We are just back from our neighborhood library having borrowed (or checked out as they say here) John Grisham’s new book The Associate. Like a lot of people with lots of time on their hands, we’ve probably read all of Grisham’s novels (though we’d be hard pressed to recollect the plot of most now except vaguely for […]
This edition of Incredible India focuses on the Great Indian Hunger Strike tamasha. Can anyone please help us resolve this dilemma - Every day in India, some group of idiots launch a hunger strike. Yet India’s population is not going down and more and more Indians increasingly resemble Namitha. 😉 Here are some of the different […]
The systemic impediments include both the legacy of racism and dramatic economic changes that have fallen with disproportionate severity on poor blacks. ….Today many ghetto residents have almost no contact with mainstream American society or the normal job market. As a result, they have developed distinctive and often dysfunctional social norms. The work ethic, investment […]
These are troubled times for Shiva Natarajan, numero uno Indian restaurateur on the U.S. East Coast and Bollywood actor. The New York City Health Department has come down heavily on Shiva’s Dhaba Indian restaurant citing mice, vermin, sewage, garbage, pesticide, prohibited chemical and a host of other unpalatable issues at this restaurant on Lexington Avenue […]
Folks, here’s the fourth instalment of Amazing America. This post will focus on how the popular death penalty is getting a reprieve in the United States. Do you know why? No, not because people here have stopped believing in the eye for an eye retribution but because the death penalty is becoming very expensive and unaffordable […]
(Thanks to Sanewar and Lucifersam for recommending Gomorrah) Gomorrah (Italian) takes the gangster/Mafia genre of movies to an entirely new level. If Godfather, Scarface and even Cidade de Deus (City of God) glorified the criminals, put them up on a pedestal and made them seem almost godly despite their violence, Gomorrah knocks them off their high perch and […]