Guilty – Tamil Peeping Tom Dharun Ravi Rutgers university freshman student Dharun Ravi of Plainsboro, New Jersey, is up shit-creek after Tyler Clementi, a room-mate Ravi allegedly viewed on a webcam having sex with a guy and then disclosed it on Twitter, committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. Ravi’s classmate Molly Wei […]
A few months ago, your favorite blog SI got one helluva orgasm after dining at South Indian vegetarian restaurant Saravanaas a.k.a Saravanaa Bhavan on Lexington Ave in NYC. It looks like we were not the only ones to get a mind-blowing, body rippling orgasm from the food at Saravanaas. High Honors for Saravanaas Today, the […]
(For SI blog reader Guruprasad) Remind us never ever to heed the requests of these old fogies from Mysore. At the insistent request of one such individual with antediluvian tastes, we watched the old Amol Palekar starrer Gol Maal the other day. Our principal takeaway from the film – Whatever you do in life, make […]
Now, don’t y’all ask us how we happened to come by Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers. Maybe, one of you priapic schmucks recommended it before we clamped your collective lips shut. Maybe, we’re autodidacts and discovered the movie ourselves. Hey, who gives a f*ck how we how we discovered Dreamers (available at Netflix on DVD). But […]
But “the market”—like “dialectical materialism”—is just an abstraction: at once ultra-rational (its argument trumps all) and the acme of unreason (it is not open to question). It has its true believers—mediocre thinkers by contrast with the founding fathers, but influential withal; its fellow travelers—who may privately doubt the claims of the dogma but see no […]
Never underestimate the genetic propensity of Indians to inflict hideous torture on their fellow citizens. The other day we made the godawful mistake of going to Karaikudi Chettinad on Oak Tree Road in Edison (NJ) and, man, it’s a miracle we’re still alive to tell y’all this sordid tale of woe, misery and suffering. Folks, in […]