Posted by: Aadisht on: January 28, 2009
(A short story in the style of Neha Vish’s fiction fragments. With sincere apologies to her for ripping her off, and to my readers for inflicting this upon them.) He feels happy. After six years away, he is now home again. He doesn’t have to put aside some amount of his salary to buy furniture [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 27, 2009
This story hasn’t appeared in the Indian press as far as I know, which is a shame. It’s one of the most awesome practical jokes/ pranks/ hoaxes ever devised. So I’m summarising it for your reading pleasure. OK, the European Union has a rotating presidency which passes between the member-countries. France just handed the presidency [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 22, 2009
So thanks to airfares going down again, I had enough money spare to buy the awesome Nikkor 50 mm f/1.8 lens, which Chandru and Nega have been praising and taking awesome photos with. It seemed appropriate to inaugurate the lens by taking photos of my mum’s many Ganesh idols. Unfortunately, my first few attempts didn’t [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 22, 2009
Ashish Jaiswal, the author of True Dummy – a Fable of Existence, has asked me to review the book (psst: it launched two days ago). He’s also asked me to be honest about the book in the review, and not asked for special treatment. I’m reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao right now. Once [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 18, 2009
After all the horrifying stuff we faced in 2008 – bomb blasts, rampaging inflation, a global financial crisis, and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, - 2009 can only get better, right? Ha ha ha. Oh, you crack me up. The rest of next year, we’re going to get further into a global economic downturn, we’re going to [...]