Posted by: Aadisht on: February 12, 2012
I tweeted earlier this morning about automatically sending interesting links I find on twitter to my Kindle. Since two people (@saffrontrail and @_a_muse) asked me how this was done, and it won’t fit in tweets, here’s a blogpost that explains the process. Hopefully it’ll benefit other people also. First here’s what you need: A Twitter [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 14, 2010
I am now a columnist for Yahoo! India. My brief is to be a humour columnist, so I will try hard to be funny. The column will appear on alternate Saturdays. The first column is here, and the next one will be out tomorrow morning. Points to note: So far, I am a failure as [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 25, 2010
An important announcement: The NED Open Quiz will be held this Sunday (that is, March 28) in three different cities. Questions have been prepared by me, Kodhi, and Wimpy with inputs from Baada, Aisha, and Gaurav. We’ve prepared this with loads of louw, and it will show in the quality of questions. So please do [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 15, 2009
fortylove.tv, which I mentioned a few months ago is now up and running. In case you missed it when I first wrote about it, it’s a site where Lazy Lola and Popagandhi are posting handmade videos which have been shot on smartphones or point-and-shoot cameras. The videos are very much on Discovery Travel&Living lines, and [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 2, 2008
I have an article in this month’s Pragati (PDF, 3.8 MB) about microfinance. I’ve written about how there’s more to microfinance than microlending, how broadening access to savings accounts and small insurance is much more important than lending, and how the most significant impact of microfinance so far is not necessarily the financial bits but [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: April 2, 2007
You know, given that there is a conspiracy, it makes sense that Madhav is in charge of it.
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 7, 2007
This is the good news: Evam, the Merry Players of Madras (who also earn merit in this life and the next by being Sista’s juniors) have launched online ticketing for their shows. The even better news is that they shall be coming to Bangalore in February to put on Love Letters and The Odd Couple [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 30, 2006
I just returned from Ranga Shankara, where I saw Evam, the theatre group from Chennai, performing Chapter Two by Neil Simon. At the end of the performance, they asked us to spread the word if we liked the performance. I did like the performance, so here I am spreading the word. The play is very [...]