Posted by: Aadisht on: April 10, 2012
Earlier today, I was talking to Vikster on twitter about how, the next time we are in Mumbai, I should bring along RED Full Blooded Romances so that he could read them out loud at dinner. This may seem like a surprising thing to the uninitiated – but allow me to assure you that to [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: April 8, 2012
I am at Kanchipuram today. This is due to dire circumstance and not by choice. My car is being serviced (this involves spare parts from Europe and so will take a month), and so I couldn’t drive back. The driver is on holiday for Easter (hey, Happy Easter, everyone!) and so he can’t drive me [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: April 2, 2012
Last week, I completed the Goethe Institut’s A1 German course. (My new year’s resolution is to complete the B1 course this year. Registration for A2 is in a couple of weeks, and the course itself starts in May.) I had enrolled in the A1 course last year for a number of reasons, including: I enjoy [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 29, 2009
In the last post, I said that middle class voter apathy was a myth. In fact the problem is worse. Where India is concerned, the middle class is itself a myth, which is why I used the scare quotes. It’s neither middle, nor a class. Let’s look at ‘middle’ first. What Barkha Dutt and similar [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: April 19, 2009
It is fascinating to read Seriously Sandeep these days. Sandeep’s use – or rather abuse – of metaphors is fast approaching Thomas Friedman levels. Like this: You need to really think from another bodily orifice to impute symmetry between the two. Another bodily orifice? Which bodily orifice do people usually think with? Is this morbid obsession [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 1, 2008
I am starting yet another NGO. This one is in response to people everywhere adding an extra ‘o’ to the word ‘lose’. So we have TOI editorials talking about India loosing the war on terror, blogposts talking about Ganguly being a looser, and news tickers flashing breaking news about investors who loose money on the [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 23, 2008
How else do you explain this? “Such a person must be taken to be astute enough to know the difference between a Harry Potter film and another titled Hari Puttar. In my view, the cognoscenti, the intellectuals and even the pseudo-intellectuals presumably know the difference between chalk and cheese or at any rate must be [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 22, 2008
Today’s wikisurfing led to this remarkable piece of information: Early in its development, the Merlin engine’s lack of direct fuel injection meant that both Spitfires and Hurricanes, unlike the Bf 109E, were unable to simply nose down into a steep dive. This meant a Luftwaffe fighter could simply “bunt” into a high-power dive to escape [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: April 9, 2008
Reuters Headline: Pope aims to heal sex abuse wounds on U.S. trip. More toilet humour: that story also features a quote from ‘the Vatican’s number two’.