The Attack – A Stunningly Poignant Film

By SI Blog Reader AC One of the pleasures of living in Toronto is attending the aam aadmi -friendly Toronto International Film Festival – or TIFF in short – at the fag end of summer. September brings a mouth watering treat to the movie buffs of this city in the form of a virtual cornucopia […]

Love in Tokyo – Missed Due to a Power Cut

I can’t for the life of me remember the exact year. But I have a feeling it must have been in the late 1960s. The whole caboodle including yours truly went to see Love in Tokyo (Joy Mukherjee, Asha Parekh). It was a much talked about movie those days. The songs from the film were […]

Indians Build Biryani Highway in Edison, NJ

If Marx and Engels were to rewrite The Communist Manifesto, they’d probably pen it this way: A spectre is haunting Edison – the spectre of Biryani. All the powers of Edison have entered into a holy alliance to expropriate this spectre: Punjabis and Telugus, Pakistanis and Delhites, Afghanis, Tamils and Gujaratis. Never in the history […]