Indian Kid Snigdha Nandipati is 2012 Bee Champion I counted 45 Indian kids from the 278 shortlisted contestants for the 2012 Scripps Spelling Bee Competition. Of the 45 desis, 23 are girls and the rest boys. The youngest Indian kid is eight-year-old Ashrita Vadlapatla from North Carolina. Ashrita can trace her roots to the great […]
In the rest of the world, people travel inside trains. But as with most things it’s always a different story in Incredible India. People clamber on top of trains, ride alongside trains by hanging on to the doors or windows and, yes, they do travel inside trains too. Watch the below video to see how […]
Is not general incivility the very essence of love? – Lizzy in Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen Chapter 25, P.73, Kindle (iPad) edition Jane might have been the prettiest of the five Bennet girls but Lizzy shall forever remain my favorite. Just in case you’re wondering about the context of the above quote, an […]
I have no regrets that my birth happened three centuries after the curtain came down on the European Renaissance. After all, it’s been my blessed fortune to have lived through the glorious age of Tamil cinema, from the early 1960s through 2012. Tamil cinema has been unjustly vilified and much calumny heaped on it in […]
Except for his loud mouth, Ram Gopal Varma has nothing going for him. The object of withering scorn from critics, RGV’s new movie Department has received a cold shoulder from the audience too and turned out to be a disaster of epic proportions at the box office. The U.S. box office, that is. Here’s how […]
Comcast, Cablevision, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks have launched an initiative to allow each other’s high-speed Internet customers to access their WiFi hotspots. This means if you’re a Comcast customer in Los Angeles, you can get free access to Time Warner’s WiFi hotspots in New York for free and vice versa. […]