Posted by: Aadisht on: July 17, 2011
I’m sure this fallacy has existed for many years and has already been described and named here, but I first came across it in P Sainath’s opeds. I brought it up again because it seems to have been spreading beyond Sainath in the recent past (where India is concerned). The Sainath fallacy is basically this: [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 2, 2010
Sagarika Ghose has a blogpost up that can be summarised as follows: “I went to St. Stephens. I enjoyed it. Therefore I know that the education system is fine, and that all you philistines who did not go to St. Stephens should stop talking about how much the education system sucks, otherwise you will become [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 10, 2009
In the past ten days Salman Khurshid has advocated a return to 1980s Comptroller of Capital Issues style pricing, and also done the headline-hogging complaint about Indian CEOs drawing too much pay. The CEO pay issue is truely bizarre and WTF, for a number of reasons, including: As Deepak Shenoy points out, Khurshid is currently [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 9, 2009
Samar Halarnkar is pissed off that Indian FM radio stations only play Bollywood songs and puerile PJs (a sentiment I share to some extent) and proposes a solution in the Hindustan Times – putting AIR on steroids. AIR has found fans like me — though let me confess that before I ‘discovered’ AIR, I was [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 12, 2009
India Uncut informs us that Rajan Zed is being enraged on behalf of Hindus around the world. This follows a long history of Rajan Zed being enraged by Sony launching a Hanuman game, Rajan Zed being enraged by Angels and Demons, Rajan Zed being enraged by Heather Graham putsing Tantric Sex, and Rajan Zed being [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 28, 2009
Writing in Dawn about Slumdog Millionaire, Arundhati Roy says: That’s what Slumdog Millionaire is selling: the cheapest version of the Great Capitalist dream in which politics is replaced by a game show, a lottery in which the dreams of one person come true while, in the process, the dreams of millions of others are usurped, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 19, 2008
Apparently, Bombay colleges are appealing to their students to refrain from making ethnic jokes, what with the inflamed situation: Several colleges — probably the city’s most multicultural hubs — have informally cautioned students to go easy on community remarks, which would otherwise mean nothing more than harmless jokes and jibes. “The students are very young [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 8, 2008
Who is more deserving of scorn, opprobrium, and calls for jihad? Daughtry, for using the word ‘closure1‘ in a rock song; or the All American Rejects, for using OKCupid dating test results as song titles? Discuss in comments. 1: Closure is not only psychobabble but financial jargon also. Daughtry has polluted rock with a word [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 31, 2007
P. Sainath being innumerate is actually the most charitable explanation for this editorial. A less kind explanation is that his bias is making him too lazy to do his research properly, and a very unkind explanation is that he’s actively using scare tactics to push an agenda. I refer specifically to this section: Let’s revert [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 17, 2007
All the business newspapers (links: Mint, Business Standard) are shagging over the Lehman Brothers report titled India: Everything to Play For. The report says that India’s GDP can grow at 10% a year for the next ten years, given the right reforms. I’m about halfway through the report, and I have to say this: it’s awful. The [...]