Watch Criterion Classics Free This Weekend

Movie streaming service Hulu is making available the Criterion Collection of great movies for free this long, President’s Day weekend. These are movies made by renowned directors, legends like Francois Truffaut, Charlie Chaplin, Jean-Luc Godard, Ingmar Bergman, Nagisa Oshima, Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa and David Lynch.

Deal of the Day – Free 50GB Online Storage

It’s hard to beat the insatiable Indian lust for freebies or cheap stuff. But I doubt many Indians have clambered on the free online storage accounts. Here’s a short list of some prominent free storage providers in the cloud. They all follow the freemium model (giving some stuff free and charging for upgrades). Some online […]

Qatar Airways Launches Online Global Sale

Qatar Airways, ranked the world’s best airline by Skytrax for two years in a row, has rolled out a worldwide 3-day sale. The sale, which starts today and ends at midnight September 6 (local time in every market), brings reduced fares to destinations in India, Middle East and other parts of Asia, Africa and Australia. […]

Great Deal – Free Blockbuster DVD 6-Months

For U.S. Readers Only Blockbuster is offering a great deal – FREE six-months one-DVD rental. Being a cheapo desi, I signed up and ordered The Dark Knight. Like most desis here, I do have Netflix Instant but canceled the DVD option since I was not renting many films. It’s nice to have the DVD option […]

Deal of the Week – Domino’s Pizza 50% Off

Yes, humans still eat pizza from Domino’s, yeah those dirty bastards who do dirty things to customers’ food. At least this Indian does. And if it’s cheap, SI likes it all the more. Did you know Domino’s offering 50% off on all online orders of pizza from today through June 17, 2012. $3.99 for Spinach […]

Groupon Rebrands Indian Deals Site SoSasta into Horrid Sounding Crazeal

U.S. coupons major Groupon has rebranded its Indian deal site SoSasta into the weird sounding Crazeal. Apparently, the name SoSasta is not resonating well in South India and also supposedly not hip enough to entice the highfalutin upmarket sellers into clambering up on the discounts train. What cockamamie crock! When you’re basically peddling discounts, SoSasta […]