In less than 48 hours, Apple’s iPhone, one of the most hyped and awaited gadgets of the 21st century will be launched. The iPhone combines Apple’s runaway hit iPod music player with a cell phone that includes a browser and e-mail software as well. The quad-band GSM phone also plays video and features a 2 […]
Yesterday, we did something unusual. We traveled over 330 miles (about 520 KMs) to New York City just to watch a new movie. But then Sicko is not just any other movie. Made by the controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore (of Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine and Roger & Me fame), Sicko is a wake-up […]
When Mariane Pearl (Angelina Jolie) wails in agony after learning that her kidnapped journalist husband Daniel Pearl will never come back, it’s one of the defining and poignant moments of this fine movie. So far, over the previous several days the visibly pregnant Mariane’s been an unusually controlled woman despite her anguish over Danny’s kidnapping. But when […]
French food giant Groupe Danone will soon part ways with its Indian partner Britannia and launch products on its own in the booming Indian market, reports today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Apparently, there has been tensions between the two companies over Danone’s plans to enter the market on its own. By the terms of a […]
Indian news media report that in their eagerness to get their kid into the Guiness Book, a doctor couple in the town of Manaparai in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu have allowed their 15-year-old son Dileepan Raj to perform a caesarean operation. The boy is studying in the 10th grade. Several doctors were […]
Like millions of others, we’ve been fascinated by the story of the Boy King Tutankhamun, the discovery of his tomb by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922 and, of course, the Curse of the Pharaoh. So it was with much anticipation we headed for Philadelphia the other day to catch the King Tut Exhibition before it left town. […]