We’ve heard of Low Carb Diet, South Beach Diet, Low Fat Diet, Atkins Diet, Low Sodium Diet, Vegetarian Diet and a variety of other diets. Penis Diet, what the heck is that? Sounds like what some desperate pornographers would be peddling in junk e-mail. You know, the kind that arrives uninvited in your inbox with headers […]
Desi film producer and financier Deepak Nayar has launched a global digital entertainment studio and online creative community called Filmaka for aspiring filmmakers. Deepak Nayar is the producer of English movies with Indian themes like Bend It Like Beckham, Bride & Prejudice and The Mistress of Spices. Here’s Filmaka’s mission in its own words: Filmaka is […]
The landmark political fact of our time is the replacement of our middle-class republic by a plutocracy. – Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? Source: Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2008 P. A17
Mumbai’s cattle cars a.k.a. commuter trains have killed over 20,000 people in the last five years, according to local railway officials in this teeming metropolis. Worse than Nazi era cattle cars transporting Jews to the tragic final solution, Mumbai’s commuter trains carry seven million people everyday with people clinging on to the sides and many […]
Desi Butcher Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO, is throwing 9,000 employees on the streets on top of the 4,200 jobs the embattled bank has already cut recently. As usual, the new round of job cuts are also attributed to expense management. And did we tell you that Vikram Pandit, like the proverbial pig at the trough, took […]
The Desi Butcher Vikram Pandit-led financial mess Citigroup reported a hefty loss of $5.1 billion on revenues of $13.2 billion in its first quarter ended March 31 and will throw another 9,000 employees on the streets. On a conference call with analysts, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit acknowledged: To start with, we’re not happy with our […]