Posted by: Aadisht on: July 2, 2011
I have commented about the awesomeness of visiting cards earlier. Today I found out that I have actually been underestimating their power. This was a footnote in The Berlin-Baghdad Express by Sean McMeekin: The origin of Oppenheim’s title of Baron (‘Freiherr’ in German) remains unclear, aside from the fact that he put it on his [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 1, 2011
Oh hi guys. I know I wrote three months ago that I probably wouldn’t be touching my blog again for two years. And yet, here I am. Here is the explanation. I was diagnosed with high anxiety levels about a month ago. Since then, I’ve been on antidepressants and started behavioural therapy. However, the high [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: April 1, 2011
(This post is not an April Fool’s Joke.) I’m shutting down this blog. I’ve posted so little the past couple of years that it hardly justifies the amount I’m spending on hosting and the domain name. I don’t think the posting is going to go up in the immediate future, either. My free time is [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 20, 2010
Nilu claims that being boring is a virtue. And then goes on to write some other nonsense which is completely unrelated.1 But that is irrelevant – the larger point is that it took Nilu two years to come up with a justification for being boring. Unfortunately, The Mad Momma has pretty much cornered the market [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 25, 2009
It looks like my run of no posts will continue for a while. So for the next few weeks, there will be a guest blogger at Givvup Only Are There. Please welcome Samtaben. Samtaben is currently in China. Since the government there has blocked wordpress.com and blogger.com; I offered her a guestblogging stint rather than [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: April 19, 2009
It is fascinating to read Seriously Sandeep these days. Sandeep’s use – or rather abuse – of metaphors is fast approaching Thomas Friedman levels. Like this: You need to really think from another bodily orifice to impute symmetry between the two. Another bodily orifice? Which bodily orifice do people usually think with? Is this morbid obsession [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 22, 2009
Ashish Jaiswal, the author of True Dummy – a Fable of Existence, has asked me to review the book (psst: it launched two days ago). He’s also asked me to be honest about the book in the review, and not asked for special treatment. I’m reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao right now. Once [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 11, 2008
The absence of regular posts has been because I was busy getting a quiz ready. In the time since my last bout of regular posting, armed motherfuckers shot up my city, I quit my job, multiple people I know got married, had babies, or celebrated their birthdays; and I upgraded WordPress to 2.7. So it [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 1, 2008
In the name of Amibah, the most powerful, the most vengeful, I welcome you to www.wokay.in, the new home of Givvup Only Are There. The shift over from aadisht.net has happened because: aadisht.net seems to be one a spam database and has been getting rogered by spambots the past few months. I kept going over [...]