Only in Incredible India. Folks, only in Incredible India can a 60-year-old buffoon who cannot speak Hindi or English (the two official languages of the country and of Parliament) and to boot a first-time Member of Parliament, become a Central Cabinet Minister. Yes, we’re talking of the buffoon M.K.Azhagiri a.k.a M.K.Alagiri, India’s Union Minister for […]
For a TV channel that’s supposed to have a major presence in India, NDTV’s application for the iPhone 4 has turned out to be a mighty big disappointment. We downloaded the application sometime back and have been playing with it on and off for the last few days. The version we’re running on our iPhone […]
(For SI Blog reader Pippa) We can’t stand the Big Business-friendly Republicans but in this instance we’re with them. No Mosque in the Ground Zero area or even downtown Manhattan. As best as we know, you can’t build a Church/Synagogue/Mandir/Gurdwara in any of the Muslim nations and to even think of building a mosque in […]
Even kids like Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor are doing better than Akshay Kumar at the box office these days, so much better . In the second weekend at the U.S. box office, the kids’ I Hate Luv Storys did more business than Akshay’s Khatta Meetha in the second weekend. Folks, the second weekend U.S. […]
(For SI Blog readers kd36939, Gandhiji et al) Farewell a.k.a. L’affaire Farewell (French) is simply the best spy film we’ve seen in our life. And also the most sui generis spy film – we heard gun-shots only twice in the entire movie. Eschewing Indian films like Khatta Meetha and Pudangadi oops Thillalangadi that have earned […]
I’m not a spy. I’m a businesswoman….Please let me go home. (Brutal torture by North Korean agents follows.) I’m not a spy. I’m not a spy. – Evelyn Salt inside a North Korean prison Folks, we’ve just returned from the midnight show of the new Angelina Jolie film Salt. Of course, like all most action […]