02, 2008 2:29 PM
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: Re: [silk] india's seat at the security council
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Vinit B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, it is a bit unfair to directly compare individual temple
trusts
to the Wakf or CSI which control vast swaths
This brings me to a huge economic presence in India which keeps a
very low
profile..the administration of funds of religious bodies, like the
Wakf
Board, the Church of South India, and so on. The CSI owns immense
amounts
of property, and I simply have no clue how the money is
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Vinit B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, it is a bit unfair to directly compare individual temple trusts
to the Wakf or CSI which control vast swaths of property under a single
organization.
It's a common enough setup. Even the Queen of England makes her
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This brings me to a huge economic presence in India which keeps a very low
profile..the administration of funds of religious bodies, like the Wakf
Board, the Church of South India, and so on. The CSI owns immense amounts
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Sriram Karra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This brings me to a huge economic presence in India which keeps a very low
profile..the administration of funds of religious bodies, like the Wakf
On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 21:14 +0530, Amit Varma wrote:
And on 295(a) and its impact on free speech:
http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/dont-insult-pasta/
amit, shouldn't insulting pasta be illegal under british hate crime laws
too? unfortunately, pastafarians may have to wait a couple of
an example: germany is currently waging war against scientology, an
organised cult that tries to include powerful people and get them
addicted to bizarre beliefs in order to extort money out of them. at
the same time, the german state collects taxes from its citizens and
pays them out to
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:47:31AM +0200, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
an example: germany is currently waging war against scientology, an
I'm not tracking the press if I can avoid it, is this thing still
pursued seriously?
organised cult that tries to include powerful people and get them
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:47:31AM +0200, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
However, bishops are paid directly from taxes.
This brings me to a huge economic presence in India which keeps a very low
profile..the administration of
many indians today complain about nehru's daffodil-sniffing idealism,
and unwise economic policies. he probably was essential to keeping india
a democracy, which most of the elite recognise today is a good thing for
india; his contemporaries would probably have turned india into a failed
such extents: he refused to accept a permanent security council seat at
the UN for india, when the US offered it in 1953, and suggested that
the seat go to china instead.
.. and there he shot himself in the foot, more than once (hindi chini bhai
bhai suddenly turning into his crying over ae
As for democracy, wasn't there a thread on gii or silklist about how he was
responsible for quite a lot of laws abrogating the freedom of the press?
Laws that continue to be abused to this day?
He wasn't a democrat as much as a wooly headed and utopian socialist -
admittedly one with a huge
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