Posted by: Aadisht on: December 30, 2007
The annual renaming of this blog has taken place. Sleisha Cuppax Fundaes (w)Only is now the easily-acronymised Givvup Only Are There. Also, the tagline has been changed to “Country are the new pseud.” The next post will be another annual ritual (at least, I plan to make it an annual ritual): the next year in [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 18, 2007
My flatmate has moved out and I now have the entire flat to myself. This means that I now have an empty bedroom to play with. What exactly to do with this is an interesting problem. A number of alternatives have emerged: My father has suggested supplementing my salary by going into the flesh love hotel [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 17, 2007
Junta like Jabberwock and Hurree Babu have cornered the market on reviewing good books. It’s futile to compete on their terms. No, I shall instead target an untapped niche – one I have already established some expertise in, what with abusing Ravi Subramanian and Chetan Bhagat – and review bad books. And the particular bad [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 13, 2007
This is brilliant… not: With several hydro-power projects stuck due to disputes among states over water-sharing and related issues, the Ministry for Water Resources plans to bring some rivers under Central ambit by identifying them as “national rivers” to tap their potential for hydro-power and irrigation. Speaking to The Indian Express today, Union Minister for [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 12, 2007
Raiders Lost the Arc, the idiotically titled and idiotically written Outlook cover story on how IT is ruining Bangalore, has been debunked and fisked enough elsewhere on the blogosphere (Churumuri rebuts CNR Rao here, Nitin points out what the Outlook story missed here). Sugata Srinivasraju doesn’t ever blame IT junta for ruining infrastructure himself, but he [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 12, 2007
Manipal Motors doesn’t have a free slot for Palio servicing until December 20. Bah. Rocinante hasn’t been running properly since the middle of November, and I’m now into my fourth week of taking autos to work (and everywhere else for that matter). This comes with the following disadvantages: Before 0830, autos refuse to go to [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 12, 2007
I realise that the cost of doing one particular thing is that you can’t do another thing. And honestly, I loved computer symposiums and quizzing, and would regret never having done them in favour of something else. But I really wish I had learnt Bharatnatyam at some point in life. This is not because of [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 8, 2007
Filthy undergrads (and even filthier schoolchildren) cannot recall a time before cable television. They do not recall a time when television consisted of Doordarshan only. When commercials came before programming, not between it. When news was not sensational. When there was only one channel. And when that channel was a mouthpiece for the Congress (I). [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 7, 2007
Quote of the (last) Month: Libertarians are not beyond hope (and some are even cute), but they need to be Re-Educated. I’d start with some Dickens novels, personally. (seen on Facebook) We Pompous Libertarians (TM) often believe that (welfare) statists are out of touch with reality. When they go on to attack libertarianism as twenty-first [...]