Stalin (the original Russian guy not the duplicate local fella) did many things wrong. But Stalin did one thing right when he angrily yelled at Lenin’s wife Nadezhda Krupskaya that just because she used the same toilet as Lenin gave her no reason to interfere in party affairs. Similarly, just because some Sri Lankans speak […]
Chandni Chowk Collapses – Down 80% We have compiled a chart of how Bollywood movies released in 2008 fared at the global box office (please see below table). Here are some of our conclusions: * Slumdog Millionaire’s box office collection has made our Bollywood producers look like pygmies * Salman Khan is history * Abhishek […]
Sashenka by Simon Montefiore (New York, Simon & Schuster, 2008) Seldom in human history has the human soul been put to trial as it was in 20th century Russia, a scorching trial that started well before the Great October Revolution and lasted till 1953 and even beyond. Tens of millions of Russians lost their lives in the madness and […]
In the first mass firing in its 34-year history, Microsoft is firing 5,000 employees blaming a difficult economic environment and slowdown in IT spending. Wonder how many jobs Microsoft will shed in India. Microsoft has a significant presence in India including a development center in the South Indian city of Hyderabad.. Here’s an excerpt from […]
No surprise here. After sweeping the Golden Globes, Slumdog Millionaire has now received 10 Oscar nominations including three for music maestro A.R.Rahman. But we are mighty peeved that our other favorite – Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino – failed to receive even a single nomination. The 81st Annual Academy Awards (i.e. Oscars) will be awarded on February […]
iPhone is still on a roll. Apple said today it’d sold 13.7 million iPhone units in 2008 (including 4.36 million in Q4 alone), well ahead of its target of 10 million for the year. Apple customers are also downloading applications in a big, big way. Over half-a-billion apps (that is 500-million for the mathematically disadvantaged) […]