When it comes to web programming or any kind of programming, a lot of people tend to instinctively think of the Coolies aka Indians. The fraud-laden H1B, B1 and L1 Visa programs, large-scale outsourcing to India and Coolie factories like Infosys, Wipro and TCS have made Indians synonymous with programming skills. Increasingly, Indians are held […]
Newspaper circulation may be dropping precipitously in America and magazines may be folding at an alarming rate but Americans haven’t stopped reading. They still read a lot. And increasingly on e-readers. We recently took the subway in New York City and found many riders glued to their white Kindles or black iPads. E-Readers Double A […]
By size, South Korea is smaller than the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu (100,000 sq km vs 130,000 sq km). In terms of population, Tamil Nadu has 72-million people versus 49 million for South Korea. The Tamil film industry and its larger Bollywood sibling make scores of films every year, most of them unwatchable […]
By Naveen After tackling a surprisingly easy Friday evening Chicago traffic, we settled down into the comfortable seats of Big Cinemas (Niles, IL) with the hope of watching at least a mildly entertaining Tamil movie in the rather oddly named “180” – No Rules. When the show began, the censor board certificate revealed the official […]
We’ve listened to Ain’t No Mountain High Enough a million times. No, we’re still not tired of it. Au contraire, we can’t get enough of this extraordinary song. Because there’s magic in that song, originally sung by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. The song was also featured in the Hollywood film Step-Mom, remade by Bollywood […]
In or around January 2010, Ms.Bhardwaj’s husband in India needed an operation, and her children needed money to pay for it. Ms.Bhardwaj decided to ask defendant Prabhu Dayal for the money he said he was holding for her. Ms.Bhardwaj asked for the money three times in one day, and he twice said they would talk […]