One reason and one reason alone prompted me to watch The Big Picture (2010, director Eric Lartigau) when I stumbled upon the French movie in the Netflix Instant cornucopia. After I spotted Romain Duris’s name in the cast, the decision about seeing the film was no longer “Should I?” My mouse cursor hit the “Play” […]
Indians (living in Mera Bharat Mahaan) lack the entrepreneurial drive that’s so abundant in Americans (and among Indians settled in the U.S.). That’s not really new, is it? But what surprises me is that in a land boasting of nearly three million software programmers there’s very little encouragement for innovation in technology even from average […]
Another day in Amreeka, another Telugu murderer pleading Not Guilty! 🙁 Telugu bidda Timma Raju Kalidindi is playing hardball with prosecutors in Somerset County, New Jersey over the murder of his estranged wife Janaki Dantaluru. The 48-year-old software programmer who murdered his wife the old-fashioned way – by choking her and using a braided rope […]
Mallu crook Mathew Martoma has filed a motion with the U.S. District Court in New York claiming jury bias over his dismissal from Harvard Law School as one of the grounds meriting his acquittal or a new trial. In a court filing dated February 27, 2014, former SAC portfolio manager Mathew Martoma says negative publicity […]
Swedish Crime Series The Bridge (photo courtesy: Sweden TV) European TV crime dramas are like European and Korean crime movies – Classy, riveting, addictive stuff. There’s the delicious trifecta of subtlety, tension and thrill in European TV crime dramas and films, an appealing amalgam I find woefully missing from Bollywood and rarely encounter in Hollywood. […]
Brahmins are one of nature’s most fascinating, most bizarre, most diabolical creatures. Obsessed with weird rituals, an abiding fondness for in-breeding, an unquenchable thirst for Cow-ca-Cola, a sneering contempt for eating meat and a diet limited to plant products, the scheming Brahmins are a tiny group geographically restricted to the barbarous land mass designated in […]