We love it. Just love it. Oh, we mean the awards for the non-Bollywood masterpiece from India – Slumdog Millionaire. This time, the fine movie picked up the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Motion Picture (akin to a Best Picture award). Anil Kapoor, who plays the quiz-show host in the […]
Folks, here comes the fourth instalment of Incredible India with those only-in-India stories. * Ram’s Monkeys Run Amok in Mangalore Pub. A bunch of thugs belonging to the Shri Ram Sena attacked some girls in the coastal city of Mangalore in the South Indian state of Karnataka. Why? Because the girls were having a good […]
Back in the ol’ days, they used to give Padma Shri and Tamrapatra awards for real achievements. Now, the Government of India has started bestowing awards merely for the accident of being born with the right sequence of DNA or right genes, which we presume ultimately decide how you look. How else can you explain […]
People often bitch and moan about how bad things are in India or that things are now deteriorating in the U.S. But few realize how much worse things are in so many other parts of the world like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Zimbabwe or in Western Africa. The New York Times has a P.1 story […]
Danny saw a good dramatic story on Mumbai. He came and shot that story. As far as the filth goes, we’re a dead and dying society, and the sooner we face up to it the better our chances of redeeming ourselves. – Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan on Slumdog Millionaire (Source: IndiaFM)
Here’s another instalment of Incredible India featuring some of those only-in-India incredible stories: * This is weird. Shiv Sena, a political party in Maharashtra, is looking at selling a branded version of the vada paav snack called Shiv Vada Paav. What next? DMK Idli, AIADMK Pakoda, BJP Bajji, Congress Mysore Pak, BSP Jalebi, Akali Jamun, CPM Rosogolla…Here’s […]