Affordable Health Care Coming – Obama

Wonderful News. At last an American President who understands the tragedy of unaffordable healthcare Folks, high healthcare costs is resulting in a bankruptcy every 30 seconds in America. A few minutes back in his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama said: [T]he cost of our health care has weighed down […]

Quote of the Day – Barack Obama

We have lived through an era where too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity; where we failed to look beyond the next payment, the next quarter, or the next election.  A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy instead of an opportunity to invest in our future.  Regulations were gutted […]

Cheap Tips for Desis Visiting Pricey NYC

Let’s face it – New York City is expensive. Everything in the Big Apple is really expensive. Blame it on the swines on Wall Street. But you can still save a bunch when you visit NYC if only you know how-to. Here are some money-saving tips for our desi cheapo tourists visiting New York City: […]

Shahrukh Khan’s Shame – Billu Barber Crashes 86%

U.S. Box office collections for Shahrukh Khan’s crap show Billu Barber have fallen 85.60 % in the second weekend. In a humiliating rebuff to the Bollywood superstar, Hindi movie fans have shown Shahrukh Khan the middle finger. Billu Barber’s second weekend collections are worse than that for some of the lousiest Hindi movies ever made – […]

Screw Slumdog Millionaire; Meet a Real ‘Slumdog’ – Sunil

In all the euphoria about the success of Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire (a fairytale rags-to-riches love story of a Mumbai slumdweller Jamal), we tend to forget the real ‘slumdogs’ of India. In the latest issue of the New Yorker (February 23, 2009, p.22-29), Katherine Boo has a must-read piece about 13-year-old Sunil, a real ‘slumdog’ […]