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Dreams die fast for India’s poor.

Shafiq Syed, who played Krishna, the adorable chaipau kid in Mira Nair’s 1988 film Salaam Bombay, is now a grownup driving an auto-rickshaw in Bangalore.

Apparently, the success of Salaam Bombay did not do much for Shafiq Syed’s prospects in Bollywood, according to a TOI story.

Wonder what will happen to the poor Slumdog Millionaire kids. They are now riding the crest of popularity thanks to the phenomenal success of the movie at the box office and at the Oscars.

But after the media attention wanes and Continue reading »

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We went to our local library a short while ago to pick up The Talented Mr.Ripley.

The libray didn’t have the DVD (they had only the VHS cassette) and being the greedy desis that we are, we didn’t want to return empty-handed.

So, we picked up two other DVDs – Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation (Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson) and Deepa Continue reading »

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Here comes the 13th instalment of Incredible India with those only-in-India stories.

* India is one of those unique countries where humans are routinely treated worse than pigs. But dogs are now being treated better than humans. So what if several hundred million Indians lack proper homes and live in crumbling structures amidst filth and squalor. Who cares how people live when we can all feel proud that pets like guinea pigs, dogs and fishes now have fine guest houses in India.  Here’s an excerpt from the Times of India story:

A client of one of the pet guest houses who had gone to visit his in-laws in Assam this winter said he was totally satisfied with way his dog was cared for.

“My dog was treated like a VIP,” says Ankit Desai who had kept his pomeranian junior at the guest house while he and his wife had gone for more than 15 days on vacation.

* If Tamil melons like Khushboo and Namitha can have temples, why not clowns like Lallu Prasad Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi. A temple is being built for Lallu and Rabri in a village in Kaimur district. The temple will have life-size idols of Lallu and Rabri and cost Rs 5.4 million. Continue reading »

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