Posted by: Aadisht on: July 26, 2007
The ability of quizzes to bring about the dawn of an age of horror and eternal insanity has already been commented upon. In an awful moment of coherence and utter illumination, I saw the execrable truth: not content to wait for the stars, in their aeons-long drift, to come into alignment, these quizzers seek to [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 15, 2007
When I wrote about Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend two months ago, I commented that this was a marketing maneuver gone wrong, where Avril Lavigne (or her producer) lost her core and niche market in hopes of appealing to the masses. I was in error. In fact I almost committed blasphemy. Only now do I realise that [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 22, 2007
Some arbit googling led to this wonderful page: a history of organized crime in the Indo-Canadian community. Please note, that Indo-Canadian is somewhat misleading. It is very much Sardar-Canadian. And not just any Sardars but only Jatts. Even in Kaneda the Jatts have refused to let the Paapes join in the fun. I read on [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 7, 2007
Hey, I think I know some of the members!
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 1, 2007
I had had a particularly heavy lunch the other day, and needed to settle my stomach. I went over to Residency Road for a paan. To my surprise, I found that my old friend Akshay the Jhakaas Paanwala had set up a paan stall there. ‘What are you doing in Bangalore?’ I asked. ‘I thought [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: April 17, 2007
Our correspondents from all over now report. Delhi: The national capital witnessed protests against the kiss, organised and led by the Patparganj Punjabi Aunties Association. Asked for a comment, PPAA Secretary General Sheenu Chadha said: ‘Richard Gere has hurt the sentiments of North Indians. How can he come to India and kiss an ugly Madrasi [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: April 14, 2007
Three links. First, via Pharyngula, I discover the worst fantasy story in the world. As the transcriptor writes: No mere transcription can give the true flavor of the original printing of The Eye of Argon. It was mimeographed with stencils cut on an elite manual typewriter. Many letters were so faint as to be barely [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 18, 2007
Human Rights Watch has a report out which says that discrimination against Dalits is equivalent to apartheid. This is patently stupid, since apartheid was institutionalised by the South African state, whereas at least legally, the Indian state is constitutionally bound to discriminate for Dalits. (The fact that is fucks the implementation up is a separate [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 16, 2007
Terry Pratchett: Some people say that writing dwarf songs is not hard to do, as long as you can remember how to spell “Gold,” but this is a little bit cynical. Many dwarf songs* are on the lines of “Gold, gold, gold” but it’s all in the inflection–dwarfs have thousands of words for gold, but [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 3, 2007
I’ve nominated Popagandhi for Indiblog of the Year. Yes, Indiblog of the Year is hardly a huge honour for someone who’s nominated for Best Asian Blog at the Bloggies. Yes, she is Chinese by ethnicity and Singaporean by nationality. And she does not live in India. On the other hand, she’s more Indian than most [...]