Comments on: Journey with the Desert Boys http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/ kungu fighting dhaba wallah since 1999 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:55:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Lemmy http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5551 Lemmy Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:44:58 +0000 http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5551 Everyone is going India, just came across a blog with similar Indian content. http://www.leylop.com/ Everyone is going India, just came across a blog with similar Indian content.

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]]> By: tiak http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5465 tiak Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:12:36 +0000 http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5465 update!quick! :D update!quick!
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]]> By: Bir http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5372 Bir Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:01:50 +0000 http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5372 I have lost my sense of sarcasm after coming to singapore... be straight forward.... say what you mean is what i preach and practice.......... now ... I have lost my sense of sarcasm after coming to singapore… be straight forward…. say what you mean is what i preach and practice………. now …

]]> By: Premila http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5369 Premila Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:41:52 +0000 http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5369 I'm ecstatic that sarcasm appears to be lost on you.. I’m ecstatic that sarcasm appears to be lost on you..

]]> By: Bir http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5368 Bir Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:25:32 +0000 http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5368 well well !! it was just a thought....... but thanks for the input... premila..... i dont remeber a girl calling me "beloved" !! thanks for that. :-) thanks for yr time satya, adri and premila.... i think i am already much fed up with the political system in India.. mY hands are up............ love u all ~ well well !! it was just a thought……. but thanks for the input…

premila….. i dont remeber a girl calling me “beloved” !! thanks for that. :-)

thanks for yr time satya, adri and premila…. i think i am already much fed up with the political system in India.. mY hands are up…………

love u all ~

]]> By: Satya http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5366 Satya Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:13:59 +0000 http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5366 thats great, Premila :) thats great, Premila :)

]]> By: Premila http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5365 Premila Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:50:11 +0000 http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5365 Precisely why you can't compare the two...which is what our beloved Bir was trying to do. And our racial quotas are (claimed to be) "for the purposes of integration" rather than anything else, which is APPARENTLY necessary to thwart the inevitable formation of evil single-race-cliqued HDBs (says the offspring of two civil servants). .... Good thing we own a house. P.S. I never had any issues (racial or otherwise) growing up in Singapore; but now that I am all grown up... I still don't. (says the offspring of two civil servants) Precisely why you can’t compare the two…which is what our beloved Bir was trying to do.
And our racial quotas are (claimed to be) “for the purposes of integration” rather than anything else, which is APPARENTLY necessary to thwart the inevitable formation of evil single-race-cliqued HDBs (says the offspring of two civil servants).

….

Good thing we own a house.

P.S. I never had any issues (racial or otherwise) growing up in Singapore; but now that I am all grown up…

I still don’t.
(says the offspring of two civil servants)

]]> By: Satya http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5364 Satya Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:49:52 +0000 http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5364 interesting, Premila.. i will comment on your blog perhaps.. thanks Adri! indeed you are spot-on when you say that the considerations are diverse when it comes to casteism and the principles relating to racism cannot be applied directly.. It is a difficult area to understand; I have studied this for over 3 years in law school and wrote a paper on this but I cannot claim to be closer to a solution.. interesting, Premila.. i will comment on your blog perhaps..

thanks Adri! indeed you are spot-on when you say that the considerations are diverse when it comes to casteism and the principles relating to racism cannot be applied directly.. It is a difficult area to understand; I have studied this for over 3 years in law school and wrote a paper on this but I cannot claim to be closer to a solution..

]]> By: popagandhi http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5351 popagandhi Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:22:47 +0000 http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5351 That already exists in a country to our north, though you've got to mash up the formula a bit. There are racial quotas in Singapore public housing. There are/were quota for women in medical school, because "women get married and give birth and stay at home eventually so why waste our resources on them in medical school". But race and casteism is a very different thing, the latter includes many other socio-economic considerations than even the most backward races can't begin to imagine. That already exists in a country to our north, though you’ve got to mash up the formula a bit. There are racial quotas in Singapore public housing. There are/were quota for women in medical school, because “women get married and give birth and stay at home eventually so why waste our resources on them in medical school”.

But race and casteism is a very different thing, the latter includes many other socio-economic considerations than even the most backward races can’t begin to imagine.

]]> By: Premila http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5348 Premila Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:44:07 +0000 http://popagandhi.com/320/journey-with-the-desert-boys/#comment-5348 well...a more logical mathmatical formula for your hypothetical "Singapore reservation act" would be 25% chinese, 25% malay, 25% indians and 25%others. And by the way...there used to be quotas in Singapore..be it for Indians, Malays, women...whatever. Actually...I can think of a few other reserves which may be more suited to you. They involve trees though... well…a more logical mathmatical formula for your hypothetical “Singapore reservation act” would be 25% chinese, 25% malay, 25% indians and 25%others. And by the way…there used to be quotas in Singapore..be it for Indians, Malays, women…whatever.

Actually…I can think of a few other reserves which may be more suited to you. They involve trees though…

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