Posted by: Aadisht on: August 24, 2011
If you have to support a mostly-socialist, alcohol-forbidding Anna, then why not pick the original one, who also: supported federalism prevented Hindi from getting official status, kept India English-speaking, and so (unintentionally) gave it an economic advantage wrote screenplays actually fought and won elections? Presenting the I Am Anna (Durai) t-shirt: Coming soon: the “Anna [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 7, 2011
In soviet Kanchi, job hunts you!
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 2, 2010
2009 was so filled with unpredictable stuff that one should learn from it and give up trying to predict the future. In a world that can throw up Nobel Prizes for Barack Obama, YSR telling jai in a helicopter crash, and the Kolkata Knight Riders captaincy policy, trying to predict the future based on the [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 18, 2009
After all the horrifying stuff we faced in 2008 – bomb blasts, rampaging inflation, a global financial crisis, and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, - 2009 can only get better, right? Ha ha ha. Oh, you crack me up. The rest of next year, we’re going to get further into a global economic downturn, we’re going to [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 3, 2008
Dr. Dr. Mikhail Murugavel Somuchidonandovich Pandey (the son of the eminent Dr. Mr. Acharya Somuchidonanda Pandey and Dr. Mrs. Valentina Dimitrieva Pandey of St. Petersburg) has published extracts of his groundbreaking paper on the shared Tamil past for humanity on the Pandey family blog. These extracts deal with the defeat of Vercingetorix the Gaul – [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 19, 2008
Last week, as a son of the Punjabi soil claimed a Gold medal at the Olympics, all the credit went to India. Shortly after that, Independence Day was celebrated, cruelly ignoring the fact that there is no Azaadi for Punjab. Our destiny is in the hands of power brokers from UP and Bengal. Why are [...]
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: March 23, 2008
While Wired magazine has commented on the huge popularity of xkcd, it has not been able to provide a reason for this: This mix of brains and fun, as well as underlying sweetness helped propel xkcd from a hobby to a full-time job for the 23-year-old former NASA roboticist. Since its 2005 launch, xkcd has [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 6, 2008
Once again, I have decided to follow in Vindi‘s footsteps, and make my look ahead at the year to come an annual tradition. Here it is: January:The Danish band Legödeâth inserts heavy-metal umlauts into its name. Band frontsman Nils explains with a Goth poem: ‘For too long/ sterile letters/ now we add/ pointless symbols/ like [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 8, 2007
Filthy undergrads (and even filthier schoolchildren) cannot recall a time before cable television. They do not recall a time when television consisted of Doordarshan only. When commercials came before programming, not between it. When news was not sensational. When there was only one channel. And when that channel was a mouthpiece for the Congress (I). [...]