Posted by: Aadisht on: March 29, 2009
So long, long, ago, Beatzo came up with a muhuh thuhuh about A R Rahman: The deal with Rahman music is that most of it, the stuff that has stood the test of time, is music that does not really have a template from previous film music. You sure as hell hadn’t heard an acoustic [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 28, 2009
Writing in Dawn about Slumdog Millionaire, Arundhati Roy says: That’s what Slumdog Millionaire is selling: the cheapest version of the Great Capitalist dream in which politics is replaced by a game show, a lottery in which the dreams of one person come true while, in the process, the dreams of millions of others are usurped, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 16, 2009
So this morning, a little bird decided to fly through the open window into our living room. Once inside, it perched on our cordless phone’s base station. It eventually decided it didn’t like the phone, so it went on to the network hard disk. Over here, I got off a shot which shows off [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 15, 2009
In this modern and fast-Westernising world we are fast losing our traditional moorings. Our traditions and practices are known to our grandparents, but we have foolishly neglected to learn them as well. My generation no longer knows how to tie the veshti or the dhoti, leading to a huge loss of manliness. The Urdu language’s [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 15, 2009
fortylove.tv, which I mentioned a few months ago is now up and running. In case you missed it when I first wrote about it, it’s a site where Lazy Lola and Popagandhi are posting handmade videos which have been shot on smartphones or point-and-shoot cameras. The videos are very much on Discovery Travel&Living lines, and [...]