Amitabh Bachchan Film Festival Begins Friday

Deewar Review – Hunger Makes for Fine Entertainment We grew up watching Hindi movies. More than Tamil movies, more than English movies and more than Kannada films, we were obsessed with Hindi films. Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Sanjeev Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Mehra et al were our heroes and the […]

Kannada Film Festival Starts Wednesday

Naagarahaavu – Tragedy Par Excellence We plead guilty, folks. At SI, we’ve focused our attention so far exclusively on Hindi, Tamil and English movies and the stray French, German, Chinese, Spanish or Italian movie. One reason we’ve not included Kannada movies on SI hitherto is their non-availability (at least, not easily available) in the U.S. […]

Blacks are More Obese than Whites

A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms what we’ve noticed for several years – Blacks and Hispanics in America tend to be more obese compared to Whites. The CDC study found Blacks have 51% higher prevalence of obesity compared to Whites. As for our amigos, Hispanics had 21% higher obesity […]

Reading Cheap by Ellen Ruppel Shell

If anyone in the world should understand what ‘cheap‘ means, it’s the cheapo Indian SOBs. In their relentless pursuit of cheap, Indian cheapos (both in India and even in America) have mastered not merely the art of bargain hunting but the lower arts of thieving and ripping off too. Folks, no, we are not confused […]