It’s hell today, here in the Northeast. Heavy snow since Sunday evening has closed schools, delayed flights, shut down roads, caused power outages and created a big mess across the Northeast. Picture taken today at 10:15 ET (20:45 IST) Here’s an excerpt from the NYT: Schools were closed from Virginia to Maine, and government offices […]
Having just discovered the existence on this planet of saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath (via a New Yorker profile of Rudresh Mahanthappa), we can’t get enough of this virtuoso. So we trooped over to Apple’s iTunes digital media store yesterday and like any cheapo desi searched for a good deal. And boy did we find one. Yes, we […]
Well, what do you expect from a crappy movie industry. Come on guys, are you really surprised that some of the crappiest Bollywood movies ever made or a bunch of zeros walked away with the top honors at the Filmfare awards ceremony. At the latest Crapfare oops Filmfare Awards ceremony, the top winners – it should actually […]
Until we read the latest issue of New Yorker (March 2, 2009) a short while ago, we’d never heard of Rudresh Mahanthappa. Nor of Kadri Gopalnath. Nor of Vijay Iyer. Boy, are we happy that we read that New Yorker piece by Gary Giddins titled Passage to India that goes ga-ga over Rudresh Mahanthappa. Listen, […]
In the third bailout of Shitty Bank oops Citibank, the U.S. Treasury Department plans to convert $25 billion of its preferred securities into common stock provided other private holders agree to the same terms. If the latest round of bailout goes through, the U.S. government’s stake in Shitty Bank will rise to 36% from 8% […]
Folks, this edition of Incredible India focuses on the hundreds of millions in India who go to bed hungry every night in India’s countless villages. We present below an excerpt from the recent Report on the State of Food Insecurity in Rural India jointly prepared by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and MS […]