Wokay!

I am in a taxi on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway.

Amit Varma is sitting in the front seat.

And I am blogging and he isn’t.

Bwahahahahahhahaahaha, as Booster Gold would say.

and the revamp is almost through.

Okay, I’ve promised to mend my ways, write about stuff other than business, and write it better and cleaner, but coming down to brass tacks what exactly is there going to be on the new aadisht.net? Here’s what I can commit to:

1. A greater exploration of spiritual issues. I’ll be talking about my relationship with the Gods and Goddess, and how it’s important to connect to them without the corrupting influence of religions.
2. Posts about what it means to be a householder, and the joy and pain of running your own home. Along with increased Bangalore blogging, naturally.
3. Posts which try to be funny, in the vein of my Blog Mela-winning scenario about the NDA cabinet getting high, or how the rest of India benefits from the IT industry taking off in Punjab. Considering the amount of Ennis I’ve been devouring, my humour may acquire scatological overtones. But you like that, don’t you?
4. Posts which point out how lame Shivam is and how dumb Annie is. Yes, everyone knows it already. No, they haven’t done anything to me. But I’ve got to do something to let out the frustration of dealing with customers, bosses, and HR Managers (largely HR Managers, though), out somewhere, and it might as well be on them. Yes, it is a disproportionate response, but I’m sure it’s a sacrifice they’ll be willing to make.
5. And because I’m not going to give up, posts on business/ economics/ libertarianism. But these will hopefully spark internecine civil war within the libertarian cartel, so they’ll still be entertaining.

Posts I’ll probably make, but don’t hold me to them:

1. More photography: this might go up on another, deidcated blog, though- assuming I start taking enough photos to justify it. Imagine something like Haro Singapore, except with IITM/ IIMB lingo instead of Singlish.
2. The latest NSSO surveys are finally coming out! I might finally revisit my ‘Six Eggs a Year’ blogpost.
3. Book/ comic/ movie reviews, except that I’m planning to spend as much of my free time as possible at the gym and on Mandarin and Kannada lessons, and relegate passive media consumption to a lower priority. And besides, Sneha does it much better.
4. But arising out of that, there might just be posts here in Kannada and Mandarin!

You have been warned. Stick around for what’s coming.

For a long time I’ve been trying to adopt a style of writing that’s as structured as Ravikiran’s, in the belief that this is what makes good writing.

And this is bollocks. Structure is just a means. The end is clarity. Ravikiran’s writing is strong not because it’s structured, but because it’s clear.

So the stylistic agenda for the new, improved aadisht.net is to be as:

• clear as Ravikiran
• concise as Nilu
• and acidic as Tim Blair

Achieving all these at the same time is going to be a bit of a challenge. Clear and concise together is especially difficult for someone who rambles on and on and explores all the different possibilities. Throwing acidic into the mix is just going to make life even harder. But hey, I’m in Bangalore now. This is my place of power. I can do this shit.

For a few months now, regular readers have been complaining that this blog isn’t what it used to be. There’s too much business and economics and politics and whatnot, and things are far too serious around here.

Look, I like writing about business and telecom and retail and infrastructure and all that jazz, and I’m not going to stop. But I do admit that things have probably gotten too serious and could use some lightening up. So the new, improved aadisht.net will have lots of lighter stuff.

It’s not going to be a return to my old style- it’s going to be a new style altogether where I’ll be trying much harder to write much better.

As usual, I’ve missed my blogiversary (in this case, my one-year anniversary on WordPress, which passed a month ago). However, I’m still going to mark it belatedly by doing a rebranding. Maajorly Shadymax Arbit Fundaes is done. A new, better weblog is on its way.

It will have new new sexy sexy stuff, which I will discuss later (i.e. when I have my apartment with broadband). Until then, pip pip.