Posted by: Aadisht on: April 27, 2009
In 1949, Aziz Kashmiri wrote: आज कल की नारीयां आज कल की नारीयां है मुफ़्त की बीमारीयां, बीमारीयां रात दिन मर्दों से लडने की करे तैयारीयां, तैयारीयां काम कुछ करती नहीं, और बांधती है सारीयां In those simpler bygone times, people used to complain that women would tie saris and not work. It shows [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 14, 2008
Sriram points me to this excellent example of a Virginia number plate that follows the principles of the Kansa Society. However, I object to failblog categorising it as FAIL. This number plate is most emphatically WIN.
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 6, 2008
Kodhi sends in the following SMS: There is a furniture shop called woodpecker which has lines like “No Children Section” and “Kids are parents responsibility especially in case of damages” What gods. Finally a business establishment which goes to clear and unambiguous lengths to make children and parents feel unwelcome. Businesses which lead the way [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 3, 2008
In a comment to my blogpost about the founding of the Campaign to Losen Standards, Hawkeye writes: Guilty as charged (several times over). Knowing this doesn’t help much. All an offender can do is try his best to reduce it. It will never go away. This is true. But why should the offender try to [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 1, 2008
I am starting yet another NGO. This one is in response to people everywhere adding an extra ‘o’ to the word ‘lose’. So we have TOI editorials talking about India loosing the war on terror, blogposts talking about Ganguly being a looser, and news tickers flashing breaking news about investors who loose money on the [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 2, 2008
The Kansa Society’s advocacy of the slaughter and consumption of children is making its way into the mainstream media. This is most pleasing. First, Namy Roy informs me over GTalk that she had recently watched a TV interview of Tom Hanks. When asked how he managed to satisfy the audience all the time, Tom Hanks [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 8, 2008
Over the past few years, Punjew men (axshully also Kayastha boyfriends of Punjew woomaans) have been fasting on Karva Chauth along with their wives and girlfriends. For some reason this is hailed as a triumph of women’s liberation and feminism. This is bollocks. An equal sharing of foodlessness, dizziness and abstinence can hardly be considered [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 23, 2008
The next step the Kansa Society must take has become clear. No, it’s not the t-shirt. Dinner with the girlfriend, while excellent (mostly because it was with the girlfriend) was tragically beset by wailing kids. These, it should be pointed out, were not even babies but misbehaved five-year old children. This ravaging of what should [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 12, 2008
The Mad Momma asks: Why is it alright to be openly intolerant of children? It’s for the same reason it is alright to be openly intolerant of anything – salwar kameezes, Shashi Tharoor’s writing, chicory-blended coffee, and so on. Freedom of speech are there. Or as Skimpy famously put it, I am a free citizen [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 8, 2008
Two points: First, Falstaff is a cheap guy. He talks about Coase and childfree-airline tickets without referencing me. Second, a more important point about mommyblogs in general. I’ve been discussing this point with junta, and the consensus seems to be that kids will become irritating when they are given too much attention. The more attention [...]