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Posts Tagged ‘financial crisis

So Much for a Happy Series Finale

Posted by: Aadisht on: May 8, 2009

Moving back to Delhi has meant that I now watch TV that is not Balika Vadhu and Bigg Boss. My mother usually has FRIENDS turned on when I get home. These days, Star World is showing the final season again. And this made me realise… So FRIENDS wrapped up in 2004, right? And in the last [...]

Why Am I Bhadra?

Posted by: Aadisht on: October 13, 2008

My incoming links reveal that Chetan is asking why free market fundamentalists are not clamouring about the evil governments of the world looting the maid’s money. Chetan, I cannot speak for anybody else, but I haven’t written about it yet because the details of the bailouts are unbelievably complex, and it’ll take me intense reading [...]

Dare I Make a Microbrewery Joke?

Posted by: Aadisht on: September 27, 2008

Yesterday, Skimpy forwarded me this link, and immediately changed his tagline to “2 dollars. Why didn’t I bid for Lehman Brothers?”. This sparked the following conversation. me: Look at it this wat *way $2 = 93 rupees 3:26 PM with that you could buy a hummus and pita bread and have some change left over [...]

The Worst is Yet to Come

Posted by: Aadisht on: September 17, 2008

In addition to ITC and UB becoming employers of choice, one further consequence of the investment banking meltdown is that Chetan Bhagat might soon be unemployed. I can’t decide if this is good or bad. On the one hand, unemployment might mean he would start writing full time, and we would face the horrific prospect [...]



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