Humour columnist for the Hindustan Times. Co-writer on ‘The Week That Wasn’t with Cyrus Broacha’ on CNN-IBN. Stand-up comic. Beer enthusiast. Too lazy to type out full sentences.
For assignments – be they for TV, film, web, print or stand-up shows, corporate and otherwise – do drop in a line at ashish[DOT]shakya85[AT]gmail[DOT]com. Hurry. Beer money running out.
Dude, you write really well man.. Every article is a work of art.. You are one day going to be a household name like Vir Sanghvi, Bachi Kakaria etc.
I am going to enjoy following your career!!
Your quick wit and humor at the stupid realities of society, make your column a good read.
Keep up the good work, look forward to reading more quirky write-ups from you!
Hey! Good stuff man. Look forward to seeing you at the comedy store this month.
Keep it up dude. (pun)
Cheers!
good stuff man ejoyed narration of world cup
i dont think ur column is published in ht delhi edition. i hope it can be. lot of people missing the fun of reading ur articles
am loving your posts buddy
first visited your blog from the Laden post… loved other posts too
You’re quite funny
i find your blog extremely entertaining… its helping me pull through my engineering exams. Please write more often and i shall pay for the beer
Your blog has Epic Win written all over it. Your similes are unmatchable and so is your wild imagination.
Great write-ups. Hope you keep bettering yourself
Thank you!
I made my twitter accnt. And strted following u just randomly but now i m ur fig fan. Ur gonna be household name soon. Tc and keep us entertain like this.
You have an awesome blog!
i just love your blog. i first saw your blog for the love thy neighbors post and immediately made a bookmark.. it’s a really fun reading.. keep it up..hope to see more.
–Gaurav
i like ur blog
its pretty entertaining !
Awesome!!! thats all i can say about your writeups….keep going…best luck….
duuuuude!!!!! u slay me!! seriously! i just followed a random link sahil rizwan (whose comic genius is second only to that of cyrus broacha, russel peters and rahul mahajan…m definitely adding u to that list) tweeted,,, n let me tell u, i just had a “stupidus maximus madness marathon” reading ALL of your blogs!!! which, btw, makes me feel extremely guilty coz being a med student, m not supposed to have such “vela” time or for that matter, life.. but whatever!! it’s worth having my mother give me suspicious looks coz i m having fits of laughter wen m supposed to be working on a project on my lappy…. cheers to u!!
p.s:- shoe-shopping WILL be a major world religion… soon, very soon…
Had the craziest time going through your stuff! One of those reading-and-munching-and-reading-and-munching frenzies that get out of control, especially before exams. (Not that the reading has anything to do with the actual exam– and I do have a gigantic one coming up!)
Stayed up late (but of course) and emailed your website to everybody on my address-book, catching up with random people, some after a decade!
Brilliant stuff!
Nice site.How do you pack so much in?
I swear if I wasn’t signed into wordpress and wasnt lazy, i’d have asked you out anonymously. I love your posts so much I toned my stomach muscles laughing. Thank you for cheering me up after the dejection of Arsenal getting bum-raped tonight!!!
Now THIS is proper humour.
I’m now an official fan of yours !
Mr. Ashish are you an ethnic Nepali ? Your surname is one !! Please do answer!!
all the best dude .n thanks all the posts.
I love your writing. Simply awesome! Commendable! I never miss a post.
maaaaan your articles are real good …..please keep writing forever.. would’ve been so good if you ht articles could come every sunday..
I hate your writing. people in my office give me weird, threatening, and ‘shut the hell up’ looks because i m having random uncontrollable fits of laughter, reading every single sentence of your article, when I am suppose to work!
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dude what are you?? whatever! totally agree with your wild imagination!!
- suppa crazy fan of you
AWESOMENESS IS THIS !!
KEEP UP …
Awesome work Ashish, you rock! Along with Indrajit Hazra, you make the Sunday HT immensely readable. Thanks and keep going!
hey, your writing is very very fun. Reminds me of a combination of Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. Being the guy who writes The Week That Wasn’t I’m guessing you know them. If not, please get to know them. They’re awesome. Anyway, the show’s good but I cant help but get the feeling that you guys are censored somehow. That’s not the right word. More like you’re not being as ridiculous/funny/evil/smart as you could/want to be. Maybe it’s just the baby steps thing. But your writing is as close to Colbert/Stewart-ish stuff as I have seen in India. Anyway, you need better laughter producing machine thingies on the show. i think the ones you have now sort of kill the fun. And I’m really sorry if this is one of those things that just post automatically without going through you. If I sound mean in any way, I don’t mean to.
You are AWSOME!! I havent laughed so much! Sorry to have discovered you so late (just 2 days back) and am reading all ur posts so far on this link…ROTFLMAO literally!!
Carry on Shakya!!!
Hi Ashish, Happy new year. I really LOVE your articls and look forward to them every week!
And I thought you totally deserved the versatile blogger award. Here it is.. http://thoughtsunrestricted.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/versatile-blogger/
because i’m not in the habit of adding people I don’t know, a message that precedes the friendship request.
someone I know not by promiscuous means shared your blog link. as is usually the case on Sunday mornings at 12:22, my head was thirsting for something funny.
your “never having to wear pants” post was that and more.
great style. great humour. great reading you.
the world is small, [as seen from Jupiter] and so we’ll probably meet sometime in our blessed careers.
so here’s a Hi, so when we meet there’s no awkward silence.
cheers!
I have a question for you. Why do people write email addresses like this: abcd(at)gmail(dot)com? Isn’t it needlessly complicated? Or is that the point?
How is the weather?
Was recently introduced to this blog and went through some of your posts. Sometimes, your writing reminds me of the younger greatbong (yes, the one with the Random Thoughts of his Demented Mind), before he mellowed down slightly.
Oh, but I did not mention in the previous comment what I wanted to…really admire your witty analogies and enjoy your sense of humor! How do you do it?
wish to get in touch with you for an event at grand hyatt mumbai on 28th april.
Sarah (9892462236/9769620111)
Hey ashish,
I have a couple of restaurants in delhi and now we are promoting with comedy nights, let me know if you wanna talk about it.
Sure. Please email me on ashish(dot)shakya85(at)gmail and we’ll figure things out.
ur view of life..is actually a miscall feom other side…
U R just insanely stupendous fella… Bows to u….\m/
Hey. The RSS feed link does not work. Please fix.
It does go the page but is unable to link to any reader
Ashish,
Your article on Aamir on Sunday 13.5.12- Satyameva Jayate was best.
You surpassed yourself.
regards
Umesh