What the Hell is Really Happening at Satyam?

We are Big Time Crooks, Confesses Satyam If Shakespeare were writing Hamlet today, the bard would probably write Something is rotten in the state of Satyam.  A few hours ago (17:40 EST), Indian IT services provider Satyam Computer Services announced that promoters’ stake in the company may have been reduced. Some hours before that, Satyam put […]

Great Rajkumar Songs

The late Kannada actor Rajkumar a.k.a. annavaru was not a great actor but songs from his movies are the stuff of legend. Here is a baker’s dozen of some great Rajkumar songs we have enjoyed over the years (not all were sung by him): Thamnam Thamnam Nanee Manasu – this song features Rajkumar and Kalpana […]

Quote of the Day – Samuel P.Huntington

Islam’s borders are bloody, and so are its innards.  – the late Professor Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (p.258) Samuel Huntington, a professor of political science and international relations at Harvard University for over five decades, died on December 24.

World’s Greatest Political Scientist Samuel Huntington Dead

Controversial Harvard professor Samuel P.Huntington, in our view the world’s greatest political scientist after Plato, has died. To those of you who may never have heard of Samuel Huntington, he was the the author who made the phrase Clash of Civilizations famous. While Huntington has been in the limelight recently after he wrote his famous […]

Incredible India? Shining India? – Ha Ha Ha

Incredible India Ad on NYC Bus * A PWD Engineer M.K.Gupta in Uttar Pradesh is brutally beaten up by local politicians for not giving funds for the birthday bash of the state’s Maharani and tortured with electric shocks (according to the autopsy report). Yes, his wife is now a widow. * Bal Thackeray, the leader of […]

Gran Torino – A Magnificent Tour de Force

Desperate to cure ourselves of the horrific trauma of watching that stolen shit Ghajini, we were eager for some purifying Ganga Jal. And we found our moksha in the new Clint Eastwood film Gran Torino (in limited release now in the U.S.). Gran Torino is that rare all sizzle and all steak movie. If you thought […]