Flash of Genius, which released in U.S. theatres today, is a lovely David vs Goliath movie based on the real life story of college professor and inventor Robert Kearns’s battle against auto giant Ford Motor Company. Gregory Kinnear stars as the doughty fighter Bob Kearns who battles the then mighty but now feeble car maker […]
Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group chief Anil Ambani has sued his elder brother Mukesh Ambani and the New York Times newspaper in the Bombay High Court for defamation and is claiming Rs 10,000 crore (about $2.18 billion) in damages, according to Mumbai newspaper DNA. Here’s an excerpt from the DNA story: Anil has alleged that […]
The latest report by Transparency International shows India slipping on the Corruption Perceptions Index by 13 points to No-85. As anyone familiar with India knows, the godforsaken nation is one of the most corrupt places on Planet Earth. Whether it’s a village, small town or a big city, nothing ever happens in India without the […]
PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi said the cola company would invest $500 million in India over the next three years to triple its business in the country. In our opinion, many of the products PepsiCo sells like soda (carbonated cola drinks)Â and snacks are just not healthy for the people consuming them. Further, cola companies have also […]
After sitting through the nightmare of Cheran’s Mayakkannadi, we entered the theatre to watch Raman Thediya Seethai with low expectations and came out mildly satisfied. Featuring Cheran, Pasupathy, Vimala Raman, Nithin Sathya, Manivannan, Ramya Nambeesan, Karthika and Navya Nair, Raman Thediya Seethai represents optical media storage and home entertainment company Moser Baer’s first foray into movie production. […]
If the poet William Wordsworth had dined at Hoysala in Somerset (New Jersey), he’d have modified the famous lines in his poem to read: Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive but to be hungry at Hoysala was very heaven. Most Indian restaurants in the U.S. are like our Bollywood movies. The skimpily-clad […]