Life is cheap in India. Real cheap. Particularly, the lives of the poor and helpless. Some 15,000-20,000 people died and another 200,000-600,000 were injured in the worst industrial disaster in India triggered by the carelessness of Union Carbide (now part of Dow Chemicals) when deadly methyl isocyanate gas escaped from the company’s plant and wafted […]
The U.S. opening weekend (June 4-6, 2010) box office numbers (actuals) for the new Bollywood flick Raajneeti are out and they are lower than the estimates by about $67,000. The lower total gross has pulled down the average gross for the film by about $500. By the way, here are the UK opening weekend box […]
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You bet we did. 😉 After an odious meal at an Indian restaurant in Long Island the other day, we were in such a foul temper that we stopped at the Ganesh Temple in Flushing, New York for some benediction. Oh no, not divine benediction for the soul but for a palliative for our miserable […]
iPhone 4, a Category 9 hurricane,will make landfall in the U.S. on June 24 and is expected to cause widespread destruction to the wallets of millions of Americans. Available in black or white, the new iPhones with Apple’s new iOS 4.0 will cost $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model (with […]