Notorious Indian IT crook Satyam Computer Services’ new board has picked Tech Mahindra as the highest bidder to acquire a controlling stake in Satyam. Tech Mahindra bid Rs 58 per share and will pay $351 million (Rs 1,756 crore) for an initial 31% stake in the company. Tech Mahindra must also make a cash offer to […]
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a disgrace to the Indian-American community, has gotten himself a book deal, according to the Times Picayune. Due out in 2010, the book will be ghost written by Peter Schweizer and focus on Bobby’s ‘life and policy ideas,’ the paper reports. A Republican, Right-wing extremist and Christian fundamentalist, Jindal is an […]
Over the years, we’ve wandered hither and thither across the vast landscape of the WWW (World Wide Web). Newspapers, blogs, movie sites, government sites, corporate sites, risque sites and more. You can see our spoors on all of them. But very few web sites are really interesting. Most have no reason to exist except to feed […]
Not for us roasted lamb, ham, hardboiled eggs or cakes this Easter. We decided to try something novel this year – Strawberry Kesaribath. Indians are no strangers to Kesaribath a.k.a Rava Kesari or Ksheera. Walk into any Indian vegetarian restaurant and there it is staring at you with that order-me-now look on the menu. Whether you […]
When you got a martinet boss bearing down on ya, you gotta keep readin and readin hoping for some new ideas for the next post. And so we were reading the latest issue of the New Yorker and we discover this ‘Niggas ain’t scared of rope’ comedian Micah Williams a.k.a. Katt Williams. So we trooped […]
Life’s so strange. Stranger than we all realize. Actions of insignificant people in the distant past sometimes have an extraordinary impact on the course of future events in a big way. Take the Taj Mahal for instance. Hailed as a great monument to both love and architecture, the Taj Mahal has impressed visitors from around […]