Yes, we think Motorola co-CEO and the CEO of the company’s Mobile Devices unit Sanjay Jha has no hope. This morning, Motorola announced its Q4 results and they are UGLY. Motorola reported a loss of $3.6 billion ($1.57 per share) on sales of $7.1 billion in its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2008. Following the […]
Luck by Chance, the new Indian movie by and on Bollywood, has not been lucky at the U.S. box office in its opening weekend. Luck by Chance opened at No-32 and had a pitiful total opening weekend gross of $216,918 (source: boxofficemojo). The movie opened in 61 theatres and had an average of $3,556. Here’s […]
India is truly fertile soil for a cornucopia of those weird only-in-India stories. Here’s instalment 7 of Incredible India. * A sick man in the South Indian state of Kerala died after the dilapidated stretcher on which he was placed broke into two and he fell to the ground. If the end result wasn’t so […]
Indian buffoons of various hues including B.S.Yediyurappa (Karnataka Chief Minister), Ashok Chavan (Maharashtra Chief Minister), Anbumani Ramadoss (Union Health Minister), Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan Chief Minister), RSS secretary K.Narahari et al have been ranting and raving, fretting and fuming against the ‘Pub Culture’ after the unsavory incident in Mangalore where women customers were beaten up by biped […]
This instalment of Incredible India focuses on the Indian idee fixe with navels of our women. For purely titillating reasons, Indian movie-makers and moviegoers have been fixated on the navels of our girls for several decades. When you can’t show the mountains above or the valley below in their god-created pristine form, what else is […]
Even as Slumdog Millionaire continues to reap awards and greater glory in its heady race to the Oscars, some folks have slammed the movie as vastly inferior to, and even a copy of, the critically acclaimed Brazilian film Cidade de Deus (a Portuguese language movie released in 2002). Not a Copy No, Slumdog Millionaire is […]