Just read an interesting news item in DNA – Indians are forking out as much as Rs 1 crore ($250,000) to Shah Rukh Khan and other Bollywood celebrities to sing/dance at their functions and shake hands with their guests. Here’s an excerpt from the DNA piece: Shah Rukh Khan may not agree to do a […]
After being traumatized recently by the hideously awful Tamil film Billa, we were desperately in need of some relief. Fortunately, we stumbled upon a fine Argentine film Cautiva (2003) from our long neglected Netflix trove. Set in Argentina of the early 1990s after the dirty deeds of the last military dictatorship were exposed, this Spanish film is the […]
Time magazine has named Russian President Vladimir Putin its Person of the Year for 2007. Good choice, indeed. Like Professor Samuel Huntington, we believe without order there can be no civil society. After the chaos of the Gorbachev and Yeltsin eras, Putin has ushered in order, stability and prosperity (helped by high oil prices) for […]
If the rip-off prices of inkjet printer cartridges come down in the U.S, you’ll have to thank a desi guy in California – Ranjit Bedi. On Monday, Ranjit Bedi filed an antitrust lawsuit against HP and office supplies store chain Staples in the U.S.District Court in Boston charging the two companies with illegally colluding to stop competing […]
Many of us have come across the term country cousin either in a book/magazine article or in conversation. Simply put, country cousin refers to an unsophisticated individual or a rural person new to the ways of the city. The origins of this popular term date back to the late 18th century. Several Indian languages have […]
PC World royally screwed Windows Vista the other day slamming the operating system as the biggest tech disappointment of 2007. PC World Contributing Editor Dan Tynan writes: Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do? It’s not that Vista is awful…. It’s just that Vista isn’t all that good. Many of […]