Click Here!

Blog & Web Directory on India		 Click here
    
Advertise    SI Web Directory    Home    About Us     Facebook    Twitter

Question of the Day – Which was the 5th Domestic Appliance to be Electrified?

 General  13 Responses »
Sep 122011
 
Share

We’ve always considered SI readers a notch above readers of other blogs and generally above other bipeds.

So, we’re conducting a simple quiz to test your General Knowledge (as it’s known in India).

With sleep eluding us, we got up from bed a few minutes back, picked up a bottle of Arizona Blueberry White Tea (light brown in color actually) and turned on our inamorata, the iPad.

And lo and behold, we soon came across a rather amusing tidbit in one of the most reputed publications in the world.

So, the question, now, for all you geniasses:

Which was the fifth domestic appliance to be electrified?

The time now is 1:26AM ET. We will post the answer in about 18 hours, i.e around 19:00 ET today.

If a commenter puts forth the right answer, then, of course, you’ll be enlightened sooner.

Needless to say, we wouldn’t be holding this quiz if the answer were not interesting enough. ;)

Spoiler Alert: Clicking and reading beyond this alert will give away the answer. So, if you want to play the guessing game, log in to your favorite blog, go straight to the comments section (but do not read any of the previous comments) and post your answer. Continue reading »
Share
 Posted by SearchIndia.com at 1:27 am

Damn, Praying to Allah On a NYC Sidewalk

 General  19 Responses »
Sep 102011
 
Share

Anyone who believes in the existence of a God has a screw loose.

But some nutjobs have several screws loose.

Why?

Because nutcases make asses of themselves with their public prayer rituals, not to mention inconveniencing the public.

Last week, as we were walking around the Upper East Side of Manhattan we saw a Muslim cab driver take out a small carpet, unroll it right on the sidewalk (at the intersection of E.70th St and 5th Avenue) and start praying.

The carpet was rolled out at an odd angle, presumably to let the man pray in the direction of Mecca.

And all these happened while the cab was parked right next to a fire-hydrant, a violation of New York City traffic laws. :(

Muslim Cab Driver Praying on NYC SidewalkMuslim Cab Driver Praying Opposite Frick’s Collection, NYC
(E.70th St & 5th Ave)

Muslim Cab Driver Praying on NYC SidewalkMuslim Cab Driver (in white cap) Praying on Upper East Side Sidewalk

Muslim Cab Driver Praying on NYC SidewalkAllah-o-Akbar?  Muslim Cabbie Rising after Praying on NYC Sidewalk
(E.70th St and 5th Ave, near Central Park)

We strongly urge New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to pass rules to prevent people from rolling out carpets and praying on the city sidewalks.

If Muslims, Christians, Hindus or Jews want to pray, it must be in the privacy of their homes or at a place of worship.

Prayer must not be on the NYC sidewalks inconveniencing and irritating pedestrians.

If you allow this public praying nonsense, tomorrow some of these nut-jobs will bring a Lamb or Goat and insist on a public sacrifice on 5th Avenue to celebrate Bakrid and the day after that only Allah knows what they’ll demand.

America’s freedoms must not be abused.

Will Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates or Pakistan allow a Christian, Jew or Hindu to pray on the public sidewalks inconveniencing pedestrians?

Hell , No!

Share
 Posted by SearchIndia.com at 3:11 pm  Tagged with: ,

Contagion Review – Long Foreplay with no Orgasm

 Hollywood  1 Response »
Sep 102011
 
Share

By Naveen

With the engaging preview of Contagion doing the rounds on cable for the past couple of weeks, my curiosity had been whetted as to what all these A List actors were doing in the same movie. When I was asked by SI to review Contagion today, I was not going to be the one to say no! ;-)

Synopsis

Contagion is a simplified enactment of how things unfold during global health epidemics such as SARS or Swine Flu.

It’s also about how FEAR spreads faster than anything else and how FEAR could result in breakdown of civil society as we know it.

Contagion touches upon several facets of a global health disaster like politics, bureaucracy, conspiracy theories, fear of bio-terrorism etc. without going in-depth into any one aspect. It scratches the surface and when you start focusing, it moves on to something else.

Some Key Plotlines
This Steven Soderbergh bio-thriller starts with Beth (Gwyneth Paltrow) returning to her family in Minneapolis after a business visit to Hong Kong and a short rendezvous with her lover in Chicago (which makes little/no difference to the movie). She is taken extremely sick shortly and Mitch (Matt Daemon), her husband, admits her to the hospital where she is pronounced dead. Beth’s young son contracts the illness and dies.

Around the same time, several other people also die exhibiting the same symptoms. The spread of this respiratory disease soon reaches epidemic proportions.

Dr. Cheever (Lawrence Fishburne) from The Center of Disease Control and Prevention leads an investigation into the deaths. Dr. Mears (Kate Winslet) runs the investigation but soon contracts the same deadly disease and dies.

The WHO launches an investigation by sending Dr. Leonora (Marion Cotillard) to Hong Kong to find the genesis of the disease assuming Beth as the first contractor. She is able to trace a bunch of the initial dead people to have come in contact with Beth in Hong Kong in a Casino. The Chinese Official helping her with the investigation comes to know that America is trying to find a cure. He kidnaps Leonora and holds her to ransom to get ahead of the line when the vaccine is ready.

Alan (Jude Law) is a freelance blogger / journalist who holds the opinion that the Government is in bed with pharmaceutical companies to make money from this opportunity and suppress an existing Homeopathic cure. His 12 million followers believe his theory.

Mitch is quarantined and then later released as his body is immune to this virus. His daughter from his ex-partner comes to stay with him and he spends the rest of the movie trying to protect her from the virus and depicting an ordinary man.

What I liked

Strikes Fear into your mind.

Contagion shows how delicately we are balanced in nature and how weak Man is against the power of the invisible i.e. Virus. Continue reading »

Share
 Posted by SearchIndia.com at 4:33 am  Tagged with: , ,

Mere Brother Ki Dulhan Review – Ugh, Garbage

 General  11 Responses »
Sep 092011
 
Share

Do you think I’m a bitch, a tart?….You must be thinking I’m a slut?
- Katrina Kaif’s character Dimple Dixit to Imran Khan’s Kush Agnihotri in Meri Brother Ki Dulhan

Duh, Katrina.

Does the Sun Rise in the East? Is Barack Obama Black? Is Manmohan Singh a poodle? Does Salman Khan like to drive over people? Did Anna Hazare just score a big victory over the Lok Pal bill?

Whaddayathink, folks? ;)

Plain Awful

Folks, Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (from Yash Raj’s stinking Augean stable of horror-shows) offers incontrovertible proof, as if any more were really needed, that Hindi movies are made by desi asses exclusively for desi chimps slipping down the ladder of evolution.

An utterly charmless and silly movie featuring two half-wits Katrina Kaif and Imran Khan, the movie bored the hell out of us for all of its 2-hour and 20-minute running time.

In fact, Meri Brother Ki Dulhan can best be described by borrowing a line from the movie itself:

You Indians are classless and cheap.
- Piyali to Luv in the opening moments of the film

Cancel Katrina’s Indian Visa

Can somebody please tell Katrina Kaif that shrieking like a sloshed ape, flaunting her bare thighs like a Dadar strumpet struggling to pay her back rent, rolling her eyes mindlessly and generally behaving like a jackass does not qualify one to be called an actress.

Not in the Method School of acting, not in the Sanford Meisner School of acting, hell, not even in Subash Ghai’s Whistling Woods School of acting in Mumbai. Continue reading »

Share
 Posted by SearchIndia.com at 7:25 pm  Tagged with: , ,

Hey, Bibliophiles – Deals Can’t Get Any Better

 Books, Deals  4 Responses »
Sep 082011
 
Share

We know, we know.

All ye 64-letter, Twitter-constrained schmucks consider reading to be a cardinal sin.

For desis, books are the new pariahs to stay away from.

Let not even the shadow of the printed word fall on your Fair-and-Lovelied, Hennaed, Attared body. Who knows what dangers might lurk in the pages of books.

God Forbid that your limited mental horizons expand beyond Salman-is-great, Will-it-be-a-boy-for-Ash or Ajith-is-sooper.

For the deviants amongst SI readers who can read beyond a Tweet and consider books as their soulmates, hey, this post is for you.

Borders – Big Discounts

With Borders book stores in the final days of the big liquidation sale, we headed to the nearest store today and picked up a bunch of books at pretty good insanely cheap prices.

Borders Book Store - Final Week Sale

Our purchases today include:

* Modern Times by Paul Johnson
* A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova
* Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India by Roberto Calasso
* John Stuart Mill by Richard Reeve
* 9/11 Commission Report by 9/11 Commission
* Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz
* Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within by Shuja Nawaz
* Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell

So, all ye desi bibliophiles if you enjoy the printed word as much as we do head to your nearest Borders for some awesome deals.

Share
 Posted by SearchIndia.com at 6:36 pm  Tagged with:

Who Craves Curry When You got Thai Food

 Food  1 Response »
Sep 082011
 
Share

Yes, diehard fans of Indian cuisine as we are even yours truly occasionally tires of desi food and craves a change.

So, off we headed to a Thai restaurant for lunch today.

Of course, we’re not complete strangers to Thai food since we’ve had Pad Thai noodles on several occasions (both the restaurant variety and the grocery store version).

Plus, with the Border’s liquidation sale in its final phase we decided to pick up some books and kill two birds with one stone.

Thai food is often touted as spicy, well at least some items.

But like most ethnic restaurants in America, the restaurant we visited also bastardized the food to suit effete American palate (dunno why the Thai kitchen did it to us because our accents and appearance make it unmistakable that we’re Indians).

With the result, the food was not as spicy as we’d have wanted.

Still, it was overall pretty flavorful and made for a welcome change from our usual staples of Idli, Sambar, Chapati, and an Aloo Curry.

Besides the the three bags of books we got at Border’s (at 70%-90% off), we also got the following Thai food items for lunch today:

Tom Yum Chicken SoupYummy Tom Yum Soup – Right Stuff on a Rainy Day

Spring Roll with Sweet and Sour SauceSpring Roll with Hot & Sour Thai Sauce – One More, Please

Spicy Tofu with Steamed RiceSpicy Tofu with Rice – Alas, Not So Spicy but Tasty

Flavorful Pad ThaiPad Thai – Deeelicious, More So with Some Red Chilli Sauce

Thai Green Curry with ChickenHot Green Curry with Chicken – Not So Hot but Flavorful

Mango with Sticky Rice Thai DessertMango with Sticky Rice – Well, Let’s Say Interesting!

Thai restaurants are like Indian restaurants in one respect.

Yes, you guessed it. When it comes to service, just fuhgeddaboudit.

Share
 Posted by SearchIndia.com at 5:17 pm  Tagged with: , , ,
 Older Entries  Newer Entries
© 2012 SearchIndia.com   Privacy Policy Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha