What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me? Woody Allen is a living testament to the way our society fails the survivors of […]
If you read between the lines of disgraced Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade’s court filing today, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara and his legal team are a bunch of idiots who don’t know the law and are therefore engaging in obfuscations and making irrelevant arguments. Devyani’s filing to the U.S. […]
A New York City jury today found Mallu kuttan Mathew Martoma, 39, G U I L T Y of insider trading. The jury convicted the Mallu crook of two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy. For his crimes, Martoma faces a maximum sentence of up to 45 years. I bet Martoma, who […]
I just can’t fathom why over 90% of movies have turned into exaggerated flights of fancy. Is everyday life so banal, so disturbing and so worthless that we must seek our release only in the bottomless pits of fantasy? One of the charms of A Summer in Genoa is that nothing of any great significance […]
Since I found sleep hard to come by, I got off the bed and picked up an old issue of New Yorker (January 20, 2014). While leafing through the magazine, I hit upon an article on pediatric palliative care that had eluded my eyes during the first reading last month. Lives Less Ordinary by Harvard […]
Telugu killers in America have one thing in common. No, it has nothing to do with the aromatic Dum Biryani or the fiery Avakayya pickle. Despite overwhelming evidence of their crimes, Telugu killers in the U.S. plead “Not Guilty” and waste tax payers’ money. Of course, most criminals routinely plead “Not Guilty” but what’s different […]