By Naveen With the engaging preview of Contagion doing the rounds on cable for the past couple of weeks, my curiosity had been whetted as to what all these A List actors were doing in the same movie. When I was asked by SI to review Contagion today, I was not going to be the […]
Do you think I’m a bitch, a tart?….You must be thinking I’m a slut? – Katrina Kaif’s character Dimple Dixit to Imran Khan’s Kush Agnihotri in Meri Brother Ki Dulhan Duh, Katrina. Does the Sun Rise in the East? Is Barack Obama Black? Is Manmohan Singh a poodle? Does Salman Khan like to drive over […]
No, we’re not drunk. Oh well, we’ll confess to consuming just one bottle of ice-cold Guinness Extra Stout purchased from the local Patel liquor store. It’s no secret that the U.S. housing and building sectors are in bad shape. Make that very bad shape. So, our question is whether the housing and building companies had […]
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 […]
The year is 1967 (most readers of the wonderful SI blog are not even born). Shammi Kapoor has put on noticeable weight, the cheeks seem a little swollen and the gait is a tad less graceful (two years have passed since his beautiful wife Geeta Bali died of smallpox leaving behind two young children). Yet, […]