Posted by: Aadisht on: February 11, 2013
Last year, I managed to get three Hindi songs stuck in my head, or on my playlist, for extended periods of time. (In 2013, the only one so far has been Khamakha from Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola.) The first one was Subha Hone Na De from Desi Boyz, and that happened because it was [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 23, 2010
In comments, BJ says that he has a fair idea of why I think TamBrahm weddings are like ERP implementations, and asks me to confirm his suspicions with a post on this. I don’t know if he is zinking what I am zinking, but here goes. As someone who had only seen Arya Samaji weddings [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 22, 2010
I had mentioned in the post about my February reading that Tom Holland’s Millennium addressed the issue of how Christianity and monarchy spread throughout Europe after 800 AD. While it addresses the issue of how Scandinavia and the Vikings became Christian, Germania was converted before 800 AD, so the book doesn’t deal with that. I [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 25, 2009
The Padma Purana contains the following story about the amla fruit: Once upon a time, a chandala went into the forest for hunting. He hunted many deer and birds. Feeling hungry, he saw an amla tree and climbed up the tree. This way he satiated his hunger by eating sweet amla fruits. Unfortunately while he [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 12, 2009
India Uncut informs us that Rajan Zed is being enraged on behalf of Hindus around the world. This follows a long history of Rajan Zed being enraged by Sony launching a Hanuman game, Rajan Zed being enraged by Angels and Demons, Rajan Zed being enraged by Heather Graham putsing Tantric Sex, and Rajan Zed being [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 23, 2009
Tonight is Mahasivarathri. And while Valentine’s Day is not part of our culture, Mahashivratri definitely is. I urge you to go out and celebrate it with devotion and piety. The best way to celebrate is with sex, drugs, and rock and roll. By having sex, you will be following in the divine example set by [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 16, 2008
Amit has blogged about the Saudi Arabian ban on red roses here: The decision has been taken by the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which sounds like something right out of Kafka. There’s also a CNN story on this, which contains these priceless quotes: Ahmed Al-Omran, a university student in [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 29, 2007
Drawing on Jerry Rao’s funda of Kipling and Rushdie having a Vaishnavite and Saivite view of India, I think it is good and worthwhile to apply this concept across the board. Especially to governance.
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 24, 2007
Gak! Radio Indigo plays devotional songs before 7 am! Eldritch horror! So much for the biggest international hits. What makes it worse is that these are all Ram bhajans. I look upon this with disapproval. India is a Saivite country. Why is Indigo trying to spread Vaishnavism? I demand that the scope of any anti-conversion [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 18, 2007
Jagadguru has insulted Thalaivar. For His devotees, this is a crisis of faith. Now that He has mocked Thalaivar, should we abandon him also? Thalaivar has laid the foundations of morality for a generation. Can we abandon the prophet who provided us a moral compass until He appeared to show us the path Himself? Mysterious [...]