If Gayathri Sreekanth undertakes her ophthalmological work with the same callous carelessness as her shoddy biography of Tamil film star Rajinikanth (The Name is Rajinikanth), there must be a lot of unfortunate souls moving about in Chennai with blurred vision, or worse, without any vision. Besides being a pathetic attempt at hagiography, almost every page […]
Desi film producer and financier Deepak Nayar has launched a global digital entertainment studio and online creative community called Filmaka for aspiring filmmakers. Deepak Nayar is the producer of English movies with Indian themes like Bend It Like Beckham, Bride & Prejudice and The Mistress of Spices. Here’s Filmaka’s mission in its own words: Filmaka is […]
Desi Butcher Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO, is throwing 9,000 employees on the streets on top of the 4,200 jobs the embattled bank has already cut recently. As usual, the new round of job cuts are also attributed to expense management. And did we tell you that Vikram Pandit, like the proverbial pig at the trough, took […]
The Desi Butcher Vikram Pandit-led financial mess Citigroup reported a hefty loss of $5.1 billion on revenues of $13.2 billion in its first quarter ended March 31 and will throw another 9,000 employees on the streets. On a conference call with analysts, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit acknowledged: To start with, we’re not happy with our […]
Web domain name registrar Network Solutions has named Kamalesh Dwivedi its Chief Information Officer. At Network Solutions, Kamalesh will be responsible for overseeing operations, engineering, enterprise data services and program management. Before joining Network Solutions, Kamalesh worked as Executive VP and CIO of BPO TeleTech Holdings. Kamalesh previously worked for broadband equipment company ADC Telecommunications and set-top […]
Shahrukh Khan Stopped at US Airport Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan does not like America, according to an interview he gave recently to the The Times (of London not the Mumbai rag Times of India). Shahrukh Khan minced no words about America in his interview with Anil Sinanan, Times Bollywood Film Critic: I don’t like America. […]