After the great New Jersey Samosa lawsuit, the stage is now set for the Mother of All Biryani Battles. Big Indian legal fights in the U.S. are all about life-changing things like Samosas, Biryanis and, who knows, maybe in the future, even Gulab Jamuns and Jalebis. 😉 No kidding, guys. And the venue for the […]
Sri Lankan Tamil hedge fund billionaire will be a guest of the American prison system for the next 11 years for insider trading. The sentence is the longest ever for insider trading. Judge Richard J.Holwell, who sentenced Rajaratnam today, also fined him $10 million and ordered the forfeiture of $53.8 million. Judge Holwell said: Insider […]
Man, Andy Warhol was right with his famous comment that In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. Well, it’s Chuck Ganapathi’s day under the arc-lights today. The Internet is all atwitter about this fella. It seems the PSG Tech alumnus, who we were all blissfully unaware about until a short while ago, […]
Deven Sharma, president of tainted credit rating firm Standard & Poor’s, has been out-graded (take that neologism, schmucks). Sharma, 55, is stepping down as head of the firm effective September 12 but will remain an adviser of the parent company until the end of the year. The official reason cited for Sharma’s departure is that […]
In or around January 2010, Ms.Bhardwaj’s husband in India needed an operation, and her children needed money to pay for it. Ms.Bhardwaj decided to ask defendant Prabhu Dayal for the money he said he was holding for her. Ms.Bhardwaj asked for the money three times in one day, and he twice said they would talk […]
(For SI Blog Reader Gandhiji) Yawn, Yawn! Hey, it’s really getting tiresome. One more Spelling Bee championship and one more Indian American winner. Yes, an Indian is the winner of the 84th Spelling Bee. 🙂 This time the top honors went to 14-year-old Sukanya Roy, an eighth grade student of the Abington Heights Middle School […]