Posted by: Aadisht on: January 31, 2006
Dilip D’ Souza has a post up at the newly launched How The Other Half Lives called Thud in the Hills which asks a question that isn’t asked often enough: when will reforms benefit the poor? And can they do nothing but wait for the benefits to trickle down? My answer: it depends. The little [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 29, 2006
Jethro Tull is the main act at Unmaad, IIM Bangalore’s cultural fest. This does flip Unmaad into a league well above any other college festival- Euphoria or Parikrama just don’t compare to Tull. But it does have its downside. The main downside is that the Tull show is soaking up sponsorship money like nobody’s business- [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 27, 2006
Miss Singapore Tourism visited the Chairman Mao Museum. In a much nicer world, Chairman Mao would visit the Miss Singapore museum. (Link found via Tomorrow)
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 27, 2006
Placements are upon us, and this is the month with all the PPTs (Pre-Placement Talks, if you were wondering). Recruiters come down to campus, and tell us about themselves and the roles they’re offering in one hour slots (longer, if the role is high-paying and Placecom thinks they deserve pandering pampering. The worst PPTs are [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 25, 2006
I seem to have missed this news entirely: the Tamil Nadu government is planning to take over the cable operators in the state. Hmm, so two or three years without any obvious power-mad incidents was too good to be true. Indira Gandhi nationalised banks, and now Jayalalitha is planning to nationalize (should that be state-ize?) [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 22, 2006
Skimpy has a post up about how the shortage of airport infrastructure is a looming crisis for Indian aviation, and talks about how it might play out. He suggests that the way out of the crisis is for the government to facilitate the construction of new airports- without necessarily building it themselves. According to him, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 19, 2006
Do read Masabi’s post on Deve Gowda’s thought process.
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 17, 2006
She was tall, full-bosomed and large-limbed, with compact shoulders. Her whole figure reflected an unusual strength, without detracting from the feminity of her appearance. She was all woman, in spite of her bearing and her garments. The latter were incongruous, a view of her present environs. Instead of a skirt, she wore short, wide-legged silk [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 13, 2006
After seeing the heat generated by this post, I was reminded of a discussion I had almost two years ago with Arnab. Read PG Wodehouse’s autobiography, or his letters, and you’ll notice the importance magazines played in his early career. His novels would often be serialized as magazine stories stretching over several issues before they [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 12, 2006
I must confess that I am taken aback by the adulation my blog title has received from so many quarters. Because frankly, I always thought that the funda- leave alone the humour- of the title would be appreciated by very few people. Let’s face it, despite the delightful nature and versatility of IITM lingo, general [...]