Update: Dhaba Reopens After Fresh Inspection Bollywood villain Shiva Natarajan must be writhing, groaning and moaning in shame after the New York City Health Department closed his unhygienic shithole Dhaba Indian restaurant on 108 Lexington Avenue following an inspection on April 3, 2012. After all, closing a restaurant is a drastic step that the NYC […]
The greater the man, the more insignificant should be his woman. – Adolf Hitler, in 1934 Source: At Home With Hitler by Antony Beevor in New York Review of Books, April 26, 2012 P.37
A friend recently visiting from India told us that fast-food restaurants in India serving Pizzas, Burgers, Croissants etc had mushroomed there and are now wildly popular with the younger generation, particularly in the cities (food courts, malls and even residential neighborhoods). Our friend’s remark on Indian fast-food places came to mind when we stumbled upon […]
The greatest of life’s many tragedies is that it’s so damn unfair. Evil often triumphs over Good. There’s often no penalty for cruelty, gluttony, debauchery, savagery and a raft of other venal acts. And, oh yes, good movies sometimes meet a sorry fate at the box office and the hands of critics. We just returned […]
I can assure you that in a 100 years our work will still be rejected. Columbus, you know, had no idea what country he’d discovered. Like him, I’m in the dark. All I know is that I’ve set foot on the shore and the country exists. – Viggo Mortensen’s Sigmund Freud describing the then nascent […]
It’s been a while since we boosted your vocabulary. We stumbled on the word Onnagata last night while leafing through the latest issue of New Yorker magazine (April 2, 2012, P.7). There’s a short piece on an upcoming Kabuki (Japanese dance-drama) program in New York City that contains the word Onnagata. Onnagata means a man […]