Amazon has rolled out a cloud-based music streaming service ahead of Apple and Google that are also said to be planning similar services. You can access the songs stored in the Amazon cloud from any PC or Mac via the browser or from an Android-based mobile device. The service provides 5GB of free space in […]
They say there are few certainties in life. We say that among the few certainties, Sri Lanka’s victory over New Zealand in the semi-final of the ICC 2011 World Cup match that’ll soon get underway at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo is a sure thing. An assured thing. If Sri Lanka’s performance against England the […]
Back when we used to live in India, we’d never heard of any restaurant offering hot sausages or hotdogs on the menu. Neither did the food carts whose mainstay usually was chaat of various kinds. Our staples at restaurants were Dosa, Idli, Vada, Bisi-bele Bath, Poori, Upma, Pongal and the North Indian curries, of course. […]
The Times pretty much overlooked the Holocaust as it was happening. – Bill Keller, Executive Editor, New York Times in The New York Times Magazine p.12, March 27, 2011 Well, this certainly is a shocker to present-day readers of the Times. Millions of Jews were gassed at Auschwitz, Treblinka, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen, worked to death […]
We all know how Gandhi used to sleep naked with young girls at his ashram as part of his ‘experiments.’ Of course, if any of us tried those, ahem, ‘experiments’ we’d be carted off to prison or hauled off to a mental ward. 😉 But how many of us know that the Mahatma might have […]
Strange is the world! People haven’t stopped raving about Natalie Portman’s brilliant performance in Black Swan, a feat that ultimately won her the coveted Oscar for Best Actress. Now come claims that Natalie did only 5% of the on-screen dancing. And that claim comes from none other than Sarah Lane, a real-life ballet dancer who […]