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IIT Delhi alumnus and Harvard MBA Rajat Kumar Gupta has been charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The SEC today charged Rajat Gupta with illegally tipping Galleon Management founder and hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam with inside information about the quarterly earnings at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble as well as an impending $5 billion investment by Berkshire Hathaway in Goldman.

The SEC alleges that Gupta was at the time a direct or indirect investor in some of the Galleon hedge funds and had other potentially lucrative business interests with Rajaratnam.

Rajat Gupta, 61, is a former board member of Goldman Sachs and a sitting board member of Procter & Gamble and American Airlines. He was also also the former chief of global consulting firm McKinsey.

Rajat Gupta – A Profile
We are writing the following from memory but if we remember correctly, Rajat Gupta’s wife is also an IIT-Delhi alumnus.

The couple has four daughters. Continue reading »

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Ah, how we wish we were across the pond, living in London instead of the recession-hit United States.

Blessed we are not.

Let there be no mistake. The U.S. has a lot of things Ice Creams, and flavors too, in its favor.

Sure, we have our Italian Ice Creams, Ben & Jerry’s, Rita’s Ice, Starbucks Coffee Ice Cream, Breyer’s and of course the  Kulfi sticks and Kesar Pista buckets in the Patel Brothers’  freezer.

Lots of flavors, except the one that counts.

Here’s where London-based Icecreamists scores and has now stolen the thunder from every ice cream vendor in the world with their Flavor of the Decade – Breast Milk flavor.

We swear on Mallika Sherawat’s bazookas we are not kidding.

Icecreamists is a real store located at 15 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NG.

Can you schmucks guess what the Breast Milk Ice Cream is called? Of course, you yokels can’t.

It’s Baby Gaga. Sounds too good, na? ;)

An ice cream that weird must perforce have a name equally weird!

What clever marketing!

Apparently, Baby Gaga is served to customers in a cocktail glass. Boy!

At £14, Baby Gaga Breast Milk ice cream is not cheap. Well, the good things of in life never are, right?

If you think we’re kidding, here read this excerpt from the Daily Mail:

The recipe blends breast milk with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest, which is then freshly churned into ice cream.

A costumed Baby Gaga waitress serves the ice cream in a martini glass filled with the breast milk ice cream mix. Liquid nitrogen is then poured into the glass through a syringe and it is served with a rusk.

It can be served with whisky or another cocktail on request.

You know when we were young and living in India, sometimes the milkman would come by with his cow and milk the cow right in front of our house to assure us of the milk’s freshness and purity.

We guess it won’t be long before another Ice Cream parlor ups the ante by offering fresh Breast Milk ice cream and lets you pick your two-legged milch cow from the line on bar stools ( like some seafood restaurants in the Orient allow you to pick live creatures that’s then taken out and cooked in front of your eyes).

And if you think that’s stretching things too far, the day is not far off when the Patel Brothers’ freezer will contain Breast Milk Ice Cream in so many desi flavors – Singh is Kinng (Pooonjabi Kudi), Jillunu Oru Kaadhal (Tamil Paal Ice) or Kondaveeti Donga (Telugu Donga).

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In an age when most people find it difficult to read anything beyond those stupid 64-character twitter feeds, does it f*cking matter that the Amazon Kindle e-reader is coming to the AT&T retail stores (company-owned only).

Of course, it doesn’t matter.

Amazon’s move to bring the Kindle to AT&T stores is part of the e-tailer’s strategy to make the device more easily available. Continue reading »

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Most Indian restaurants in New Jersey are bad.

But some like Volga in the Parkway Plaza on Oak Tree Road in Iselin (NJ) are hopelessly, disgustingly, obscenely bad.

So horribly bad that to even think of the dump gives us the heebie-jeebies.

Volga Iselin (NJ) – Serves Pathetic Indian Food

As we walked into Volga Iselin on a recent afternoon, the restaurant was near empty with just three diners.

We were asked by the short lady at the counter wearing a sullen expression whether we wanted take-out or dine-in. When we responded dine-in and take-out, a tall old man wearing a beret slunk out from the kitchen and told us to sit wherever we pleased.

After we were seated, the old fella brought forth a plastic water jug, plastic glasses and plastic plates and deposited them on our table.

Volga Iselin

A quick glance at the dirty, soiled menu lying on the counter revealed that Volga offers South Indian, North Indian and Indian-Chinese fare. Aha, the Microsoft of Indian restaurants. All ye technologically savvy folks know where we’re heading, eh? ;)

To get a good feel of the place, we ordered a combination of Indian-Chinese, North Indian and South Indian fare.

Horrid Chilli Garlic Noodles

Our order of Chilli Garlic Noodles ($8.99) came to the table in about eight minutes in a white plastic bowl.

One fork of it and we almost puked. In decades of eating Chilli Garlic Noodles, we’ve never encountered such a pathetic piece of shit. You see, the Chilli Garlic Noodles was dryish, had zero garlic flavor and, worse of all, offensively tasteless. We had a hard time shoveling this crap into our mouth.

With a sigh of resignation, we placed our fork down and waited for the Gobi Paratha to show up. Since we abhor wasting food, we packed up the Chilli Garlic Noodles with plans to add Maggi Sauce and eat it later.

Volga IselinChilli Garlic Noodles – An Abomination

Nuked Gobi Paratha

Gobi Paratha ($5.99) came so hot to the table that we could not take a bite for several minutes. Continue reading »

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