Feature Phones will be Fossil Phones by 2017

In three years, I predict over 95% of cell phone users will no longer be gabbing on feature phones. By 2017, smartphones will be pushing feature phones to the brink of extinction. At the end of 2013, smartphones accounted for 55.1% of all mobile phone shipments compared to 41.7% in 2012. Since smartphones prices have […]

Rahul’s TV Interview – ‘Empowers’ Modi

I am being attacked because I’m doing things that are dangerous to the system….I’m a serious politician. I’m not somebody ….I’m somebody who’s here….I’m going to fight a battle. I’m going to fight a deep battle…. Don’t forget that. – Indian clown prince Rahul Gandhi in first extended TV interview Like millions of Indians (and […]

Jai Ho Box Office – Deliciously Miserable

Inshallah, Jai Ho will be the beginning of the end for Salman Khan. One of the silliest Bollywood movies in recent times, Jai Ho opened to a lukewarm response in the U.S. Part of the reason could be the lousy weather in the Northeast but I think a more likely reason is that desis in […]

WTF are Africans Doing in India?

I can easily understand people migrating permanently or temporarily to America, Oman or Western Europe from shitholes like India, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Cameroon, Somalia etc. Which Third World rat doesn’t crave a better life for himself and his family in a richer nation. With stars in their eyes, countless people (including yours truly) […]

Jai Ho Review – Intolerable Garbage

Only in that godforsaken shit-hole a.k.a. India does a real-life murderer, Salman Khan, don the garb of a good Samaritan on the screen (Jai Ho), flex his muscles, feign concern for the weak, and earn endless plaudits from all sections of society. In my lexicon, what Bollywood low-life Salman Khan does on the screen ad nauseum […]

Blue Jasmine – And the Oscar Goes To ….

I will brook no arguments on who will pick up the Oscar statuette for Best Actress at the upcoming 86th Academy Awards ceremony. For I’ve already made up my mind. 😉 And the Oscar goes to….Cate Blanchett for a nonpareil performance in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine! Streetcar Meets Madoff Somewhere in the deep recesses of my […]