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 […]
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 […]
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. […]