"Srinivasan Ramakrishnan" <sriniram@...> wrote: <content snipped> ... Labour being cheap is certainly a factor; but consider the alternative. Think...
Divya
divyasatyam@...
Feb 1, 2003 9:48 am
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... My first thought when reading that narrative was: 'how long is it going to last?'. India is big and relatively static (as compared to China, for instance,...
Eugen Leitl
eugen@...
Feb 1, 2003 10:33 am
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well maybe you could ask pg who it is. given the wealth of personal info in it, i'm sure it wasn't specifically intended for anonymous distribution, since it ...
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
rishab@...
Feb 1, 2003 10:39 am
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... I had a good laugh about that email. Thanks. I live in Gloucester in the UK after having lived in the US and India. I don't quite agree about the salaries...
Frank T. Pohlmann
polar_beauty@...
Feb 1, 2003 1:10 pm
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Divya wrote: [ on 03:17 PM 2/1/03 +0530 ] ... Me too. I find this viewpoint so irritating (this flame not aimed at you, Srini) that I start ranting every time...
Udhay Shankar N
udhay@...
Feb 1, 2003 1:25 pm
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I suppose I have to ask you then: Who tends to talk about the "Real India"? It happened to me, but what struck me was the fact that those people were rather...
Frank T. Pohlmann
polar_beauty@...
Feb 1, 2003 1:28 pm
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* Frank T. Pohlmann [Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:27:54PM +0000]: Frank> Who tends to talk about the "Real India"? It happened Frank> to me, but what struck me was...
Ravi Rao
mail@...
Feb 1, 2003 7:28 pm
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* Frank T. Pohlmann [Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:09:54PM +0000]: Frank> I had a good laugh about that email. Thanks. I live in *grin* I've been meaning to write...
Ravi Rao
mail@...
Feb 1, 2003 7:42 pm
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... I did not many desis in the US. I met some in the UK, but I never went out of my way to meet any. I found the talk about the "Indian family" frightening. ...
Frank T. Pohlmann
polar_beauty@...
Feb 1, 2003 7:45 pm
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Now, I am supposed to write an article about Pango. What the heck... ... Tehe! I wanted to see something like that for a while. My wife is coming to the UK on...
Frank T. Pohlmann
polar_beauty@...
Feb 1, 2003 7:59 pm
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To my Indian friends and friends of India, Much conversation on this list has concerned NRIs and their quest to find a better life elsewhere on the planet....
Bruce Metcalf
bruce.metcalf@...
Feb 1, 2003 8:28 pm
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Hi, * Frank T. Pohlmann [Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 07:58:29PM +0000]: Frank> Tehe! I wanted to see something like that for a while. Frank> My wife is coming to the...
Ravi Rao
mail@...
Feb 1, 2003 8:30 pm
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... Rightly said Bruce.. Here is one really brave Indian woman and one really brave set of scientists. And while it might be fine to argue about the standards...
Vignesh Nandakumar
vn1@...
Feb 1, 2003 8:52 pm
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Pradeep did quote the author on Dak Ghar - Sujit Bakshi. Udhay Shankar N <udhay@...> wrote:Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: [ on 08:04 PM 1/31/03 +0000 ] ... ...
Indrajit Gupta
bonobashi@...
Feb 1, 2003 11:10 pm
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What's the fuss about, then? It was there in broad daylight all the time. ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything...
Indrajit Gupta
bonobashi@...
Feb 2, 2003 12:07 am
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firstly, i didn't see that on the _silk_ post. and unless hcl got bought over by tcs recently, i don't see how sujit baksi, at hcl e-serve technologies, is a...
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
rishab@...
Feb 2, 2003 12:55 am
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... oh so you never figured out the wash-your-hands dance? you turn on both taps, and keep your hands under the hot water till just before they scald, then ...
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
rishab@...
Feb 2, 2003 1:14 am
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On Sunday, February 02, 2003 1:45 AM [GMT+0530=IST], ... An earlier space shuttle disaster brought to my attention one of my favorite poems - also the favorite...
Suresh Ramasubramanian
suresh@...
Feb 2, 2003 1:42 am
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Frank T. Pohlmann wrote: [ on 01:27 PM 2/1/03 +0000 ] ... I don't know about that, but the context in which the phrase "Real India" usually comes up is when...
Udhay Shankar N
udhay@...
Feb 2, 2003 4:08 am
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Bruce Metcalf wrote: [ on 03:15 PM 2/1/03 -0500 ] ... Kalpana Chawla is all over the newspapers and news sites. For example, rediff.com, a prominent portal,...
Udhay Shankar N
udhay@...
Feb 2, 2003 4:08 am
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... Is it just me or there really is some logic (twisted though it may be) to this? A few days ago I read this article [1] about bathroom sinks in the UK ...
Srdjan Keca
ksilofon@...
Feb 2, 2003 4:10 am
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... The trick is to keep an absolutely straight face and extensively quote sources of dubio... Oh, sorry, did you say hand*wash*ing? A recent study indicates a...
Abhijit Menon-Sen
ams@...
Feb 2, 2003 5:16 am
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Apologies, won't be able to get back on this thread for a day or two.....I knew I should never have posted or be on a mailing list with my schedule....*bangs...
Srinivasan Ramakrishnan
sriniram@...
Feb 2, 2003 5:33 am
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<quote> Apologies, won't be able to get back on this thread for a day or two..... </quote> Eeep.....ok...that was the "pretend-to-be-responsible" half of me ...
Srinivasan Ramakrishnan
sriniram@...
Feb 2, 2003 6:49 am
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... changing the temperature of your water may be a good idea, but only if it is within your control. unless your heating system isn't working, you'd probably...
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
rishab@...
Feb 2, 2003 11:40 am
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... Perhaps they did, and then natural selection did its job. (Yes, it's just more fun to imagine it being more nature than nurture.) -- ....
Srdjan Keca
ksilofon@...
Feb 2, 2003 1:16 pm
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... Ok, so I, Johnny Foreigner, was not that different from all the people I knew:) (Donning water-proof suit) -Frank ... ...
Frank T. Pohlmann
polar_beauty@...
Feb 2, 2003 2:38 pm
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GMC told of kissogram's failed penis enlargement ... Colin Blackstock Tuesday January 28, 2003 The Guardian A surgeon advertised as the UK's leading expert in...
Suresh Ramasubramanian
suresh@...
Feb 3, 2003 4:22 am
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I didn't mention the Silk post, you may have noticed; it came out originally elsewhere, and was posted from there. Both Udhay and I happen to be on that, and...
Indrajit Gupta
bonobashi@...
Feb 3, 2003 6:37 am
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Indrajit Gupta wrote: [ on 06:36 AM 2/3/03 +0000 ] ... As Rishab mentioned, the antecedents of the mail that PG forwarded included no explicit identifying...