When even Bollywood’s Angry Young Man of yore Amitabh Bachchan starts donning a wig, it’s time for all intellectuals to set aside their trivial preoccupations and start addressing one of the big questions of our age: Do Indian men feel effeminate, ball-less without their hair? Mind you, we’re only talking here of hair on the […]
Love him or hate him, Julian Assange has made his mark. For all ye schmucks, Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks, the web site that’s causing ripples on a global scale with its release of sensitive documents pertaining to the Iraq war, U.S. diplomatic cables and the like. You know stuff the powers that be […]
We’ve never been great fans of Indian IT giant Wipro’s Chairman Azim Premji. But tonight, as we slowly sip our White Russian into a stupor the old man Premji is our hero. Really. In a blistering attack penned in an Indian newspaper, Premji belatedly questions in rhetorical style the wisdom of a poor country like […]
I have never taken drugs in my life. – Tamil film star Trisha Krishnan Source: Times of India Never too late, sweetie. 😉 Unlike my former President Bill ‘Lecher‘ Clinton, I’ve smoked and inhaled too. What’s life without a few highs!
Voila, Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto is on the cover of the Sunday New York Times Style Magazine (not to be confused with the more prestigious New York Times Sunday Magazine). Image: NYT Just yesterday, at the Lincoln Plaza in Manhattan just before Robert Duvall’s much talked about Get Low started we espied Freida in […]
Som Mittal, chief of India’s software association Nasscom, has lost the battle to prevent the Obama administration from going ahead with a Border Security bill funded by imposing higher fees on H1B Visas used by Indian IT companies. U.S. President Obama signed the $600 million bill Friday. The bill is expected to fund an additional […]