Folks, an airline that’s so disrespectful of its desi customers deserves to be shown the middle finger. Do NOT, NOT give these swines your business. Spread the word about this nasty airline. File a small claim against them. Teach British Airways a lesson about never treating desi travelers like shit. British Airways Screws Desis Over […]
Jai ho, Karuppiah. Oh boy, our Karuppiahs a.k.a Tamils are all over the place. No kidding. Indian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on mapping the ribosomes at the atomic level. Born in 1952 in the temple town of Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu, India, Venkatraman got a Ph.D. […]
British Airways is playing unfare with desi travelers in the U.S. Folks, British Airways made a big-time error in its fares to India from the U.S. but refuses to take responsibility for the mistake by doing the right thing. A desi travel agent in New Jersey says that this past Friday British Airways was showing round […]
Dunno about you. There’s something about the Mac fries that’s got us swearing by it (at least most of the time). Not even the news in the desi rags about use of beef extracts made a difference. Last night, we read a piece in the New York Times Sunday Magazine (Oct 4, 2009) that McDonald’s […]
Here are some of the Bollywood, Kollywood and Sandalwood tracks we purchased on iTunes lately. 99-cents each. Made in India (Hindi) – Our favorite Alisha Chinai track. Intaha Ho Gai Intezar Ki (Hindi) – Superb song (Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle et al) from the 1984 Amitabh Bachchan-Jayapradha film Sharaabi. Vizhiyile Malarndhadhu (Tamil) – Sung by […]
So much ink and mucho bandwidth has been spent on the Bollywood film Aamir that we felt it time to see what the noise is all about. But before seeing the Hindi film, we will be watching the Tagalog language film Cavite first. Why, you ask? Because there’s chatter on the net that Cavite (2005) […]