Even as Slumdog Millionaire continues to reap awards and greater glory in its heady race to the Oscars, some folks have slammed the movie as vastly inferior to, and even a copy of, the critically acclaimed Brazilian film Cidade de Deus (a Portuguese language movie released in 2002). Not a Copy No, Slumdog Millionaire is […]
We just returned from Blockbuster after picking up Cidade de Deus, a Portuguese film set in the slums of Brazil. Some readers of the SearchIndia.com blog – praneix, karthik15981 and Sanewar among others – have heaped so much praise on Cidade de Deus (and claimed it’s superior to Slumdog Millionaire) that we felt compelled to […]
Here comes yet another instalment of Incredible India featuring those only-in-India stories. * Checking adulterants for adulteration. Apparently, there is so much adulteration of gold in India that the prices of adulterants have shot up, leaving jewelers worried about adulteration of the adulterants. Read this excerpt: It is paradoxical, but both iridium and ruthenium have […]
ITI Ltd, easily one of the most incompetent Indian public sector units, put out its begging bowl and the Government of India has given it Rs 125 crore in the form of an interest-free loan. The Bangalore-based ITI, with units in other parts of the country, is in dire straits and not in a position […]
U.S. cable operator Charter fired the latest salvo in the residential high-speed Internet battle rolling out a 60Mbps offering, the Ultra60. Based on the so-called DOCSIS 3.0 technology, the Ultra60 service will be available initially in the St.Louis metropolitan area and subsequently in other areas covered by the company. Not Gonna be Cheap Ultra60 will […]
Beyond disgusting. After reporting staggering losses and after receiving some $350 billion in bailout and guarantees for hundreds of billions of dollars of toxic assets, Wall Street paid out $18.4 billion in bonuses in 2008. Blame this nonsense on the Bush administration for not imposing restrictions when they handed out TARP money (in plain English, […]