Rejoice, all ye cheapos. Times Square in NYC, one of the famous tourist spots with nothing there (except for the Broadway theatres nearby), now offers free Wi-Fi. The free wireless Internet service is courtesy of the Times Square Alliance and Yahoo. Visitors are supposed to get free Wi-Fi via a portal providing latest information about […]
Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. – The Three Witches in Macbeth Nandita Khanna, do you have no shame at all for running one of the filthiest and crappiest Indian restaurants a.k.a Utsav in New York City. Eeks, even by the abysmal standards of crappy Indian restaurants […]
(Recommended by SI reader vjcool) Now, Paris, Je T’aime (2006) is a different kind of movie. More like movies since it’s a collection of 18 short films of five minutes duration each. Apparently, the 18 movies have a common theme in love or ‘little neighborhood romances.’ Paris, Je T’aime is available at Netflix, both in […]
Un’f*cking’believable. Only in India, folks. Only in India can a legislator be assaulted inside the Legislative Assembly for daring to take the oath in Hindi, the country’s national language. SP legislator Abu Azmi was beaten up inside the Maharashtra Assembly today by some legislators belonging to Raj Thackeray’s MNS party for taking the oath in […]
Well, well, who’d have thought this. An Indian-born Columbia University economist as president of the United States Soccer Federation. Born in Allahabad, Sunil Gulati grew up in Nebraska, studied at Columbia, worked at the World Bank and is now president of the United States Soccer Federation. Oh, our desi also teaches at Columbia. Interesting, na? […]
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab – Not Much Cheer at Box Office Folks, if you are planning on watching Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani this weekend we strongly urge you to think twice. Hey, think thrice too because who knows if you’ll have a job soon. A chorus of Indian movie critics is none too pleased […]