They’re a rotten crowd…You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together. – Nick Carraway’s parting words to Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby If you have not read F.Scott Fitzgerald’s so-called masterpiece The Great Gatsby, you’re not likely to be able to make much sense of this movie. The wild, overflowing parties, the music, the […]
To millions awaiting news of Nokia’s obituary, the Finnish company decisively proved today that it was neither dead nor dying with the launch of Asha 501, a cheap smartphone for the Indian market. Asha 501 is built not on Google’s Android nor on Windows, but on Nokia’s proprietary Asha software platform. Good move! At first […]
Remember the massive hype about Facebook Home and its initial launch on the HTC First Android mobile phone less than a month ago. Mark Zuckerberg and his minions breathlessly declared at the Facebook Home unveiling on April 9 that mobile phones ought to be designed around people first instead of apps blah blah blah. And […]
These days, Mera Bharat Mahaan has become a favorite whipping boy for all and sundry. The latest to deliver a stinging slap on India’s face is cute looking Indian-American Manjari Chatterjee Miller, an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University and alumnus of Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi and Harvard University. In an article […]
Once is enjoyable! Twice, barely endurable! Thrice, intolerable! Help, I can’t take this repetitive Iron Man drivel any longer! Tiresome Spectacle How long is Hollywood going to flog this poppycock, of a man in a metallic red suit zipping through the air and dispatching his enemies when he’s not muttering sarcastic asides. Now how much […]
The people have voted with their wallets and the result is an ignominious disaster for Microsoft’s Surface tablet. A new survey of tablet shipments in the first quarter of 2013 has come out and the numbers are nothing less than a catastrophe for Microsoft. Mon dieu, Surface tablet shipments did not amount to even a […]