Man, it’s been a month since SI’s last installment of Incredible India, those only in India real-life stories. Here we go with another episode. * All these years, we deluded ourselves into believing that the way to get strong is to eat nutritious food and visit the gym regularly. Hell, what do we know! SI […]
Most humans are beasts with little humanity in them. Of that, we’ve always been convinced. And so would all thinking people be, if only they dared to look around with a thinking eye. But the scale of Man’s inhumanity and callousness toward fellow humans never ceases to surprise even one so cynical as yours truly. […]
(For SI Blog readers Boopalan, VJ Cool, KD and others) No, we wouldn’t go so far as trashing V for Vendetta. A watchable movie with some interesting dialogs, V for Vendetta (a 2006 film based on the eponymous DC Comics series) raised our hopes a few minutes into the movie that it could well be […]
In or around January 2010, Ms.Bhardwaj’s husband in India needed an operation, and her children needed money to pay for it. Ms.Bhardwaj decided to ask defendant Prabhu Dayal for the money he said he was holding for her. Ms.Bhardwaj asked for the money three times in one day, and he twice said they would talk […]
For a country that prides itself on its software talent, India’s hardware dreams are, well, pipe-dreams. A decade ago, it was the Simputer, a handheld low-cost Linux-based computer, that was all the rage in India. But despite the tall claims of how the Simputer would be the hardware savior of India and other Third World […]
Even by the bizarre theatrical standards of entertainers these days, American pop queen Lady Gaga is sui generis for her outrageous attire and antics (she came to the Grammys function in a huge egg carried by four men). Upon seeing Lady Gaga in her de rigueur skimpy attire, the late night TV host David Letterman […]