Posted by: Aadisht on: July 15, 2008
There has recently been a controversy in the Indian blogosphere about what the projection of power means. In the interests of enlightening lay readers, I asked my good friend and international relations expert Dr. Boris Bhartriraj Pandey to prepare a guide to power projection. Boris is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Parma, and his family [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 17, 2008
I have a daughter. I will not be allowing her anywhere where restrictions are placed on her during her periods. (The Brat, the Bean and Bedlam) Indeed! Why let society, sisters-in-law, or mothers-in-law restrict where you go or don’t go when it’s so much more efficient to let your mother do it for you?
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 5, 2008
For the past few months, I’ve been using the Books application on Facebook. As soon as I finish a book, I search for it, add it to my list of completed books within the application with a two or three line review, and a rating (on five stars). This is then broadcast to all my [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 23, 2008
Google Reader recommends that I subscribe to the following blogs: Atanu Dey on India’s Development Days in a wannabe punk’s life The Peking Duck Okay, what’s the connection here? That they all rant? I think the Peking Duck doesn’t. I think this along the lines that Amazon.com screenshot which Masabi sent me: if you liked [...]
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 [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 30, 2007
The annual renaming of this blog has taken place. Sleisha Cuppax Fundaes (w)Only is now the easily-acronymised Givvup Only Are There. Also, the tagline has been changed to “Country are the new pseud.” The next post will be another annual ritual (at least, I plan to make it an annual ritual): the next year in [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 22, 2007
My idiot flatmate hasn’t paid the electricity bill and the power’s been cut off. The good news is that this happened during winter in Bangalore, and so this doesn’t lead to much physical discomfort. The bad news is that thanks to another decision by the idiot flatmate (viz., buying a manual defrost refrigerator instead of [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 6, 2007
Just a few things related to the upgrade to 2.3.1. I’ve been getting hammered by comment spam for the past couple of months, and MadMan advised me to install Akismet and Bad Behavior. Akismet was already installed, so I installed Bad Behavior. Bad Behavior is a WordPress plugin which detects all incoming comments and tracbacks, and [...]
Inconvenience Regretted
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 25, 2007
This website is under heavy attack from spambots. I’ve turned off comments and pings on all posts for the time being to see if this has any impact. Until me or MadMan are able to figure out what’s going wrong, comments will remain off. Sorry about that.