tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post113344050509839649..comments2023-11-02T19:19:15.129+05:30Comments on Death Ends Fun: Destructive revolutionDilip D'Souzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08221707482541503243noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-1159372135558643892006-09-27T21:18:00.000+05:302006-09-27T21:18:00.000+05:30Hey dilip the article which was published was ulti...Hey dilip the article which was published was ultimate to indian standards. I am delighted at least India is known for the simple illustration which you gave. I hope one of the best examples of globalization. Hey man can you try for the maruti car when "Indira Gandhi" once told to the press and at the time of Maruti suzuki/800 release "A car for poor".<BR/><BR/>Keep it up dudeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-1133813646178195492005-12-06T01:44:00.000+05:302005-12-06T01:44:00.000+05:30I'm an undergrad in Austin, Texas, and it's actual...I'm an undergrad in Austin, Texas, and it's actually "landline" in the US, too; I believe the term "landline" predates the term "LAN".<BR/><BR/>Pools, tennis courts, and cars will probably stay expensive just because they're big. Cell phones are rapidly /becoming/ computers; the rise of external storage, keyboards, and maybe even goggles or large screens for cell phones would not completely astound me. Affordable housing, education, and 24-hour reliable electricity will probably depend on government subsidies, but you never know: all three of these could also be affected purely by technology. As to holidays in France, well, that's a good question. :)<BR/><BR/>-willwarner at mail utexas eduAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-1133549712222629772005-12-03T00:25:00.000+05:302005-12-03T00:25:00.000+05:30!?@?!?! Is the world spinning in a different direc...!?@?!?! Is the world spinning in a different direction today? ?? Is this some new found trick to confound ranters like yours truly? Or dare I say that I have misjudged you Mr. D'Souza? No. No. I cannot be wrong, or a misjudger, something is not right...<BR/><BR/>(Umm, if u haven't figured it, this a roundabout way of saying great post. You need be at the Delhi Blog Meet, BTW). <BR/><BR/>A <A HREF="http://tarunsblog.blogspot.com/2004/10/present-is-wireless.html" REL="nofollow">post</A> from my older blog, written a long time to ago, to act as a condiment to your post.phuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13454292574105813710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-1133531965213326322005-12-02T19:29:00.000+05:302005-12-02T19:29:00.000+05:30Michael, I didn't know landlines are called LAN-li...Michael, I didn't know landlines are called LAN-lines in the US. Perhaps the etymology went the other way, from here to there?<BR/><BR/>I think it was the Atlantic that had an interesting piece a few years ago about how some words come into use all of a sudden for things that have been very familiar all along, "landline" being a case in point.<BR/><BR/>Why do I want Ramkumar to stop chewing paan? One, because I find it a disgusting habit. Two, because it's a threat to his health and I like the dude. It's his choice, sure, but I feel like I can suggest it from time to time.<BR/><BR/>Sunil, obviously you don't know my parents, also cellphone-less. I wonder if there's a cellphone-less parents association.Dilip D'Souzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221707482541503243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-1133509381961230592005-12-02T13:13:00.000+05:302005-12-02T13:13:00.000+05:30Now I wonder what other such things will follow in...<I>Now I wonder what other such things will follow in its wake. Swimming pools? Tennis courts? Cars? Computers? Affordable housing? Holidays in France? Education?</I><BR/><BR/>Power power power. Give them power. One of our ingrained assumptions is that poor people in villages live on 6-8 hrs of power a day. And no one sees anything wrong with it. Open up the power sector and you will see many poor people lgiht up at "bijli" like the old lady in Swades.<BR/><BR/>Education too. Considering that culturally and historically we are education-crazy people, an artifical supply constraint keeps people illiterate and uneducated. Implement the coupon system, encouraging private enterprise, and we'll see dhobis and bhajiwaalas speaking "english", something thought of as belonging only to the elite, like the mobile phones once were.Gauravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09184877197493389897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-1133506745631113812005-12-02T12:29:00.000+05:302005-12-02T12:29:00.000+05:30You know......mobile phones are one of the few thi...You know......mobile phones are one of the few things that make me more optimistic about a good chunk of Africa as well.....leave alone India.<BR/><BR/>Incredible, what an empowering tool it's been.<BR/><BR/>Right know, my parents are the only people i know who still don't have a cell phone (our house maid has one, the apartment watchman has one, the newspaper delivery man has one, the milkman has one......)Sunilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07776658071546232685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-1133502516606042642005-12-02T11:18:00.000+05:302005-12-02T11:18:00.000+05:30Hi DilipInteresting vignette. Actually Gaurav Sabn...Hi Dilip<BR/>Interesting vignette. Actually Gaurav Sabnis wrote about something very similar recently. It is a remarkable thing. <BR/><BR/>I was curious about one thing: the etymology of the term "landline". In the US, a term for a phone connect to a physical network is called a "LAN-line" or local area network line. Did this term cross over to India and become "landline"? Possibly.<BR/><BR/>Btw, why do you want your Ramkumar to stop eating paan? Unless gets juices on your clothing I would say that it is his choice, don't you think?Michael Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05034249281790021336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-1133496143844521852005-12-02T09:32:00.000+05:302005-12-02T09:32:00.000+05:30Neela, yes it's not surprising, but what I'm reall...Neela, yes it's not surprising, but what I'm really getting at is not the boom so much as the way it is forcing a change in mindsets. The mindsets that told us that a dhobi would not be able to afford such a luxury as a phone. Those are crumbling.<BR/><BR/>So really, I'm waiting to see what other things crossover like phones ans sachets. Will tennis courts do it? Pools? What? After all, the same mindset has applied to those too.Dilip D'Souzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221707482541503243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-1133481104235590362005-12-02T05:21:00.000+05:302005-12-02T05:21:00.000+05:30I don't know why this anonymous is waiting for Dil...I don't know why this anonymous is waiting for Dilip to write positive things about India. <BR/>India has negative things and we need some to highlight in media.<BR/>Let's accept that and give him some credit. <BR/><BR/>Yeah.. Dilip goes overboard calling for invasion of India etc, but cut the guy some slack will you, sometimes deadlines, time pressure who knows.. maybe he was having a bad day. <BR/><BR/>And oh.. on praises for Hindus from Hindu, LOL... you do have a good sense of humour Anonymous 9:53 pm :-)<BR/>Pigs will fly before.. ouch that would be communal to say that.<BR/><BR/>- not a leftist, not a rightist, not a typist, not an athesist, not a secularist, not a communalist....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-1133454208583301452005-12-01T21:53:00.000+05:302005-12-01T21:53:00.000+05:30Oh man! Dilip! I am reading your columns/articles ...Oh man! Dilip! I am reading your columns/articles from last 5/6 years. I like what you write. And I was always optimistic that one day I will definitely get to read something from you that is good about India! Something that you will find, from the bottom of you heart, good happening in India. finally I see it. <BR/>Though that is not what you intended but you did it anyway. Good. Indirectly you did accept that privatization, opening up of market is helping India and poor people of India (at least to some extent). <BR/><BR/>Would like to hear one such good thing about Hindus. though haven't read direct attack but read about your praise for songs (or whatever that is) at the mosques etc. but only references to caste system when it comes to Hindus. If its temple the 'bhikaris' are described but if its the mosque the people feeding 'bhikaris' are talked about :)<BR/><BR/>I need not say all of this... you know it very well yourself. BTW I like that "I am not leftist...."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com