Posted by: Aadisht on: September 29, 2008
What do exploitation movies exploit? Stereotypes? P.S. This is a serious question. Wikipedia isn’t any help.
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 27, 2008
In three hours of extensive enthusiasm, Kodhi and me have come up with what we think is the greatest travel route ever. I decided that it would be cool to travel overland from the Pacific coast of Asia to the Atlantic Coast of Europe. In a stroke of genius, Kodhi decided that it would be [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 27, 2008
Yesterday, Skimpy forwarded me this link, and immediately changed his tagline to “2 dollars. Why didn’t I bid for Lehman Brothers?”. This sparked the following conversation. me: Look at it this wat *way $2 = 93 rupees 3:26 PM with that you could buy a hummus and pita bread and have some change left over [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 24, 2008
Raj Thackeray bitches about how bhaiyyas from the cow belt come to Mumbai, become cab drivers, and steal jobs from the Marathi Manoos. I’m not sure how he’ll react to this amazing story (TOI link. I’m sorry, but nobody else is carrying it). Here’s the summary: Shop assistant steals two kilos of gold from a [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 24, 2008
So John McCain gets elected and to make up for all the allegations about lack of foreign policy experience, the first thing that Sarah Palin does is to go on a world tour meeting heads of state. And since she’s a hockey mom she takes all her kids along. In Australia while Palin is meeting [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 23, 2008
How else do you explain this? “Such a person must be taken to be astute enough to know the difference between a Harry Potter film and another titled Hari Puttar. In my view, the cognoscenti, the intellectuals and even the pseudo-intellectuals presumably know the difference between chalk and cheese or at any rate must be [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 20, 2008
The fact that I’ve posted in one day about two separate reforms that aren’t getting noticed suddenly reminds me of Ravikiran’s thesis that the only time the UPA can carry out reform is when the Left is distracted with other things (follow-up 1) like privatising airports when everyone is concentrating on the Tsunami. The thing [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 20, 2008
Along with mobile banking, another sector got a little freer this week. Foreign news magazines can now publish Indian editions: In a significant further opening up of the print media, the Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a revised policy that would allow Indian editions of foreign magazines in the news and current affairs category. … [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 20, 2008
The front pages are still preoccupied with the carnage in the investment banking world, but yesterday the RBI quietly announced something which is going to be huge three years down the line: the draft guidelines for mobile banking. There’s an Indian Express article on it here, and the original guidelines are available here (plain HTML) [...]