The folks at dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster Inc have announced bailout as 2008 Word of the Year. Apparently, the selection of bailout was based on the highest intensity of lookups over the shortest period of time in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Online Thesaurus. Bailout  is defined in the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th edition) as ‘a rescue from financial […]
Incredible India – Cowardly Indians Send Delhi Gang Rape Victim to Die in Singapore We have always said that Indians are the most hypocritical swines on the planet bar none. Whether it comes to money, God, minorities or women, what Indians say and what Indians do are two totally different things. Take Rape for instance. […]
Our dodo-in-chief a.k.a. commander-in-chief and President Bush has dispatched that inept Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to India in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks. What for? Apparently, Rice (who once referred to her dodo-in-chief Bush as my husband) is visiting India ‘to express the condolences of the American government directly to the Indian […]
(For Aditya) Not since we smoked pot in secret for the first time – in our college loo of all places – have we derived so much pleasure. (Like our former President Bill Clinton, we didn’t inhale… Ha ha, as if you believe us.) Really, rarely have we seen a Hindi movie with mucho gusto […]
How is it that Muslims dominate among the top Bollywood stars and directors despite accounting for a mere 13.4% of India’s population? Khan, Akhtar, Abbas You can’t watch a Hindi movie without stumbling over a Khan or Akhtar these days. Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Zayed Khan (yuck), Fardeen Khan (yuckier), Saif Ali Khan, […]
Following the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the decrepit dodo Shivraj Patil has quit as India’s Home Minister. Finance Minister P.Chidambaram has replaced him (Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is holding the finance portfolio too). Two top bureaucrats need to be shown the door too – Intelligence Bureau Chief P.C.Haldar of the Indian Police Service and […]