Here’s one of the biggest conundrums for all ye schmucks. Why is it in Hindu majority India it’s the Muslim heroes in Bollywood who walk away with all the glory, a lot of the moolah and most of the box office successes while Hindu heroes increasingly turn into zeroes. Movie after movie featuring Hindu heroes […]
* Noose Tightens on Indian Nero – Here on SI, we’ve long held Gujarat Chief Minister and Hindu leader Narendra Modi guilty of playing Nero while Muslims were butchered and set afire in the post-Godhra riots of 2002. But Modi’s role may have gone further than merely playing Nero. Indian investigative magazine Tehelka has yet […]
If there any schmucks around who still believe that the Internet is not a big deal, here are some stats (from Pingdom) to disabuse them of such quaint notions: Internet Users * 1.97 billion – Internet users worldwide (June 2010) * 825.1 million – Internet users in Asia * 475.1 million – Internet users in […]
It’s official now. Wireless carrier AT&T’s monopoly over selling the hot iPhone in the U.S. is over. Starting February 10, Apple’s iPhone, the world’s favorite smartphone, will also be offered by Verizon Wireless to its subscribers in the U.S. If you are an existing Verizon customer, you can ore-order the iPhone 4 on February 3. […]
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 […]
Shame, oh, the shame. Today, the postman delivered our copy of Michelin Guide New York City Restaurants 2011 from Amazon. And as we quickly perused the much-anticipated book, tears rolled down our cheek. They started as a trickle and ended as a flood. Folks, there are over 200 Indian restaurants in the greater New York […]