by SI Blog reader Racer44 (Parts 4-5) Note: Visitors are advised to read Ponniyin Selvan – A Masterpiece from a Master Raconteur (Parts 1-3) before proceeding further. **************** The fourth part of the mammoth saga begins with the Crown Prince Adithya Karikaalan reaching the borders of Kadambur with Parthibendra Pallavan and Kandhamaran in tow after […]
The dead look so terribly dead when they are dead. – Larry Darrell to Isabel Bradley in Somerset Maugham’s The Razor Edge. P.51 The Razor’s Edge has a strong connection to India and a famous South Indian saint that we’ll talk about at length on another occasion.
(For SI blog readers Dr.UnkHaf D. Aktar, StrYngLad74, Gandhiji, GNair, HarryDickens, Asha Tampa, elnino.aurora, Tejamainhoon, shadowfax_arbit, Guruprasad, VJCool, 1984moviefan, Kennedy, Jeeka, Fugitive143, movieconnoisseur and a few others) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay would be rolling in his grave were he to watch this new version of Devdas in which a blowjob, MMS, a BMW and a servant’s […]
Our old Toshiba laptop recently gave up the ghost. So after much research we narrowed the replacement choice to the $730 Asus UL80Vt-A1 14.1-inch laptop and the $290 Gateway LT2113u 10.1-inch netbook. Since we’re cheapo desis, we finally plumped for the Windows XP-based Gateway netbook (1GB RAM, 160GB hard-drive and the Intel N450 processor). Cheaper […]
Life is cheap in India. Real cheap. Particularly, the lives of the poor and helpless. Some 15,000-20,000 people died and another 200,000-600,000 were injured in the worst industrial disaster in India triggered by the carelessness of Union Carbide (now part of Dow Chemicals) when deadly methyl isocyanate gas escaped from the company’s plant and wafted […]
The U.S. opening weekend (June 4-6, 2010) box office numbers (actuals) for the new Bollywood flick Raajneeti are out and they are lower than the estimates by about $67,000. The lower total gross has pulled down the average gross for the film by about $500. By the way, here are the UK opening weekend box […]