SI ogled long and hard. SI fondled several Tablets, front, back and side. 😉 SI pored over countless reviews till the eyes glazed over. Finally, SI took the plunge. The iPad 2 plunge. Folks, there’s only one tablet worth buying. And that’s the Apple iPad 2. The rest are like the humble Nirodh before the […]
As longstanding Kamal Haasan fans, we’re extremely disappointed with recent developments concerning his mega-budget upcoming film Viswaroopam. It seems the versatile South Indian actor will only be responsible for the following activities in the action film Viswaroopam – acting (the hero), direction, story, screenplay, lyrics and dialogs. The depressing and terrible news for all of […]
Bala’s latest crappy movie Avan Ivan has not fared well at the box office. The UK box office that is. Avan Ivan Box Office Avan Ivan released in 14 theaters and had an opening gross of £29,159 and an average gross of £2,083. That’s by no means impressive given the (unwarranted) hype that accompanies Bala’s […]
By Boopalan Lately, we’ve grown tired of our familiar dining haunts in Chennai, the Saravanaa Bhavans, the Sangeethas, the Vasantha Bhavans and the Anjappars. We thirsted and hungered for a change. And so, when the suggestion came from SI to review Chennai’s famed Murugan Idli Shop, a 100% vegetarian South Indian restaurant, we smacked our […]
For a country that prides itself on its software talent, India’s hardware dreams are, well, pipe-dreams. A decade ago, it was the Simputer, a handheld low-cost Linux-based computer, that was all the rage in India. But despite the tall claims of how the Simputer would be the hardware savior of India and other Third World […]
Boy, it’s been eons since our last edition of Incredible India, hasn’t it? As those of us fortunate enough to be familiar with that irritatingly beloved land are well aware, India is host to an incredible array of odd stuff. Things that you can’t even imagine in other settings happen with monotonous regularity in India. […]