Just how ambitious is US. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preetinder Singh Bharara? If you ask me, Bharara is ambition on steroids. Who is Bharara? Okaaaay, so you’ve been hiding under a rock these last few years. Born in Firozpur, Punjab (India) to a Sikh father and Hindu mother, Preet Bharara moved […]
Those who don’t know how to make love make war. – The suffering wife in Patience Stone (Dari language, 2012) My months-long patient wait for The Patience Stone yielded a bountiful harvest of joy when I finally got to see the film last night (via Amazon Instant, $3.99). To hail Patience Stone as a tour […]
Who needs Bollywood when you have U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NYC Preet Bharara to provide better entertainment on a Friday by re-indicting former NYC Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade. 😉 I have not the slightest doubt that this Friday’s Bollywood release Bewakoofiyaan has no hope against the might of the Bharara-Devyani juggernaut and […]
Former NYC Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade today got what can at best be described as a face shaving (no typo) limited victory with a U.S. judge dismissing the January 9, 2014 indictment against her. Devyani’s win in court today was based essentially on a technicality – the judge accepted her attorney’s argument that she had […]
) Google’s Android platform will see a huge leap in its smartphone user base in India in 2014 and drive Apple into an insignificant status. Kinda like what South Indian superstar Rajinikanth does to his foes in movie after movie. As Tamil movie fans know well, by the time Rajinikanth leaves the battle field his […]
The Internet is a huge privacy crater. And I found one more example today of how users’ desire for freebies coincides with business carelessness to users privacy. Since SI blog is frequently the target of crazy people attempting to attack the site, I do random checks of IP addresses of readers. When I was checking […]