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Nitish Triumphs
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (JD-U) won a solid victory at the hustings.
Janata Dal (U) and BJP are poll partners while Lallu’s Rashtriya Janata Dal fought the elections with Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Jan Shakti Party by its side.
Related Stories:
Profile of Nitish Kumar
Profile of Laloo Prasad Yadav
I know what Gold does to men’s souls.
- The old man Howard (Walter Huston) in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Gold Fever?
No, we have never caught the gold fever but after having watched The Treasure of the Sierra Madre we now know how dangerous the ailment can be to the victim as well as those around him.
By the way do any of you schmucks know what a full glass of gin day after day does to a desi’s brain? It friggin melts it and makes SI close the comments. 
Bogie, We Hardly KnewYe
Who having watched Humphrey Bogart a.k.a Bogie in Casablanca can resist the spell that he casts on viewers.
Not us, definitely.
Great fans that we are of Bogie, we popped The Treasure of the Sierra Madre DVD into our home theater last night to watch one of our favorite stars in a non-romantic and negative role.
Made in 1947 (the year of India’s independence from the British yoke) and released in early 1948, the black and white film Treasure of the Sierra Madre won three Oscars.
And deservedly so.
Sadly, Bogie (now dead for 53 years) was missing among the Oscar winners.
More Than About Bogie
But the Treasure of the Sierra Madre is more than just about Bogie, so much more.
It’s hard to believe that 62 years back Hollywood was producing such fine films and in India we still continue to churn out junk like that Biryani cook Ajit’s Aegan and the ‘Master Chef’ Akshay Kumar’s Action Replayy.
Set in the 1920s, Treasure of the Sierra Madre (directed by John Huston) is the story of two down and out Americans Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Curtin (Tim Holt) getting drawn to gold prospecting after hearing an old man Howard (Walter Huston) at a flophouse wax lyrical about the opportunities therein. Continue reading »
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