Quote of the Day – Araj
At times, I feel, we, the Indians, are bastard sons of God and Satan, acquiring the best of Satan and the worst of God… – Araj (a reader of the SearchIndia.com blog)
Watching Rachel Getting Married
Just returned from RedBox (the $1 per night DVD rental from those red kiosks outside U.S. grocery stores). Since it’s Wednesday, we got our DVD for free (Red Box now offers free DVD rental on Mondays and Wednesdays. Bet all you cheapo desi SOBs in the U.S. already knew that). We picked up Rachel Getting Married […]
Incredible India 15; Beggar Capital of the World
Lo, here comes the 15th instalment of Incredible India with those only-in-India stories. * Beggar Capital of the World – India’s capital New Delhi has 58,000 beggars, most of them children, according to the Voice of America. * Laddu Explodes in Cow’s Mouth: No kidding, folks. Read this story in Times of India. * SSC […]
So You Think Only Indian Govt. Doctors are Corrupt…
A lot of Government doctors in India are corrupt and often even fail to report for duty. In remote Indian villages, we’ve seen Indian doctors extorting bribes from very poor villagers. Pigs. But bribery in the healthcare delivery system is not restricted to India. We just read a heartrending story of corruption in the Romanian healthcare […]
Narendra Tallapragada Comes in 4th in Intel Talent Competition
Indian-American kid Narendra Tallapragada came in fourth in the just concluded Intel Science Talent Search 2009 competition in the U.S. (Eric Larson of Eugene, Ore., won the first prize, a $100,000 scholarship, for his research project classifying mathematical objects called fusion categories). Often referred to as the Junior Nobel Prize, the Science Talent Search is […]
13B Box Office – Madhavan’s Real Horror Show
Does Madhavan even count at all? If Madhavan disappeared from Bollywood or Kollywood today, would anyone even notice. No, we don’t think many people would notice or care. Madhavan’s horror show 13B came in at No-78 for the March 6-8, 2009 opening weekend at the U.S. box office and had an average gross of $675 […]