
Homer: D'oh!
Car
Happy birthday, Udhay and Deepak!
Suresh, glad that you are out of the hospital and doing better.
Thaths
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 5:50 AM Venkat Mangudi - Silk
wrote:
> Happy Birthday, Deepa and Udhay. Have a great day and year ahead.
>
> Cheers,
> Venkat
>
> On Fri, 23 Oc
-generation involvement with the
Cyclotron) in the documentary
Thaths
On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 4:16 AM Jahnavi Phalkey
wrote:
> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
> I am delighted to invite you to the *online launch
> <https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/cyclotron/>* of my first
.in wishlist
to order the next time I visit India in a post-pandemic world.
Unfortunately Amazon US refuses to sell it to me
<https://www.amazon.com/Women-Forgot-Invent-Facebook-Stories-ebook/dp/B08BZQDRKF>
.
Thaths
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Carl: Nuthin'.
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 8:57 PM Radhika, Y. wrote:
> Time to go to Silk on FB, for me.
>
Why? Are there no Russian disinformation bots there?
Thaths
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 8:04 PM Udhay Shankar N wrote:
>
> > Some spammer seems to have discovered the mailman instance that
act of perspective taking shifts things
from a domain of belief to practice.
I do not have anything productive to add to this thread and I am afraid I
might end up repeating myself.
Thaths
> I understood it as
> - empathy is a skill that can be developed
> - local maxima are not Truth
>
>
of whether you think you have a lot (or a little) of empathy.
Thaths
>
> Example 934 of the problems arising from believing my own propaganda.
>
> On Sun, 17 May, 2020, 21:30 Dave Long, wrote:
>
> > OK, if I have to come up with a bête noire to see all of yours, I shall:
>
e noir? And what is one thing that they are right about?
Thaths
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The New Yorker, Caravan, and National Geographic come immediately to mind.
Thaths
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 10:15 AM Ashwin Nanjappa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been thinking of switching to reading magazines with a weekly or
> monthly cadence for news, analysis, opinions, books, movies,
On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 9:47 PM Alok Prasanna Kumar
wrote:
> To add to the already fantastic books on this list (in no particular order)
> ...
> 2. India Moving: A History of Migration by Chinmay Tumbe
>
...
If any of you are interested in the music of the Indian diaspora, this
episode of Afropo
I got a paper copy of the book last week. It is.. definitely a
home-made product made driven by someone's obsession (in a good way). It
has the feel of samizdat literature to it. :-)
Thaths
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 8:57 PM Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> You can borrow mine if
ading the article. I plan to up my game with pickling
more fruits and veggies this coming summer. I can picture peach chutneys
and jalapeno pickles in my future.
Thaths
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/dining/indian-pickle-queen-usha-prabakaran.html
*India’s ‘Pickle Queen’ Preserves Every
to it yet.
> Winners Take All : The Elite Charade of Changing The World - Anand
> Giridharadas
>
While there is valid stuff in what Giridharadas says, I feel that he
(intentionally) ignores the nuances.
Thaths
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Carl:
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 11:17 AM Alok Prasanna Kumar
wrote:
> To add to the already fantastic books on this list (in no particular order)
>
> 2. India Moving: A History of Migration by Chinmay Tumbe
>
This reminded me of another excellent book I read in 2019 that was a good
introduction to the A
ish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth (Weinberg, Samantha)
: The story of the discovery of the Coelacanth.
Thaths
>
> - Anil Kumar
>
>
> >
> > Thaths
> > --
> > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay?
> > Carl: Nuthin'.
> > Homer: D'oh!
On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 4:35 AM Anil Kumar
wrote:
> 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 tha
ivation? No
> thanks.
>
Anything that pumps up my adrenal glads Maybe it is a genetic
condition of some sort that makes me allergic to adrenaline, but I just
don't derive pleasure from these pursuits. The same goes for horror movies.
Thaths
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Carl:
Reposting with a Subject line.
Thaths
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 9:05 AM Thaths wrote:
> Paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.10685.pdf
>
> https://www.wired.com/story/now-machines-learning-smell/
>
> Google has its own perfume—or at least one team of the company’s
> researc
Paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.10685.pdf
https://www.wired.com/story/now-machines-learning-smell/
Google has its own perfume—or at least one team of the company’s
researchers does. Crafted under the guidance of expert French perfumers,
the mixture has notes of vanilla, jasmine, melon, and st
I have come across some good books aimed at cultivating the writing habit
<https://shop.826valencia.org/writing/books/> in young ones at 826
Valencia's The Pirate Store.
Thaths
On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 9:42 PM Radhika, Y. wrote:
> I second Veena's advice. The same is true f
entire list (hopefully in mbox or some other standard
format instead of some weird shit like HTML or XML).
Thaths
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 9:59 PM Thaths wrote:
>
> >
> >
> https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwe9p/yahoo-groups-is-winding-down-and-all-co
me of you might know, most of Silklist is archived in Yahoo Groups
<https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/silk-list/info>. If Yahoo Groups
disappears, (most of) the 20+ history of Silklist will disappear too.
Any thoughts on how to preserve the archives?
Thaths
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 8:08 AM Thaths wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 1:37 AM Udhay Shankar N wrote:
>
>> Congrats,
>> Kalyan, and let me take the opportunity to also plug the documentary "Wild
>> Karnataka" [4] which Kalyan and fellow silklister Amoghavarsh
m street corner benne dosa places, to North Karnataka
food to TamBram food to mudde idli places, But I would hesitate to take
a foreigner with no previous exposure to Indian restaurants to many of
these. I.e., don't throw them in the deep end of the pool.
Thaths
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On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 11:32 PM Devdas Bhagat
wrote:
> Friend of mine are probably (pending visa issues) visiting Bangalore and
> Chennai.
>
> They are both European, so exposure to Indian food is limited.
>
> Recommendations for places to get local(ish) cuisine?
In Chennai Grand Sweets and Sn
Kalyan and Amoghvarsha,
Is Wild Karnataka streaming online somewhere? I want to show it to a friend
here in the US.
Thaths
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Homer: D'oh!
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Homer: Woo-hoo!
Congratulations, Kalyan!
I was just telling someone yesterday about Kalyan's work.
Thaths
On Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 10:19 AM Radhika, Y. wrote:
> Congratulations Kalyan !
>
> El sáb., 17 ago. 2019 5:15 a. m., Venkat Mangudi - Silk <
> s...@venkatmangudi.com> escribió:
is excellent value for money. It has many of
the features of the higher end Pixel 3, in a cheaper plastic body.
Thaths
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Homer: Woo-hoo!
iberately decided not to support saving of the
> transcripts in accordance with the privacy laws concerns globally.
>
There is more announced on Live Transcribe:
https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/16/android-live-transcribe-sound-alerts/
including transcription saving.
Thaths
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r-not
reputation score for you, you are burning through that score with each
attempt at 'Forgot password', (b) Your scheme to have random passwords on
these sites is only as secure as the password on the email account you use
for recovery.
Thaths
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019, 20:51 A
mber that
many unique passwords (especially if you choose strong passwords). I
recommend you choose strong passwords that you memorize for one or two of
your key accounts (Google, Facebook). And use a password management (I
personally use keepass) to generate and store strong unique passwords for
roid that does
> real-time
> > voice to text transcripts (and is also capable of identifying once voice
> > from another - so it shows dialog, instead of a wall of text).
> So, what Thaths was suggesting has been released finally by Google, and I'm
> able to use it
the world are heading to a Civil War
of some sort. Perhaps a Civil World War. But I feel this is likely to
happen in the near future, and not 20+ years from now.
Thaths
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Carl: Nuthin'.
Homer: D'oh!
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Homer: Woo-hoo!
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 2:53 AM Bharat Shetty
wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 11:15 AM Thaths wrote:
> > 5. Though a bigger percentage of the world will be literate than today,
> it
> > will be possible to use the internet without being literate (voice
> > recognition,
ting them in-memory to form coherent sentences and
writing them down.
Thaths
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, marked up
photos/images), and through the sharing of meme images/animations. One
mixed (textual and non-textual) medium popular in many parts of the world
(and with many parallels to emails/mailing lists) seems to be WhatsApp and
similar messaging apps.
Thaths
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think it is mostly used by us old
fogies.
Thaths
>
> All the very best for the new year and the next 28 years, y'all.
>
> ~peter
>
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/11/15/in-defense-of-puns/
Once upon a time—in 382 C.E., to be exact—Eve bit into an apple.
Seeing it was good, she offered the apple to Adam, and he also took a bite.
Whereupon Adam and Eve’s eyes were opened, and they realized they were
naked. Ashamed at
at. My cloud storage
costs me approx. $2/month.
Thaths
came here to post that Andy Zaltzman is doing a tour in India soon. Some
of you might want to watch him live. See
*https://twitter.com/ZaltzCricket/status/1043895759031144450
<https://twitter.com/ZaltzCricket/status/1043895759031144450>*
Thaths
r takes anywhere from 10-60 minutes.
On average, I'd say 60 mins/day.
Thaths
My favorite things to do with Chickpeas:
1. Chole Masala (lots of recipes online)
2. Sundal (a type of salad that could be eaten by itself as a snack or with
chapati/rice). My family recipe:
1 cup of chickpeas soaked overnight and cooked till just tender (or one
can, drained and washed)
1 inch o
er store!
>
> - understanding one's computer from transistor up (I have read there
> were such people, really)
>
This is definitely possible to achieve today. See
https://www.nand2tetris.org/ for example. At one time I knew how things
worked from transistors up to the Assembly level abstraction.
Thaths
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 3:43 PM Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:09 AM Thaths wrote:
>
> Speaking of skills obsoleted by technology... what other skills do we no
> > longer use?
> >
>
> Gently twirling a tuning knob to capture a vestigial shortwav
do we no
longer use?
One thing that comes to mind for me is using card catalogues in libraries.
Thaths
>
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:26 AM Lakshmi Pratury
> wrote:
>
> > Four numbers for me - my husband, my son, my driver and my sister
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 8
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 2:47 PM Thaths wrote:
> 4. Kenya: A Natural History <https://www.amazon.com/dp/1408134713/>, Steve
> Spawls and Glenn Mathews;
> ...
> I wish somebody would write an equivalent book about the natural history
> of India.
>
Apparently somebody did
e of his famous talks.
Thaths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aGRHOpMRUg
Thaths
[1] Can't believe I remembered a thread more than a decade old.
ly scraped by Hindi.
English, on the other hand, was a subject I loved. In high school it
annoyed me terribly that my teachers - mostly good, kind, intelligent ones
- insisted that a poem could have only one meaning. As if the Solitary
Reaper could only mean what the state sanctioned curriculum said it meant.
Thaths
I
follow a handful of people who fall under the Rockefeller Republican,
Economist and Financial Times subscriber umbrellas.
Offline: I find it much easier (than online) to talk to, and even exchange
views with people from other parts of the political landscape.
Thaths
>
> Some of you have known me after transition.
>
> For the others,
> I am Nadika.
>
Nice to meet you again, Nadika! Welcome back to Silklist.
Thaths
and you
have changed your mind about this (i.e., no longer being interested in
EVERYTHING Indian, but picking and choosing)?
Thaths
> - motivation = recognition; the lack of recognition is only sad if you
> think about it and such an outcome is not necessary
>
> I still believe in Sn
m
as a voice in the conversation. He is asking important questions about the
Democrats that are often swept under the carpet when faces with the
catastrophe that is Trump.
Thaths
nything you can share about who used
it and how (apart from seeing a good photo every day)?
Thaths
>
> What say?
>
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 4:15 AM, Ashim D'Silva
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, glad you liked it, and we’re definitely happy to kick it back off
> > if
On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 4:04 PM gabin kattukaran
wrote:
>Which are the ones you have tried? As a consumer, I have found
> 500px nice. Haven't tried posting there though. I find Instagram a tad
> too restricting ( https://instagram.com/cyntalist ) Also, their move
> away from chronological feed
arted the move from Flickr to Instagram (
https://www.instagram.com/footloosethaths/) for social sharing of my
photos. I am still looking for a portfolio hosting solution, but haven't
found one that works for me. Smugmug comes highly recommended.
Thaths
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 5,
e organizers?
Having never been to a literary festival in India (or anywhere for that
matter) I have no useful answers.
Thaths
-listed to the old episodes to catch up in the meantime.
Thaths
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:18 AM, Thaths wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:21 AM Thaths wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:30 AM Sidin Vadukut
>>> wrote:
>>>
>
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:21 AM Thaths wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:30 AM Sidin Vadukut
> wrote:
>
>> Happy to inform that podcast will resume production in 2017. I will
>> hopefully finish a bookproject by then and focus on the podcast and some
>> other side pro
st in the world. By comparison, my options
for photo processing is very limited on Linux.
If I were a gamer, I'd probably go with Windows. If I did more coding day
to day, I'd go with Linux.
Thaths
ing to a couple of Michelin
starred vegetarian friendly restaurants (Daigo, Joel Robuchon, Tudor
Tranquility(this one not starred yet)) while I'm there.
Thaths
l going strong. And my Pixel phone
(for podcasts, audio books, quickly looking things up on the move).
There is also a Mac Mini at home hooked up to my TV on which I watch the
occasional Netflix or time shifted TV shows.
Thaths
On Wed., 13 Sep. 2017, 6:01 pm Aadisht Khanna wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Thaths wrote:
>
> > On Wed., 13 Sep. 2017, 12:56 pm Suresh Ramasubramanian <
> sur...@hserus.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hm. What’s that stuff they smoke in those pa
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.
Thaths
>
Whatever
> it is the rabbi was on, I’d like some please. It’d be fu
gical debate.
>
+1 to The Rabbi's Cat (graphic novel). Has bits about the Sephardim (or is
it Maghrebi) experience.
Thaths
>
vel, but Amitav Ghosh's 'In an Antique Land: History in the Guise
of a Traveler's Tale' is good. It includes bits about Judaism in India (and
Egypt) and globalization in the ancient world.
Thaths
http://timharford.com/2017/08/what-we-get-wrong-about-technology/
Blade Runner (1982) is a magnificent film, but there’s something odd about
it. The heroine, Rachael, seems to be a beautiful young woman. In reality,
she’s a piece of technology — an organic robot designed by the Tyrell
Corporation.
that corrupts gene-sequencing software and
takes control of the underlying computer"
Malware for one platform encoded into code on another platform.
Thaths
retrieval
speed. But these days, I look at these opportunities as good exercise in
not replying with one's gut.
Thaths
s.
Someone will take them off your hands if you are giving them away.
Thaths
all the time.
3. You can sell it to keh.com the next time you are Stateside.
Thaths
ho is an Indian historian and an academic has pointed me
at some promising academics. I will update this thread when I read a little
on what they have to say.
Thaths
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 5:58 PM Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> Historians and academicians of religion can occasionally be guilty of
This book seems to be the one I am looking for:
A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674187466/> by John Stratton Hawley.
Thaths
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 3:52 PM Thaths wrote:
> I am looking for a book that explores the origins of, an
come across such a book?
Thaths
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 2:22 PM Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Thaths wrote:
> > By which, of course, I mean 'menstruation'. That'll teach me to not trust
> > my browser's spell corrections.
> Yes, I was wondering what your angle
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 2:22 PM Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Thaths wrote:
>
> Welcome to Silklist, Cindy. I first heard you (and of your work) a few
> > years ago, IIRC, in Dan Savage's podcast Savage Lovecast.
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> Thaths, your nam
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 2:14 PM Thaths wrote:
> On the other the patriarchy tries to keep women suppressed through a
> veneration of (women's) virginity, an emphasis of abstinence, rules of
> impurity around mensuration, etc.
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By which, of course, I mean 'menstruation
ut safe and pleasurable sex
would lead to copious copulation and unwanted pregnancies.
The less said about Bollywood's (and its South Indian cousins') depiction
of courtship, finding a partner, consent, sex, maintaining a healthy
relationship between two adults, etc., the better.
Thaths
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Thaths
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