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 24, 2009
Mayank Austen Soofi performs a service to humanity, and informs us about Prince Kamakhya Singh, who in addition to having a psychic connection with Nicole Kidman, owns the sky and everything in it: “I’m the single owner of the sun rays, the moon rays, the stars that shine in the night, and the entire sky,” [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 11, 2009
Last week, I discovered the awesome Penny and Aggie webcomic (via). The archives only had 840 strips back then, so reading them all didn’t take too long. This is a good thing, because Penny and Aggie is one of the few webcomics where I’ve dropped everything to go and read the whole thing from the [...]
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: September 1, 2008
My offhand reference to curmudgeonly thathappas in the last post inspired me to actually search for examples of thathappesque rants. Udupendra helped out by suggesting search keyphrases, and now I have a new hobby: collecting examples of this art form, which derives its beauty from its surreal illogic. So far, this letter to the Deccan [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 17, 2008
Jagadguru’s latest post is a wondrous marvel. I reproduce it here in its entirety: Only DP will link to such crappy review like the one they linked for Dasavatharam. The nutcase who reviewed is known for his ignorance and disability to understand science. He writes such a crappy review and DP people link to it. [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 25, 2008
In his continuing efforts to solve the problems of His devotees, the Jagadguru presents the second instalment of his irregularly published column – Dear Jagadguru: Krish on Love, Sex, and Home Appliances. We would like to remind all His devoted readers that they can gain His darshan by emailing their problems to dearjagadguru AT aadisht [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 21, 2007
In his infinite compassion, the Jagadguru will now enlighten us not only on Politics, but on all our sundry queries of day to day life. To gain His darshan, you need only to email dearjagadguru AT aadisht DOT net. The Jagadguru will answer your queries in SCF(w)O’s new agony aunt column: Krish on Love, Sex, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 6, 2007
The Jagadguru says: What I am against is the deregulation of the banking sector. Cutting off or weakening the regulatory arm is not good for the country. Letz have private players, with a strong regulatory body, under the control of a democratically elected government. I think this will ensure the best of both worlds. We [...]