Slumdog Millionaire is one of the finest Made-in-India movies (non-Bollywood, of course) we’ve watched in recent years. The movie has mostly gotten the critics oohing and aahing over it. Here’s a look at excerpts from some of the prominent reviews for Slumdog Millionaire: Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal: “Slumdog Millionaire” is the film world’s […]
We are Big Time Crooks, Confesses Satyam If Shakespeare were writing Hamlet today, the bard would probably write Something is rotten in the state of Satyam. A few hours ago (17:40 EST), Indian IT services provider Satyam Computer Services announced that promoters’ stake in the company may have been reduced. Some hours before that, Satyam put […]
The late Kannada actor Rajkumar a.k.a. annavaru was not a great actor but songs from his movies are the stuff of legend. Here is a baker’s dozen of some great Rajkumar songs we have enjoyed over the years (not all were sung by him): Thamnam Thamnam Nanee Manasu – this song features Rajkumar and Kalpana […]
Islam’s borders are bloody, and so are its innards.  – the late Professor Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (p.258) Samuel Huntington, a professor of political science and international relations at Harvard University for over five decades, died on December 24.
Controversial Harvard professor Samuel P.Huntington, in our view the world’s greatest political scientist after Plato, has died. To those of you who may never have heard of Samuel Huntington, he was the the author who made the phrase Clash of Civilizations famous. While Huntington has been in the limelight recently after he wrote his famous […]
Incredible India Ad on NYC Bus * A PWD Engineer M.K.Gupta in Uttar Pradesh is brutally beaten up by local politicians for not giving funds for the birthday bash of the state’s Maharani and tortured with electric shocks (according to the autopsy report). Yes, his wife is now a widow. * Bal Thackeray, the leader of […]