Whoever said America is the Land of Opportunities is wrong. Dead wrong. Folks, America is the Land of Coupons. The dominant motif of this land is a discount coupon. No more, and certainly no less. But even we – yes, cynical we, who think we’ve seen it all – were surprised at what we found […]
If you missed our President Barack Obama’s speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner held at the Washington Hilton a short while ago, boy, you really missed something. Obama repeatedly brought the house down with absolutely hilarious lines. Here, click on the below video to watch Obama at the dinner poking fun at himself, VP […]
SI reader Sumeshy has sent a whole bunch of pictures contrasting the good life enjoyed by LTTE terrorist leader and Rajiv Gandhi’s murderer Prabhakaran even as his forced conscripts bite the cyanide. Rather than reproducing the pictures here, we thought we’d provide you a link where you can view not only the pictures sent across […]
TGIF. And we’re watching Sleepers (Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Minnie Driver). Directed by Barry Levinson, the 1996 movie is based on the book of the same name by Lorenzo Carcaterra. Given the star-cast, we have high expectations from the movie. It seems like a revenge tale with related elements like […]
In an age of airplanes, motor cars and asinine ‘reality’ shows, it seems there are few challenging frontiers left for man to conquer any more. So it is with delight we’re reading Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold by Michael Benanav. The 220-page book is a first person account […]
Man can live without Gold, but not without salt. – Attributed to 5th century AD Roman senator Cassiodorus (cited in Men of Salt by Michael Benanav P.xiv, a book we are reading)