Posted by: Aadisht on: June 16, 2012
I’ve been thinking about the future recently. What got me started was the news that Total Recall is getting a reboot. I mused that at least it was a reboot that was coming much longer after the original than the Spider-man reboot, and that in fact it might even be getting rebooted well after the time [...]
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: 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: January 21, 2008
This Boston Globe oped (free registration might be required) is astonishing. The author, somebody named Jeremy Kahn, has violated the Sominism-cheat-sheet and Neelakantan’s guide to writing about India left, right, and centre. He appears to have actually understood the nuances of what he’s writing about! And he doesn’t mention caste, growing inequality, pollution, or elephants on [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 8, 2006
My last long post was on retail as a barometer of reform. On the subject of retail, Neelakantan also has some very good posts up (here, here, here, and here), most of which deal with Reliance Retail. All of these posts deal with the retailing of physical merchandise. But there’s another retail story brewing in [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 4, 2006
I refer not to the concept, but the bestselling game series. The premise of Civilization is simple. You’re the leader of a civilization (a tribe or a nationality). You start out in 4000 BC with only a settler. The settler founds a city. The city then produces more settlers, which found new cities. All these [...]