H1B Visas; Follow the Japanese U-Turn, Partially

After years of importing tens of thousands of foreign workers of Japanese descent from Latin American countries like Brazil and Peru for blue-collar jobs, Japan is now doing an U-turn on its immigration policy. An U-turn that America must seriously consider (but only partially) vis-a-vis its H1B Visas. Facing growing unemployment of its own citizens […]

God Exists; Coolie Visa (H1B) Applications Down

Even recessions have silver linings – as in less number of H1B applications (mostly from the Indian coolies for U.S. IT jobs). As of April 9, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had received only 42,000 fresh H1B Visa applications for fiscal 2010 starting on October 1. CIS, which started accepting applications on April 1, said it’d […]

Good Riddance to Bad Rub-Bush

* You failed to stem the tide of good American jobs being outsourced to the Indian coolies * You failed to protect us on 9/11 * You failed to capture Osama Bin Laden * You failed to understand how badly the Guantanamo prison and the rendition policy of transporting abductees to third countries for torture […]

Incredible India? Shining India? – Ha Ha Ha

Incredible India Ad on NYC Bus * A PWD Engineer M.K.Gupta in Uttar Pradesh is brutally beaten up by local politicians for not giving funds for the birthday bash of the state’s Maharani and tortured with electric shocks (according to the autopsy report). Yes, his wife is now a widow. * Bal Thackeray, the leader of […]

Dostana Review – Perverse Abomination

Dostana Plunges 66% at Box Office Ugly Dostana – So-So at Box Office Can someone quickly hand us a long piece of rope so that we may hang Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham and Priyanka Chopra together on the nearest tree and spare millions of Bollywood fans further agony from this troika’s simian antics on the […]

The Visitor – Fine Drama

The Visitor Actors: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Jekesai Gurira and Hiam Abbass Written & Directed by: Thomas McCarthy Language: English Running at: Cinema Village, E.12th St, New York City (as of July 26, 2008) There is drama in every human life. Not high drama in all cases, but every life has some interesting moments. […]