Nervous as Hell – Yes, Watching the Oscars

By God, we’ve never been this nervous. Not even when we tried our first smooch unsure of the consequences. Will Slumdog Millionaire and A.R.Rahman win the Ultimate Honor in the movie business – the Oscars. We are not great believers in God. But tonight we’ll make an exception. God, please let it happen. (By the […]

Incredible India – 11; Get Molested or Die

The latest instalment of Incredible India with those only in India stories begins with a tragic, depressing tale and ends with an inspiring account. * Submit to Molestation or Die. After failing in his attempts to molest a 14-year-old girl, a thug in Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh state) set the girl on fire causing her death. Here’s an […]

1 Citigroup Share = 1/2 Garlic Naan in NYC

Who would have thought things would come to such a pass? Back in the late 1990s, selling a single Citigroup share was enough to take your family out for dinner at a nice Indian restaurant in New York City. But times have changed. And boy, how they have changed. Forget dinner for your family. Today, […]

Delhi 6 Review – A Meaningless Kaleidoscope

Delhi 6 Falling, Falling, Falling – Down 75% Abhishek’s Delhi 6 Fails to Sizzle at Box Office Folks, for the first time in so many years there were 17 people (12 initially + 5 more trooped in just as the movie started) for the 12:30PM show of a Bollywood movie in the U.S. on a […]

Old Sivaji Ganesan Favorites

Over the decades, we’ve drunk deep from the Pierian Spring of Sivaji Ganesan movies. Some of the finest Tamil songs of yesteryear are from movies featuring  Sivaji Ganesan. They delighted us in the spring of our childhood. They charmed us in the summer of our youth. They comforted us in the autumn of our middle […]

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