MeFi comment:
"Can I just squeeze in this and express some love for NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell me? Screw everything else, Monday mornings are _hard_ without a WWDTM fix...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by cavalier, interiority
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"First of all, being used to Asian/ European rail, was frustrated as hell about the CalTrain system when I was vacationing in the Bay Area; absolutely did not see why it should take two hours+ to go from Santa Clara to San Francisco; the BART system..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Sigh.
Guess I got irritated by the wording on the website:
others may choose to follow the Kama Sutra, an ancient Hindu text that allows for homosexual behavior.
The Kama Sutra doesn't "allow or disallow" anything, it only describes,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by treepour, divabat
Last month
MeFi post:
The Pink Champagne on Ice.
favorited 10 times, recently by protorp, MikeKD, fiercecupcake, sleepy pete, WolfDaddy, maudlin, HyperBlue, trip and a half, greenskpr, psmealey
Last month
MeFi comment:
"To everyone saying the Democratic primary process was fractitious or that it was too chaotic, here's an Indian/Asian perspective: save no-confidence motions in Westminister-style democracies, I can't think of a single instance where an intra-party..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by liza, Optamystic, Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese, crossoverman, bigbigdog, nasreddin, marble, xorry, dyoneo, streetdreams, thewittyname, octothorpe, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, lord_wolf, Kattullus, Brandon Blatcher
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"One of the pictures in the collection is that of the La Martiniere College in Lucknow, one of the two educational institutions in the world to receive a battle-honour, for its students' role in the Revolt of 1857 ("The First War of Indian..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by flibbertigibbet, Abiezer
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Hadjiboy, your day and night pics for Chennai are for two different stations, Chennai Central and Egmore (Egmore has domes, Chennai Central has church-like rectangular roofs). A different station on a different route.
Which, naturally, would..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by UbuRoivas
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In a hurry, so I'll post a quick comment here: not a big deal. Manipuri society is traditionally very very suspicious of all "outsiders" (in the Imphal Valley, that typically means 'non-Meiteis') for a variety of reasons, some legit, some..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by jefftrexler, lalochezia, Artw
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that the drought in 1876 was quite a pivotal moment in my own personal family narrative, and hence, as generalise-able as these things get, in the Deccan's contemporary socio-cultural..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nasreddin, George_Spiggott
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"There is only one reason that such nonsense happens in urban India. This is also the same reason why there is corruption, why politicians don't mind getting filmed taking bribes, why rabble-rousers continue to get crowds agitated on ethnic and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I've said it before and I'll say it again. Musharraf's rule wasn't bad for Pakistan in terms of governance - most of my (upper-middle) Pakistani friends actually like the army for their no-nonsense approach, and surely, the Pakistani media was and..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by nickyskye, reformedjerk, schyler523, jackbrown, joannemerriam, Auden, wuwei, By The Grace of God, mediareport, Asparagirl, phaedon
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So, why were there Diwali festivals back in October?
Glad you asked! It's simple, really; Diwali is the eighth new-moon ('amaavasya') in the Indian lunisolar calendar.
Unfortunately, that's the only thing simple about Deepavali. You see, India..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by srboisvert, amberglow
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Amberglow: Oh yes, the Hebrew calendar is lunisolar, indeed, has one of the the cleanest leap-month implementations there is out there. Also, if you notice, the (Indian) Amanta lunisolar calendar, the Chinese calendar and the Hebrew calendar share..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amberglow
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh feash, forgot to post another point here.
Another interesting point that is quite apparent here in South East Asia, but may not be apparent for you folk elsewhere. You see, in Singapore and Malaysia, Deepavali was on Thursday, and not Friday,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amberglow
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Sometime last year, I was a stammering, cowering apparatchik. Now I send elaborately-worded, thoughtful emails, ask more than I respond, ensure that all parties concerned understand the issues carefully, strive for a consensus and then speedily work..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Solomon
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Just wanted to recommend BBC's excellent Ma France for anyone looking at brushing up their French grammar." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mnsc
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't think this was meant as competition to the iphone. Rather, I see it as Google's way of opening up development frameworks, much in the same way it's trying to do with social networks.
More crucially though, I'm struck by the fact that HTC..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sien
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"kolophon: The original intent was to post some you-tube videos/ streaming stuff. Instead, I got side-tracked into this. :-D
Well, there are broadly four forms of alternate rock in India. First is the covers, stuff that you read about in all of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kolophon
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Thought I'd focus my attention on some seeming known-unknown pictures, if you will, rather than tackle the whole lot.
This is a Robam Apsara dancer. The photo was taken in Phnom Penh; says so on the photo. I can't make the rest of the letters/..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by AD_
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I just wanted to say, Im absolutely appalled and disgusted by the fact that my nation's government has soft-pedalled on Burma. Burma is one of India's closest neighbours; our respective cultures go back many centuries. India's last great emperor died..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by skoosh, Wolof, sien, UbuRoivas, C.Batt, homunculus, Malor, Abiezer
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"There has been a tremendous lack of restraint on this issue on many fronts.
The "problem" here is the following passage in the Archeological Survey of India's affidavit to the Supreme Court:
... contents of the Valmiki Ramayana, the..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by H-Bar, roguewraith, preparat, of strange foe, b1tr0t, sa3z, Abiezer, nasreddin, homunculus, thirteenkiller, blind.wombat, hattifattener, Mocata, gompa, enn, stirfry, Malor, bonecrusher
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Videos here.
There were two locations where the blasts happened, one at Lumbini Park on the banks of the Hussain Sagar, and another at Gokul Chat Bhandar at Kothi (and two other places where they found unexploded bombs; because of a late-night..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by homunculus
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Here's another article for your reading pleasure. Pretty much says what I've been trying to elaborate in my earlier post, along with some additional historical context. This is as its most fascinating:
The festival’s history can be traced to as..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Wilder, amberglow, trip and a half, scrump, mdonley
Last year
MeFi comment:
"bhOjanaalu (భోజనాలు) => meals.
bOnaalu (బోనాలు, note that there's no hard 'bha' here) => Corruption of 'bhOjanaalu'. bOnam, per se, doesn't mean anything in Telugu.
Although you could argue that those pots individually could be called as..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Wilder, scrump, mdonley
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Apologies for flooding this thread with multiple posts, but another very quick, and exciting, point to make.
Notice the picture (this one too) once again. They seem to use a lot of chandan, don't they, covering virtually half their visible..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by trip and a half, scrump, mdonley
Last year
MeFi comment:
"What?! You guys hate Blues Brothers 2000?! But remember this: Walk away [from the movie] now and you walk away from your crafts, your skills, your vocations; leaving the next generation with nothing but recycled, digitally-sampled techno-grooves,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ColdChef
Last year
MeFi comment:
"That's not math, that's arithmetic. It's not 'Vedic', it's most likely from a Vedanga, most likely Vedanga Jyotisa or later related treatises such as Bhaskaracharya's Leelavati Ganitam.
In fact, I remember skimming through this Swami's book many..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by flibbertigibbet, zouhair, lumensimus, Wonderwoman, arcticwoman, nickyskye, bugbread, DangerIsMyMiddleName
Last year
MeFi comment:
"The (India-based, but SAARC-right-of-center) South Asia Terrorism Portal has some thoughts about the whole thing.
In addition to the macabre deaths and lockdown in Karachi,
... Pakistan witnessed more than a doubling of terrorism-related..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by acro
Last year
MeFi comment:
"From the article:
One of a very small number of old-school military dictatorships left in Asia, Burma—renamed Myanmar in 1989 by the ruling State Law and Order Restoration Council—remains a pariah state that practices forced labor, massive..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by homunculus
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Orthogonality: I think you've just created history. Those words... let's just say, not the first thing that comes to my mind when I think 'Metafilter'. :-D
Contrary to popular belief, on-screen kissing was never considered censor-worthy in Indian..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by bugbread, drezdn, UbuRoivas
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Four-ish days. One research thesis that is still up on a certain university website.
No hallucinations, just a friendly chat with winged creature with green scales[1] who called himself Ahura Mazda [2] on this picnic bench in my alma mater. He..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
Last year
MeFi comment:
"... and there is always Estricks, who, in 50 Isa ka poorva versh, when Romanos kabja-ed all of gol ki dharti, lived in a gñaav [sic] surrounded by four nearby chavniyou, 'Majhadharam', 'Cheekhpukãram', 'Mrüchhakatikam', and 'Dekhat-bhãgam'.
Never..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by UbuRoivas
Last year
MeFi comment:
"ubiroivas: What infini really meant was, "yár, dil kyún' tód' rahá hai aisé gáné lagá ké? " Which is to say, friend, why you breaking his/her heart by putting songs like this?
Hey everybody, look, I'm a vyákaraña nazi!
On a serious..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sand Reckoner
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Heh, you know, I'm actually a drive-by commenter myself; never really check back to see how a thread progresses after I've posted. Good to see that you folks are reading my rants. AMAZED that my posts seem to be remembered. :-)
On Sankranti versus..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Ah Tuol Sleng, the longest two hours I've ever spent in a single location. Makes you weep for humanity. By the end, I was so numb that I was subconsciously trying to recite the old Sanskrit prayers that my grandmom taught me some twenty summers back,..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by homunculus, madamjujujive, nickyskye, growabrain, jokeefe, jjwiseman, weapons-grade pandemonium, Abiezer
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I've just returned from India, and I'll say this: those days of 15% raises are long gone. It's boom-boom-boom time in India now, especially if you're an IT professional; developers and their project managers are on top of the pecking order. Know..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by nickyskye, forwebsites, TheDonF, dw, Bugg
Last year
MeFi post:
How Hanuman Fell In Love and other stories.
favorited 10 times, recently by moonshine, dmo, M Edward, McGuillicuddy, maryh, wander, jrb223, honeyx, nickyskye, vacapinta
Two years ago
MeFi comment:
"(Post-post notes):
a) Tried to collate links that tell a story, without being too preachy.
b) Wished I could find a video of the Souvanna Macha dance.
c) If you really would like to stick to just one link, I'd recommend the Amitav Ghosh essay.
d)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by handee
Two years ago
