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A Mudaliar friend of ours who has far too much time on his hands e-mailed us the below Tamil Names list the other day.
Sorry, folks. If you don’t know Tamil, this one ain’t for you.
Here you go:
Doctor — Vaidyanathan
Dentist — Pallavan
Lawyer — Kesavan
North Indian Lawyer — Panjabakesan
Financier — Dhanasekaran
Cardiologist — Irudhayaraj
Pediatrist — Kuzhandaisamy
Psychiatrist — Mano
Sex Therapist — Kamadevan Continue reading »
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
- from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
For a change, we’re watching a documentary.
The film Blue Gold: World Water Wars focuses on a commodity more valuable than gold – Water.
Based on the book Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water, the documentary’s central thesis is that water shortages could cause war.
The 89-minute documentary could not be more timely coming as it does when serious water shortage is already starting to show up in several countries including our very own India.
People in the U.S. (and presumably other Western European countries too) do not have a sense of the crisis at all because we have a plentiful supply of water here. Continue reading »
The best thing we can say about the labor market right now is that it may be getting worse more slowly …. Jobs are likely to remain scarce for some time.
- U.S. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in a talk delivered at the The Economic Club of New York in New York City a few minutes ago (around 12:38PM).
People discover of SI’s existence in various ways: friends, family, enemies and, of course, search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing et al.
But what are the key words people type on the search engines that ultimately lands them on the SI blog.
Here’s a sample of the key words that brought people to SI over the last two days via the search engines:
* must watch movies
* Search India movie review
* bollywood box office
* hindu incest with family members
* paranormal activity
* rakesh roshan bald
* employer having sex with maid servant Continue reading »
For a long time, we’d been scouring the net for a good, pithy definition for celebrity.
Eureka, there it is buried in the New York Times, that vade mecum of the thinking classes.
In a cover story on Megan Fox, the New York Times Magazine (p.58) has come up with a peerless definition:
noise plus nudity equals celebrity
Can’t beat that, can you.
Now, we know how you drooling philistines are more interested in celebrity rather than the definition of celebrity, so here is the piece on the object of your erotic fantasies: The Self-Manufacture of Megan Fox.
You hear us, Half-Dak, Vetti Jijaji, rgh3176, vivek?
Give us our $6 back.
Is this junk the movie that scared the bejesus out of all you pussies.
Thank God, we are cheapo desis and went for the Super-Bargain Matinee ($6 tickets) and didn’t fork out $10 for an evening show.
Not Scary in the Least
Folks, notwithstanding what you may have heard about Paranormal Activity there’s nothing even remotely scary about the movie.
Not even the final scene, which admittedly startled us but no more.
In its essence, the movie is about a haunted house in San Diego whose human denizens are Micah Sloat, a day-trader and his girl-friend Katie Featherston, an English major student.
We quickly learn that the ghost’s main interest is in Katie.
As the whisperings, scratchings on the wall and the open faucets get on Katie’s nerves, a psychic is called in but the guy is no help. He tells them the haunting is ‘feeding off on negative energy’ and recommends they employ a demonologist, who conveniently happens to be out of the country.
Over the course of the next several nights, the door closes on its own, noises are heard downstairs and coming up on the staircase, lights get switched on, shadows are seen, footsteps are seen on the white powder sprinkled by Micah, Katie is dragged out of bed once, the blanket slips off the bed and their photo-frame on the wall is cracked with a gash on Micah’s face in the picture.
So what? Continue reading »
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