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Just received the High Noon DVD from Netflix.
Released in 1952, the 85-minute movie features Gary Cooper and our beloved Grace Kelly.
Directed by Fred Zinnemann, the movie went on to win four Academy Awards including Best Actor for Gary Cooper.
High Noon is not our first Gary Cooper film. We’ve seen him along with our all time favorite sweetheart Ingrid Bergman Continue reading »
Who would have thought this.
A desi babe in the Playboy Top 10 List of Sexiest CEOs.
Whoa. Yippee.
Yes, sir. Our own Rashmi Sinha is in the Playboy’s Top 10 Sexiest CEOs.
Uncork the Dom Pérignon.
The picture of Rashmi on the Playboy web site is not that cute but she looks better below.
Rashmi Sinha
(Image: SlideShare)
Rashmi, who claims to be in her late 30s, is CEO of San Francisco-based SlideShare, a presentation sharing web site.
Here’s Rashmi’s profile from the SlideShare web site:
Rashmi manages design and community for SlideShare. She has Continue reading »
Tamil babe Padma Lakshmi, yeah, she of the Hardee’s Western Bacon Thickburger ad fame, is making news these days for posing in her God-given attire for Allure magazine.
For all you lecherous, ogling, drooling types, here’s our Tamil ‘ponnu’ Padma Lakshmi wearing nothing but a sultry expression.
Just in case you didn’t know, Padma Lakshmi is an Indian American Continue reading »
As promised in his campaign, U.S. President Obama has initiated steps to make it tough for U.S. companies that create jobs in Bangalore while screwing American employees in Buffalo (a dying city in upstate New York).
Yesterday, Obama set the ball rolling for reforming the U.S. tax code that currently rewards companies for shipping jobs offshore or transferring profits to overseas tax havens.
[M]ost Americans meet their responsibilities because they understand that it’s an obligation of citizenship, necessary to pay the costs of our common defense and our mutual well-being.
And yet, even as most American citizens and businesses meet these responsibilities, there are others who are shirking theirs. And many are aided and abetted by a broken tax system, written by well-connected lobbyists on behalf of well-heeled interests and individuals. It’s a tax code full of corporate loopholes that makes it perfectly legal for companies to avoid paying their fair share….it’s a tax code that says you should pay lower taxes if you create a job in Bangalore, India, than if you create one in Buffalo, New York. Continue reading »
Time for another edition of Incredible India, folks.
* A 12-year-old girl in the North Indian city of Jaipur who delivered a child the other day did not even realize she was pregnant until the delivery. No, we are not kidding.
Here’s an excerpt from the Times of India story:
She was too young to even to realize that she was pregnant until she had delivery on Wednesday morning. Due to ignorance and illiteracy, the only medical care she received during pregnancy was when an emergency ambulance picked her up from the roadside and admitted her to ‘Mahila’ Hospital, but that was only after she had delivered the baby girl.
* Only men engage in gang-rape in India. Women can’t, says India’s Supreme Court.
* Indian parliamentarians say there should not be sex education in schools because it’s against the country’s social and cultural ethos. Now, you know why there are 1.2 billion mosquitoes in India. Continue reading »
Who the f*** cares if our Bollywood bozos and the Indian multiplex owners are in a standoff over sharing the booty from the pathetic run of Hindi movies.
There are plenty of alternatives from Hollywood in the coming weeks, according to the print edition of the Sunday New York Times (May 3, 2009), which had a special 28-page section on the upcoming Summer Movies.
Here are some Hollywood movies we’re eagerly looking forward to watching.
* The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (John Travolta, Denzel Washington) – June 12
* Angels & Demons (Tom Hanks) – May 15
* Food, Inc (Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan) – June 12Â DOCUMENTARY
* Away We Go (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph)Â – June 5 Continue reading »
Here in the U.S. and in India too, we’re told ad nauseum, ad infinitum that children are the future of the country.
A constant refrain is that if we want our nation to be great, we need to invest in our children and in our schools, hire good teachers and so on.
While the state of Indian public schools is not something to be proud of, the situation in Pakistan verges on the disastrous.
The New York Times has an interesting piece on how Madrasas in Pakistan are filling the void caused by poverty and state neglect of education. Here’s an excerpt from the NYT piece:
But if the state has forgotten the children here, the mullahs have not. With public education in shambles, Pakistan’s poorest families have turned to madrasas, or Islamic schools, that feed and house the children while pushing a more militant brand of Islam than was traditional here.
The concentration of madrasas here in southern Punjab has become an urgent concern in the face of Pakistan’s expanding insurgency. The schools offer almost no instruction beyond the memorizing of the Koran, creating a widening pool of young minds that are sympathetic to militancy. Continue reading »
Few of us realize it but the way others see us is quite different from the way we see ourselves.
Take for instance, India and Pakistan.
Born in violence and hatred, the two countries have officially fought three wars and several unofficial wars including an ongoing one in Kashmir.
Naturellement, there’s very little love lost between Indians and Pakistanis, who see each other only as mortal enemies and see their respective positions on various issues as morally superior to the one held across the border.
Newspaper headlines and reports often provide insights, and studied over time reveal the biases, of how the people of a country view a subject. In this case, the subject is India. And the headlines come from Pakistan.
Starting with this post, SearchIndia.com will scour Pakistan newspapers to bring you some of the interesting headlines related to India on an ongoing basis.
Here are a few recent headlines from Pakistani newspapers:
* India votes in blood-stained election
* India behind World Cup move from Pakistan: Mani
* India leaders cower from ‘shoe-cide’ attacks
* 20 hurt in anti-election protests in Occupied Kashmir
* Modi surrounds himself with net to ward off shoes
Catchy campaign slogans have been a staple of the Indian election scene for several decades.
Let’s take a look at some of the notable ones over the years. (It’s important to keep in mind that the slogans lose their punch when translated into English):
* Jana Sangh ko vote do, bidi peena chod do; Bidi mein tambaku hai, Congresswala daku hai (Vote for Jan Sangh, stop smoking and drinking; Bidi has tobacco, Congressmen are dacoits) – Jan Sangh
* Indira Hatao (Drive out Indira) – Congress (O)
* Wo kehte hain Indira Hatao, hum kehte hain Garibi Hatao (Abolish Poverty) – Congress (R) Continue reading »
Terrorism is a fact of life in the 21st century with no corner of the world safe from the violence.
Yesterday, the U.S. State Department released a report on Terrorism Trends including some data compiled by the National Counterterrorism Center.
Here are the deadly numbers:
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