Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
From: Pranesh Prakash Sent: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:47:29 +0530 To: silklist Subject: Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 09:17, ss wrote: >> > Anna Hazare and his team will settle for leaving the judiciary and MPs out >> > of &g

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-23 Thread Pranesh Prakash
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 09:17, ss wrote: > Anna Hazare and his team will settle for leaving the judiciary and MPs out of > the ambit of the Lokpal bill provided the corrupt logcal and state governmnt > apparatus - RTO, excise, city corporations and the like are cleaned up. > Corruption in the latt

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-19 Thread ss
Anna Hazare's fast is a game of "Chicken" with the Indian Government. A description of that game is on this Wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_%28game%29 If the government allows Hazare to die from his fast it will be taken to mean that the government ould rather see citizens die t

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-19 Thread ss
On Friday 19 Aug 2011 7:23:44 pm Sidin Vadukut wrote: > Perhaps someone could go on an additional fast > And please be quick about it.. shiv

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-19 Thread Kragen Javier Sitaker
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:14:15PM +0530, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: > On 19 August 2011 19:10, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote: > > All viewpoints are generalizations! > > And if you don't agree with them, they're nonsense. While I appreciate the flattery, I assure you that I disagree with many s

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-19 Thread Radhika, Y.
> > > > Today, there is a perceptible increase in the number of young people who > are acutely aware and interested in the fate of the nation. That is because > they are different from the generations before them whose only objective in > life was to escape India. Now that the world is what it is,

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-19 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 19-Aug-11 6:29 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > Makes a very valid counterpoint to the mass hysteria around AH/Lokpal > nonsense. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/world/asia/18iht-letter18.html I'd also recommend Nitin Pai's jaundiced, but cogently argued view: http://acorn.nationalint

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-19 Thread Sidin Vadukut
On Friday, 19 August 2011 at 14:44, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: > On 19 August 2011 19:10, Kragen Javier Sitaker (mailto:kra...@canonical.org)> wrote: > > And if you don't agree with them, they're nonsense. > > Ram Perhaps someone could go on an additional fast so that we can also reviv

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-19 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
On 19 August 2011 19:10, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote: > > Are all viewpoints you don't agree with generalisations? > > All viewpoints are generalizations! > And if you don't agree with them, they're nonsense. Ram

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-19 Thread Kragen Javier Sitaker
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:03:36PM +0530, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > Are all viewpoints you don't agree with generalisations? All viewpoints are generalizations!

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-19 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
On 19 August 2011 18:52, Chetan Nagendra wrote: > Kiran, > > Why do you view this as mass-hysteria and nonsense? And why do you impose > your generalisation on the people of this list? > > Are all viewpoints you don't agree with generalisations? Kiran

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-19 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 19 August 2011 18:52, Chetan Nagendra wrote: > Kiran, > > Why do you view this as mass-hysteria and nonsense? And why do you impose > your generalisation on the people of this list? > > > On 19 Aug 2011, at 18:29, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > > Makes a very valid counterpoint to the mass hyste

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-19 Thread Chetan Nagendra
Kiran, Why do you view this as mass-hysteria and nonsense? And why do you impose your generalisation on the people of this list? On 19 Aug 2011, at 18:29, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > Makes a very valid counterpoint to the mass hysteria around AH/Lokpal > nonsense. > > http://www.nytimes.

[silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-19 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
Makes a very valid counterpoint to the mass hysteria around AH/Lokpal nonsense. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/world/asia/18iht-letter18.html Kiran India's Selective Rage Over Corruption By MANU JOSEPH NEW DELHI — The best thing about Indian politicians is that they make you feel you are a be