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Topic started by nirosha sen on Sun Mar 6 0:16:32 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Sun Mar 6 1:02:30 2005. |
From: lordstanher on Sun Mar 6 2:25:42 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Sun Mar 6 6:49:04 2005. |
From: RR on Sun Mar 6 10:53:31 2005. |
From: Idiappam on Sun Mar 6 14:40:32 2005. |
lordstanher wrote: |
Nirosha,
donno if u were aware of this interesting bit of news I'd heard recently (altho not the latest!) tat our authorities had decided to actually get Hindu idols of all Gods/Goddesses to be made in China! bcos they feel tat Chinese r better skilled at making idols than Indians and can get it done cheap but the irony is tat instead of letting them stamp "Made in China" on the idols, they want them to be stamped "Made in India" cos they feel tat purists in India may not buy the idols if they come to know tat they were made in China!....donno wat to say! |
From: Badri on Sun Mar 6 19:59:15 2005. |
From: geno on Sun Mar 6 20:16:41 2005. |
From: Badri on Sun Mar 6 20:27:50 2005. |
From: geno on Sun Mar 6 20:35:07 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Sun Mar 6 22:32:16 2005. |
From: scorpio on Mon Mar 7 1:10:53 2005. |
From: Badri on Mon Mar 7 1:15:34 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Mon Mar 7 1:46:00 2005. |
From: RR on Mon Mar 7 4:07:48 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Mon Mar 7 9:07:54 2005. |
From: Badri on Mon Mar 7 19:06:40 2005. |
From: Ilavenil on Mon Mar 7 19:12:35 2005. |
sbadri99 wrote: |
Good idea Niro...here's a little trifle!
Mothers win over wives/girlfriends Surveys done in Australia reveal that mothers win when getting gifts from men!!! A comparison of the spending on gifts between Mother's Day and Valentine's Day shows the Mom is still a boy's best friend. Men bought more gifts and more expensive gifts for Mother's Day than on Valentine's.... Intersting, huh? |
From: Badri on Mon Mar 7 19:15:31 2005. |
From: Ilavenil on Mon Mar 7 20:01:09 2005. |
sbadri99 wrote: |
That is exactly what my wife said too, Ilavenil!!
Goes to show all women think alike, what? |
From: Badri on Mon Mar 7 20:01:39 2005. |
From: NM on Mon Mar 7 20:30:37 2005. |
sbadri99 wrote: |
That is exactly what my wife said too, Ilavenil!!
Goes to show all women think alike, what? |
From: a.ratchasi on Mon Mar 7 21:35:28 2005. |
NM wrote: |
I really wonder what they're going to do with the implant!!!! |
From: scorpio on Tue Mar 8 1:19:28 2005. |
From: Badri on Tue Mar 8 1:30:24 2005. |
From: lordstanher on Tue Mar 8 3:23:17 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Lord - Where was the news from Pa???? Please quote your source. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Another change of Avatar, so soon???? Don't worry, I'll change the next one back to Paru of Devdas later!! |
From: lordstanher on Tue Mar 8 3:28:08 2005. |
Ilavenil wrote: |
I think that is probabily because in Australia and western countries, wife/ girl friends keep changing. For this particular reason itself all Indian women deserve more gifts and presents |
From: Cinefan on Tue Mar 8 6:35:01 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Tue Mar 8 10:43:48 2005. |
From: Ilavenil on Tue Mar 8 16:05:39 2005. |
lordstanher wrote: | ||
Well, sadly in todayz scenario where the Western culture is sweeping our society slowly but steadily, we find tat most of our Indian women also happen to be going in the same direction as their West. counterparts.....atleast in most of the cities I shudder to think wats going to be left at all after say 50 years in our country! |
From: Querida on Tue Mar 8 16:25:34 2005. |
From: saji on Tue Mar 8 18:16:23 2005. |
From: Badri on Tue Mar 8 18:46:06 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Wed Mar 9 0:18:38 2005. |
From: scorpio on Wed Mar 9 3:08:29 2005. |
From: blahblah on Wed Mar 9 3:38:24 2005. |
From: lordstanher on Wed Mar 9 3:46:19 2005. |
Ilavenil wrote: |
Why did you say that most of the women are becoming westernized and why did you say women, in the first place? I have couple of questions for you. Are you considering women's literacy as westernization? Are you wearing dhotis to office? |
From: blahblah on Wed Mar 9 4:33:46 2005. |
lordstanher wrote: |
The trouble is, we always criticise the attitudes and cultures of other (esp. Western) societies in general, while we tend to think tat all's well & good w/ ours.....we ignore the fact tat similar negative points exist even within our society |
From: scorpio on Wed Mar 9 4:42:22 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Wed Mar 9 7:12:25 2005. |
From: Cinefan on Wed Mar 9 7:33:04 2005. |
scorpio wrote: |
Hi JG, Cinefan, Sandeep and all from Blore,
Is this true? Enna reaction from software companies?? My husband was telling about similar threat to Chennai software companies as well. |
From: lordstanher on Thu Mar 10 0:08:18 2005. |
Querida wrote: |
See people for who they are...not as a stereotype |
From: scorpio on Thu Mar 10 0:10:46 2005. |
From: Badri on Thu Mar 10 0:12:52 2005. |
From: scorpio on Thu Mar 10 0:15:24 2005. |
From: Badri on Thu Mar 10 0:17:13 2005. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Thu Mar 10 0:58:43 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Thu Mar 10 2:15:55 2005. |
From: saji on Thu Mar 10 19:10:59 2005. |
From: Badri on Thu Mar 10 19:18:26 2005. |
From: scorpio on Fri Mar 11 1:55:36 2005. |
From: Badri on Fri Mar 11 2:26:37 2005. |
From: scorpio on Fri Mar 11 2:32:08 2005. |
From: Badri on Fri Mar 11 2:57:09 2005. |
From: scorpio on Fri Mar 11 3:05:41 2005. |
From: RR on Sat Mar 12 1:18:45 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Sat Mar 12 1:25:33 2005. |
From: blahblah on Sat Mar 12 1:26:06 2005. |
From: jaiganes on Sun Mar 13 23:38:10 2005. |
Quote: |
JG udane MG road pakkam figure pakka poi |
From: Roshan on Mon Mar 14 0:00:57 2005. |
blahblah wrote: |
RR,How amusing!I wonder who was the inventor of this innovative method of collecting taxes!It works for sure!
Just think about ourselves in such a situation! |
From: scorpio on Mon Mar 14 0:09:30 2005. |
From: jaiganes on Mon Mar 14 0:14:51 2005. |
Quote: |
We can expect more wife basing jokes then |
Quote: |
Soon, we can all expect steaming prairie soup! |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Mon Mar 14 3:23:08 2005. |
From: Cinefan on Mon Mar 14 3:38:12 2005. |
From: jaiganes on Mon Mar 14 4:22:24 2005. |
From: lordstanher on Mon Mar 14 4:56:20 2005. |
From: lordstanher on Mon Mar 14 5:01:01 2005. |
From: hehehewalrus on Mon Mar 14 15:15:27 2005. |
From: Badri on Mon Mar 14 19:27:26 2005. |
From: Cinefan on Tue Mar 15 1:27:41 2005. |
From: scorpio on Tue Mar 15 1:29:22 2005. |
From: lordstanher on Tue Mar 15 5:15:34 2005. |
From: hehehewalrus on Tue Mar 15 5:26:43 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Tue Mar 15 7:59:48 2005. |
hehehewalrus wrote: |
JG congrats!!! We can expect your fiery contributions in one thread atleast |
From: scorpio on Wed Mar 16 3:06:07 2005. |
From: lordstanher on Wed Mar 16 3:07:19 2005. |
hehehewalrus wrote: |
yaar these kind of things happen regularly in india, dont waste ur time copy pasting things and sighing and shedding tears over it. |
From: scorpio on Thu Mar 17 3:56:38 2005. |
From: dev on Thu Mar 17 4:14:32 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Thu Mar 17 6:25:00 2005. |
From: Cinefan on Thu Mar 17 6:35:56 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
All of us are by now aware of what Shakti Kapoor has been accused of course???!!! Looks like the guy is a real life villain after all!!! |
From: scorpio on Thu Mar 17 7:31:07 2005. |
From: Roshan on Thu Mar 17 7:53:00 2005. |
From: scorpio on Thu Mar 17 7:55:09 2005. |
From: Roshan on Thu Mar 17 7:56:24 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Tue Mar 22 8:42:53 2005. |
From: Sudhaama on Tue Mar 22 13:20:54 2005. |
From: hehehewalrus on Tue Mar 22 14:46:09 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Hi folks - Just been following the panning of the "Da Vinci Code" by the Catholic Church. The fact that the Church actually forbids the masses from reading it, apparently lends more weight to its notoriety as blasphemous!
The good Cardinal has actually called it a sackful of lies! Now why would he be so riled by a work of fiction, I wonder???? |
From: Badri on Tue Mar 22 18:54:24 2005. |
From: blahblah on Wed Mar 23 2:30:39 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Wed Mar 23 5:51:48 2005. |
From: blahblah on Wed Mar 23 6:16:28 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
temptresses who are aplenty! |
From: nirosha sen on Thu Mar 24 3:48:57 2005. |
From: Cinefan on Thu Mar 24 7:36:31 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Hey guys - just heard Aish is working in the new movie, "Mistress of Spice". It's a Hollywood production based on the novel. Filming is taking place in Oakland, California!
Surya? Have you run into her yet, Pa???? 8) |
From: scorpio on Thu Mar 24 7:56:51 2005. |
From: Cinefan on Thu Mar 24 8:22:44 2005. |
scorpio wrote: |
Cinefan,
Hats off to you.. Perukku ethha maathiri ella cinema vishayathayum ippadi finger tips-la vechurukeengale! |
From: scorpio on Thu Mar 24 8:32:08 2005. |
From: Cinefan on Thu Mar 24 8:34:21 2005. |
scorpio wrote: |
Cinefan thammmmmmmmmmbi,
Podhum, podhum. Aama enna velai pakkareenga?? Film news anandan sishyan kanakka irukkeenga!! |
From: nirosha sen on Mon Mar 28 17:45:05 2005. |
From: Badri on Mon Mar 28 20:00:19 2005. |
From: Roshan on Mon Mar 28 22:57:52 2005. |
sbadri99 wrote: |
Sri Lanka also issued a warning that the earthquake could spawn a tsunami that would reach Sri Lanka's shores by about 3 a.m. Tuesday (4 p.m. ET Monday) and urged those living in low lying areas to move to higher ground. There was no indication anything had happened by that time. Guess it is safe now.... |
From: nirosha sen on Thu Mar 31 18:54:57 2005. |
From: Querida on Thu Mar 31 19:57:36 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
In Gemelli Hospital, Vatican, the Pope has received his last sacrament rites! Sources close to him, say that he is slipping! The world is bracing itself for the inevitable! |
From: nirosha sen on Fri Apr 1 3:22:13 2005. |
From: hehehewalrus on Fri Apr 1 3:27:17 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Fri Apr 1 9:48:49 2005. |
From: Querida on Fri Apr 1 20:27:47 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Wed Apr 6 0:15:09 2005. |
From: Roshan on Wed Apr 6 1:19:39 2005. |
From: blahblah on Wed Apr 6 1:44:34 2005. |
Roshan wrote: |
Nirosha,
You seem more obsessed with news related to Muslims and Christians. |
From: Roshan on Wed Apr 6 3:06:11 2005. |
blahblah wrote: |
Particularly with Pope and inside stories of Vatican. |
From: a.ratchasi on Wed Apr 6 4:04:44 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Wed Apr 6 5:49:36 2005. |
From: Roshan on Wed Apr 6 5:51:17 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Thanks Pa!! |
From: nirosha sen on Wed Apr 6 7:45:50 2005. |
From: blahblah on Wed Apr 6 8:04:40 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Anyway, isn't there anything else in the news for the rest of you to put in???? |
From: nirosha sen on Wed Apr 6 8:07:01 2005. |
From: blahblah on Wed Apr 6 8:20:38 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Wed Apr 6 8:24:12 2005. |
From: aravindhan on Wed Apr 6 8:27:02 2005. |
From: blahblah on Wed Apr 6 8:33:25 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Gosh mine is 1st hand news????!!! Wow!!
Okay-dokie - Try www.thestar.com.my. It was in today's world section!! But the news itself is from, a foreign news agency. Could be Reuters (have to read again)!! |
From: aravindhan on Wed Apr 6 8:43:36 2005. |
blahblah wrote: |
Come on Nirosha,why do you act like the greenhorns here?Your link doesn't provide any information regarding what you claimed.Try it yourself . |
From: nirosha sen on Wed Apr 6 8:59:10 2005. |
From: blahblah on Wed Apr 6 9:06:09 2005. |
From: aravindhan on Wed Apr 6 9:20:53 2005. |
blahblah wrote: |
Aravindan,you are talking about that funny newspaper which is not even well known in India? You ask anyone from South or central India about this telegragh and they will be surprised to know such a paper exists.It is available only in Calcutta and some north east cities.When I asked for links,I asked for credible links. |
From: blahblah on Wed Apr 6 9:31:40 2005. |
aravindhan wrote: |
But I think they make it quite clear they're reporting a rumour ("politics moved into bizzare territory", "rumour", "conspiracy theory", "may sound far-fetched"), not something which should be treated as or given the credence of confirmed news. |
From: nirosha sen on Wed Apr 6 11:21:58 2005. |
From: Badri on Wed Apr 6 19:46:15 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Wed Apr 6 20:53:14 2005. |
From: a.ratchasi on Wed Apr 6 21:15:20 2005. |
From: aravindhan on Wed Apr 6 21:21:02 2005. |
From: hehehewalrus on Wed Apr 6 22:58:10 2005. |
From: aravindhan on Thu Apr 7 14:29:36 2005. |
From: dev on Fri Apr 8 11:35:24 2005. |
From: Querida on Sat Apr 9 14:41:23 2005. |
From: Surya on Sat Apr 9 15:01:52 2005. |
Quote: |
You'd think they'd serve better tasting food |
From: hehehewalrus on Sat Apr 9 16:20:00 2005. |
Surya wrote: | ||
That's probably the only reason ppl actually ATTENDED the wedding of the 2 Senior Citizens, in the last chapters of their lives! |
From: Surya on Sat Apr 9 16:25:17 2005. |
From: scorpio on Tue Apr 12 1:03:28 2005. |
From: Badri on Tue Apr 12 1:07:38 2005. |
From: RR on Fri Apr 15 10:37:42 2005. |
From: rashwin1979 on Fri Apr 15 16:46:47 2005. |
From: krishnan on Fri Apr 15 18:34:34 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Sat Apr 16 4:23:28 2005. |
From: krishnan on Tue Apr 19 15:24:03 2005. |
From: Surya on Tue Apr 19 21:31:38 2005. |
From: Querida on Tue Apr 19 22:18:57 2005. |
From: blahblah on Wed Apr 20 5:57:14 2005. |
Querida wrote: |
Joseph Ratzinger of Germany [78] has been chosen as the new pope and renamed Pope Benedict XVI today
"Ratzinger is known as the "Enforcer" of the Catholic faith. And while he has received some criticism for his hard-line stance on many moral issues, he is also seen as an intelligent man with much influence." Source: MSN News |
From: RR on Thu Apr 21 23:17:41 2005. |
From: scorpio on Fri Apr 22 1:29:47 2005. |
From: Badri on Fri Apr 22 1:53:47 2005. |
From: a.ratchasi on Fri Apr 22 4:43:55 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Picked from Yahoo : hey heard this one???!!!
San Jose, Calif., - A woman found a 1 and a half inch finger in her bowl of chilli stew in a Wendy restaurant. Police scoured for the owner of the finger and turned up no clues. Suspicion though, is now cast on the woman, Anna Ayala, that she could have planted the finger there, to sue the Wendy chain!!!! |
From: blahblah on Sat Apr 23 7:04:32 2005. |
a.ratchasi wrote: | ||
True enough, the woman has been arrested! Click here |
From: Badri on Tue Apr 26 2:54:04 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Tue Apr 26 7:03:17 2005. |
From: blahblah on Tue Apr 26 7:46:14 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Oh, I'm sure he was being modest, Pa!! The highest office, you know; naturally it's met with trepidation!! 8) |
From: nirosha sen on Tue Apr 26 9:38:20 2005. |
From: Badri on Tue Apr 26 20:10:29 2005. |
Quote: |
I was quite surprised at the easy election of Ratzinger,being a catholic.As soon as we came to know that the new Pope has been elected on the second day,I told my wife that it will be this guy.I hoped to have a more broadminded man as the supreme authority of my church.It is wellknown that while John Paul the second was trying to have some inter religious dialogue, this guy came out with the statement that Catholicism is the only true religion.Again he is accused of scuttling a probe against a priest accused of sexual abuse.For the 1.1 billion catholics across the world,this is something to think about.Benedict the sixteenth will be forced to live under the shadow of John Paul the second and I don't see how he can win hearts. |
From: Surya on Tue Apr 26 20:24:41 2005. |
From: blahblah on Wed Apr 27 6:08:21 2005. |
From: aravindhan on Wed Apr 27 18:06:03 2005. |
blahblah wrote: |
I was quite surprised at the easy election of Ratzinger,being a catholic.As soon as we came to know that the new Pope has been elected on the second day,I told my wife that it will be this guy.I hoped to have a more broadminded man as the supreme authority of my church.It is wellknown that while John Paul the second was trying to have some inter religious dialogue, this guy came out with the statement that Catholicism is the only true religion.Again he is accused of scuttling a probe against a priest accused of sexual abuse.For the 1.1 billion catholics across the world,this is something to think about.Benedict the sixteenth will be forced to live under the shadow of John Paul the second and I don't see how he can win hearts. |
From: Surya on Wed Apr 27 20:10:31 2005. |
From: Badri on Wed Apr 27 20:17:39 2005. |
From: a.ratchasi on Wed Apr 27 21:09:47 2005. |
blahblah wrote: |
I heard that this woman has a history of suinf restaurants-Is it rue? |
From: Surya on Sat Apr 30 19:49:03 2005. |
From: lordstanher on Sun May 1 11:20:47 2005. |
blahblah wrote: |
Have you all heard about an incident where an 16 year old girl was raped by a drunk cop in Marine Drive Police Chowky,Mumbai? . |
From: krishnan on Mon May 2 14:33:16 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Mon May 2 23:46:48 2005. |
From: Badri on Mon May 2 23:54:25 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Well, Vivek Oberoi has finally admitted on a recent TV interview, that he intends to wed, my girl, Aish!!
After a courtship of 21/2 years, the couple are finally making their way to the altar!! I wish them every happiness, Pa!! |
From: a.ratchasi on Tue May 3 1:10:53 2005. |
From: Roshan on Tue May 3 1:38:57 2005. |
From: Surya on Wed May 4 17:49:50 2005. |
a.ratchasi wrote: |
The world has become a freak zone!
[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050503/ap_on_fe_st/sweden_animal_abuse/nc:757;_ylt=AosBL9.4fBdJKP_pgxbrCr8SH9EA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl] Sexually Abused Animals [/url] |
From: nirosha sen on Wed May 4 23:04:43 2005. |
From: scorpio on Thu May 5 0:53:56 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Thu May 5 0:59:18 2005. |
From: scorpio on Thu May 5 1:07:35 2005. |
From: NM on Sat May 7 4:32:22 2005. |
From: Shekhar on Sat May 7 6:09:38 2005. |
NM wrote: |
Dear friends,
Heard about the meningitis outbreak in the north. How's the situation in the south? Take care, all. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Sat May 7 6:25:08 2005. |
From: Bad Boy on Sat May 7 10:00:42 2005. |
Shekhar wrote: | ||
Meningitis is 'Brain fever'. North or south, women don't need to worry!! |
From: Surya on Sat May 7 14:44:29 2005. |
From: NM on Sun May 8 21:39:07 2005. |
Shekhar wrote: | ||
Meningitis is 'Brain fever'. North or south, women don't need to worry!! |
From: Badri on Wed May 11 21:13:28 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Thu May 12 6:21:12 2005. |
From: Badri on Thu May 12 19:24:40 2005. |
From: Querida on Fri May 13 15:02:37 2005. |
From: Surya on Fri May 13 18:26:07 2005. |
sbadri99 wrote: |
Now, that makes me wonder, Niro!
Do any beauty therapies speak of beer bath for better skin??? |
From: gaddeswarup on Sun May 15 6:37:56 2005. |
From: Querida on Mon May 16 12:01:51 2005. |
From: Surya on Mon May 16 14:51:18 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Tue May 17 6:52:42 2005. |
From: NM on Wed May 18 21:17:26 2005. |
From: Surya on Mon May 23 23:13:49 2005. |
From: P_R on Mon May 23 23:56:24 2005. |
NM wrote: |
Dedicated to the ladies of the hub...
Harvard to boost women scientists Harvard University is to spend $50m (£27m) on women scientists over the next decade after its president sparked anger by questioning their aptitude. Lawrence Summers said the money would be used to reform the way women in engineering and science are treated. The recommendations came from two task forces set up by Dr Summers at the height of anger over his comments in January, for which he has apologised. He suggested women had less "intrinsic aptitude" than men for science. The recommendations include appointing a senior vice provost to promote diversity and faculty development, as well as mentoring, child care and late-night transport. Dr Summer's office said reforms would be made for women "at every point along the pipeline", from undergraduates to faculty ranks. "Universities like Harvard were designed a long time ago, in many respects, by men for men," he told a news conference. "To fully succeed on these issues we're going to have to address issues of culture." Confidence vote Dr Summers sparked fury when he suggested at a seminar in January that one reason men outperformed women in maths and science was genetics, not just experience. Several guests walked out of the conference after hearing the comments. Dr Summers said later that the shortage of senior female academics was partly caused by child-minding duties, which restricted working hours. He lost a confidence vote by the university's Faculty of Arts and Science but, as the body has no power to punish him, he did not resign. Harvard's governing body, to whom he answers, has expressed its support of him. Apologising repeatedly for his remarks, Dr Summers set up the two task forces - one to focus on women at Harvard, and one considering women in science in general. |
From: NM on Tue May 24 0:11:40 2005. |
From: lordstanher on Wed May 25 1:33:44 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Thu May 26 0:09:59 2005. |
From: lordstanher on Thu May 26 3:58:19 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Sunil Dutt has passed away at the age of 75 due to a heart attack!! He had been reportedly unwell for 4 days before succumbing to death.
May his soul rest in peace!! I'll always remember him best as Birju in Mother India! |
From: Querida on Mon Jun 6 15:41:58 2005. |
From: Surya on Mon Jun 6 18:29:48 2005. |
From: sonu gopi on Mon Jun 6 22:23:48 2005. |
lordstanher wrote: | ||
IMO, in his youth he was even better-looking than his son Sanjay Dutt. |
From: hehehewalrus on Mon Jun 6 23:32:59 2005. |
From: dev on Mon Jun 6 23:35:52 2005. |
Surya wrote: |
Kind of a really scary picture.
Marina Beach, during Tsunami If u had been to the Marina Beach many times, u would see how powerful it is. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Tue Jun 7 10:18:36 2005. |
From: Surya on Tue Jun 7 20:32:27 2005. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Thu Jun 9 0:55:42 2005. |
From: j.chenkalvarayan on Thu Jun 9 4:07:43 2005. |
From: lordstanher on Thu Jun 9 5:41:01 2005. |
From: Surya on Thu Jun 9 15:22:04 2005. |
From: Surya on Thu Jun 16 14:25:48 2005. |
From: NOV on Tue Jun 21 22:15:57 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Wed Jun 22 8:09:41 2005. |
From: stranger on Fri Jun 24 9:31:41 2005. |
From: svasu_ani on Fri Jun 24 12:26:18 2005. |
From: NOV on Sun Jun 26 21:32:14 2005. |
From: Surya on Mon Jun 27 14:40:40 2005. |
stranger wrote: |
Spurs wrecked the pistons in the 7th game and recaptured the nba title!
Spurs: 81 pistons: 74 |
From: stranger on Mon Jun 27 14:45:50 2005. |
From: Surya on Mon Jun 27 14:54:03 2005. |
From: NM on Mon Jun 27 21:56:44 2005. |
NOV wrote: |
Metti Oli strkes again!
this time in Malaysia Man breaks TV to get wife’s attention: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/6/27/nation/11327402&sec=nation |
From: Shekhar on Tue Jun 28 0:47:45 2005. |
NM wrote: | ||
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From: NM on Tue Jun 28 0:57:55 2005. |
Shekhar wrote: |
Idiot! He should have just switched it off!! |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Tue Jun 28 1:57:44 2005. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Tue Jun 28 2:00:21 2005. |
From: NM on Tue Jun 28 2:00:25 2005. |
pavalamani pragasam wrote: |
That must have been tried & failed eariler, worse followed by wrestling matches or blonks |
From: Surya on Tue Jun 28 17:20:21 2005. |
From: svasu_ani on Tue Jun 28 18:02:35 2005. |
From: svasu_ani on Wed Jun 29 12:00:04 2005. |
From: Querida on Tue Jul 5 23:35:38 2005. |
From: ssanjinika on Fri Jul 8 11:23:27 2005. |
From: svasu_ani on Sat Jul 16 23:52:45 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Sun Jul 17 0:53:35 2005. |
From: rajraj on Sun Jul 17 1:02:50 2005. |
From: RR on Sun Jul 17 1:48:02 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Mon Jul 18 2:42:22 2005. |
From: svasu_ani on Tue Jul 19 10:30:46 2005. |
From: rami on Wed Jul 20 2:53:22 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Thu Jul 21 20:27:12 2005. |
From: Surya on Sat Jul 30 16:09:21 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Sat Jul 30 22:00:48 2005. |
From: stranger on Mon Aug 8 17:30:11 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Tue Aug 9 4:40:08 2005. |
From: stranger on Wed Aug 10 13:18:41 2005. |
From: svasu_ani on Wed Aug 10 13:45:06 2005. |
From: Querida on Fri Aug 12 0:54:59 2005. |
From: Thiru on Fri Aug 12 8:56:34 2005. |
From: svasu_ani on Fri Aug 12 11:10:57 2005. |
From: stranger on Fri Aug 12 12:06:51 2005. |
From: a.ratchasi on Tue Aug 16 4:02:06 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Tue Aug 16 5:54:16 2005. |
From: Sanguine Sridhar on Tue Aug 16 6:01:26 2005. |
stranger wrote: |
yes, I did like him. He was indeed very good, aunty!
--------------- Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" is being filmed now with Tom Hanks as hero! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382625/ |
From: Surya on Thu Aug 18 19:20:17 2005. |
stranger wrote: |
yes, I did like him. He was indeed very good, aunty!
--------------- Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" is being filmed now with Tom Hanks as hero! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382625/ |
From: nirosha sen on Mon Aug 22 6:41:26 2005. |
From: Surya on Fri Aug 26 14:30:47 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Matha Amritanandamayi or better known to her followers as simply, Amma, was threatened with a knife by a man who stood barely 3 meters away!!
However, he was apprehended by other devotees in time and held captive for the police to arrest. The incident took place last Sunday, in Vallikavu Ashram, Kollam, Kerala, where Amma resides and meets her devotees. |
From: lordstanher on Fri Aug 26 14:49:52 2005. |
From: Surya on Fri Aug 26 17:38:29 2005. |
lordstanher wrote: |
One thing tho- 'wonder who's going to wear it, considering its sooooooo long?! |
From: lordstanher on Sat Aug 27 4:56:58 2005. |
Surya wrote: |
They need someone with chubs to wear something that huge.
Possible Cadidates. J. Jeyalalitha. (Elections are right around the corner ya know? ) |
Surya wrote: |
And then the Aunties from the excruciatingly painful tele serials offered by our beloved Sun TV.
Sarika |
Surya wrote: |
I miss Chennai. |
From: Surya on Sat Aug 27 17:59:02 2005. |
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True But I thot JJ's party lost to DMK in the last elections already?? |
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Oh, is tat where ur originally from?? |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Sun Aug 28 1:25:13 2005. |
From: NOV on Tue Sep 6 0:19:40 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Tue Sep 6 4:18:42 2005. |
NOV wrote: |
A BACHELOR from Tamil Nadu and staunch supporter of
Congress has willed his estate worth Rs50mil (RM4.3mil) to the ruling party of India, Malaysia Nanban reported. S.S. Thirumoorthy who is in his late 40s and lives in Kovai has supported the Congress Party for the past 30 years. He wrote to Congress president Sonia Gandhi about his intention, saying that he had faith in and loved the party and being a bachelor without an heir he wanted to bequeath his money to the party. |
From: Surya on Tue Sep 6 20:00:14 2005. |
From: NOV on Tue Sep 6 21:47:00 2005. |
From: Surya on Wed Sep 7 20:02:29 2005. |
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“I didn’t believe it at first but when I saw it, I believe there is something spiritual about its unexpected presence at this temple.” |
From: Sandeep on Thu Sep 8 1:27:00 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Thu Sep 8 9:48:39 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Thu Sep 8 9:52:07 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Thu Sep 8 22:33:27 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
From CNN :-
Yahoo Inc. based in Hong Kong, is under fire from French group - Reporters without Border - that information provided by Yahoo on e-mail sent by a Chinese journo. had helped to convict and jail him in China!! Obviously, to please and cosy upto authorities in Beijing, personal information had been provided to Chinese police!! Looks like Yahoo has now become Snitch and thrown all ethics of non-involvement to the wind!! |
From: Sandeep on Thu Sep 8 22:36:37 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
As for the albino snake !! |
From: gaddeswarup on Thu Sep 8 23:05:53 2005. |
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Yahoo Inc. based in Hong Kong, is under fire from French group - Reporters without Border - that information provided by Yahoo on e-mail sent by a Chinese journo. had helped to convict and jail him in China!! |
From: nirosha sen on Thu Sep 8 23:11:28 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Thu Sep 8 23:22:50 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Thu Sep 8 23:34:46 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Fri Sep 9 2:43:38 2005. |
From: Cinefan on Fri Sep 9 7:20:21 2005. |
From: Querida on Fri Sep 9 16:41:03 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Fri Sep 9 18:57:45 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Fri Sep 9 20:42:28 2005. |
From: rajraj on Sat Sep 10 0:28:40 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Thanks a lot Swarup!! Appreciate that much needed tip!!
Although, for some reason the Doubting Thomas in me thinks that if you did opt out, doesn't that like draw attention to yourself?????? I mean instead of letting you off the hook, doesn't it make them more determined and curious abt us, which might invite more probing, albeit unwanted????? |
From: Sandeep on Sun Sep 11 23:55:13 2005. |
Cinefan wrote: |
Hey Sandeep,
You were in Bangalore right,when did you shift to Singapore?? |
From: Sandeep on Mon Sep 12 0:00:04 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Thanks a lot Swarup!! Appreciate that much needed tip!!
Although, for some reason the Doubting Thomas in me thinks that if you did opt out, doesn't that like draw attention to yourself?????? I mean instead of letting you off the hook, doesn't it make them more determined and curious abt us, which might invite more probing, albeit unwanted????? |
From: nirosha sen on Mon Sep 12 0:47:25 2005. |
From: NOV on Mon Sep 12 21:46:34 2005. |
From: lordstanher on Tue Sep 13 0:12:12 2005. |
NOV wrote: |
I would suggest Mr. Reddy to stop watching movies like Yemanukku Yeman and Harry Potter (magic scooter!) for a while. |
From: NOV on Tue Sep 13 3:48:52 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Wed Sep 14 0:47:46 2005. |
From: RR on Wed Sep 14 2:46:55 2005. |
From: NOV on Wed Sep 14 2:53:31 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Wed Sep 14 4:42:48 2005. |
From: NOV on Wed Sep 14 21:52:54 2005. |
From: RR on Wed Sep 14 22:46:20 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Thu Sep 15 2:13:10 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Thu Sep 15 2:17:17 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Thu Sep 15 2:39:51 2005. |
From: RR on Thu Sep 15 3:38:15 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Thu Sep 15 4:08:34 2005. |
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Thanks for the KurzweilAI link. One poster put in succintly: It looks like a case of the media getting hold of something and hyping it. De Garis was doing this kind of stuff with "gen-nets" in the early 1990s, and similar work was also done at Sussex university at that time. It's > 10 years now, what's the progress? |
From: svasu_ani on Fri Sep 16 0:21:40 2005. |
From: stranger on Fri Sep 16 13:47:29 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Tue Sep 20 6:43:18 2005. |
From: stranger on Thu Oct 6 12:05:15 2005. |
From: NOV on Thu Oct 6 20:46:32 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Fri Oct 7 10:06:53 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Sat Oct 8 7:59:23 2005. |
From: dev on Mon Oct 10 0:25:23 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Mon Oct 10 1:13:33 2005. |
From: dev on Mon Oct 10 1:30:16 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Mon Oct 10 2:12:55 2005. |
From: dev on Mon Oct 10 2:19:17 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Mon Oct 10 2:38:35 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Mon Oct 10 5:41:42 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Mon Oct 10 6:01:59 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Further to this, he should petition the govt. for action on the culprits. Indian Railways has its own Minister, doesn't it???? He should surely inform them of the matter too.
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nirosha sen wrote: |
What if this incident had happened to poor, unknowing non-Indian travellers???? |
From: dev on Mon Oct 10 8:14:23 2005. |
From: Sanguine Sridhar on Mon Oct 10 8:29:47 2005. |
dev wrote: |
eventhough this issue is gaining much attention, I am still skeptical of the action that will be taken... The max that they'll do is suspend the culprits for a few days/months & a case will be filed... God only knows when they will be convicted... |
From: dev on Mon Oct 10 9:09:32 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Mon Oct 10 10:01:02 2005. |
From: Badri on Thu Oct 13 2:57:39 2005. |
From: dev on Thu Oct 13 3:13:18 2005. |
From: dev on Fri Oct 14 0:31:06 2005. |
From: Surya on Mon Oct 24 16:05:21 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Tue Oct 25 2:27:08 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Tue Oct 25 2:39:56 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
Civil rights pioneer, Rosa Parks dies at 92, on Monday evening (US time)!
A fine lady in the mould of many of our freedom fighters from around the world! |
From: rajraj on Mon Oct 31 11:16:24 2005. |
From: Cindy on Fri Nov 4 23:42:08 2005. |
From: lordstanher on Sat Nov 5 0:01:18 2005. |
Cindy wrote: |
This is indeed a good story... fantastic!
http://www.asianage.com/main.asp?layout=2&cat1=1&cat2=24&newsid=190566&RF=DefaultMain |
From: nirosha sen on Sat Nov 5 2:13:05 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Wed Nov 9 5:29:26 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Wed Nov 9 5:59:03 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Thu Nov 10 3:00:46 2005. |
From: sivajayan on Thu Nov 10 6:59:31 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Thu Nov 10 7:29:53 2005. |
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Someone once told me, when he was unable to pay his fees, he would sit outside in the corridor of his class-room and follow his lessons, conducted by the teacher indoors!! What a inspirational gentlemen he is, to my own kids!! |
From: Sudhaama on Thu Nov 10 9:51:22 2005. |
From: j.chenkalvarayan on Thu Nov 10 11:07:43 2005. |
From: Sudhaama on Thu Nov 10 11:36:35 2005. |
From: sivajayan on Thu Nov 10 11:39:53 2005. |
j.chenkalvarayan wrote: |
U.S used white phosphorous against iraqi civilians,charges italian tv.
"burned bodies . burned children and burned women. white phosphorous kills indiscriminately.its a cloud that within 150 metres of impact will disperse and will burn every human being or animal" -hindu comments invited. |
From: lordstanher on Thu Nov 10 13:28:22 2005. |
j.chenkalvarayan wrote: |
"burned bodies . burned children and burned women. white phosphorous kills indiscriminately.its a cloud that within 150 metres of impact will disperse and will burn every human being or animal" |
From: nirosha sen on Thu Nov 10 19:05:47 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Thu Nov 10 22:02:56 2005. |
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What the US army does in the throes of war, is anybody's guess, Pa!! But I've given up long ago to make any sense of war or their tactics on civilians anymore!! I'm sure what we see on TV and the results of all those numerous cagey responses to protect civilians, is little more than a lame excuse to cover up more diabolical intentions!! Truth is but a stranger in circumstances like this!! |
From: Sandeep on Thu Nov 10 22:58:05 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Thu Nov 10 23:15:57 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Sun Nov 13 3:55:17 2005. |
From: lordstanher on Sun Nov 13 10:32:08 2005. |
From: RR on Sun Nov 13 11:20:59 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Tue Nov 15 19:53:38 2005. |
From: a.ratchasi on Tue Nov 15 22:11:16 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Tue Nov 15 22:16:25 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Tue Nov 15 22:27:57 2005. |
a.ratchasi wrote: |
Quake and tsunami predicted in S'pore & M'sia (Dec 05 to Jan 06) |
From: a.ratchasi on Tue Nov 15 23:02:29 2005. |
RR wrote: |
Management guru Drucker dead
Visionary and pioneer who promoted the study of management dead at 95. |
From: dev on Tue Nov 15 23:34:12 2005. |
a.ratchasi wrote: |
Quake and tsunami predicted in S'pore & M'sia (Dec 05 to Jan 06) |
From: a.ratchasi on Wed Nov 16 0:25:20 2005. |
dev wrote: | ||
Read this a few months back... but what is that dec 05 to jan 06 in the brackets???!!!... Have they predicted it to happn during dec05-jan 06???... |
From: malsi on Wed Nov 16 7:28:58 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Thu Nov 17 17:27:52 2005. |
From: Sudhaama on Fri Nov 18 8:47:58 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Sat Nov 19 5:36:31 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Sat Nov 19 8:25:38 2005. |
Sudhaama wrote: |
PRESENT CONSTANT MILITARY THREATS to India :-- PAKISTAN and CHINA
Says Mr. S P Tyagi Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200511181765.htm Under this Context, India's Southern border has become more vulnerable,.. .. because Mr Rajapakse, the new forthcoming President of Srilanka.. as announced today, is ... A COMMUNIST by approach and SUPPORT. |
From: S.Balaji on Sat Nov 19 8:43:07 2005. |
Lambretta wrote: | ||
China considered a security and defence threat to India?? I guess tat means Indian govt. shud stop the imports of goods from China, which started recently......! |
From: * on Sat Nov 19 12:38:52 2005. |
Sudhaama wrote: |
Under this Context, India's Southern border has become more vulnerable,.. .. because Mr Rajapakse, the new forthcoming President of Srilanka.. as announced today, is ... A COMMUNIST by approach and SUPPORT. |
From: Sudhaama on Sat Nov 19 14:45:57 2005. |
* wrote: | ||
Ridiculous! As it is, Sri Lanka are totally destroyed by LTTE tigers and over 35% of their spending is going to the Eelam War. In the recent elections in SL, the LTTE controlled Jaffna had voter turnout of 0.014% which is lowest in history. SL Army cant even step into the northern parts of their own country! Since Rajapakshe is closed to talks with the LTTE, there is every chance of the beginning of Eelam War Phase 4. Most cyber wars start from thoughtless comments like these |
From: * on Sat Nov 19 18:30:33 2005. |
From: Sudhaama on Sat Nov 19 18:50:38 2005. |
* wrote: |
Mr.Sudhama
Pls dont give lecture on China. You said Sri Lanka is a threat. Please justify how SL has the means to do it (without pulling China into this). |
From: * on Sun Nov 20 15:43:13 2005. |
Sudhaama wrote: |
India's Southern border has become
more vulnerable,.. .. because Mr Rajapakse, the new forthcoming President of Srilanka.. as announced today, is ... A COMMUNIST by approach and SUPPORT. |
From: Sandeep on Sun Nov 20 22:07:47 2005. |
From: Sudhaama on Sun Nov 20 23:22:48 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Tue Nov 22 21:59:23 2005. |
From: ssanjinika on Wed Nov 23 14:13:59 2005. |
From: NOV on Wed Nov 23 22:03:49 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Thu Nov 24 23:08:44 2005. |
From: nirosha sen on Fri Nov 25 7:45:10 2005. |
From: Bebeto on Sun Nov 27 7:10:20 2005. |
From: Sudhaama on Sun Nov 27 17:28:49 2005. |
* wrote: | ||
Dear Mr.Sudhama, Your thoughtless statement is becoming more and more funny. Please read this quote: "We know the closeness of India to the JVP and the Rajapakse camps and the assistance they have received in the past. Therefore, India playing a bigger role in Sri Lankan affairs is to be expected. And this role will not be confined to propping up the country economically, but politically too." http://www.tamilcanadian.com/pageview.php?ID=3597&SID=133 |
From: * on Sun Nov 27 20:40:59 2005. |
Sudhaama wrote: |
Please see this latest news.... which is self-explanatory. http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/28/stories/2005112813940100.htm |
From: Sudhaama on Sun Nov 27 23:09:14 2005. |
* wrote: | ||
Neenga kudutha link-layo Prabhavoda speechlayo INDIA pathi mentioney illaye. so whats ur point?. |
From: * on Mon Nov 28 0:55:24 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Mon Nov 28 0:57:43 2005. |
* wrote: |
india = democracy
pakistan = democracy hence india = pakistan = friends |
From: * on Mon Nov 28 1:13:15 2005. |
From: Bebeto on Mon Nov 28 6:34:53 2005. |
From: j.chenkalvarayan on Mon Nov 28 9:44:17 2005. |
From: Bebeto on Mon Nov 28 12:10:40 2005. |
Sudhaama wrote: |
It is a long-pending locking-horns which can be amicably settled only by an alien force...by PEACEFUL APPROACH.. on which India is best Qualified to be a Mediator..
In my opinion, India should become more intensively friendly with Srilanka, by involving voluntarily through Non-Violent measures... which must be easily possible ... both being of such an innate Heritage common as well as interlinked.... |
From: j.chenkalvarayan on Mon Nov 28 12:14:01 2005. |
From: j.chenkalvarayan on Mon Nov 28 13:04:24 2005. |
From: Bebeto on Mon Nov 28 13:21:48 2005. |
j.chenkalvarayan wrote: |
i did not mean to hurt anybody here with my previous post.i am a tamizhan too . but india cannot and should not interfere in this issue. may be as a peace broker only after both the sides agree. remember india is a sovereign state . so it won't interfere in any other country's internal affairs though the cause is noble. sad state of affairs . even bangladesh refugees who moved over and are still creeping into india enjoy as much status as any other indian citizen. but even in their own lands where they have been living for many centuries since time immemorial srilankan tamils are meted out second class treatment.this is worse than apartheid. |
From: dev on Wed Nov 30 3:23:05 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Wed Nov 30 4:50:41 2005. |
dev wrote: |
Girl dies in peanut butter kiss |
From: blahblah on Wed Nov 30 7:55:20 2005. |
dev wrote: |
Girl dies in peanut butter kiss |
From: Roshan on Wed Nov 30 11:57:09 2005. |
bebeto wrote: |
And don't forget one thing:
The "Indian" Tamils = Upcountry (tea estate) Tamils were second class Tamils for SL Tamils and they treated them like that for a very long time until the Tigers put an end to it. Thank Pirabaharan for that. |
From: NM on Wed Nov 30 19:25:33 2005. |
From: NM on Wed Nov 30 19:32:39 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Wed Nov 30 21:27:05 2005. |
From: NOV on Wed Nov 30 21:57:34 2005. |
From: dev on Wed Nov 30 22:03:39 2005. |
blahblah wrote: | ||
15 years? Good example for youngsters-that's the age for peanuts,not for kiss! |
From: dev on Wed Nov 30 22:04:51 2005. |
Sandeep wrote: |
A criminal should be punished based on his crime and not based on his family details.
|
From: Bebeto on Thu Dec 1 9:23:55 2005. |
Roshan wrote: | ||
What do I call this - Rubbish , Utter Ignorance or Blind Devotion?? Until this moment the hill country Indian origins are considered as third class citizens by the so called Nothern Tamils and their attitude would never change. ( I am not saying SL Tamils because SL Tamils consists of vast range of communities who have totally different culture and attitudes as compared to the Nothern Tamils). Pirabakaran has nothing to do with the hill country Tanils and had never done anything to uplift the life of those people. Arumugam Thondaman - who reperesents the Indian hill country Tamils - hardly gives a damn to Pirabakaran. The Indian hill country people will just follow what Arumugam says and will never follow Pirabakaran or the Nothern Tamils or try to adopt their attitude, culture or values. |
From: ssanjinika on Thu Dec 1 10:58:18 2005. |
blahblah wrote: | ||
15 years? Good example for youngsters-that's the age for peanuts,not for kiss! |
From: sabari on Thu Dec 1 11:13:43 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Thu Dec 1 11:16:14 2005. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
This incident happened where the people are very conservative.The children out here are home schooled and the parents are hardworking christians who pray everyday and go to church every sunday.Their children even attend sunday school. |
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Personally I feel that incidents such as this happen soley because the culture here is to allow kids to start dating at such an young age. |
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On the other hand the situation is so out of hand that if the parents try to put a stop the "dating culture" they are usually shot/beaten/pushed from the stairs etc etc.Its actually pretty scary! |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Thu Dec 1 11:53:13 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Thu Dec 1 11:58:55 2005. |
pavalamani pragasam wrote: |
Lambretta, what can we hope for with the Satanic preachers of the "new culture" in our midst hailing from the "show" business(pun intended) who are lucky to draw international favour too! |
From: ssanjinika on Thu Dec 1 12:11:16 2005. |
Lambretta wrote: |
Ur talking abt the US??!! I mean there r ppl. who r still like this out there, even today??! |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Thu Dec 1 12:14:13 2005. |
From: ssanjinika on Thu Dec 1 12:15:22 2005. |
pavalamani pragasam wrote: |
But the global impact of "this one section shown on TV" is calamitously great! |
From: Lambretta on Thu Dec 1 12:21:42 2005. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
Digression cont...
there r also other sections of society who dont believe in anything "modern" in their terms..not even in electricity and running water.They are the Amish who belive the best way to live is to live life as it was lived in 1800s. |
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Finally there are a lot of people whose lives and culture is very similer to ours.Which frowns upon intercaste relationships...gets together for all festivals..places family above everything else etc etc. |
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Its too vast a nation..and its really unfair to just group everyone into this one section shown on TV! |
From: ssanjinika on Thu Dec 1 13:22:40 2005. |
From: sabari on Thu Dec 1 13:37:37 2005. |
From: ssanjinika on Thu Dec 1 14:12:55 2005. |
From: sabari on Thu Dec 1 16:06:58 2005. |
From: * on Fri Dec 2 0:04:29 2005. |
Bebeto wrote: |
But I do know that the estate workers were treatet like the third or even worse from my time until 1978 in SL atleast in Jaffna. The northies even thought that they speak the better Tamil of all. |
From: Bebeto on Fri Dec 2 8:41:50 2005. |
* wrote: | ||
Much like our tamil nadu dialects, SL tamil has its own dialects among the natives of Jaffna, Vanni and Batticaloa. As far the caste equations among tamils, its not just between SL and Indian tamils, even within SL tamils there is very strong caste-consciousness...I have noticed this coming into the picture even among the dating lives of expatriate sri lankan tamils. It is sad that even despite having a common enemy, sri lankan tamils are not able to eliminate this factor. Bebeto, Roshan Can you pls shed more light on the status of the Hill Country tamils as of today? I was going through a site(SL govt run) which tried to make some anti-LTTE propaganda over the recent shooting of a jaffna professor - the site was pointing to caste equations and even claims that upto 15% of the LTTE are the hill country tamils, who are brainwashed and conscripted as easy targets. (Sounded like the British divide-and-rule policy to me) I am curious how this is possible since the life of the hill country tamils is shaped around the Sinhala central districts and they are even closer to the Sinhala culture than the Northern Sri Lankan tamils. Can you give some information about the demographics of the tamils living in North and North-East, especially the ones recruited by the LTTE? Also, what percentage of the tamils around Kandy, Anuradhapura are Sri lankan and indian? |
From: ssanjinika on Fri Dec 2 10:01:00 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Fri Dec 2 13:29:52 2005. |
From: Surya on Fri Dec 2 23:44:51 2005. |
From: * on Sun Dec 4 17:29:59 2005. |
From: Nerd on Sun Dec 4 19:17:42 2005. |
From: Surya on Sun Dec 4 20:20:16 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Sun Dec 4 22:27:15 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Mon Dec 5 0:18:02 2005. |
From: ssanjinika on Mon Dec 5 9:54:45 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Mon Dec 5 11:17:05 2005. |
From: Surya on Mon Dec 5 17:54:12 2005. |
Sandeep wrote: |
Reminds me of an incident when I was in 6th, the principal punished me for not being in the class room though there was no teacher for that period (not that i was miss behaving i was just roaming around). He smacked a double sided trash on my ears and trust me I saw stars. Had I been not lucky both my ear drums would have broken.
Not that it was the only punishment I have received but it was the only one which I cannot laugh at even now and given a chance will like to pay back. |
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But I told my mother all abt it & she came w/ me to the school the next day & fired tat teacher openly, taking the matter to the school Director! She refused to leave until the teacher apologised for her action |
From: Sanguine Sridhar on Mon Dec 5 18:07:51 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Mon Dec 5 21:12:55 2005. |
Beckham wrote: |
girl,her target always on boyz..esp me She wrote my name everytime(Eventhough i didn opn my mouth). |
From: Querida on Mon Dec 5 22:00:16 2005. |
From: dev on Mon Dec 5 22:37:52 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Mon Dec 5 22:52:54 2005. |
Surya wrote: |
Lord Machi!! to ur mom too!!.........My parents never interfered with the punishments etc that I got in school. Infact, on the first days of school, my dad would meet the teachers, and ask them to not show any mercy on me!! |
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What pissed me off is that when I got into fights @ SGHS in Bangalore, they didn't care who provoked it etc. There was this fellow called Mr. Saranraj I think, I forget his name, but he used to pull on my sideburns everytime I got into a fight. He'd do it once, then again, then again, slap, then pull again and again, and ask me to go to my seat. |
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Now it makes me wonder if these things are personal frustrations that are taken out on students. |
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PS: We should start a thread on this!! |
From: Lambretta on Mon Dec 5 23:01:16 2005. |
Beckham wrote: |
Like you Lamb..one day i told this to my ma..she became very angry and she fired at Esther mam like anything on the very next day and reported to the school principal.Next day they changed my section from A to B ..there i got very very sweet mam called Shanthi Mam ..very caring |
From: Sandeep on Mon Dec 5 23:14:07 2005. |
From: dev on Mon Dec 5 23:15:14 2005. |
From: Nerd on Mon Dec 5 23:16:35 2005. |
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not to call my ID by the 1st 4 letters.... |
From: Sandeep on Mon Dec 5 23:23:34 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Mon Dec 5 23:55:22 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Tue Dec 6 1:06:09 2005. |
Sandeep wrote: |
The link you gave reminded me of my Fathers scooter, oh i used to love it so much. |
From: Lambretta on Tue Dec 6 1:12:38 2005. |
dev wrote: |
Lamby, is that ur lamby???!!!... |
From: Lambretta on Tue Dec 6 1:16:22 2005. |
Sandeep wrote: |
Ok back to the Picks of the Day
India mulls proposal to lower marriageable age for men The government has said it is considering a proposal to determine a "common age" of 18 years for both men and women to be legally eligible to get married. This would imply lowering the age of consent for men from 21 to 18. |
From: Sandeep on Tue Dec 6 1:30:43 2005. |
Lambretta wrote: |
Btw Sandeep, if u loved ur father's scooter so much, y did u let him sell it at all???!! Or were u too young to've made him listen to u?! |
From: dev on Tue Dec 6 1:33:35 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Tue Dec 6 1:40:05 2005. |
Sandeep wrote: |
He didn't. He passed away during my childhood. |
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Later my elder brother learned driving on it. IT taught me driving too. So you can imagine how attached we where to that Lamby. But we couldnt use it for daily needs and lack of use was effecting the engine. So we sold it. Well sold only the vehicles not the memories. It still remains in my image of our complete family. |
From: Lambretta on Tue Dec 6 1:51:59 2005. |
dev wrote: |
My FIL still has a lamby... not coz he loves it but he's sentimentally attached to it... I guess it was the first scooter he bought... |
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Dad too had a lambretta but sold it long back to a mechanic... When I went to India last june, I saw the mechanic still riding it... Brought back sweet old memories... Dad used to allow us to paint our names on his lamby... One side of the lamby had my name & the other side had my brother's name... I still have a pic of mine posing on the lambretta... |
From: Sandeep on Tue Dec 6 2:04:42 2005. |
From: dev on Tue Dec 6 2:23:28 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Tue Dec 6 3:57:46 2005. |
Sandeep wrote: |
No pictures on hand may be my mother has. But yes it was the same colour - light blue dark blue combination but we maintained it much better than the one in the picture. |
dev wrote: |
The one my FIl had is this... Just realised that it's a lambretta & not a lamby... http://images.google.com.sg/imgres?imgurl=http://qingy.sourceforge.net/images/lambretta.jpg&imgrefurl=http://qingy.sourceforge.net/themes.php&h=768&w=1024&sz=105&tbnid=oljEA4bBPSkJ:&tbnh=112&tbnw=149&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlambretta%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D&oi=imagesr&start=2 |
From: dev on Tue Dec 6 4:41:07 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Tue Dec 6 8:47:04 2005. |
dev wrote: |
I can chk with my husband if U want... |
From: dev on Tue Dec 6 9:23:54 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Tue Dec 6 9:26:44 2005. |
From: ssanjinika on Tue Dec 6 9:49:56 2005. |
Surya wrote: |
You are quite lucky too!! My parents never interfered with the punishments etc that I got in school. Infact, on the first days of school, my dad would meet the teachers, and ask them to not show any mercy on me!! |
surya wrote: |
Sanjinika, Did u go to an all girls school or something? |
From: Lambretta on Tue Dec 6 11:34:57 2005. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
On the other hand my mom who is a teacher by the way says that a lot of parents who come in to complain ,complain about every small punishment given to the students..its gone to such an extent that the children just dont listen to their teachers because they know that they wont be punished..and if they are they have their parents to come and fight(literally) with the teachers. |
From: ssanjinika on Tue Dec 6 12:05:18 2005. |
From: stranger on Tue Dec 6 12:41:48 2005. |
From: Sanguine Sridhar on Tue Dec 6 13:08:26 2005. |
Lambretta wrote: | ||
Sri, to ur mom too mate! *digrsn* Oh, and this is my supposedly last request not to call my ID by the 1st 4 letters.... As I said, Lamby is acceptable! *end digrsn* |
From: Lambretta on Tue Dec 6 22:55:08 2005. |
Beckham wrote: |
Lamb is nice man.... There was an English cricketer with that name Alan Lamb...You don like it... But i like it Lamb! |
From: Sanguine Sridhar on Wed Dec 7 9:00:39 2005. |
Lambretta wrote: | ||
So keen to dig ur own grave, Becks??!!! U don't want me to emulate stranger now (as in the "Moderators" thread) |
From: Bebeto on Wed Dec 7 9:37:26 2005. |
stranger wrote: |
Singapore Hangs Australian Drug Smuggler
Nguyen's supporters outside the prison included Gopalan and Krishnan Murugesu, teenage twin brothers whose father, Shanmugam, was executed in May after he was caught with 2.2 pounds of marijuana on Aug. 29, 2003, as he returned from Malaysia by motorcycle. |
From: Lambretta on Wed Dec 7 10:03:59 2005. |
Beckham wrote: |
Lamby i thought u r a bit cool personality...I m sorry
Just for fun i said... Anyways gudbye! |
From: Lambretta on Wed Dec 7 10:11:55 2005. |
Bebeto wrote: | ||
The thing I don't understand is that Nguyen was on his way to Australia and he was not entering Malaysia! International Airports are regarded as Noman's land. For example if you are travelling with an Indian Aircraft or Pakistani vessel then you are on Indian territory in the case of the airliner and on Pakistani soil if by ship. Incase of Shanmugam Murugesu the matter is different as he was travelling overland. What happened to that 2.2 pounds of Ganja? I would have been flying for quite a long while all day and all night with this amount. The worth of it here about 5500,- Euro. |
From: stranger on Wed Dec 7 10:33:59 2005. |
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Wat I find surprising abt Singapore laws is tat they hav death penalty for drug trafficking.........but for more serious crimes like rape etc. its caning on the backside + life imprisonment! |
From: Lambretta on Wed Dec 7 10:48:43 2005. |
stranger wrote: |
Well, drug is a dirty business!
Innocent kids have been abused by some punks. The only way to eradicate that is severe punishment but I am not sure they deserve death penalty. Well if you cant live without drug dealing, move to some south-american nation, where there may not be a death penalty for drug-dealing. Singapore is not the place to fool around. I believe, there is a debate going on in Canada about "making mirijuana a "legal drug". Shanmugam would be living now if he dealt with marijuana in Canada or south-america instead of singapore |
From: ssanjinika on Wed Dec 7 12:13:41 2005. |
From: Surya on Fri Dec 9 14:46:20 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Sun Dec 11 22:13:25 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Sun Dec 11 22:20:33 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Sun Dec 11 23:00:51 2005. |
Sandeep wrote: |
Dismissing concerns that population growth could result in unemployment, he said people should look at self-employment as an option and not depend on jobs. |
From: nirosha sen on Mon Dec 12 6:11:15 2005. |
From: stranger on Mon Dec 12 10:48:09 2005. |
nirosha sen wrote: |
* I've noticed this much abt kids: the fewer there are the less are they willing to share! * Selfishness comes naturally to such kids as they grow into adulthood as well!! |
From: Lambretta on Mon Dec 12 11:24:42 2005. |
stranger wrote: |
Anyway, when India has such an exploding population, it would not be a bad idea to have one highly selfish kid instead of having three broad-minded kids. |
From: nirosha sen on Tue Dec 13 1:56:47 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Tue Dec 13 4:13:01 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Wed Dec 14 22:40:25 2005. |
From: rajraj on Thu Dec 15 18:52:50 2005. |
From: blahblah on Sat Dec 17 4:01:23 2005. |
From: Surya on Sat Dec 17 5:42:41 2005. |
From: Shakthiprabha. on Sat Dec 17 8:43:23 2005. |
From: dev on Sat Dec 17 13:22:18 2005. |
From: Shakthiprabha. on Sat Dec 17 13:54:05 2005. |
From: dev on Sat Dec 17 14:34:46 2005. |
From: Surya on Sat Dec 17 15:00:21 2005. |
From: goodsense on Sat Dec 17 16:57:14 2005. |
From: Shakthiprabha. on Sun Dec 18 2:02:32 2005. |
dev wrote: |
I'm puzzled at one thing... had he been so very starved, he could've very well availed the services of a sex worker... Y this innocent lady!!!... I cannot think of anything less than capital punishment for this 'animal'... |
From: ssanjinika on Mon Dec 19 11:50:42 2005. |
dev wrote: |
I'm puzzled at one thing... had he been so very starved, he could've very well availed the services of a sex worker... Y this innocent lady!!!... I cannot think of anything less than capital punishment for this 'animal'... |
From: Shakthiprabha. on Mon Dec 19 15:12:55 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Tue Dec 20 11:45:07 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Tue Dec 20 12:45:45 2005. |
From: Surya on Tue Dec 20 20:54:50 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Tue Dec 20 22:42:40 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Tue Dec 20 23:10:36 2005. |
Surya wrote: |
-deleted-
Moderator's Note: Stay away from controversial topics or risk being banned! |
From: Surya on Tue Dec 20 23:22:08 2005. |
ramraghav wrote: |
dear moderators i understand the need to maintain a certain level of decorum in any debate, but the compelete deletion of any reference to religion eliminates the very topic of healthy debate.
could you atleast please consider devoting a section to discuss politics, for otherwise that too would need to fit into this Misc section, which, in your own words is a catch-all forum. thanks ram |
From: NOV on Tue Dec 20 23:29:22 2005. |
From: NOV on Tue Dec 20 23:35:58 2005. |
Sandeep wrote: |
Hey moderator you forgot to delete his Signature. |
From: ramraghav on Tue Dec 20 23:41:47 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Wed Dec 21 13:21:44 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Wed Dec 21 13:25:36 2005. |
From: stranger on Wed Dec 21 14:26:01 2005. |
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1. The Indian media, much like the American media, is inherently biased. |
From: Sanguine Sridhar on Wed Dec 21 14:33:03 2005. |
stranger wrote: | ||
Tell me a media which is NOT BIASED in this EARTH! Thank you! |
From: stranger on Wed Dec 21 14:35:58 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Wed Dec 21 15:04:42 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Wed Dec 21 15:14:45 2005. |
From: stranger on Wed Dec 21 15:47:33 2005. |
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And, unfortunately, like I said in the essay, almost the entire English media is united in presenting a Leftist perspective of reality. |
From: Sanguine Sridhar on Wed Dec 21 15:54:43 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Wed Dec 21 16:05:19 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Wed Dec 21 20:45:33 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Thu Dec 22 12:30:52 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Thu Dec 22 17:41:30 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Thu Dec 22 21:16:16 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Thu Dec 22 21:23:18 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Fri Dec 23 11:21:39 2005. |
From: Surya on Fri Dec 23 19:03:36 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Fri Dec 23 22:19:50 2005. |
From: anjali_s on Fri Dec 23 23:08:46 2005. |
From: Surya on Fri Dec 23 23:52:07 2005. |
Lambretta wrote: |
Machi,
Tat was really amusing man! Hope she never comes across OBL.......! Incidentally, she looks like a '70s hippie in the 2nd page pic. (w/ the guitar)......! |
From: ramraghav on Sat Dec 24 0:11:01 2005. |
anjali_s wrote: |
is it okay to post some of the quotes from the times column? |
From: gaddeswarup on Sat Dec 24 18:52:01 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Mon Dec 26 0:40:47 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Mon Dec 26 0:44:21 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Mon Dec 26 3:25:07 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Mon Dec 26 10:41:49 2005. |
ramraghav wrote: |
http://news.indiainfo.com/columns/guru/101005moral-amoral-policing.html |
From: schnappi on Mon Dec 26 10:51:41 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Mon Dec 26 10:56:56 2005. |
schnappi wrote: |
The question is only who give them the money for the condom automats! |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Mon Dec 26 11:29:00 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Mon Dec 26 16:59:06 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Mon Dec 26 18:27:02 2005. |
From: Surya on Mon Dec 26 19:59:40 2005. |
Lambretta wrote: | ||
Thot-provoking yet depressing! This part esp. reeks of irony: Even as the liberals were defending the actress' right to call for pre-marital sex, they must have been mighty pleased to know that a condom vending machine has been installed in a quiet corner of Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University to help young students to live a modern life! Wow....... & I didn't see/hear of one even in Singapore, which is far more "modern" (in terms of this issue!) So does this count for India's development?? Not just coke but condom vending machines (albeit in "quiet corners") tat too in Univ. campuses! Hmm....wat next, inflatable m*sturbation dolls from ur local grocery/fancy store?? |
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help young students to live a modern life! |
From: ramraghav on Mon Dec 26 21:53:08 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Tue Dec 27 0:12:13 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Tue Dec 27 10:56:09 2005. |
Surya wrote: |
Forget Singapore machi! I didn't even see that @ UC Davis where I went here in California! |
From: ssanjinika on Tue Dec 27 11:03:18 2005. |
From: Lambretta on Tue Dec 27 11:11:13 2005. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
True Lamby..its like we want to show the world how "westernized" we are that we'r going overboard and are becoming more "westernized" than the western countries themselves.. |
From: Surya on Tue Dec 27 20:04:21 2005. |
Lambretta wrote: | ||
Really??.......I'm surprised to hear tat! Or r californians actually a tad conservative??! I first heard abt them when I was in Sing., it seems they r common in Austrylia...... Tat reminds me- u know abt 'Cosmopolitan' magazine?? Its now available in book-stalls in the Railway Station here at VIZAG (which isn't even one of the 'level 1' cities!), even much more commonly available than car mags. like Autocar India, over here! Most surprising thing is I was told this mag's been banned since 2 decades in Singapore (which is by & large evn more "cosmopolitan" than India) & even sum parts of Australia (where it originates from), like Melbourne.....amazing to know the kind of things in which our nation's getting ahead of the West/Westernized nations!! |
From: ramraghav on Tue Dec 27 20:43:43 2005. |
From: Sandeep on Tue Dec 27 23:27:41 2005. |
From: Surya on Tue Dec 27 23:59:50 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Wed Dec 28 0:03:21 2005. |
Surya wrote: |
I'm not a fan of VJK in Politics anymore. I stopped supporting him after the Kushboo incident. If he didn't have the balls to support his fellow actors, then there is no way in hell, he is gonna have the balls to reform Tamil Nadu! |
From: Surya on Wed Dec 28 0:05:35 2005. |
ramraghav wrote: | ||
so u r disappointed he failed to encourage moral degeneracy? |
From: ramraghav on Wed Dec 28 0:34:08 2005. |
From: gaddeswarup on Wed Dec 28 17:10:43 2005. |
From: Surya on Wed Dec 28 17:35:04 2005. |
From: stranger on Wed Dec 28 18:54:13 2005. |
From: Surya on Wed Dec 28 19:44:36 2005. |
From: ssanjinika on Thu Dec 29 9:16:10 2005. |
From: ramraghav on Thu Dec 29 10:03:13 2005. |
From: Surya on Fri Dec 30 20:21:26 2005. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
Now they are targeting educational institutions???!!!! |
From: ramraghav on Wed Jan 4 22:28:51 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Thu Jan 5 3:25:17 2006. |
From: Sandeep on Fri Jan 6 1:14:49 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Fri Jan 6 2:09:00 2006. |
Sandeep wrote: |
WASHINGTON: The world is truly becoming a global village as Indian and all things Indian continue to rule. |
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the US administration has identified Hindi as one of the "critical need" foreign languages that Americans should learn to further strengthen national security and prosperity in the 21st century........."The NSLI will dramatically increase the number of Americans learning critical need foreign languages such as Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Farsi and others through new and expanded programmes |
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Under the direction of the President, the Secretaries of State, Defence and Education along with the National Director of Intelligence have developed a comprehensive plan that will see an expansion in foreign language education, starting at the kindergarten levels and through formal schooling and into the workforce with job opportunities and incentives for graduates of these language programmes. |
From: VK Narayanan on Fri Jan 6 3:56:30 2006. |
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Looks like job oppurtunities & incentives for Hindi teachers all over India, who're now gonna start thronging to the states just as Maths teachers from India hav done! |
From: Lambretta on Fri Jan 6 4:06:21 2006. |
VK Narayanan wrote: |
Not only in the states, all over middle-east as well. There are so many opportunities lying abroad for the uninformed unemployed most talented Indian friends. |
From: VK Narayanan on Fri Jan 6 7:28:54 2006. |
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So y did the NDA say tat India's shining?? 'shud've said India's draining! Draining itself of all talented/fit ppl. (not all unemployed either) who cud've otherwise done as much for India! |
From: Lambretta on Fri Jan 6 9:58:51 2006. |
VK Narayanan wrote: |
I personally eel it was quite a brain enrichment for me working abroad, would not have learned so many things if I would have been in India for the past 3 years. |
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Anywayz, settling in homeland and doing something for our country and countrymen in all possible ways is a distant dream for me. |
From: VK Narayanan on Fri Jan 6 12:38:06 2006. |
Lambretta wrote: | ||||
U mean u learned desi cuisine after going abroad? Checked out ur website btw, nice recipes u got there!
Yea many more hungry mouths to feed here w/ ur wonderful cusine rite? (kidding!) |
From: ramraghav on Sat Jan 7 1:17:21 2006. |
From: ramraghav on Sat Jan 7 19:42:21 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Sun Jan 8 19:27:04 2006. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Sun Jan 8 22:51:00 2006. |
From: Sandeep on Tue Jan 10 22:45:15 2006. |
From: ramraghav on Wed Jan 11 0:11:59 2006. |
From: ramraghav on Wed Jan 11 23:50:45 2006. |
From: ramraghav on Sat Jan 14 23:08:02 2006. |
From: ramraghav on Sun Jan 15 17:47:48 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Sun Jan 15 18:35:48 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Sun Jan 15 19:39:49 2006. |
From: stranger on Mon Jan 16 14:25:53 2006. |
From: goodsense on Mon Jan 16 14:42:31 2006. |
From: Surya on Fri Jan 20 1:17:47 2006. |
From: Sandeep on Fri Jan 20 1:48:19 2006. |
From: Surya on Sat Jan 21 3:44:39 2006. |
From: Surya on Sat Jan 21 19:44:53 2006. |
From: Surya on Sat Jan 28 15:06:41 2006. |
From: Sandeep on Sun Jan 29 4:31:08 2006. |
From: Surya on Mon Jan 30 21:09:57 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Mon Jan 30 23:48:47 2006. |
Sandeep wrote: |
Would they go the "Krishna" way of promoting Bangalore |
From: Sandeep on Tue Jan 31 4:49:05 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Tue Jan 31 5:00:11 2006. |
Sandeep wrote: |
I think pub culture was there even before Krishna. Something bangalore was famous for. |
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But now with the new regulations pub culture has become a joke. |
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The new generation has lots of money but fewer outlets. Very dangerous. |
From: gaddeswarup on Wed Feb 1 16:50:25 2006. |
From: rajraj on Wed Feb 1 22:01:16 2006. |
From: Sanguine Sridhar on Wed Feb 8 0:27:27 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Wed Feb 8 13:56:26 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Mon Feb 13 21:15:43 2006. |
From: ssanjinika on Wed Feb 15 13:13:04 2006. |
From: ssanjinika on Wed Feb 15 14:19:01 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Thu Feb 16 11:30:31 2006. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?category=National&template=education&slug=Maharashtra+says+no+to+sex+education&id=84811&callid=1 |
From: Lambretta on Thu Feb 16 11:39:22 2006. |
From: ssanjinika on Thu Feb 16 12:24:37 2006. |
Lambretta wrote: | ||
Well, maybe the schools/parents r afraid tat many of their kids wud take it tat practical knowledge r needed for this subject & there wud be too many cases like the Delhi school girl incident in future! |
From: Lambretta on Thu Feb 16 13:15:57 2006. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
I thought the stress should be on "DONT DO IT" coz these(AIDS,STDs etc etc) are the reasons!! |
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If these kids dont know about all these ill effects of sex,wont it encourage them to do it? |
From: ssanjinika on Thu Feb 16 13:25:10 2006. |
From: Sandeep on Thu Feb 16 21:43:49 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Fri Feb 17 1:24:19 2006. |
Sandeep wrote: |
So Sex education should teach you "Sex is bad", "Sex is evil".
Becoz you cannot teach anyone, "sex is good for us grown ups but not for you kids". |
From: Sandeep on Fri Feb 17 1:27:57 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Fri Feb 17 1:44:55 2006. |
Sandeep wrote: |
No even Kids dont accept that they are kids and want to drink tea like their father instead of milk.
Thats precisely the reason why "sex is good for us grown ups but not for you kids" message will not work. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Fri Feb 17 2:40:14 2006. |
From: dev on Fri Feb 17 5:18:55 2006. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Fri Feb 17 5:26:56 2006. |
From: Sandeep on Fri Feb 17 5:47:52 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Fri Feb 17 6:25:43 2006. |
dev wrote: |
I too had moral science lessons when in school... It was when we were around the 8th grade, we started learning abt those that U've mentioned... I also remember having a seminar on it... I still believe moral science classes are more effective than the recently buzz 'sex edu'.... Though we used to say that it's an added burden when they didn't add the marks we scored in moral science to the progress report, now I know how valuble those lessons are... |
From: Lambretta on Fri Feb 17 6:36:16 2006. |
Sandeep wrote: |
Well I agree Moral science is required and can contribute largely to the development of children into socially contributing adults. But sex education is not about morals its about "What is Sex ?"
Sex education is not only about AIDS. AIDS has only increased its relevance. I have a question for all of you to be answered in your mind. How did you all come to know about sex ? Where should the young generation learn about sex ? Are our parents ready to sit with their child and explain the intricacies of sex. Or should they learn from cheap sex books, blue film and imaginative sex stories from friends. |
From: dev on Fri Feb 17 8:11:44 2006. |
Lambretta wrote: |
True Dev.....btw, u just reminded me- I was going to ask! Is moral science as a subject still taught in current day school syllabus curriculums?? If so upto wat class? |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Fri Feb 17 9:23:21 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Fri Feb 17 10:04:03 2006. |
dev wrote: |
Convent schools still teach it as a mandatory subject, I believe... Atleast, the school in which I learnt still teaches it until std 9... In std 10, they have classes only twice a week... In pvt school, I've not heard of such a subj being taught... |
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Being a teacher means much more than teaching the subject... they play a big role in molding the kids... but I don't really know how many teachers realise this or has the passion towards their job... |
From: ssanjinika on Fri Feb 17 10:04:57 2006. |
Sandeep wrote: |
Well I agree Moral science is required and can contribute largely to the development of children into socially contributing adults. But sex education is not about morals its about "What is Sex ?" |
Sandeep wrote: |
Sex education is not only about AIDS. AIDS has only increased its relevance. |
Sandeep wrote: |
I have a question for all of you to be answered in your mind. How did you all come to know about sex ? |
From: Lambretta on Fri Feb 17 10:06:27 2006. |
pavalamani pragasam wrote: |
Abstinence must be stressed, its importance for a fulfilled, meaningful life, its value in building us into dignified, worthy adults can never be under estimated. |
From: Lambretta on Fri Feb 17 10:10:17 2006. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
I learnt during SE classes.We had that in my school.11th and 12th to be exact.We had a trained teacher to teach us about it..rather tell us about the good and bad aspects of sex.We learned about everythign from safe sex to pregnancy (AIDS was not that prevalent then). |
From: ssanjinika on Fri Feb 17 10:21:30 2006. |
Lambretta wrote: | ||
Just curious- did ur teacher also emphasise on the "DON'T do it" bit as well during the course of teaching the subject? Consideirng tat u'd said tat shud be the main intention of implementing this as a subject? No offence! |
From: Lambretta on Fri Feb 17 10:25:11 2006. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
That doubt never did arise in our minds Lamby.We knew one DIDNT do That till one was married.Its now that the youngsters seem to think its OK to do what ever they want and dont think of the serious repercussions their actions could have . |
From: ssanjinika on Fri Feb 17 10:29:55 2006. |
From: great on Fri Feb 17 10:59:19 2006. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
I wonder about that myself .Has India changed that much in the past 10 years or so is the question I ask myself almost everyday!!!Unfortunately it looks like it has and it seems like Ive slept through most of the change |
From: ssanjinika on Fri Feb 17 11:01:58 2006. |
From: great on Fri Feb 17 11:14:32 2006. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
Amma naan kuda adhu than nenaichen post pannadhu-kku aparam |
From: ssanjinika on Fri Feb 17 11:16:22 2006. |
From: great on Fri Feb 17 11:17:02 2006. |
From: ssanjinika on Fri Feb 17 11:31:48 2006. |
From: dev on Fri Feb 17 11:33:52 2006. |
Lambretta wrote: | ||
Um....I thot convents/missionaries come under pvt. schools? ie, not run by the Govt....... |
From: great on Fri Feb 17 11:57:08 2006. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
No I havent watched it..thought it wasnt a good movie..mybbe we should coninue about the movie in the hollywood thread
Now if you meant the real live cable fellow who gives cable connection - harummph.Ofcourse I have.That progress happened when I was a kid . |
From: ssanjinika on Fri Feb 17 12:56:27 2006. |
From: rajraj on Fri Feb 17 13:42:25 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Fri Feb 17 18:27:17 2006. |
From: rajraj on Fri Feb 17 18:50:34 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Fri Feb 17 19:38:19 2006. |
From: rajraj on Fri Feb 17 19:56:51 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Fri Feb 17 21:07:47 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Sat Feb 18 2:52:59 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Sun Feb 19 17:10:41 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Mon Feb 20 20:28:41 2006. |
From: rajraj on Tue Feb 21 11:59:16 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Wed Feb 22 16:36:40 2006. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Wed Feb 22 23:18:45 2006. |
From: Badri on Wed Feb 22 23:31:03 2006. |
From: Sandeep on Wed Feb 22 23:36:46 2006. |
sbadri99 wrote: |
And I am afraid there is nothing to say in defence of the man! |
From: goodsense on Wed Feb 22 23:43:29 2006. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Thu Feb 23 0:31:02 2006. |
From: Sandeep on Thu Feb 23 0:40:43 2006. |
goodsense wrote: |
But Sandeep, people plan their retirement. They just don't wake up to it. Are you speaking of the ones who make no plans, if so whose fault is it? |
From: Badri on Thu Feb 23 1:06:13 2006. |
Sandeep wrote: | ||
There is no defence for the man who gave his whole youth working like an Ass. There is no defence for the man who in a single day becomes Old and "useless" for the society. We know he is not useless, but what thoughts does retirement bring to once mind. There is no defence for the man who wakes up one fine morning and realized he has no where to go and nothing to do. |
From: rajraj on Thu Feb 23 1:12:28 2006. |
From: Sandeep on Thu Feb 23 1:29:17 2006. |
sbadri99 wrote: |
Men, when they have nothing to do, are insufferable. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Thu Feb 23 2:21:17 2006. |
From: Sudhaama on Thu Feb 23 6:39:20 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Thu Feb 23 17:10:29 2006. |
From: ssanjinika on Fri Feb 24 13:13:26 2006. |
From: RP on Sat Feb 25 9:45:31 2006. |
gaddeswarup wrote: |
Why do doctors so often get it wrong? Pl. check:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/business/22leonhardt.html?incamp=article_popular It says that in USA "With all the tools available to modern medicine — the blood tests and M.R.I.'s and endoscopes — you might think that misdiagnosis has become a rare thing. But you would be wrong. Studies of autopsies have shown that doctors seriously misdiagnose fatal illnesses about 20 percent of the time. So millions of patients are being treated for the wrong disease. As shocking as that is, the more astonishing fact may be that the rate has not really changed since the 1930's. "No improvement!" was how an article in the normally exclamation-free Journal of the American Medical Association summarized the situation. " I wonder about the situation in India. Swarup |
From: Sudhaama on Sun Feb 26 0:12:07 2006. |
RP wrote: | ||
Well.....I feel the rate of medical errors has definitely come down and there is still scope for improvement.......but why should only mistakes made by doctors (unintentionally.i.e,)become news.Mistakes are made by all professions be it a engineer,enterpreneur,politician,industrialist........ |
From: RP on Sun Feb 26 2:04:45 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Sun Feb 26 2:33:51 2006. |
From: RP on Sun Feb 26 10:00:18 2006. |
From: ssanjinika on Mon Feb 27 14:57:01 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Mon Feb 27 17:16:36 2006. |
Quote: |
Intresting article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11571348/site/newsweek/ |
From: gaddeswarup on Fri Mar 3 23:26:33 2006. |
From: Querida on Sun Mar 5 22:15:07 2006. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Tue Mar 7 1:22:17 2006. |
From: ssanjinika on Tue Mar 7 15:47:50 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Sat Mar 11 23:46:35 2006. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Sun Mar 12 3:17:04 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Sun Mar 12 19:05:09 2006. |
From: pooja.shankar on Mon Mar 13 1:46:47 2006. |
From: NOV on Mon Mar 13 23:20:42 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Mon Mar 13 23:24:26 2006. |
NOV wrote: |
"All parents, teachers and students must learn from this," he told The Star. |
From: NOV on Mon Mar 13 23:51:11 2006. |
From: Badri on Mon Mar 13 23:54:34 2006. |
Quote: |
"We had been telling her not to worry about the results," he said, adding that he has yet to see her results. |
From: Querida on Tue Mar 14 0:07:42 2006. |
From: NOV on Tue Mar 14 0:12:28 2006. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Tue Mar 14 0:22:40 2006. |
From: dev on Tue Mar 14 0:38:38 2006. |
From: Badri on Tue Mar 14 0:44:00 2006. |
From: goodsense on Tue Mar 14 0:56:20 2006. |
From: dev on Tue Mar 14 1:02:15 2006. |
sbadri99 wrote: |
They are to be blamed inasmuch as they have failed to teach her that who she is is more important than what circumstances find her in. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Tue Mar 14 3:38:21 2006. |
From: Sanguine Sridhar on Tue Mar 14 4:09:50 2006. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Tue Mar 14 9:12:26 2006. |
From: Shakthiprabha. on Tue Mar 14 9:28:20 2006. |
From: dev on Tue Mar 14 9:44:08 2006. |
Sanguine Sridhar wrote: |
Maturity differs from age to age!! What kind of maturity you expect from that little girl.Her brought up may be very worst.
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From: RP on Tue Mar 14 13:07:26 2006. |
From: rocketboy on Tue Mar 14 22:37:42 2006. |
From: NOV on Tue Mar 14 23:04:54 2006. |
From: RP on Wed Mar 15 5:32:57 2006. |
rocketboy wrote: |
very interesting article:
http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/mar/14msg1.htm |
From: Lambretta on Wed Mar 15 11:48:01 2006. |
RP wrote: | ||
I'm for Vegetarianism.......but I guess its a personal choice!! |
From: rajraj on Thu Mar 16 22:15:53 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Fri Mar 17 0:35:59 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Sun Mar 19 17:33:08 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Sun Mar 19 23:32:05 2006. |
gaddeswarup wrote: |
Business opportunity: "Offshore maths tutoring":
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/indian-call-centres--american-students--offshore-maths-tutoring/2006/03/19/1142703218230.html |
From: gaddeswarup on Mon Mar 20 5:05:57 2006. |
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It may sound like a possible oppurtunity for Maths graduates in India but on the downside it cud also eventually set a drawback for schools/colleges in India tat may hardly hav ne proper Maths teachers to teach for them in future.....? This is one thing tat the ppl./govt. shud be conscious of... |
From: Lambretta on Mon Mar 20 11:58:22 2006. |
gaddeswarup wrote: |
May be it could bring some new inputs and professionalism to tutoring. what do you think?
Swarup |
From: gaddeswarup on Mon Mar 20 16:00:42 2006. |
From: Thiru on Mon Mar 20 19:18:25 2006. |
From: NOV on Tue Mar 21 2:38:11 2006. |
From: dev on Tue Mar 21 3:03:34 2006. |
From: rocketboy on Tue Mar 21 4:27:59 2006. |
NOV wrote: |
old story, but shocking nonetheless
http://sify.com/news/othernews/fullstory.php?id=13697450 |
From: Thiru on Tue Mar 21 7:50:11 2006. |
From: dev on Tue Mar 21 22:30:20 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Mon Mar 27 17:46:57 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Mon Mar 27 18:26:01 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Mon Mar 27 18:54:47 2006. |
From: rocketboy on Thu Mar 30 16:27:15 2006. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Thu Mar 30 22:43:25 2006. |
From: rajraj on Fri Mar 31 11:23:11 2006. |
From: rocketboy on Sat Apr 1 12:26:30 2006. |
rajraj wrote: |
Harvard welcomes the 'less privileged' :
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1472043.cms How many of the colleges in India follow Harvard or any other university in the US? |
From: goodsense on Sat Apr 1 13:34:53 2006. |
From: rocketboy on Mon Apr 3 9:45:16 2006. |
From: rocketboy on Mon Apr 3 15:33:28 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Mon Apr 3 17:33:40 2006. |
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all this talk of indian economy booming is a farce. what an irony ? people who toil very hard to raise crops and harvest it earn very less when compared to guys who sit idly in air conditioned rooms doing nothing but simply staring at junks of code. People living in the cities get richer and richer while the actual benefits of technological development hardly reaches the country side . The rift between the rich and poor is becoming wider and wider. The poor farmers are always at the mercy of the money lenders. .Something need to be done. maybe adoption of a socialist regime like the erstwhile ussr. That would only spell doom. |
From: gaddeswarup on Tue Apr 4 18:20:17 2006. |
From: rajraj on Tue Apr 4 19:10:39 2006. |
From: dev on Tue Apr 4 22:26:43 2006. |
rajraj wrote: |
Here is an article about the current generation:
http://www.hindu.com/op/2006/03/26/stories/2006032600441800.htm |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Tue Apr 4 23:10:25 2006. |
From: bingleguy on Tue Apr 4 23:43:50 2006. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Tue Apr 4 23:46:54 2006. |
From: bingleguy on Tue Apr 4 23:54:40 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Wed Apr 5 0:22:10 2006. |
From: a.ratchasi on Wed Apr 5 1:35:12 2006. |
From: bingleguy on Wed Apr 5 1:41:31 2006. |
From: Sudhaama on Wed Apr 5 10:55:17 2006. |
gaddeswarup wrote: |
Reminded of a quotation of Plato (Socrates?):
"To these, said I, such trifles do add up: the teacher, in such a case, fears his pupils and fawns upon them, while pupils have in low esteem their teachers as well as their overseers; and, overall, the young copy the elders and contend hotly with them in words and in deeds, while the elders, lowering themselves to the level of the young, sate themselves with pleasantries [563b] and wit, mimicking the young in order not to look unpleasant and despotic.' From http://plato-dialogues.org/faq/faq003.htm |
From: rajraj on Sat Apr 8 0:37:34 2006. |
From: swathy on Wed Apr 12 5:32:17 2006. |
From: Sudhaama on Wed Apr 19 7:08:32 2006. |
From: rocketboy on Fri Apr 21 8:01:41 2006. |
From: rocketboy on Fri Apr 21 8:24:42 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Sat Apr 22 1:41:12 2006. |
From: rocketboy on Sat Apr 22 8:38:58 2006. |
From: rajraj on Fri Apr 28 11:37:48 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Sun Apr 30 6:14:57 2006. |
From: Hulkster on Sun Apr 30 6:31:34 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sun Apr 30 12:48:13 2006. |
From: goodsense on Sun Apr 30 15:04:53 2006. |
From: goodsense on Sun Apr 30 21:38:30 2006. |
From: S.Balaji on Wed May 3 8:51:57 2006. |
From: narayanan on Wed May 3 9:20:11 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Wed May 3 15:16:10 2006. |
goodsense wrote: |
Sorry, didn't see your link when I said, "more detailed".
My link is a bit slow. |
From: ssanjinika on Wed May 3 15:25:22 2006. |
rajraj wrote: |
kaavya viswanathan, a Harvard student , admits to copying:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=512948 Harvard student plagiarizing? Must be the effect of grade inflation! Her book is being withdrawn from stores! |
From: dsath on Wed May 3 15:57:04 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Wed May 3 17:57:43 2006. |
From: narayanan on Wed May 3 20:50:47 2006. |
From: narayanan on Thu May 4 23:20:51 2006. |
From: narayanan on Fri May 5 8:32:48 2006. |
From: Hulkster on Fri May 5 8:42:15 2006. |
From: kannannn on Fri May 5 9:27:56 2006. |
gaddeswarup wrote: |
Americans continue to surprise me. In the early 80s, I was teaching in Texas and according to a poll, 25 perecent of the high school students did noy know where Mexico was. Now this:
http://www.livescience.com/othernews/ap_060502_geography.html |
From: ssanjinika on Fri May 5 9:35:21 2006. |
From: kannannn on Fri May 5 9:43:02 2006. |
From: ssanjinika on Fri May 5 9:55:23 2006. |
From: Shakthiprabha. on Fri May 5 10:07:01 2006. |
From: rocketboy on Fri May 5 10:47:31 2006. |
kannannn wrote: |
sanjinika, yes, i can understand that. Most North Indians are blissfully ignorant of the south. In fact, for them the southern language means only tamil. But can't blame them, can we? My fiance, who is a Marati, gets upset when South Indians add Maharasthra to North India and say that Marati is similar to Hindi. One interesting challenge we had in school was to name all the north-eastern states with their capitals from memory. Not to mention, most of us fared badly.
PS: the no. of states is 28. |
From: kannannn on Fri May 5 10:55:57 2006. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
Exactly Kannann.
My point was that geographical knowledge or the lack of ,is not unqiue to the US alone. |
From: narayanan on Fri May 5 10:57:43 2006. |
From: rajraj on Fri May 5 11:08:08 2006. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
Kannann its not true just for Americans.I met this Indian girl who was studying in an university here(and NO she did not grow up here).She was born and brought up in India and somehow got into an university here.This chick thought the entire south India was just one state Madras The northies refer to the southies commonly as Madrasis and hence the entire south India should just be one state called Madras was her thought.We after all have only 29(hope the no is rite..didnt they add 3 more states recently?)states. |
From: rocketboy on Fri May 5 11:20:31 2006. |
narayanan wrote: |
rocket,
actually languages is something really difficult to find out. I would identify Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada (by visiting BLR freq), Hindi or Gujrathi (atleast by Kemcho ) How would I be able to differentiate between Assamese or Oriya which I dont know anything about ? Geographically even I dont know much about the which is where of North East Indian states |
From: gaddeswarup on Fri May 5 11:23:20 2006. |
From: narayanan on Fri May 5 11:28:17 2006. |
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They should atleast know that people down south speak different languages. Thats my point. |
From: narayanan on Fri May 5 11:34:29 2006. |
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I wonder whether there is an increase in relative ignorance because of too much information and too much demand on modern lives. |
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The trouble with American ignorance is that USA is too powerful and many leaders also seem ignorant. |
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I was growing up in the coastal Andhra villages (several villages because my father was tranferred often) in the forties and fifties, villagers used to listen to the radio and discuss global politics knowledgeably |
From: kannannn on Fri May 5 11:37:02 2006. |
rocketboy wrote: |
They watch telugu, tamil movies occasionally.They should atleast know that people down south speak different languages. Thats my point. |
From: ssanjinika on Fri May 5 11:39:41 2006. |
kannannn wrote: | ||
Agreed. On a more general note, it is not only local geography, but world knowledge too. Compared to their European counterparts they are more insulated from world affairs and have this attitude of 'who cares what happens elsewhere?!'. In fact, I think they are happy to live in their cocoon of imagined self-sufficient world that is USA. I have often wondered: why do call their championship series in baseball 'World Series'?! |
From: gaddeswarup on Fri May 5 14:56:43 2006. |
From: narayanan on Sat May 6 21:24:21 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sun May 7 12:37:13 2006. |
From: narayanan on Sun May 7 12:50:55 2006. |
rajraj wrote: |
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=67281
A liitle too late ? |
From: Lambretta on Sun May 7 13:09:44 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sun May 7 14:23:19 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sun May 7 15:39:09 2006. |
From: kannannn on Sun May 7 17:31:47 2006. |
rajraj wrote: |
Lambretta,Narayanan:
Don't underestimate the Americans! Remember when Kennedy became president in 1961, he wanted to send a man to the moon by the end of that decade because USSR had already launched Sputnik. That (Apollo 11) became a reality in 1969 when Nixon was president. They will pour money into education to get what they want. |
rajraj wrote: |
Now, it is cheap labor. But, the labor rate in India will go up. In the US there will be a backlash against Indian workers ( hope that does not happen). Already, some corporations are funding math/science education in high schools. |
rajraj wrote: |
I don't think we should be proud what is happening, because most of the IT professionals are underemployed and underutilized. |
From: gaddeswarup on Sun May 7 21:11:25 2006. |
From: rajraj on Tue May 9 2:49:49 2006. |
From: rocketboy on Tue May 9 3:43:46 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Tue May 9 4:15:14 2006. |
rocketboy wrote: |
http://specials.rediff.com/news/2006/may/09sld1.htm
wow . great news indeed, |
From: rocketboy on Tue May 9 4:41:43 2006. |
Lambretta wrote: | ||
Um...for whom? India or the US (wich she is representing)....? |
From: rocketboy on Fri May 12 0:20:49 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Fri May 12 4:24:17 2006. |
rocketboy wrote: |
http://sonic200.com/others/tuongphan.htm |
From: ssanjinika on Fri May 12 13:17:41 2006. |
From: rami on Tue May 16 5:57:26 2006. |
From: kannannn on Tue May 16 12:09:42 2006. |
From: ssanjinika on Tue May 16 12:14:40 2006. |
From: kannannn on Tue May 16 12:25:50 2006. |
Quote: |
Mr Kewney, meanwhile, was still waiting in reception when he saw the taxi driver being introduced under his name...
...He was amused at first, but realised that anyone watching would think he knew next to nothing about Apple Computer, online music or The Beatles. When the driver was asked how the interview went, he replied: “Well, it was OK, but I was a bit rushed.” |
From: Nakeeran on Sat May 20 3:38:52 2006. |
From: nms on Tue May 23 4:42:37 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Tue May 23 5:23:47 2006. |
nms wrote: |
Every Year when +2 & SSLC results are released ,we come to know about a few with guts,determination ,hard work & success.
i found these two this year... http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2006/05/23/handi.html http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2006/05/23/plustwo.html |
From: nms on Tue May 23 5:37:00 2006. |
Lambretta wrote: | ||
Um....NMS, altho I cant read tamil fonts, I noticed in the 1st link the girl in the pic. very much has both her hands intact......? Or perhaps its a photo taken much earlier.....? |
From: Nakeeran on Fri May 26 7:07:13 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Fri May 26 13:52:08 2006. |
nms wrote: |
Lamby..watch it clearly..they r artificial limbs.. |
From: ssanjinika on Fri May 26 14:19:11 2006. |
Lambretta wrote: | ||
Oh yea, jus did......sorry I didnt realise it then! Nevertheless, its really commendable the way she manages to move on despite such a tragedy! Tat reminds me- jus attended a music concert here last Sunday, performed by this visually impaired orchestra troup from Madras who'd actually performed in a song in the film "Autograph"! It was amazing how well they cud sing/play so many diff. songs despite their handicap (inc. the orchestra director!) |
From: great on Sat May 27 14:28:18 2006. |
From: ssanjinika on Wed May 31 13:55:48 2006. |
From: ramky on Wed May 31 23:45:25 2006. |
ssanjinika wrote: |
sad state of affairs
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13049521/ |
From: nms on Thu Jun 1 1:07:45 2006. |
From: rocketboy on Wed Jun 7 0:12:19 2006. |
From: Surya on Thu Jun 8 22:07:45 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Mon Jun 12 16:47:26 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Mon Jun 12 16:53:30 2006. |
From: Nakeeran on Thu Jun 15 4:08:52 2006. |
From: Nakeeran on Thu Jun 15 4:10:14 2006. |
From: dsath on Thu Jun 15 10:04:35 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Thu Jun 15 18:09:00 2006. |
dsath wrote: |
http://www.msn.co.uk/news/six_steps_to_happiness/
Do read the 2nd page, it may bring a smile |
From: Braandan on Sun Jun 18 21:10:43 2006. |
From: kannannn on Wed Jun 21 19:41:48 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Tue Jun 27 2:23:30 2006. |
From: Braandan on Wed Jun 28 4:02:26 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Thu Jun 29 20:18:32 2006. |
From: temporary sori-Observer on Sun Jul 2 11:01:40 2006. |
From: RR on Mon Jul 3 6:28:00 2006. |
From: rajraj on Mon Jul 3 9:49:10 2006. |
From: Surya on Fri Jul 7 18:41:02 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Fri Jul 7 20:51:52 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Sat Jul 8 3:41:54 2006. |
rajraj wrote: |
Success stories from the land of opportunities:
http://parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_07-02-2006/AImmigrant |
From: gaddeswarup on Sat Jul 8 5:10:49 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sat Jul 8 13:35:31 2006. |
From: Sudhaama on Sat Jul 8 16:18:33 2006. |
rajraj wrote: |
15 ideas to recharge America:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13117432/site/newsweek/page=8 This article along with others in that issue of Newsweek tell you about what the leaders in the US think about retaining their leadership( dominance?). They are not going to sit and watch their country become second rate! |
From: rocketboy on Sun Jul 9 1:55:55 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sun Jul 9 10:52:36 2006. |
From: svasu_ani on Tue Jul 11 11:33:46 2006. |
From: Surya on Tue Jul 11 16:33:28 2006. |
From: RR on Wed Jul 12 6:51:48 2006. |
From: rajraj on Wed Jul 12 15:02:41 2006. |
From: dsath on Thu Jul 13 7:35:47 2006. |
From: Surya on Fri Jul 14 16:31:27 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sun Jul 16 10:58:20 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sun Jul 16 16:04:23 2006. |
From: ssanjinika on Fri Aug 4 13:44:41 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Sat Aug 5 6:13:56 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sat Aug 5 16:46:36 2006. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Sat Aug 5 22:29:55 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sun Aug 6 18:40:38 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Tue Aug 8 5:56:44 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Wed Aug 9 18:22:26 2006. |
From: temporary sori-Observer on Thu Aug 10 9:23:31 2006. |
From: temporary sori-Observer on Thu Aug 10 18:11:22 2006. |
From: Surya on Thu Aug 10 18:36:28 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sun Aug 13 18:01:32 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Mon Aug 14 6:44:36 2006. |
From: rajraj on Fri Aug 18 16:29:18 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sat Aug 19 12:19:05 2006. |
From: RP on Sat Aug 19 14:02:55 2006. |
From: gaddeswarup on Sun Aug 20 17:31:52 2006. |
From: nms on Mon Aug 21 2:10:08 2006. |
RP wrote: |
THE NEWS THAT THE SALARIES OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT IS TO BE RAISED WITH SPECIAL BENEFITS.......
THE OFFICE OF PROFIT BILL HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE PREZ..... ANY COMMENTS??????????? |
From: temporary sori-Observer on Tue Aug 22 14:38:34 2006. |
From: Surya on Tue Aug 22 16:36:42 2006. |
From: kannannn on Tue Aug 22 18:47:49 2006. |
From: Surya on Tue Aug 22 19:39:39 2006. |
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the imposition of Vande Mataram is similar to the imposition of Hindi. |
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when we are against the enforcement of Hindi? |
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After all, wasn't Hindi also imposed as a binding tool? |
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As such, no one can impose any rule on anyone else. |
From: Badri on Tue Aug 22 20:40:11 2006. |
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I too had the opinion that everyone should sing Vande Mataram. But my friend put some sense into me. Her argument is, the imposition of Vande Mataram is similar to the imposition of Hindi. What right do we have to enforce Vande Mataram on Muslims, when we are against the enforcement of Hindi? |
From: kannannn on Tue Aug 22 21:10:22 2006. |
From: Surya on Wed Aug 23 17:12:37 2006. |
Moderator wrote: |
I am afraid I am going to have to delete this post. Surya, you may have taken it from a reliable source, however, it is capable of generating hate and is hence deleted. |
From: kannannn on Wed Aug 23 18:10:36 2006. |
Moderator wrote: |
Deleted as it is no longer relevant, considering that the earlier post has been removed |
From: RP on Thu Aug 24 0:18:19 2006. |
From: Sandeep on Thu Aug 24 1:22:50 2006. |
From: Lambretta on Fri Aug 25 14:35:21 2006. |
From: pavalamani pragasam on Fri Aug 25 22:31:38 2006. |
From: Sandeep on Sun Aug 27 23:33:45 2006. |
Lambretta wrote: |
Patrick Mercer, the Tory Homeland Security spokesman, said last night: "This is a victory for terrorists. These people on the flight have been terrorised into behaving irrationally.
"For those unfortunate two men to be victimised because of the colour of their skin is just nonsense." |
From: Badri on Sun Aug 27 23:36:33 2006. |
From: kannannn on Mon Aug 28 11:19:12 2006. |
From: Surya on Fri Sep 1 16:21:34 2006. |
From: Surya on Sat Sep 2 13:57:34 2006. |
From: Surya on Wed Sep 6 20:45:27 2006. |
From: rajraj on Thu Sep 7 12:52:39 2006. |
From: temporary sori-Observer on Thu Sep 7 15:26:10 2006. |
From: Surya on Thu Sep 7 19:42:17 2006. |
From: Surya on Mon Sep 11 18:47:58 2006. |
From: ajithfederer on Wed Sep 13 11:14:21 2006. |
From: rajraj on Thu Sep 14 16:00:46 2006. |
From: temporary sori-Observer on Fri Sep 15 11:11:30 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sun Sep 17 12:06:21 2006. |
From: kannannn on Mon Sep 18 6:58:30 2006. |
From: Braandan on Tue Sep 19 2:10:55 2006. |
From: rajraj on Tue Sep 19 9:38:37 2006. |
From: Surya on Tue Sep 19 16:50:08 2006. |
From: temporary sori-Observer on Tue Sep 19 17:29:31 2006. |
rajraj wrote: |
I think Ct stands for Chidambaram ! |
From: Braandan on Tue Sep 19 17:41:44 2006. |
From: P_R on Tue Sep 19 17:45:01 2006. |
temporary sori-Observer wrote: | ||
Rajraj uncle, cht-naa chettiyaar-aa irukkumnu ninaikkiREn. |
From: Sandeep on Wed Sep 20 1:24:12 2006. |
Surya wrote: |
Thai army chief leads coup while prime minister away!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/19/thailand.coup.rumor/index.html What happened to Democratic (Constitutional Monarchy) Thailand? Hopefully the US along with the UN will intervene? |
From: Surya on Wed Sep 20 2:51:09 2006. |
From: Sandeep on Wed Sep 20 3:13:09 2006. |
From: dsath on Wed Sep 20 3:55:41 2006. |
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Why is there OIL in Thailand. |
From: Surya on Wed Sep 20 4:13:29 2006. |
From: Surya on Wed Sep 20 17:34:01 2006. |
From: Sandeep on Wed Sep 20 21:28:24 2006. |
From: Sandeep on Sat Sep 23 2:09:39 2006. |
From: Surya on Sat Sep 23 15:24:08 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sat Sep 23 17:09:33 2006. |
From: rajraj on Sun Sep 24 19:15:53 2006. |
From: temporary sori-Observer on Mon Sep 25 13:05:11 2006. |
From: Surya on Mon Sep 25 15:35:29 2006. |
From: Surya on Tue Sep 26 19:48:05 2006. |
From: alwarpet_andavan on Tue Sep 26 20:50:06 2006. |
Surya wrote: |
As Crusaders of Democracy, the US might intervene in the thailand issue. I say crusaders of democracy because it's us who have planted the seeds of democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
From: alwarpet_andavan on Tue Sep 26 20:54:03 2006. |
From: alwarpet_andavan on Tue Sep 26 21:00:20 2006. |
Surya wrote: |
Realistically, no matter if there was oil or not, Iran having Nuclear Weapons is a threat to the world, espicially with Islamic Radicalism being so strong there. And the same goes for South Korea also. |
From: kannannn on Tue Sep 26 21:03:09 2006. |
From: Surya on Tue Sep 26 21:04:26 2006. |
From: NOV on Tue Sep 26 21:15:34 2006. |
From: alwarpet_andavan on Tue Sep 26 21:24:07 2006. |
From: NM on Tue Sep 26 23:10:07 2006. |
NOV wrote: |
Cinema Becomes Reality
A 40-year old man, Ramesh from Mantin in Malaysia fell in love with his wife's sister and wanted to marry her. The father of seven, had given shelter to his wife's married sister, who was facing marital problems of her own. Soon Ramesh fell in love with her and approached his wife to discuss "matters." Discussion (naturally) turned ugly and unable to bear the disappointment () Ramesh hanged himself! - from Malaysia Nanban yesterday p/s: why didn't the director think of this great ending instead? |
From: Surya on Wed Sep 27 2:56:02 2006. |
AA wrote: |
If Islamic radicalism is strong then so is Jewish radicalism (Israel) and Christian crusading and imperialistic fanaticism |
From: dsath on Wed Sep 27 5:40:19 2006. |
Surya wrote: |
Even though Bush wasn't justified in his actions, even though the Iraq War, which I'm violently against cost us SO MUCH, it brought democracy to a totalitarian state. The price that was paid for that wasn't worth it, but the seed has been planted, it will take some time for the plant to grow. |
Surya wrote: |
Reg Afghanistan: I strongly think that these nutless, backbone broken terrorists should face the same death that they gave to Daniel Pearl. The US is going to easy on the by giving the a fair freaggin trial! But anywayz, The war isn't over, these wars against terror are never over until every single cell is wiped out. I support the war on terror 100%. I'd be in the Marine Corps right now if it wastn' for my parents. |
Surya wrote: |
There is a HUGE difference between fighting a nation after waging war on them, and Attacking a city out of the blue, with no prior warning like they're uniks which is what these terrorists and fundamentalists are doing. |
Surya wrote: |
That QUALITY of fighting an enemy face to face or supporting an alli after war has been officially waged, gives Isreal and The US the right to have WMD than any of these nations who's majourity population supports islamic fundamentalism, and executes cowardly attacks on people who just went to work on one fine day. |
From: Surya on Wed Sep 27 6:07:28 2006. |
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Democracy to a totalitarian state!!!!! Iraq is on the fringe of civil war and with a bomb going off every day there is no chance for democracy. May be some one in the GREAT USA has to realize that democracy may not be the ultimate solution for all countries in the world. It not essential that what works for one country has to work for the other as well. All Bush has succeeded in doing is making Iraq another fertile breeding ground for terrorists. |
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Afghanistan would not have happened if not for the American arming and aiding the local Afghan tribes with weapons to fight against the Soviets. Some 20 yrs back the Afghan women did not wear parda and were not bound at home, it was a very liberal Muslim country and the results of American pokiness is there for every one to see. |
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Very true. Again will that include the Palestinians who go to work in their farm only to see their olive orchards being bulldozed by the Israeli army. |
From: rajraj on Wed Sep 27 14:58:23 2006. |
From: alwarpet_andavan on Wed Sep 27 16:58:15 2006. |
Surya wrote: |
The US has lost so much in this war, sometimes tears of anger roll down my cheek when I think about where George Bush has taken this great nation.
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Surya wrote: |
Would CLINTON (America's Best President to date, the economic growth that the coutry expierenced under Clinton was not expierenced under anyone else in the history of The United States) have waged war on Iraq this time? No! Some argue that he would've, but no, he wouldn't. |
Surya wrote: |
So we've Established the obvious, that the IRAQ war only happened for the selfish intentions of BUSH, and not America.... |
Surya wrote: |
The reason I said "Crusaders of Democracy" is because no other nation has helped (it might have had selfish benefits also) Democracy to spread as much as The United States Of America. |
Surya wrote: |
WWII, America only got involved directly after Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor. |
Surya wrote: |
I don't see how this comparison can hold water with Isreal (They don't poke back unless they're poked) |
Surya wrote: |
or calling the US as Christian Crusaders, when Absolutley NONE of their wars have been fought on the basis of religion! |
Surya wrote: |
There is a HUGE difference between fighting a nation after waging war on them, and Attacking a city out of the blue, with no prior warning like they're uniks which is what these terrorists and fundamentalists are doing. |
Surya wrote: |
That QUALITY of fighting an enemy face to face or supporting an alli after war has been officially waged, gives Isreal and The US the right to have WMD than any of these nations who's majourity population supports islamic fundamentalism, and executes cowardly attacks on people who just went to work on one fine day. |
From: alwarpet_andavan on Wed Sep 27 17:00:53 2006. |
From: alwarpet_andavan on Wed Sep 27 17:09:24 2006. |
Surya wrote: |
Then it would've been a bloodsucking Communist nation, which would've been equally bad, since islamic foot soldiers would've fought for it relentlessly, making it nothing more than a pile of dirt which is what it is now. Atleast now it's a democracy! and will be able to get on it's own feet soon in the next 5 years with Pak's Help (whatever pak's help means. ) Also Present day Afghanistan is a result of the Spread of the Communist Virus..not the US's "helping" tendencies. If the Virus didn't try to spread to begin with, we wouldn't have given a "helping hand." |
From: alwarpet_andavan on Wed Sep 27 17:13:42 2006. |
dsath wrote: |
Afghanistan would not have happened if not for the American arming and aiding the local Afghan tribes with weapons to fight against the Soviets. Some 20 yrs back the Afghan women did not wear parda and were not bound at home, it was a very liberal Muslim country and the results of American pokiness is there for every one to see. |
From: Surya on Wed Sep 27 18:25:23 2006. |
AA wrote: |
When you think about where GB has taken your great nation??????????? |
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What about the genocide of Iraqi's???????? They are humans too, remember? |
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Clinton is no saint either. The embargo had already inflicted the killer blow on Iraq. And please do ask Clinton about the deliberate bombing of pharmaceutical in Sudan. |
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Regarding the so-called "War on terror", please look up how many 9-11's the U.S has caused across the world. Well, there is a world outside the U.S map, you know. |
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And please define terror for me and verify whether the U.S actions in every continent in this world satisfies that definition or not. |
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Plus, who do you think raised the Taliban and Osama in the first place? |
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Are you aware of the CIA and Pentagon reports which categorically declare that terror threats have INCREASED after the so-called war on terror??? |
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Do you think the so-called objective has been achieved as a result of pulverising Afghanistan or taking them back to stone age? |
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Do you know who is affected in the so-called war? |
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Have you read any reports of *independent* media other than YOUR CNN/FOX etc????? |
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My reply to this will be too long but please do read the real history of your country and how the *great* nation was formed. |
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P.S: FYI, Cuba whic is your so-called 'blood-sucking' communist state, is doing well, thank you, inspite of Uncle Sam's repeatedly failed attempts to oust Castro. Keep trying! |
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Surya doesnt realize that elections happened in Iraq inspite of Uthe U.S and not because of them. Ask a certain Al sistani.... |
From: Badri on Wed Sep 27 19:53:08 2006. |
surya wrote: |
Will read ur references....and the "Non-US Version of HIstroy" Whatever taht means. |
From: Surya on Wed Sep 27 20:05:03 2006. |
From: Badri on Wed Sep 27 20:11:34 2006. |
From: Surya on Wed Sep 27 20:27:25 2006. |
From: Badri on Wed Sep 27 20:30:49 2006. |
From: Surya on Wed Sep 27 20:32:48 2006. |