Dhamaal has fared badly at the U.S. box office in its first weekend. Starring the Bollywood convict Sanjay Dutt and a bunch of C-grade actors like Riteish Deshmukh and Arshad Warsi, Dhamaal’s take at the box office for the September 7-9, 2007 weekend was a mere $166,339. Released in 39 theaters, Dhamaal came in at […]
Azim Premji is a name well known to a lot of Indians. After all, Premji is the shrewd entrepreneur who inherited a $2 million Vanaspati (hydrogenated cooking oil) company in Mumbai and turned it into a $3 billion IT, BPO and R&D Services organization called Wipro that is today listed on the New York Stock […]
Bollywood movies have never made it in any significant way with mainstream American audiences in the U.S. We have watched dozens of Hindi and Tamil movies in U.S. theaters but seldom see Americans – White, Black or Hispanics – in the movie hall. For the most part, it’s only desis who watch Indian movies in […]
With significant contribution from its India Design Center in Bangalore, AMD launched its delayed Barcelona chip for computer servers today. Officially called the Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor, the new chip intensifies the battle between AMD and rival Intel for dominance in the market for servers that underpin complex tasks such as managing corporate data centers […]
India is both a horror show and a heavenly experience at the same time. We should know. After all, we’ve watched this confoundingly complex country for over four decades -Â at close quarters first and then from a distance. And Paul Theroux knows India well too. He has obviously spent some time there, in the 1970s and […]
Sony is attacking its rivals Canon, Nikon and Panasonic in the digital SLR market with a new offering – the DSLR-A700 – targeted at photo enthusiasts and serious photo hobbyists. Sony A700 DSLR Like the older A100 model, the new A700 also features image stabilization in the camera body itself and compatibility with most Minolta […]