When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit. – Stephen King in Big Driver, a novella in Full Dark, No Stars P.194 Of course, we’re aware that you anencephalic twits are not going to read Stephen King’s last book Full Dark, No Stars (published in November […]
Shop till you drop. As even the schmucks know by now, that’s been the mantra in the consumerist Mecca a.k.a. America for decades. And if there’s one group of people who love a deal, it’s Americans. Every day, Americans use coupons for Tampons, Bread, Donuts, Beer, Razors, Diabetes Readers, Whiskey, Movie Tickets, Pizza, Haircuts, Wine, […]
When even Bollywood’s Angry Young Man of yore Amitabh Bachchan starts donning a wig, it’s time for all intellectuals to set aside their trivial preoccupations and start addressing one of the big questions of our age: Do Indian men feel effeminate, ball-less without their hair? Mind you, we’re only talking here of hair on the […]
Unlike the many clueless little twits on Yelp, Chowhound or other such sites where the ignorati herd gather to chew the fat, we know Indian food. So with the growing chatter on Jackson Diner (an entrenched player on the Indian strip at 74th St in Jackson Heights, NY) setting up shop in Manhattan on University […]
At the behest of an insistent friend many summers back, think back to an era when that petty tyrant Indira Gandhi and that pee-drinker Morarji Desai were leaders of our former nation, we read Somerset Maugham’s Cakes and Ale although we can’t remember a whit now. Our interest in Maugham was rekindled this week by […]
IBM today announced six employees as IBM Fellows for their contributions to the company and the IT industry. And guess what? Two of the six are desis: Subramanian Iyer and Anant Jhingran. IBM Fellows is the IT giant’s highest technical award. Only 217 individuals have earned this honor in the company’s history. Including the newly named […]