I’ve always eschewed zombie films. The notion of humans turning into feral beasts and attacking other humans has been anathema to my Indian sensibilities. Until recently, zombies were not even part of the Indian movie lexicon. But Brad Pitt admirer that I am, shedding all my zombie reservations, yours truly hotfooted over to the theater […]
No, you’re not dreaming. And I’m not drunk. I know, I know, these days crazy shit is coming to light every day in America. Widespread domestic spying, stories of a U.S. missile downing TWA 800 in 1996 etc. But what follows takes the cake in sheer madness. After bailing out Wall Street scumbags and outsourcing […]
“Jump” I look up at the night sky. I try again. And that is when the moon drops, and I float bodiless above the earth’s turning. – Amit Majmudar, The Abundance, P.255 I stumbled upon Amit Majmudar via his recent essay in the pages of the New York Times. In the essay, Majmudar, a radiologist […]
Get over it! Not withstanding the anger of millions of Americans over large-scale government spying, there will not be any change. Not one whit. Because the beneficiaries from the spying operations will not allow change. Helpless Americans America’s intelligence operations have been outsourced to private entities like Booz Allen and several hundred other companies. Whether […]
Telugu native Raghunandan Yandamuri’s lawyer has filed a motion in the Montgomery County court alleging illegal actions by the police and sought suppression of the “tainted” evidence. Yandamuri’s Public Defender attorney Stephen Heckman wrote in the motion filed Monday, June 17 that his client was coerced by the police into confessing to the murders and […]
Envy is a dangerous sin, one of the seven deadly sins in the Christian theology. But no one seems to have told Microsoft and Google about the pitfalls of envy. In a span of less than a week, spurred by Apple store envy the two tech giants have laid the groundwork for retail disasters that […]