Re: [silk] india's seat at the security council

2008-09-04 Thread Vinit B
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

Re: [silk] india's seat at the security council

2008-09-02 Thread Vinit B
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

Re: [silk] india's seat at the security council

2008-09-02 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
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

Re: [silk] india's seat at the security council

2008-09-01 Thread Sriram Karra
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

Re: [silk] india's seat at the security council

2008-09-01 Thread .
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

Re: [silk] india's seat at the security council

2008-08-31 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
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

Re: [silk] india's seat at the security council

2008-08-31 Thread Amit Varma
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

Re: [silk] india's seat at the security council

2008-08-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
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

Re: [silk] india's seat at the security council

2008-08-31 Thread Deepa Mohan
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

[silk] india's seat at the security council

2008-08-30 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
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

Re: [silk] india's seat at the security council

2008-08-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
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

Re: [silk] india's seat at the security council

2008-08-30 Thread Amit Varma
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