As Indians, movies and music are never far from us. Indians, whether in the homeland or in distant lands like U.S., Canada, Australia or New Zealand spend countless hours either listening to songs or watching movies. And we are no different from the herd. Here are some of the songs we are listening to/watching these days […]
Why, Oh Why, Does Amitabh Bachchan Wear a Wig? Our favorite Gabriel Garcia Marquez character Florentino Ariza (Love in the Time of Cholera) was not the only one to worry about losing hair and to try every potion and pomade in a futile battle against that great scourge of men everywhere – baldness. Indians through the […]
UK software company Softalk Ltd has put out what it claims is the first spreadsheet application for Apple’s iPhone mobile phone. Priced at $7.99, the spreadsheet application is being sold via the Apple App Store. The spreadsheet is said to feature over 50 functions and allows users to e-mail spreadsheets created on the iPhone to […]
Yaar Yaar Sivam…Nee Naan Sivam…Anbe Sivam. That even lobotomized dinosaurs once made dazzlingly beautiful movies is easily apparent after watching Anbe Sivam. Featuring the dinosaur Kamal Haasan and the nai-kutty faced Madhavan in key roles, Anbe Sivam is that rare gem of a Tamil movie, the bewitching aberration that makes its welcome appearance in the […]
Bomb blasts rocked parts of western India Saturday evening (21:30 IST) leaving five persons dead and another 80 injured. The latest wave of violence struck the communal tinderbox town of Malegaon in the state of Maharashtra and Modasa in Gujarat. Bomb blasts are becoming a sad fact of life in India. Last week, bomb blasts […]
Who having heard the hauntingly beautiful song Meri Bheegi Bheegi Si from the 1973 Hindi film Anamika (Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri now Jaya Bachchan) once can ever forget it. We drew as much pleasure from viewing Anamika last week as we did when we first watched it in a different age, different country and a […]