We’d heard that some fathers loath their young sons. Maybe, the fathers see their grownup, priapically obsessed youthful-looking sons as a rival for their wives’ affections. But the wise souls at SI never believed in such Freudian drivel and Oedipal fiction. At least, not until we were confronted with hard, rock-solid evidence today in Pankaj […]
Let’s start with a confession – We like both Pankaj Kapur and his son Shahid Kapur. In a Bollywood littered with jackasses like the Khans and Bachchans, these two stand out. So, it’s with great distress we pore over the poor reviews for Pankaj Kapur’s directorial debut Mausam featuring his son and Sonam Kapoor. Here […]
In what must come as a surprise only to the babbling Android fan-boys, a new study from market researcher Gartner forecasts that Apple iPads will continue to lord over the tablet market into 2015. The number-crunchers at Gartner see Apple commanding a market-share of over 50% until 2014. For the current year, the iPad is […]
For all those schmucks who think that corporate boards are stuffed with wise old men who do nothing but bring their decades of ‘wisdom’ to guide businesses and pass the torch to a new generation, we say ’tis time to stop taking those deep drags from the fine California weed you got betwixt your lips. […]
If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times. On all the things that matter, India is the pits. Be it tackling poverty, addressing corruption, making watchable movies or fast Internet access the benighted country is hopeless. Take for instance, Internet download speeds. Despite the incessant noise about India harnessing IT and the […]
Thousands of America’s libraries got better today with Amazon rolling out the Kindle Library Lending program to 11,000 libraries. This means that members of several thousand of America’s county and town libraries like yours truly will be able to borrow Kindle e-books and read them either on the Kindle e-reader or on competing devices like […]