Remember the massive hype about Facebook Home and its initial launch on the HTC First Android mobile phone less than a month ago. Mark Zuckerberg and his minions breathlessly declared at the Facebook Home unveiling on April 9 that mobile phones ought to be designed around people first instead of apps blah blah blah. And […]
These days, Mera Bharat Mahaan has become a favorite whipping boy for all and sundry. The latest to deliver a stinging slap on India’s face is cute looking Indian-American Manjari Chatterjee Miller, an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University and alumnus of Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi and Harvard University. In an article […]
Once is enjoyable! Twice, barely endurable! Thrice, intolerable! Help, I can’t take this repetitive Iron Man drivel any longer! Tiresome Spectacle How long is Hollywood going to flog this poppycock, of a man in a metallic red suit zipping through the air and dispatching his enemies when he’s not muttering sarcastic asides. Now how much […]
The people have voted with their wallets and the result is an ignominious disaster for Microsoft’s Surface tablet. A new survey of tablet shipments in the first quarter of 2013 has come out and the numbers are nothing less than a catastrophe for Microsoft. Mon dieu, Surface tablet shipments did not amount to even a […]
To be a Chechen is crime enough, sir, I assure you. We Chechen are born extremely guilty. Ever since czarist times, our noses have been culpably flat and our hair and skin criminally dark. This is an enduring offense to public order, sir….I am a Chechen black-arse. Why do I have to have a reason […]
At the outset, let me warn you that The Impossible is not for Indians. The Naomi Watts-Ewan McGregor film Impossible is so well made that surely it’ll put off desi movie buffs hostile to anything with the slightest whiff of class. Nice Drama Good directors discover high drama in everyday occurrences, like happenings within a […]