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Love him or hate him, Julian Assange has made his mark.

For all ye schmucks, Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks, the web site that’s causing ripples on a global scale with its release of sensitive documents pertaining to the Iraq war, U.S. diplomatic cables and the like.

You know stuff the powers that be would rather have under tight wraps.

Next Bombshell
The next big thing to watch for is WikiLeaks’ document bombshell on a major U.S. bank.

Assange has already told Forbes that there could be ‘either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents depending on how you define it.’

Expect it to happen in early 2011.

Assange told Forbes:

It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume.

We’re betting it’ll be Shitty Bank oops Citibank, yeah the one headed by our desi butcher Vikram Pandit. But hey who knows!

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Forbes’ Interview with Julian Assange

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We’ve never been great fans of Indian IT giant Wipro’s Chairman Azim Premji.

But tonight, as we slowly sip our White Russian into a stupor the old man Premji is our hero.

Really.

In a blistering attack penned in an Indian newspaper, Premji belatedly questions in rhetorical style the wisdom of a poor country like India hosting the upcoming commonwealth games:

The term ‘commonwealth’ originally meant public welfare, things that are for the greater good of society. Do the Commonwealth Games pass this commonwealth test? Is this Rs 28,000-crore drain on public funds for the greater common good?….

(G)iven the thousands of crores being spent on the Delhi Commonwealth Games, we need to ask if this is money spent wisely. Continue reading »

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Following a guilty plea for exposing his dick to a lady co-passenger on a Southwest Airlines’ flight from Philadelphia-Denver, Telugu bidda and SAP consultant Murali Krishna Nookella has been ordered by the U.S. District Court in Denver, Colorado to complete a program of mental health treatment and not travel on Southwest Airlines.

Here’s an excerpt from the court judgment in the Nookella case, dated August 19, 2010:

The defendant shall participate in and successfully complete a program of mental health treatment, as deemed necessary by the probation officer, until such time as the defendant is released from the program by the probation officer. The defendant shall pay the cost of treatment Continue reading »

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I have never taken drugs in my life.
- Tamil film star Trisha Krishnan

Source: Times of India

Never too late, sweetie. ;)

What’s life without a few highs!

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Voila, Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto is on the cover of the Sunday New York Times Style Magazine (not to be confused with the more prestigious New York Times Sunday Magazine).

Image: NYT

Just yesterday, at the Lincoln Plaza in Manhattan just before Robert Duvall’s much talked about Get Low started we espied Freida in a preview (trailer) of Woody Allen’s upcoming You’ll Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Continue reading »

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Som Mittal (Pix: Nasscom)Som Mittal, chief of India’s software association Nasscom, has lost the battle to prevent the Obama administration from going ahead with a Border Security bill funded by imposing higher fees on H1B Visas used by Indian IT companies.

U.S. President Obama signed the $600 million bill Friday.

The bill is expected to fund an additional 1,000 border security agents on our Southern border besides supporting the hiring of more Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Won’t Help
We’re not convinced that throwing more money at our southern border with Mexico will stem the tide of illegal immigrants, which currently is down to a trickle because of the recession in the U.S. Continue reading »

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The late detective novelist Agatha Christie is the most widely read novelist in history, according to the New Yorker, which has an essay on the popular author in the latest issue (August 16 & 23, 2010 p.82-88)

Back in the old days, we read a few dozen Agatha Christie books.

And for the most part, we enjoyed them. The Hercule Poirot series, the Miss Marple books and the other Agatha Christie novels were all easy reads that we could knock off in a couple of hours max.

Some of Christie’s books like Murder on the Oriental Express (Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael York and Anthony Perkins) were even made into popular movies adding to her fame.

Describing the authoress as a ‘broad cultural phenomenon,’ Joan Acocella writes in the New Yorker that Agatha Christie’s novels have been translated into 45 languages and sold over 2 billion copies.

Now, isn’t that 2 billion figure more than India’s population or have the desi mosquitoes been breeding more than usual lately? ;)

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Poor Rakesh Aggarwal could soon become Poorer Rakesh Aggarwal.

Poorer?

Yes, after all, the owner of the Baluchi’s Indian restaurant chain in New York City might now have to fork out close to a million dollars ($967,000 to be precise) in a proposed legal settlement with some of his current and former employees.

Our heart goes out to the Aggarwal bloke.

A million dollars is still a lot of money.

Plus the whole legal process of the last 18 months, including the depositions, must have been very stressful to Baluchi’s owner Rakesh Aggarwal.

We won’t be surprised if the legal strain has subtracted a few years from Rakesh’s life.

Origin of Baluchi’s / Rakesh Aggarwal’s Nightmare

Rakesh Aggarwal’s nightmare started in November 2008 when some of his former and current employees sued Rakesh and his Baluchi’s Indian restaurants alleging unpaid minimum wages, unpaid overtime wages, misappropriated tips, unauthorized deductions from their wages and unpaid spread-of-hour wages among other things.

The employees, who were waiters, cooks, dishwashers or delivery persons, alleged violation of federal Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Law. Continue reading »

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Remember the Telugu bidda Murali Krishna Nookella?

No? Nookella was the 35-year-old H1B desi dickhead and SAP consultant arrested on March 1 this year for allegedly exposing his dick to a lady co-passenger on a Southwest Airlines’ flight from Philadelphia-Denver.

Murali Nookella’s female co-passenger “C.S.A” had basically alleged that he was masturbating on the plane and that his erect dick had peeped out from below his blanket.

Desi Dicksposure
Now Murali Krishna Nookella has essentially admitted to exposing his dick on the commercial flight.

In a 11-page statement to the U.S. District Court in Denver dated May 5, 2010, Murali Nookella declared:

I wish to plead guilty to the following charge(s):

Count One of the Information charging a violation of 49 U.S.C. 46506(2), Obscene and Indecent Exposure on an Aircraft.

Statutory Penalties
The punishment for violation of 49 U.S.C. 46506(a) is up to 90-days of imprisonment or fine of up to $5,000 or both; up to one-year supervised release; $10 special assessment fee.

Murali Krishna Nookella may also face deportation because of the conviction. Continue reading »

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IBM today announced six employees as IBM Fellows for their contributions to the company and the IT industry.

And guess what? Two of the six are desis: Subramanian Iyer and Anant Jhingran.

IBM Fellows is the IT giant’s highest technical award. Only 217 individuals have earned this honor in the company’s history. Including the newly named Fellows, 73 are active employees.

Here are details of the two desis who received this distinction:

* An alumnus of IIT Bombay and UCLA, Dr. Subramanian (Subu) Iyer of the Systems and Technology Group at Hopewell Junction, New York is being recognized for innovations in semiconductor technology.

Subu Iyer is said to have led development and implementation of embedded DRAM technology – a dense memory that can be fabricated on high performance Logic chips – used in IBM systems ranging from high-end servers to BlueGene supercomputers to game chips. Other contributions of Iyer (and his team) include demonstrating the first SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistor used extensively in wireless communication, development of on-chip programmable electrical Fuses, a technology that allows semiconductor chips to “self-repair” and for the circuits on a chip to be reconfigured even after the chip has left fabrication facilities and development of IBM’s 45 nm CMOS technologies.

* Anant D. Jhingran of the Software Group in in San Jose, California and an alumnus of University of California, Berkeley, is being honored for contributions to IBM’s Information Management business. Continue reading »

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