U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who has vowed to run a dignified campaign, has attacked his rival Hillary Clinton for her “personal, financial and political ties to India” in a memo leaked to the New York Times by the Clinton camp. The caustic memo referred to Hillary Clinton as D-Punjab, a reference to Hillary’s […]
Superstar Rajnikanth and director Shankar have both come up short in the new Tamil movie Sivaji The Boss. A flawed movie in many respects, Sivaji fails to scale the lofty heights that one expects when the two top-guns in the Tamil film industry come together. We loved Shankar’s last film Anniyan and enjoyed Rajnikanth’s 2005 […]
We love newspapers. We always have. For us, the joy of reading a newspaper in bed cuddling a loved one is a pleasure bar none. In our childhoold (the pre-TV days of the 60s and 70s), the sports pages of The Hindu were a big draw. As we grew older, we shifted our loyalties to the […]
We spotted this man just the other day on W47th St in the Jewelry District of Manhattan sporting a back-board that advertised a nearby Barber Shop. Just a few blocks from New York City’s famous Times Square landmark, the Jewelry district in Manhattan is chock-a-block with stores selling gold, diamonds and other precious gems. Amid […]
Whoa, our favorite paper New York Times has a front page story today (May 21, 2007) on India’s severe power shortages. Writing for the Times, NYT’s South Asia bureau chief Somini Sengupta describes: an electricity crisis that represents one of the major hurdles to India’s ability to hoist itself into the front ranks of the […]
By now, virtually all of us have received an e-mail from someone in Nigeria offering to share his millions with us if only we would send him some details – ideally a Western Union money transfer or other forms of payment “to cover some local processing fees.” But scam artists from Nigeria are not new. They’ve […]