Our mail-carrier a.k.a postman delivered the latest issue of the New Yorker (August 24, 2009) yesterday. And with it arrived the review of Quentin Tarantino’s new movie Inglourious Basterds by David Denby. For Tarantino acolytes, the news is not good. You see, Denby’s review of the movie is not positive. Here’s an excerpt from the […]
Desi journalist Rafat Ali, a respected figure in U.S. digital media circles, put out a blog post yesterday that sees little hope for music startups. An engineering graduate from the Aligarh Muslim University in India, Ali is the founder of PaidContent and other digital media blogs that were sold last year to UK’s Guardian Group […]
No, folks. It’s not Samsung, Sony, Sharp, LG or Panasonic. It’s Vizio. Vizio has maintained the top dog status in the second quarter too, going by the preliminary numbers from market researcher iSuppli. According to iSuppli principal analyst Riddhi Patel: Vizio continues to benefit from its combination of full-featured, value sets with its high-volume retail […]
The big question, folks. Will the mucho anticipated Kanthasamy turn out to be another charming Anniyan or a tedious Sunniyan a la Bheema? The answer to the $$ question is nigh on hand. Anything less than Anniyan would be unacceptable. After a gap of some two odd years, we rewatched Anniyan yesterday. And what a […]
With the release of Vikram’s Kanthasamy imminent, we decided to revisit one of our favorite Tamil films – Anniyan. Directed by Shankar and featuring Vikram, Sada, Vivek and Prakash Raj, Anniyan was a landmark Tamil movie. More for Vikram’s powerful performances in triple roles and less for the different but weird story. We just popped […]
Long years ago, when the summer heat beat far less fiercely than it does these punishing days on our bent backs, we discovered Henry Miller. A wily, dark, amoral character and semi-friend, then doing MBA at a two-bit institute of management on the West Coast (in India) and now living on the West Coast (U.S.), […]