Since you desi cheapos would never dream of spending $6 on a newspaper, it falls upon us to tell you the interesting news. Folks, Nadal has made it to the cover of the New York Times Magazine. Unless you’ve lately come in from Mars or just got off the Villupuram fast passenger, y’all know we […]
Time for another edition of Incredible India. * So you think if you are sick, old or pregnant you are safe from the marauding pigs in khaki in Incredible India. Only shows how naive you are. A pregnant woman and her three-year-old daughter were tossed out of a moving train by two policemen in Lakhimpur […]
(Recommended by SI reader a4apple) Finally, getting around to watching La Pianiste a.k.a The Piano Teacher. Directed by Michael Haneke, this French movie (with English subtitles) was nominated for a bunch of awards. Released in 2001, the 125-minute film features Isabelle Huppert as the piano teacher and Benoit Magimel as her student. The movie is […]
India is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Source: U.S. State Department Trafficking in Persons Report 2009.
Broadband Internet access continues to surge in the U.S. even as the recession is forcing consumers to drop their pricey cable and satellite television services. Home broadband adoption in the U.S. rose to 63% of adult Americans as of April 2009 from 55% in May 2008, according to a new report put out by the […]
A short while ago, on the way to the bank we stopped by at our local liquor store. Guess what. Again, the cheapest wines were the Australian wines. Say what, are those descendants of the prisoner detritus from England dumping or what? This time, we picked up Banrock Station 2006 Merlot from South Eastern Australia […]