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South Indian fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander got a minimum of 59 years in the U.S. slammer today.

This means the 36-year-old high-profile fashion designer from the South Indian state of Kerala will be in his 90s before he walks out of prison.

That is, if he ever walks out of prison.

Anand, who was convicted in November 2008 of rape of aspiring young models, was sentenced today in a Los Angeles court.

Anand faces charges in New York and Texas as well.

It does look like the end of the earthly road for this young man.

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Boy, when it comes to religion the nut cases sure are all over the place.

Prophet Muhammad’s hair at the Hazratbal mosque in Kashmir, the imprint of Rama’s feet in a Rameswaram temple or the bizarre case of the missing foreskin belonging to Jesus in a small Italian village.

Yes, every single one of them unadulterated nonsense in our not-so-humble opinion.

Our interest in the book An Irreverent Curiosity by David Farley was piqued by a short piece in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago.

We immediately reserved the book at our local library. And guess what, we managed to get our hands on the book today.

The book’s unusual subject is the disappearance in 1983 of Jesus’ foreskin Continue reading »

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Hey, we meant the planet in the headline not the messy canal your warped mind is conjuring up.

Kadavul Satyam (God-promise).

Ayyo, What Modesty, What Modesty
Never have our old eyes witnessed such self-effacing souls like Kanthaswamy producer Kalaipuli S.Thanu, the movie’s hero Vikram or heroine Shriya Saran in the face of such gargantuan achievement.

You see, the trio only celebrated the movie’s ‘smash hit‘ status on terra firma a.k.a. Planet Earth at a party hosted in a 5-star hotel in Chennai on Sunday.

They ignored the movie’s mega-response in other parts of our vast universe.

Not one word about Kanthaswamy’s record-shattering performance in Uranus, Venus (schmucko, we mean the planet not mons veneris) and all the other nooks in our galaxy Milky Way and the others too.

Surely, extraterrestrial creatures in all corners of the gigantic universe are besides themselves with joy at the grand spectacle of Kanthaswamy. Not just the denizens of Planet Earth.

Thanu (the name rhymes with Rajiv Gandhi’s assassin Dhanu) declared, ahem, modestly:

Kanthaswamy may have got a little mixed response from a certain section of the press, but nothing really to worry as the film is a super smash hit that has grossed a record Rs 37 crore worldwide.

Super Smash hit, folks.

Super Smash hit. No less.

Be mindful that this is Kanthaswamy we’re speaking of here not an ordinary hit like Slumdog Millionaire.

Vikram, an even bigger avatar of modesty, ejaculated:

I know that there has been a lot of negative talk about the film, but who cares? The figures at the box-office say a different story. What more can an actor ask for?….Success of Kanthaswamy as far as I’m concerned is the best form of revenge against my detractors.

Who cares, folks? Continue reading »

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Hey, cheapo desis, here’s a deal that you’ve gotta love if you have snivelling, snoopy lil’ brats you don’t want messing around or ogling at the naughty pictures mommy has stashed away on her personal/office PC or laptop.

Best Buy is offering an eMachines PC ET1810-03 (3GB RAM, 320GB HD, E2210 Pentium dual core processor, Vista Home Premium SP1, 6-months anti-virus subscription) + 18.5 LCD monitor for $349. Continue reading »

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Folks, here’s your latest fix of Incredible India, those only-in-India stories.

In this edition of Incredible India, we focus on the plight of young girls in Indian schools.

Here are some of the more brutal stories:

* In India, education is believed to be the passport to a good life. So in pursuit of the holy grail of prosperity, even poor folk scrimp and scrounge to send their children to good schools. But when the poor are lax in paying the high school fees, their children have a harrowing time as a recent incident has demonstrated.

Indian newspapers report that a school in Faridabad (on the outskirts of India’s capital city of New Delhi) forced a 3rd-grade girl to remove her shirt for not paying the fees (that should never have been sought in the first place).

Here’s the nine-year-old girl in her own words:

“I was forced to take off my T-shirt. When my teacher caught hold of my skirt, I told her not to do that. When I asked why she was doing it, she said it was the principal’s order. Then I was asked to stand half naked for a long time and when I tried to cover myself, she asked me to stand straight,” the nine-year-old victim said.The victim’s mother said that she has a document to prove that her daughter is exempted from paying fees.

* A few months ago, Shano Ayub, a young girl studying in the 2nd grade at a Delhi school died after being subjected to cruel punishment by her teacher. Continue reading »

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We’re no great fans of science fiction or alien movies having watched few-to-hardly-any movies in this genre.

But with some SI readers slyly recommending District 9, we figured it’s time to take a look.

So after quickly skimming through a few reviews and finding them mostly adulatory, we hotfooted over to the mall and watched the matinee show ($6) of District 9 yesterday.

Folks, District 9 is a lovely movie that keeps you completely engrossed with events on the screen for the entire 120 minutes or so.

Directed by 29-year-old Neill Blomkamp, District 9 is an electrifying movie, one of the best we’ve seen this year.

The movie is the gripping story of a large group of aliens living in a Johannesburg slum for two decades after their mothership develops some problem over the city.

Shunted by the government of humans to the District 9 slum, the aliens, referred to disparagingly as prawns by humans because of their grotesque physical appearance, multiply over time to 1.8 million setting the stage for the inevitable conflict with their human neighbors.

Trouble, big time, erupts when the government hires military contractor Continue reading »

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