Posted by: Aadisht on: December 18, 2008
Masabi has a sooper post up about the ill-conceived Small Change petition.
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 17, 2008
After six months in Mumbai, working in an office which is equal parts legacy Maharashtrian staff and fresh new Bong and TamBrahm deputees (it’s a banking subsidiary, there have to be Bongs and TamBrahms around), I have come to an important realisation: Maharashtrian laziness is very different from other races’ laziness. At one end of [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 17, 2008
I have only one question for the people who’re calling for Ratan Tata to be Prime Minister. Are you fucking idiots? In the past few years, the Tata Group, with Ratan Tata presiding, has: spent money buying luxury car brands just months before the world headed for a recession completed an expensive purchase of Corus, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 17, 2008
Seriously, the man is fabulous. For the past eight years, Bush-hating activities have existed at a level that can best be summed up as “lame-ass”. There have been protest marches with bad slogans. There have been riots in Lucknow where Hindus and Muslims beat each other up (or vice versa), but Bush himself escaped unscathed. [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 12, 2008
My current to-be-read pile consists of Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s fabulous transalation of The Adventures of Amir Hamza. You can read Jabberwock’s posts on the books here and here). Just to bring you up to speed on what the adventures of Amir Hamza actually are. The prophet Muhammad had an uncle called Hamza who was one [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 11, 2008
The absence of regular posts has been because I was busy getting a quiz ready. In the time since my last bout of regular posting, armed motherfuckers shot up my city, I quit my job, multiple people I know got married, had babies, or celebrated their birthdays; and I upgraded WordPress to 2.7. So it [...]