Slumdog Wins Best Picture Oscar (For GK, Gandhiji & his many avatars, The Gora & Terraferrous) All ye Bollywood curs, hang your heads in shame because the Slumdog is soon gonna expose you. An Oscar-worthy gem and the finest movie made in India this century, Slumdog Millionaire (based on the novel Q and A by […]
Rab Ne Falters at Box Office; Just 52% of Om Shanti Om A chorus of movie critics across the world has slammed Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (Shahrukh Khan, Anushka Sharma). A 167-minute cruel nightmare, Rab Ne Bana Jodi is the latest piece of trash from the fading Yash Raj stable. Here’s a sample of […]
(Thanks to Guruprasad.S, Satya, Zaid, Viswajithkn & other readers of the SearchIndia.com blog for recommending Satya.) Even a hideous performance by the modern-day Lady Macbeth a.k.a. Urmila Matondkar can’t mar the beauty of this gangster flick Satya. And all physical evidence to the contrary, we refuse to believe Ram Gopal Varma is still alive (If […]
The Saffron shade is fading in Rajasthan with the ruling BJP receiving a whipping in the state assembly elections while the Congress significantly increased its tally and will most likely form the next government. What went wrong? The BJP leadership is blaming its poor performance on the candidate selection. But what about governance of the state […]
The Government of India has named Rajiv Mathur the next Director of the Intelligence Bureau, the country’s inept domestic intelligence agency. Mathur, a 1972 batch IPS officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, is currently Special Director of the Intelligence Bureau. Mathur, a native of Agra, will replace P.C. Haldar on his retirement on December 31. Under Haldar’s […]
Is it too much to ask Indian restaurants in New York City that they keep their premises and kitchens reasonably clean? Indian restaurants in New York City are notoriously dirty. Restrooms without toilet paper, spoiled food, dirty outer garments of staff, rats, mice, flying insects and other live animals are only some of the ugly […]