Hindi movies and songs have given us the greatest pleasure among all the Indian language movies we’ve watched in a long life. Here are some of the old Hindi songs we’re watching and listening to on YouTube these days: * Mausam Ayega Jayega – Lovely song featuring Vijayendra Ghatge and an unknown babe from the […]
Facing annihilation at the hands of the Sri Lankan Army, the few remnants of the LTTE terrorists are reduced to begging for a ceasefire. After the Sri Lankan government rightly rejected LTTE’s desperate cries for a ceasefire, the LTTE terrorists are now begging the international community for help. In a statement, the LTTE’s head of international […]
What’s not to like about State of Play. All ye naysaying cretins, speak out now or forever hold your tongue. A fine thriller set at the intersection of Washington politics, investigative journalism, murder, extra-marital romance and an evil defense contractor, State of Play is the must watch movie of this season. Featuring a solid screenplay […]
Like client-server computing in the early 1990s, Java in the mid-1990s and e-business in the late 1990s, cloud computing is the buzz IT phrase of this era. Hailed as the panacea for all IT ailments starting from ballooning IT infrastructure costs to the shortage of talented IT workers, cloud computing is supposed to take us to the […]
Myrmidon, a synonym for hireling or loyal follower, comes to English from Greek. The original myrmidons were followers of King Achilles (he of the Achilles heel) in the Trojan war. Myrmidon is often used in a pejorative way to refer to a follower who obeys orders without asking any questions. Example: The BJP’s myrmidons would think […]
Our President Barack Obama has told the CIA that the agency’s operatives have nothing to fear for all the torture (stress positions in the commonly used euphemism) they have inflicted on suspected Al Qaeda terrorists in the so called war on terror. In a statement accompanying the release of the torture memos today, Obama provided […]