Posted by: Aadisht on: June 30, 2010
On the NDTV website, a report about a rape in Delhi contains this line: However, with the commonwealth games in a few months, this incident again raises the question of safety of women in the Capital. (NDTV) It is bad enough when the Delhi government makes statements about getting infrastructure ready and giving police soft [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 13, 2010
Jet Airways has very few domestic planes equipped for inflight entertainment; but it’s inflight entertainment systems completely pwns Kingfisher’s inflight TV (which shows some shady Zee network channels, and horrors of horrors, Kambakht Ishq). You get touch screens, video and music on demand, the flight path interface is nicer; and quite a selection of movies [...]
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: 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: August 18, 2009
This Independence Day, I achieved two long-standing dreams. The first was at the Landmark Quiz Chennai. We (me, Skimpy and Kodhi) won it. The three of us have been taking part in the Landmark or Odyssey quizzes since 2004. We’d do our August 15/ January 26 pilgrimage to Chennai and just miss qualifying, or qualify [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: April 27, 2009
Gideon Haigh has a rant on Cricinfo about Citi Moments of Success and DLF Maximums. (via Udups on Twitter). Rather than just complain I think we as viewers should empower ourselves by giving our own names to boundaries. I propose the following names for fours and sixes for each of the teams: A four hit [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 21, 2009
Continuing my grand tradition of blogging about things long after they take place, I draw your attention to some astoundingly dumb MSM commentary about the Pink Chaddi Campaign. First is this Pioneer editorial by Kanchan Gupta. It isn’t even worth a fisk – just three questions: Did Kanchan Gupta even bother to visit the facebook [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 7, 2009
Shiv Viswanathan and Sadanand Menon annoy me. They both have columns/ op-eds up about the Mangalore pub incident which hint at some interesting ideas. But these guys can’t seem to realise that writing for newspapers is not the same as academic writing. There’s so academic or generally postmodern jargon in their pieces, that only the [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 16, 2008
One last TV/ pop-sociology post, and then I’m done with the topic for a long, long time. So lala-yuppie-hippie is one framework of classification which separates different shows on TV. But then there are shows which are 100% hippie. And then they sub-classify their characters using some different framework. For example Mind Your Language and [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 15, 2008
In a comment on the no-yuppies-in-TV post, Rajat wrote: Even if somebody tries to make a yuppie soap, I suspect that market pressures would force it to morph into a saas-bahu saga. I remember this soap called “Sanjeevani” on Star about a hospital. Seemed to be sensible in the beginning. Slowly elements like scheming colleagues, [...]