Posted by: Aadisht on: June 30, 2010
Continuing with Commonwealth Games ranting, for all the noise the Delhi Government is making about how it will be a massive tourist event and how there will be a hotel shortage, I’m yet to actually see any news story with evidence for this. In the past six months, Google News has shown me lots of [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 30, 2010
On the NDTV website, a report about a rape in Delhi contains this line: However, with the commonwealth games in a few months, this incident again raises the question of safety of women in the Capital. (NDTV) It is bad enough when the Delhi government makes statements about getting infrastructure ready and giving police soft [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 25, 2010
I realize that being hung over makes writing even more interesting, though I am not sure if I can say it’s interesting for the readers! As I sit in the salon while my hair stylist works his magic on my hair, I think about the time I spent shampooing, conditioning, getting my hair styled, ironed, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 25, 2010
The UK census for the first time in 2001 included a “mixed” category to account for people with mixed parentage (1.4% of total population and expected to be UK’s largest ethnic minority group by 2020). Anyone in China today, more so in the big cities would be familiar with white babies with Chinese eyes – [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 25, 2010
This is first in series of comparisons that could be done between the two countries. For all the non-inspiring traits I mentioned about us Indians, there is one that surely is commendable; as Swami tried to point out – and that is freedom of speech; which is how I am able to write this so freely [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 23, 2010
In comments, BJ says that he has a fair idea of why I think TamBrahm weddings are like ERP implementations, and asks me to confirm his suspicions with a post on this. I don’t know if he is zinking what I am zinking, but here goes. As someone who had only seen Arya Samaji weddings [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 22, 2010
When I was a student, carefree and cheerful, I wanted nothing more than to grow up quickly to earn money and do things that adults could do… Now that I am an adult, I realize how naive I was to think so – as those were the best years of my life. As I talk [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 21, 2010
My Jet Airways Citbank Card finally came of some use and I used miles accumulated since 2007 to get myself a return ticket to Bombay where I attended the NiTyaGu wedding. Regrettably, Airport Development Fees and Congestion Charges cannot be paid for by miles. When introducting Konnect, Jet Airways seems to have forgotten to make [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 14, 2010
Recently in Shanghai, I had the (mis)fortune of attending a lecture addressed to MDP batch of senior executives from India’s public sector companies who were here to “understand” China; a study trip arranged by a leading management association in India. My incentive to attend this was that the speaker was an Indian origin strategy professor [...]