(For MadMax673) Life’s blessings are doled out so unequally. For proof, watch the Sundance 2013 winner Fruitvale Station and its real-life account of the cold-blooded killing of a 22-year-old unarmed Black man Oscar Julius Grant III at a BART train station in California by a trigger happy White cop Johannes Mehserle in the early hours […]
I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine. – Leo Tolstoy, quoted in Daily Rituals by Mason Currey, p.169 Great writers like Nabokov, Dickens and Balzac fascinate us not merely because of their spellbinding works. Just like […]
There’s far too much of both free cloud storage and free online porn these days. As with far too much of anything free, even if things be lust-worthy at first glance, they tend to lose their allure and are stripped of value soon. Just yesterday, I stumbled upon a new player, Shared.com, that offers 100GB […]
As an Indian, I’ll be the first to admit that Google’s spanking new Chromecast streaming device appeals to my cheapo desi instincts. I’m already drooling over the price! Hey, $35 seems like a steal for a device that can ‘cast’ content from a small-screen device like laptop, smartphone or tablet to your big-screen TV. Chromecast […]
If I have said it once, I’ve said it a million times. If Shruti Hassan were born to any one but Tamil film star Kamal Haasan, she’d be on all fours, mopping floors and cleaning gutters. Utterly bereft of acting skills, this creature continues to torment viewers ad nauseum. It’s one of the many tragedies […]
Bring ’em on! That was the strong message Apple sent to the Samsungs, Sonys, Motorolas, HTCs and other Android vendors nipping at its heels. Apple sold 31.2 million iPhones in its fiscal third quarter ending June 29 proving that the pricey smartphones can still weather the attack from the dozens of Android devices flooding the […]