Attorneys for Telugu bidda Raghunandan Yandamuri appeared before Judge Steven T O’Neill of the Montgomery County Court in Pennsylvania this morning to have his video confession and written statements suppressed. At issue is whether Yandamuri’s video enactment of the crimes and other statements he made to the police of his alleged heinous crimes should be […]
As part of Apple’s 12-Days of Gifts promotion (December 26-January 6), Martin Scorsese’s remarkable film Hugo is available for free download today. Of course, I quickly headed to iTunes and downloaded the movie a couple of hours back. Need you even ask. 😉 Hugo is a fine movie and I’m sure you’ll love it as […]
In Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal promises to empower the Aam Aadmi. In Charlotte (NC), another Indian, Shailendra Suman (pictured at left), is promising to light up powerless households through his new SmartCharge LED light bulbs. In short, Shailendra Suman, like Kejriwal, promises light where only gloom and darkness prevailed earlier. Light Without Power I swear only […]
(For SI Blog readers Kreacher & Vedagiri) How can I ever deny the world is a weird place! After all, some of the finest movies I’ve watched have come from the oddest of places. Now who’d think Mullah paradise Eyeran (as many American schmucks mispronounce the country) would produce movies that delight even a jaded […]
(for SI Blog Reader Twig) Twits and Twigs have more in common than four alphabets. Both also lack the gene for good taste, and share the inability to separate wheat from chaff. At the repeated urging of SI Blog reader Twig, I watched the Tamil film Mahanadi (1994) last night. Mahanadi has often been hailed […]
Nothing shakes humans like murder or attempted murder. No, nothing comes even remotely close. As the escapee of a likely violent attack on a recent dark, rainy evening (December 14), I should know how chilling en ce moment, and thrilling in retrospect, the experience can be. Whether the victims are carefully chosen or random, murder […]