Posted by: Aadisht on: March 31, 2006
Steak Satellite Originally uploaded by aadishtk. I’ve started photography. Emphasis on started. I’ve got a long way to go before I get good at it. From what I’ve taken so far, I like this snap the best. The others are all greatly asymmetrical or have distractions like quarter plates or middle fingers in the background. [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 31, 2006
Just to clarify, the previous post was not about me. For me, having any sort of romantic entanglement, even one my parents didn’t approve of, would be a step up. This was about entirely hypothetical situations about hypothetical people with Day Zero placements (wink, wink). Okay, enough with the allusions. I’d mentioned that I was [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 30, 2006
I just returned from Ranga Shankara, where I saw Evam, the theatre group from Chennai, performing Chapter Two by Neil Simon. At the end of the performance, they asked us to spread the word if we liked the performance. I did like the performance, so here I am spreading the word. The play is very [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 18, 2006
Which is better: joining a management consultancy, being paid 14 lakh rupees a year, and working 16/6; or being the heir to a small family business where your dad and some professional managers do all the work, you can take it easy, and all your needs are met (though you don’t actually own anything: you [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 18, 2006
Nothing I can say about this will be funnier than the headline and the photos. Photos here. Link via Tomorrow
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 17, 2006
Sigh. For six months or more, you keep a leash on your writing. You write for the most part about telecom, with diversions into other infrastructure sectors. You keep it factual and devoid of metaphors (though you indulge yourself with a PJ every so often). And what happens? The minute you decide to spice things [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 15, 2006
Demonstrating compassion for the poor used to be an industry. Lately, it’s become a religion, as demonstrated by this post, this one, and this one. Like every other religion, this one too has its commandments. Here they are: The Poor are Holy, and must be venerated for their poverty. Poverty is mysterious, and cannot be [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 14, 2006
If Neil Gaiman would rewrite the Maaeri video as a Desire story.
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 11, 2006
I’ve been mugging, scouring Wikipedia for decent fundaes, and reading Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, and I’ve been coming up with some interesting connections. The Baroque Cycle is about a lot of things- it’s a quizzers delight that way- but one of the important subplots is about how modern banking developed- starting with moneylending, discounting [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 3, 2006
Spice, the also-ran cellular operator in Karnataka has been trying to rebrand itself over the past few months. It doesn’t have the muscle or subscriber base of an Airtel or a Hutch, so it’s been fighting where it can: innovation in VAS. I’m not sure how much of a market some of their stuff would [...]