Posted by: Aadisht on: May 30, 2009
The President of the United States, Mr Obama, recently announced that he would eliminate a notorious tax law loophole that rewarded companies for creating jobs in Bangalore and punished them for doing so in Buffalo. American corporations will no longer be able to get away with not paying tax on their income from foreign operations! [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 28, 2008
The second Bangalore photowalk will take place on the first of June. Skimpy has the complete details but here’re the salient points: Date and Time: 1st of June, 7.30 a.m. Route: Ravindra Kalakshetra to Central Jail I won’t be there since I’m moving to Bombay (I’m typing this in BIAL’s swanky new departure terminal), but [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: April 18, 2008
After the grand success of the Sennai potowalks, Skimpy is organising the first ever Bangalore photowalk. Details below: Time and Date: 8 a.m., on Sunday 27 April Venue: K R Road, from K R Market to Gandhi Bazaar All are welcome, regardless of city, caste, or camera. You can show up if you have a [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 24, 2008
While in Calcutta, I went for a litquiz with Aishwarya and Pradipta. Despite four self-overrules in the prelims, we qualified; and despite a Bong-funda heavy first half, we ended up winning the quiz. I think the margin of victory was at least three questions, and probably four or more. Apparently, it’ll be reported in the [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 18, 2008
Ramesh Ramanathan is fuming about Bangalore’s new airport being underdesigned and underconnected (via Ajay Shah’s excellent roundup on infrastructure). As is happening far too often these days, Skimpy beat me to blogging about the main topic. However, that just gives me more stuff to discuss. In fact, I’ll make the whole post an outsider-layperson-dummy’s guide [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 12, 2007
Raiders Lost the Arc, the idiotically titled and idiotically written Outlook cover story on how IT is ruining Bangalore, has been debunked and fisked enough elsewhere on the blogosphere (Churumuri rebuts CNR Rao here, Nitin points out what the Outlook story missed here). Sugata Srinivasraju doesn’t ever blame IT junta for ruining infrastructure himself, but he [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 16, 2007
Namy Roy wrote in and asked me if I’d read Niranjan Rajadhyakhsa’s column on Bangalore and the Coase Theorem, and suggested I blog about it. I had read the column on Wednesday itself, and thought of mentioning it in a post on kids in aeroplanes. Since I’m busy making the quiz, I won’t be writing [...]