Posted by: Aadisht on: October 25, 2009
The Padma Purana contains the following story about the amla fruit: Once upon a time, a chandala went into the forest for hunting. He hunted many deer and birds. Feeling hungry, he saw an amla tree and climbed up the tree. This way he satiated his hunger by eating sweet amla fruits. Unfortunately while he [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 25, 2009
Tata Docomo’s advertising tagline is “Why walk alone when we can dance together?” I think the Tata group is mocking Rabindranath Tagore and Ekla Cholo Re. This is to get back at the Bongs for what they did to Tata Motors at Singur.
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 14, 2009
I mean, what tops Le Royale? Le Imperiale? Wikipedia to the rescue. The Angus Third Pounder is not sold outside America and Canada (where it is called an Angus Deluxe in Ontario). No clarification, however, on whether this is because the rest of the world has the metric system, and wouldn’t know what the fuck [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 10, 2009
In the past ten days Salman Khurshid has advocated a return to 1980s Comptroller of Capital Issues style pricing, and also done the headline-hogging complaint about Indian CEOs drawing too much pay. The CEO pay issue is truely bizarre and WTF, for a number of reasons, including: As Deepak Shenoy points out, Khurshid is currently [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 10, 2009
Last week, the Planetizen news feed on urban planning posted a link to how contrary to predictions, retiring baby boomers were moving not to cities but to the rural countryside in Oregon (Planetizen summary, actual news story). The very next link on the feed was titled Not So Fast and linked to another story from [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 9, 2009
I honestly don’t care about the Commonwealth Games (or any sporting event that doesn’t involve Dwayne Leverock for that matter). But if Commonwealth Games are what it takes to give Delhi better roads, a better airport, and Metro connectivity up to Green Park, I am all for them. I mean, it would be nice if [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 5, 2009
In order: Stella Artois, near the Tower of London. Recommended to me by Nega Maami. Amstel, at Henry’s Bar in Piccadilly. Also a Nega recommendation. Dry and delicious. Cobra, along with delicious paalak paneer at a place called… Punjabi Spice? Punjabi Spirit in Hounslow. As strong as Kingfisher, without the unpleasant aftertaste. Warsteiner, on the [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 3, 2009
In F Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, the main characters are an American couple called the Divers who are Page 3 People in the 1920s. They live on a hillside Villa over the French Riviera, where they throw parties for American tourists and expats. Unfortunately up to the 1920s Riviera hotels were open only [...]