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Since you desi cheapos would never dream of spending $6 on a newspaper, it falls upon us to tell you the interesting news.

Folks, Nadal has made it to the cover of the New York Times Magazine.

Unless you’ve lately come in from Mars or just got off the Villupuram fast passenger, y’all know we are referring to the tennis legend Rafael Nadal.

Yes, we’re talking about the man who makes young girls tremble, grownup girls palpitate and even women of an indelicate age swoon.

For those not familiar with the Nadal story, the NYT piece serves as a nice apéritif.

Here are some interesting excerpts from the NYT story:

* Federer thrills people, too, but the Nadal thrill is so different from the Federer thrill that studying the two of them is like a gorgeous immersion course in the varieties of athletic possibility. Federer is elegant and fluid and cerebral, so that his best tennis looks effortless even when he is making shots that ought to be physically impossible. Nadal is muscled-up and explosive and relentless, so that Continue reading »

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Time for another edition of Incredible India.

* So you think if you are sick, old or pregnant you are safe from the marauding pigs in khaki in Incredible India. Only shows how naive you are.

A pregnant woman and her three-year-old daughter were tossed out of a moving train by two policemen in Lakhimpur district near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.

Yes, the poor woman died and the child lies injured.

Just another day in Incredible India, right na? Continue reading »

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(Recommended by SI reader a4apple)

Finally, getting around to watching La Pianiste a.k.a The Piano Teacher.

Directed by Michael Haneke, this French movie (with English subtitles) was nominated for a bunch of awards.

Released in 2001, the 125-minute film features Isabelle Huppert as the piano teacher and Benoit Magimel as her student.

The movie is based on Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek’s novel.

We’ll update this post after we finish watching the movie.

Update
The Piano Teacher is a different kind of movie.

Not meant for the Bollywood or Kollywood addicted sniveling little twits, this is a compelling but dark movie with its offbeat story of a masochistic piano teacher Erika (Isabelle Huppert).

While Erika is shown to be a masochistic personality, she’s also cold-bloodedly sadistic, a fact demonstrated by what she does to one of her students.

To describe Isabelle Huppert as an accomplished actress would be a gross understatement. This was most definitely a challenging role but Isabelle rose splendidly to the occasion. Continue reading »

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India is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation.

Source: U.S. State Department Trafficking in Persons Report 2009.

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Broadband Internet access continues to surge in the U.S. even as the recession is forcing consumers to drop their pricey cable and satellite television services.

Home broadband adoption in the U.S. rose to 63% of adult Americans as of April 2009 from 55% in May 2008, according to a new report put out by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are about 217.8 million adults in the U.S.

So a 63% penetration rate would make it about 137.21 million adults in the U.S. with broadband at home.

(Given their higher income and education levels, we estimate the broadband Internet penetration rate for desi adults in the U.S. to be around 80%-85%.) Continue reading »

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A short while ago, on the way to the bank we stopped by at our local liquor store.

Guess what.

Again, the cheapest wines were the Australian wines.

Say what, are those descendants of the prisoner detritus from England dumping or what?

This time, we picked up Banrock Station 2006 Merlot from South Eastern Australia for $6.99 (750ml).

As we feverishly type away, we are sipping the Banrock Station 2006 Merlot with Vegetable Shami Kebab and Indian Sev mixture on the side. Continue reading »

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