(For SI Blog Reader Boops) Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That’s why it’s such a powerful weapon. – Nelson Mandela in the 2009 Hollywood film Invictus The genius of the White Man is his extraordinary grasp of the power of Violence. No other race has understood, practiced and perfected the use of Violence […]
I feel I am going through some bad luck….My time is not right and somehow all my decisions aren’t going right too. (Source: Rediff) – Bollywood Flop King Shahid Kapur Indian movie critics are generally a forgiving lot. They tend to look for redeeming elements and hand out a pass grade to even bad Bollywood […]
Why does God bestow upon us a sexual desire that he then wishes us to resist. The thing is, I didn’t even know I had a clitoris, Martin. – From the remarkable film Philomena, based on Martin Sixsmith’s book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee I was in Washington DC yesterday with some time to […]
(Thanks to SI Blog reader Desimom99) NRI Telugu bidda Raghunandan Yandamuri’s upcoming court trial for murder, kidnapping and a litany of other offenses is getting a new rival for attention of the Telugu diaspora in America. Venkata Venna, whose daughter and mother were allegedly killed by Raghunandan Yandamuri in October last year, has recently launched […]
If SI has said it once, SI has said it a million times. Mera Bharat Mahan a.k.a. India has no hope. So what if a few people can spell PHP, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript and SAP. But the Indian DNA is rotten to the core. Salman Khan – Devil in Human Form (Image courtesy – Microsoft […]
By SI’s Tokyo Correspondent Nirvana for Indians anywhere on the planet comes in three forms – Curry, Cricket and Cinema (Bollywood or its Southern variants Kollywood and Tollywood). The world may be better than Indians at several things but none can beat us in food and cricket. And nobody, nobody can make trashier movies than […]