This is a couple of days later than I’d like, but I was under the weather again this week.
Anyway …
(more…)Aditya Bidikar is a comic-book letterer and occasional writer based in India.
This is a couple of days later than I’d like, but I was under the weather again this week.
Anyway …
(more…)It’s been an interesting week here in India. For one, Pune has been bombarded by torrential rains all of last week, which is usual after a cyclone hits the east coast of India, as Remal did at the end of May.
Things came to a head on Saturday, when Pune had the worst rainfall it’s seen in June since 1991. Several parts of Pune were flooded, a friend was stuck in traffic for four hours getting home, my parents’ house flooded (only a bit, thankfully), and a video went viral of a man floating down a busy road on a foam mattress.
(more…)It’s been a nice week at Casa Bidikar.
I’ve finally started working out regularly again. I’d been waiting for my various chronic pains to recede enough, and I’d got myself a gym membership at the beginning of the month, but it took a while to find the bandwidth and motivation to start going regularly. My aim is to hit two functional training days and two cardio days per week minimum, and anything above that is gravy.
(more…)The other day, I read Annie Mueller’s notes on the book Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse, and a couple of things stood out to me.
(more…)It’s been a good week – light on work. I’ve been trying to cook at home more (the pandemic and intervening years got me far too used to ordering in), and that’s been going well.
Health-wise, I’m doing much better – no pain these days, though I’m diligent about continuing my physiotherapy-mandated exercises. It took me a few months, but I realised that my pain resurges precisely when I stop doing these, so I can’t be complacent just yet. But I’m back to actually typing these on the computer rather than dictating them or typing them on the phone.
(more…)I haven’t posted my usual weekly updates for a bit, but I like having a count of books, comics, movies and tv at the end of the year, so I’m going to catch up with some capsule reviews.
(more…)Chronic pain
Books: Wild Blue Yonder, The Writer’s Tale: The Final Chapter
TV: Doctor Who Series 1
(This one’s coming to you late because someone – probably accidentally – reported my newsletter as malicious content or something, so I was locked out of sending new ones. Buttondown had to audit and then clear it. We’re back in business!)
As mentioned in Part 1, here’s my reviews for the week. If you prefer my personal rambles to these, you can just skip this one.
(more…)First newsletter of 2024! I’m back home in Pune, settling in. We got back home early on the 5th, which turned out to be Friday, so I don’t have to officially start the year till Monday.
Since I have that breathing space, I wanted to reflect on the coming year before it properly begins.
(more…)So Russell T. Davies wrote three specials to essentially close out the 2005 Doctor Who series before moving on to the Disney+ co-production with a new Season 1, and it struck me that each of the three 60th anniversary specials, consciously or unconsciously, mirror the three eras of modern Doctor Who.
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