The bozos at Sun have at last managed to find someone to put them out of their misery after the smart folks at IBM bailed out a few weeks back. Database giant Oracle is buying Sun for $5.6 billion (after accounting for Sun’s debt and cash). We think Oracle overpaid by $5.6 billion. The deal […]
Hus ke liye hai Pakistan, ladh ke lenge Hindustan (We achieved Pakistan laughing; we will take India fighting) – Pakistani Soldiers, sometime in the early 1960s around the time of the 1965 Indo-Pak war (cited in Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi P.401) Fast forward 44 years Pakistan is on the verge of collapse as a failed […]
The other day SI readers boopalanj and guruprasad brought up the issue of different types of torture including the Chinese and Medieval flavors. We were reminded of it today as we were reading an article in the Sunday edition of our favorite newspaper, the New York Times. On P.12 of the print edition of the […]
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK leader M.Karunanidhi has lost his marbles and therefore gets a new name – Loose Paiya (crackpot). The decrepit dinosaur told Indian TV channel NDTV that Velupillai Prabhakaran (the notorious LTTE terrorist) is not a terrorist and is his good friend. No, we’re not making this one up, folks. This […]
Hindi movies and songs have given us the greatest pleasure among all the Indian language movies we’ve watched in a long life. Here are some of the old Hindi songs we’re watching and listening to on YouTube these days: * Mausam Ayega Jayega – Lovely song featuring Vijayendra Ghatge and an unknown babe from the […]
Facing annihilation at the hands of the Sri Lankan Army, the few remnants of the LTTE terrorists are reduced to begging for a ceasefire. After the Sri Lankan government rightly rejected LTTE’s desperate cries for a ceasefire, the LTTE terrorists are now begging the international community for help. In a statement, the LTTE’s head of international […]