(Recommended by SI reader Boopalanj) Preoccupied as Indian film-makers are with regurgitating trash, the documentary as an art form is virtually absent in Bollywood or any of its smaller regional siblings. That’s odd when you know the cornucopia of material available to Indian film-makers. Given that the blighted land is rife with corruption, rampant cruelty, […]
(Recommended by SI reader shadowfax_arbit) Slipped the Alai Payuthe DVD into our player. Directed by Mani Ratnam, Alai Payuthe features B-grade Tamil film star Madhavan with Shalini (now Ajith’s wife) playing his heroine. Madhavan is not a bad actor but we wonder if anyone gives a flying f**k for this Nai-kutty (puppy) faced fella. After […]
As we were dining at Rangoli in Chantilly (Northern Virginia) the other day, we were eerily reminded of what our favorite essayist Macaulay wrote in his piece on the Prussian king Frederic the Great. The food at Frederic’s eccentric father Frederic William’s place, Macaulay wrote, was so bad that even hunger loathed it. Odds are […]
Boy, these are hard times for restaurants in the U.S., particularly for Indian restaurants that are starting to see long and dark shadows fall over them. Real hard times, folks. Market researcher NPD has just put out a report that traffic for casual dining restaurants in the U.S. declined 4% in this year’s spring quarter […]
Worldwide PC shipments fell 5% in the second quarter but Dell’s PC shipments declined by a whopping 17%. According to the folks at market researcher Gartner, worldwide PC shipments in the second quarter of 2009 was 68.149 million units compared to 71.741 million in the same quarter of last year. Although in retreat, the PC […]
If lightning were to flatten Angeethi Indian restaurant in Herndon to the ground today, we dare say the commonwealth of Virginia would be better off without this shameless impostor. A restaurant that dares to serve spoiled Sambar to diners and doesn’t know how to make the humble Channa Batura has no business being in the […]