7Aum Arivu Opening Show – Good Crowd In U.S.

Folks, it’s 8.15PMET. We’re sitting in a hall on the East Coast blogging on our iPad 2. Waiting for the Surya-Shruti Hassan starter 7Aum Arivu to start. Good crowd in the hall. About 150-175 people in the hall. Not bad, not bad at all considering tomorrow is a working day in the U.S. Let’s hope […]

Americans Don’t Give a Damn for Indian Cuisine

A recent survey by restaurant guide Zagat reveals some unwelcome news for Indian restaurateurs in the U.S.: Most Americans don’t give a flying f*ck for Indian cuisine. Hell, No, Say Americans Cuisine Favorites According to the survey, Italian is the most popular cuisine, with 27% of respondents nationwide citing it as their favorite, followed by […]

R Review – Riveting Danish Prison Drama

You either fuck somebody up or you get fucked up. Get it? – One inmate (Mason) to another (Rune) in the superb Danish prison film R Over the last few days, we’ve watched a bunch of foreign language films (i.e. non-English, non-Indian). Some we’ve reviewed on these pages, others we’ve kept to ourselves. On Saturday, […]

Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

Mounted NYC Policemen on Wall Street Warily Eying the Crowd. Who can Blame them. After all, Wall Street is just a few blocks from Zuccotti Park, the epicenter of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest. (October 21, 2011)