Posted by: Aadisht on: May 27, 2007
Conversation with Pushy this weekend led to the two following significant discoveries: It would probably suck to be married to a girl called Aastha. It would remind you too much of the religious channel. Every time you decided to puts with her, you would have mental images of Baba Ramdev preaching restraint and abstinence. Death [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 27, 2007
W-File almost completed. Regular blogging now resumes.
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 14, 2007
Right people, I’m off on another one of my long blogging breaks. I’m busy with work, and I need to focus on writing a W-File. When I’m back, please hold me to writing posts on: The Sohrabbudin encounter and idiotarians Mark Bagley and Paedophilia The Times of India’s firewall policy All pervasive Zionist propaganda Unintended [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 14, 2007
Jaffna has a post on the Left and it’s role in Indian history education (link via Varnam). This reminds me of my experience in Class 7, where we used the NCERT textbook on medieval India. History classes mostly consisted of reading the textbook aloud. So eventually we got to a point where my teacher was [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 13, 2007
The FGB writes about Dalit participation in the UP elections, and makes an excellent point: There is nothing radical being said here. I am just advocating equality. The politicians and the armchair economists and political theorists on the other hand are always lobbying for equalisation. But the most important paragraph is this one: Instead we [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 13, 2007
So what else do you do when there’s nobody around to fuck with your mind?
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 11, 2007
Karunanidhi Thinks Deeply. The social revolution unleashed by Krish marches on.
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 11, 2007
Some people didn’t get the joke in the previous post. I was referring to the urban legend / FUD tactic that too much wanking will make you go blind. It’s a myth, of course. But then so is the Mahabharatha.
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 10, 2007
Pandu, right? He couldn’t have sex because he was cursed to die if he did. So presumably he spent the rest of his lie masturbating until he gave into temptation and died. So why was Dhritrashtra the blind one?
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 9, 2007
You know, I might get decent at portraiture after all. Someday.