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Cometh the moment cometh the man
Ok.. from a slightly different perspective, even as a non-religious person (call me agnostic..) I still find tremendous peace when I visit a temple.. not one of the well known temples where you get about a millisecond glimpse of the Idol, but some o…
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September 2008
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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
Hi Malathi, Whoa.. Louisville eh?:) I was there in February this year for an interview.. got the job but finally decided to move back to India instead :) Anyway, I understand the need to conserve and be environmentally friendly. I am that way too.…
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absolutely.. our average life expectancy has grown tremendously over the last century. And that IS because of human intervention.. so I suppose people would still be dying from typhoid and small pox if we had not intervened.. is that ok? Let's …
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September 2008
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Things are changing now I think.. The demand for agri scientists is growing!
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September 2008
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QED :-) Thanks Venketesh!
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September 2008
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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
Sorry Satish :) (and btw, it's Arun .. not Dr. etc :)) In medicine also you are putting in things into your body that are not natural.. chemotherapy, radiation therapy, most drug molecules.. the way drug molecules work is to go and block some …
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September 2008
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Sampath, Sure.. but there have been large scale studies which show that Bt-cotton has really helped farmers.. (done by nonpartisan people like IIMs). Has led to a reduction in the use of pesticides etc. My opinion is that organic farming will remain…
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September 2008
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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
Had no idea you were an Agri grad Venketesh :) What do you think of biotech products?
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September 2008
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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
"Anything against nature is not good for us".. So Satheesh, how about all the medicines we all take? Nature has both good and bad. So shall we stop fighting cancer, Aids etc since that is nature? Also, agriculture is against nature right? …
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September 2008
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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
Satheesh, That is a common fallacy. Genetically modified seeds don't affect land. For eg, for Bt cotton, it has been proven that you need less fertilizers and less spraying of insecticides etc. The other fallacy is about the same seed being so…
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September 2008
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History of Assassins
Assassins are as old as human history :) Even in Mahabharatha we had people trying to kill the Pandavas in the house of lac.. or Duryodhana trying to poison Bheema :D.. Putana trying to poison Krishna etc etc etc..
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September 2008
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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
Satish, As someone who does research in the biotech field (GM crops), I must say that a lot of what seems to have been written in the paper is not true. THe population of the world is going to increase to 9 billion in another 40 years. We will have…
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September 2008
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Harry Potter
I agree Rahul.. also for someone like me who has grown up in hostels.. it was quite nostalgic reading about the boarding school environment. Her characterizations.. as I said earlier are brilliant. Her humor is subtle.. I love the Fred-George Weasle…
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September 2008
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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
Education does not necessarily grant wisdom aiyya :)
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September 2008
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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
Not that.. but working on making more optimal plant varieties :) Ayya = just as a mark of respect for someone who is older and wiser than me :)
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September 2008
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Harry Potter
Rahul, A lot of thought has gone into the names..at least some of them. Some of the names of monsters etc are from folklore and from Greek and Roman mythology etc. She has put in the hard work .. :)
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September 2008
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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
SPS aiyya, Athunaala thaan engaLa maathiri aaLunga aaraichi seithu koNdirukkirOm :-)
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September 2008
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Harry Potter
Well, a lot of the opinion here seems to veer towards the fact that since there was all the hooplah, ergo the books must be bad.. I personally feel that there was good reason for the hype. There actually is a lot of substance behind the hype if peo…
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September 2008
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Harry Potter
Hi Rahul, Am a big fan. I remember I had heard all this hype and in 2000, went to a bookstore in Singapore and started reading it.. was so gripped.. i spent the whole day there reading the first one.. then bought both the ones out till then. Of cour…
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September 2008
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Cometh the moment cometh the man
My dad says: Ilayaraja made MSV made Tamilians listen to Tamil songs.. Ilayaraja made South India listen to Tamil Songs and Rahman made India listen to Tamil songs :) Like Newton said, we see farther because we stand on the shoulders of giants.. a…
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barathi memorial day
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Cometh the moment cometh the man
Completely agree ;) Arun
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September 2008
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Cometh the moment cometh the man
A veritable fount of information!:) Thanks for all that. I always wondered why KVM didn't do more movies in Tamizh.. Shankarabharanam was KVM right? Great songs! The thing about IR was that he made songs based on classical ragas but made them …
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September 2008
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Cometh the moment cometh the man
Thanks Malathy for that history lesson :) I have Sampoorna Ramayanam.. didn't know it was by Ramanathan.. I love the "Jagam pugazhum puNNiya kathai" song from LavaKusa.. is that by Ghantasala? I think Ghantasala has a more profound im…
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September 2008
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Cometh the moment cometh the man
Well i have unfortunately never learned classical.. but.. I use Ilayaraja tunes to help me identify Ragams :) I envy all you trained classical people! Oh yeah love KVMs pieces from ThiruviLaiyadal.. "Pattum Naane" is a favourite Haven…
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September 2008
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Cometh the moment cometh the man
Aah Raja the Great... it is truly wonderful to listen to his creations and one can appreciate it at so many different levels.. carnatic classical or western.. here is something I had written on a Guitar forum on Madai Thiranthu.. this might not be e…
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September 2008
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Men's mind set about women's self-respect
Nanda, I think rather that expect women to try and get the law of the land into implementation mode as you call it, the thing to do might be to get men to change their attitudes!
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September 2008
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Men's mind set about women's self-respect
THat is a very good point Malathy. Especially for widowed or divorced women, sexual abuse at work is rampant.. and like you mentioned, there seems to be little or no recourse for them!
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September 2008
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sun will rise continuously for 36 hours
I think this is a hoax.!
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September 2008
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Men's mind set about women's self-respect
I think one of the mistakes we make is in thinking that just because we have a female head of state or a female head of a political party, women are treated well in India. We have Goddesses .. but that doesn't mean that we treat women well by a…
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September 2008
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