Posted by: Aadisht on: March 6, 2013
Sometime last year, Beatzo had a blogpost up where he griped madly about the traditional (and according to him, outdated) obsession with “good” handwriting, and then demolished all the claimed benefits of good handwriting one by one. Towards the end of his post he did grudgingly acknowledge the one benefit of beautiful handwriting, but it [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 2, 2012
Parental conservatism (or paranoia) is not an on-off state between liberal and conservative, but a continuum from chilled out to liberal to conservative to batshit fucking insane. Parents can be less or more liberal or conservative in various ways. Take, for example, curfews and how long the child in question is allowed to stay out. [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 11, 2012
This column by Isha Singh Sawhney is about how badly we, Indian tourists, treat our hill stations. (On a related note, see Hari the Kid’s rant about Indian travellers.) While the complaints in the column are legitimate, reading it, I couldn’t help but wonder if Ms Sawhney even knew about hill stations outside the Himalayas [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 22, 2012
June has been the last month where I get to live in my own place (well, until I make new arrangements in either Delhi or Chennai. It’s complicated.) As a result, I have been making the most of it by inviting as many people over as possible and socialising like there’s no tomorrow (this will [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: April 10, 2012
Earlier today, I was talking to Vikster on twitter about how, the next time we are in Mumbai, I should bring along RED Full Blooded Romances so that he could read them out loud at dinner. This may seem like a surprising thing to the uninitiated – but allow me to assure you that to [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: April 2, 2012
Last week, I completed the Goethe Institut’s A1 German course. (My new year’s resolution is to complete the B1 course this year. Registration for A2 is in a couple of weeks, and the course itself starts in May.) I had enrolled in the A1 course last year for a number of reasons, including: I enjoy [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 12, 2012
Chandru and I had met for coffee today, and we were wondering about what fad a Bollywood movie set overseas would inspire in 2012 (after all the Tomatina nonsense in 2011). At this point, Chandru said that the Music Academy (the one on TTK Road) should get someone in Bollywood to do a movie about [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 12, 2012
It’s been more than sixteen years since Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge was released. That means that the people who were impressionable teenagers when it released have now started having kids of their own. And in about six or seven years, they will be enthusiastically telling the kids about what an awesome movie it is and how [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 24, 2011
If you have to support a mostly-socialist, alcohol-forbidding Anna, then why not pick the original one, who also: supported federalism prevented Hindi from getting official status, kept India English-speaking, and so (unintentionally) gave it an economic advantage wrote screenplays actually fought and won elections? Presenting the I Am Anna (Durai) t-shirt: Coming soon: the “Anna [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 8, 2011
My career path this year consists of not being at the factory (located fifteen kilometres outside Kanchipuram) every day, but gradually shifting into a sales role, so that I’m either at the office in Chennai or travelling and meeting customers. Therefore, I am looking for a place to live that is not too far away [...]