Eastern Promises is the kind of intoxicating underworld movie our Bollywood directors ought to make but just cannot. A bloody violent movie, Eastern Promises is the gritty – and gripping – story of the Russian Mafia in London and a young midwife who accidentally comes in contact with it. One evening a very pregnant 14-year-old […]
The good news – Zimbabwe’s official inflation rate is down by nearly a thousand percentage points. The bad news – the official inflation rate in this African nation is still a whopping 6,592.8%. Independent economists peg the real inflation rate many times higher than the official rate. Zimbabwe has the highest inflation rate in the […]
Indian businesses will have to wait until 2008 for SAP’s new Business ByDesign ondemand service for midsize companies. Launched in New York City on Wednesday, Business ByDesign – delivered as a online service – is supposed to support a range of business operations including compliance management, customer relationship management, executive management support, financials, HRM, project […]
U.S. State Department officials said Monday India has a serious problem with diversion of chemicals and legal opium into illegal markets. In President George Bush’s Majors List of major drug-transit or illicit-producing countries submitted to Congress, India figures as one among 20 countries that have failed to adhere to international counternarcotics agreements and to take […]
For Indian movie fans tired of seeing their favorite Bollywood babes go through the motions of acting in movie after movie, Jodie Foster is an acting revelation. One of the finest actresses of our generation, Jodie Foster delighted us in Silence of the Lambs, Panic Room, Accused, Flightplan and even that old Robert De Niro starrer Taxi […]
Sathum Podaathay leaves Tamil fans with some hope that all is not lost with Tamil cinema. Featuring youngsters Prithvi Raj, Padmapriya and Nitin Satya in strong roles, Sathum Podaathay dares to break new ground (for Tamil cinema, that is) with an offbeat story. Sathum Podaathay is a commendable effort by director S.M.Vasant in eschewing the […]