Posted by: Aadisht on: March 31, 2007
This is an example of why libertarians get thulped for being impractical: If betting was legal, and as a punter you could choose from a) an HDFC subsidiary offering betting facilities, b) a Taj Group company and c) some shady outlet like the ones you can choose from now, you’d obviously choose one of the [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 19, 2007
At the peremptory request and desire of Spunky that I take more photographs of desserts, I went to IndiJoe this evening to eat and photograph a Chocolate Avalanche. IndiJoe had big screens up on every wall playing the India-Bermuda match, so I saw a cricket match after what must have been four or five years. [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 19, 2007
When it comes to choosing between brands, I have two rules: Never buy anything made by an Indian state-owned enterprise (on a global scale, I make exceptions for Tsingtao and Absolut) Always buy anything endorsed by Preity Zinta So when Preity Zinta starts plugging for BSNL, you can understand my dilemma [video link here]. Clearly, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 18, 2007
Human Rights Watch has a report out which says that discrimination against Dalits is equivalent to apartheid. This is patently stupid, since apartheid was institutionalised by the South African state, whereas at least legally, the Indian state is constitutionally bound to discriminate for Dalits. (The fact that is fucks the implementation up is a separate [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 17, 2007
To my great delight, I discovered today that Fresh and Fresh on 100 Ft. Road stocks not only Kabuli pomegranates but also North Indian carrots. The carrot season will end in a couple of weeks, so this was a particularly nick-of-time discovery. The past three months I’ve been unable to find North Indian carrots anywhere [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 16, 2007
Terry Pratchett: Some people say that writing dwarf songs is not hard to do, as long as you can remember how to spell “Gold,” but this is a little bit cynical. Many dwarf songs* are on the lines of “Gold, gold, gold” but it’s all in the inflection–dwarfs have thousands of words for gold, but [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 15, 2007
Over at this post by Skimpy, there’s a discussion in the comment threads going on about where dowry comes from. In the post itself, Skimpy makes this point: then a friend told me that in Gultland dowry is mostly in kind (land, gold, etc) and they’re all in the bride’s name. so if her husband [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 11, 2007
Back in December (to be specific, the last weekend of the Blossom’s book sale) there was this group that had set up sheets outside Mota Arcade on Brigade Road and were inviting people to express their thoughts by painting or writing on the sheets. They were also handing out bookmarks that talked about the lack [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 11, 2007
Did you miss me? If you did, apologies. I’ve been horribly busy at work the past three weeks what with risk audits and pending files and whatnot and in mild depression about the Cartel breaking up. Things seem to be under control and blogging should resume this week, with the dowry series being wrapped up [...]