What an irony! That the sparse possessions of the lifelong teetotaller Mahatma Gandhi, the man who organized anti-liquor protests and fought for the imposition of prohibition, should now end up up in the hands of a liquor baron. Gandhi’s few possessions like his eyeglasses, pocket watch and a pair of sandals that had lately become […]
Folks, in November last year we did a post with the question – Flops, Big Flops & Mega Flops; Is Eros in Trouble? That question has been decisively answered now. Eros International, the Bollywood distributor and producer (including of plagiarized Hollywood films), is in distress. Very troubled times indeed for the Kishore Lulla-headed Eros, whose main […]
Hard times ahead for Dell, HP and Lenovo. Market researcher IDC has put out a report today that PC shipments in the first half will fall by over 8% in the first half of this year. IDC predicts that PC sales gradually improve to a small positive growth in the fourth quarter but will end the year […]
We just received Satyajit Ray’s Charulata from Netflix. Released in 1964, Charulata features Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee. The Bengali movie is based on Rabindranath Tagore’s novella Nastanirh (The Broken Nest). Charulata is said to be Ray’s favorite movie. It was his 12th feature film. After we finish the movie, we’ll have a […]
Image Source: WHO, 2010 Mera Bharat Mahan. Incredible India. Shining India. Wow, nice sounding feel-good words, na? Folks, as we were desultorily roaming across the gullies and byways of the Internet a few hours back, we stumbled upon a Bloomberg story about a most disturbing crisis that’s very open but yet not acknowledged by most […]