Should a gaggle of rustic ambattans (barbers) suddenly decide to forsake their razors for the camera, the end result would be infinitely better than this grotesque abomination called Thoranai. Save the unsavory feat of shaving a few unwary souls of their money and time, Thoranai’s sole claim to fame is that the crappy movie marks […]
Time for another edition of Incredible India. * 62 years after the Brits said good riddance to their largest colony and packed their bags, the average monthly income for an Indian is $66 (Rs 3,116). According to the numbers put out by the country’s Central Statistical Organisation today, India has a per capita income of […]
A white New York City policeman shot and killed a black policeman as he was chasing a suspect (likely Hispanic going by the name) in the predominantly Hispanic Manhattan neighborhood of East Harlem last night. Both NYPD cops were in plainclothes. It’s not known if the white cop identified himself as a cop before shooting […]
Kavya Shivashankar is winner of the Scripps Spelling Bee 2009 championship making it the second year in a row that a desi kid has been crowned the top speller of America (Sameer Mishra won the title last year). The winning word was Laodicean, meaning lukewarm or indifferent. Besides the Spelling Bee 2009 cup, Kavya took […]
Indian-American Aishwarya Pastapur (a Gulbarga girl) is out of the Spelling Bee 2009 finals. Menhir was the word that tripped Aishwarya. Aishwarya Pastapur (Image: Spelling Bee) Here’s Aishwarya’s bio from the Bee site: Aishwarya, a voracious reader and dedicated student, has
Anamika Veeramani is 2010 Spelling Bee Champion Tamil ponnu (girl) Anamika Veeramani is out of the Spelling Bee 2009 finals. Anamika was clean bowled by the word fackeltanz. Anamika Veeramani (Image: Spelling Bee) * Speller No. 201, Anamika Veeramani Age, Grade: 13, Seventh Grade School: Incarnate Word Academy, Parma Heights, Ohio Sponsor: The Plain Dealer, […]