Bowing to the insistent demand from SI reader guruprasad, we went over to Blockbuster yesterday and borrowed 12 Angry Men (guru, you owe us $2.03 or we’ll settle for a Vidyarthi Bhavan Masala Dosa). Released in 1957, 12 Angry Men is acclaimed director Sidney Lumet’s first shot at direction. Yes, Sidney Lumet. The same bloke […]
The only option left for the U.S. is to do a reverse secession of Michigan (a bigger entity ditching a smaller unit) because the old U.S. auto industry, by which we mean GM, Ford and Chrysler, is well and truly screwed. We don’t know why President Obama is throwing more bailout money into the Auto […]
We first watched Slumdog Millionaire in December last year. And liked it immensely. We predicted it would walk away with a big haul of awards and indeed it did. We’d been waiting for the DVD to watch the movie again and the Slumdog DVD arrived three or four days ago. Cheapos But we were reluctant […]
We don’t know about you. But over the last 12 months we’ve slowly got addicted to our Wi-Fi mobile phone (in our case, the Apple iPhone). No, we are not embarrassed to admit that it even accompanies us to the bathroom. 😉 We use our Wi-Fi mobile phone for reading news, responding to comments on […]
Folks – Hunger, Ayodhya, Nano, Sanjay Dutt, Varun Gandhi, SoniaJi, Maya Behnji, 8% economic growth, Satyam, Manmohan SinghJi, Ram Sene, Elections et al can wait. We have a bigger crisis on hand here. National Humiliation Today, we are facing a national humiliation on the world stage, the likes of which our glorious Indian civilization has never […]
Some of our best childhood memories are of eating Sundal. Sundal at home. Sundal at the neighbors. Sundalat the Marina Beach in Chennai, Sundal in Chidambaram, Sundal in Pondicherry, Sundal in Vridhachalam, Sundal at the temple, Sundal everywhere. More a snack than a main course, Sundal is not restricted to Tamil Nadu. In Karnataka, they have […]