Montaigne was a 16th century French essayist who scribbled away on an eclectic range of topics, from cannibals to friendship to idleness to solitude. Here’s an excerpt from one of his essays (Power of the Imagination): We are right to note the licence and disobedience of this member which thrusts itself forward so inopportunely when […]
This is beyond nonsense, a calamitous event that can happen only in Incredible India. When Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy (Chief Minister of the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh) died in a helicopter crash the other day, the 60-year-old politician, may his soul rest in peace, took with him not merely his four co-passengers. Alas, Reddy took […]
Besides death and taxes, add repeated poor performances by Sun Microsystems to the list of life’s certainties. IDC put out its server marketshare numbers for the second quarter the other day. No surprise here, folks. Sun had a really bad quarter, declining in server marketshare and declining in revenues. Don’t tell us you expected anything […]
Time hangs heavily on our hands today. So we told ourselves, sweetie, tis’ time for a nice flick. As we were trolling through Netflix‘ Instant Play collection, we stumbled upon the Swedish film Let the Right One In. Looks interesting. Definitely. A quick glance at the reviews suggests that the movie has found considerable favor […]
As part of our charitable mission to expand your vocabulary, we’ve been burning the midnight oil in hot pursuit of words with libido. Here’s a sample of words we discovered during our priapic journey on your behalf: * Hymenorrhexis – Aha, the ultimate dream of every Indian male (alas, seldom realized). If you insist on […]
We like Kal Penn (a.k.a. Kalpen Suresh Modi), a Hollywood actor of Indian origin. We’ve seen the fella in Mira Nair’s The Namesake (based on Jhumpa Lahiri’s book of the same name). In Namesake, Kal Penn held his own against the superior Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan. No mean feat that. Over the last 12 months […]