A federal jury in New York City today found former McKinsey chief Rajat Gupta guilty of insider trading. The jury convicted Gupta on three counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy. A close business associate of the jailed hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam, Gupta passed along confidential corporate information to Rajaratnam who then […]
Three desi kids have made their way into the second batch of 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows. Established by Bay Area entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook), the fellowships provide the winners with $100,000 over two years to skip college and pursue innovative scientific and technical […]
Why is it that even top Indian movie stars, when they rarely ever land a role in a Hollywood film, get only tiny, inconsequential parts. If you thought Anil Kapoor’s role in the last installment of Mission Impossible was a joke and Anupam Kher’s brief appearance in Lust, Caution an insult, it gets worse with Amitabh […]
Pitiful. That’s the only way to describe Rowdy Rathore’s box office performance in the U.S. If it was bad in the opening weekend, it was downright terrible in the second weekend (June 8-10, 2012). Say what you will but Indians in Amreeka have more brains than their counterparts in Mera Bharat Mahaan who think this […]
Yes, humans still eat pizza from Domino’s, yeah those dirty bastards who do dirty things to customers’ food. At least this Indian does. And if it’s cheap, SI likes it all the more. Did you know Domino’s offering 50% off on all online orders of pizza from today through June 17, 2012. $3.99 for Spinach […]
The bitches come and the bitches go….If she wants to go, fuck her! Let her go! You’ll be okay. So you were a sucker! Big deal! Every man is a sucker for some type of broad. I always got clobbered by the blue-eyed kind, myself. – The lawyer Sandor Himmelstein speaking to a depressed Moses […]