Posted by: Aadisht on: June 12, 2006
Readers of Maajorly Shadymax Arbit Fundaes are obviously too intelligent to be taken in by this Pankaj Mishra editorial, which manages to contradict itself repeatedly and also indulges in some very selective reporting of facts. To take just one of the contradictions, Mishra first claims that when China adopted free market policies, the result was [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 11, 2006
On the topic of vegetarianism, the Master wrote: Cut him off from the proteins and the amino-acids, and you soured his normally amiable nature, turning him into a sullen hater of his species who asked nothing better than to bite his n. and dearest and bite them good. But give him this steak and kidney [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 10, 2006
If I had a huge gorilla behind me, I’d be screaming with terror and running away with my valuables too. And the gorilla might be angry because he’s next to a Himesh Reshammiya poster.
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 10, 2006
I saw a TV commercial that enraged me. The first time I didn’t pay a great deal of attention. A little boy, a well-fed kid, is by himself and finds his shoelace his undone. He decides then and there to learn how to tie it by himself. The camera lingers on him, on his intense [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 10, 2006
So now the government has decided to go ahead and censor TV directly, without even bothering with a regulator. The Hindustan Times reports that music channels will now have to run a scroll apologising for playing ‘obscene’ videos. And stop showing them henceforth. What fun. I suppose next news channels will have to apologise for [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 7, 2006
I am shocked, shocked, to learn that criminals and anti-social elements have been buying SIM cards with forged documents in Haryana. Those naughty criminals! How dare they! Don’t they know that they are supposed to provide their correct identity details so that the authorities can track them down? If they pretend to be honest people [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 5, 2006
Time to answer the questions raised by my post on using real estate options to pay for acquisition of land. I’ll answer the questions raised in the comments first, and then address some other issues. Will the options be provided to displaced people free of cost, or sold? Will they be given loans to buy [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 4, 2006
I must have seen more television in the past two months than I have in the two years before. I haven’t missed much. The ads are the best bit. The Garnier fairness cream made me recall something I saw in China but didn’t remember to write about in the travelogue. The Chinese buy fairness creams [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 4, 2006
I refer not to the concept, but the bestselling game series. The premise of Civilization is simple. You’re the leader of a civilization (a tribe or a nationality). You start out in 4000 BC with only a settler. The settler founds a city. The city then produces more settlers, which found new cities. All these [...]