Nandita, Clean Up Your NYC Rat-Hole Utsav

Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. – The Three Witches in Macbeth Nandita Khanna, do you have no shame at all for running one of the filthiest and crappiest Indian restaurants a.k.a Utsav in New York City. Eeks, even by the abysmal standards of crappy Indian restaurants […]

Watching Paris, Je T’aime

(Recommended by SI reader vjcool) Now, Paris, Je T’aime (2006) is a different kind of movie. More like movies since it’s a collection of 18 short films of five minutes duration each. Apparently, the 18 movies have a common theme in love or ‘little neighborhood romances.’ Paris, Je T’aime is available at Netflix, both in […]

Incredible India 36: Raj Thackeray is a Sick Fellow; Sack the MNS MLAs

Un’f*cking’believable. Only in India, folks. Only in India can a legislator be assaulted inside the Legislative Assembly for daring to take the oath in Hindi, the country’s national language. SP legislator Abu Azmi was beaten up inside the Maharashtra Assembly today by some legislators belonging to Raj Thackeray’s MNS party for taking the oath in […]