For all the schmucks who think Indians are the ne plus ultra of weirdos, listen there’s competition for y’all. A 24-year-old Japanese man went about his suicide in a strange way – by streaming the announcement live on the net and received both encouragement and requests to desist on his plan. Unfortunately, the man went […]
Hey, hey, we’re back again with a new edition of Incredible India, those only in India blood-curdling stories. * It’s no secret that India’s policemen are notoriously corrupt scoundrels, rapists, thieves, encounter specialists a.k.a murderers and big-time crooks. In the past, some Indian policemen were even known to pour acid into the eyes of arrested […]
There’s a big battle brewing in the e-book reader arena. U.S. bookseller Barnes & Noble today launched a color version of its Nook e-book reader, the NOOKcolor. Based on the Android software from Google, Nookcolor sports a 7-inch, color touch-screen and built-in mono speaker to listen to audiobooks or music. The device costs $249. The […]
Even by the bizarre standards of Incredible India, this story is beyond bizarre. Indian newspapers are atwitter about the rape and murder of a lady police constable Maya Yadav inside the premises of a police station allegedly by two police constables (men, of course). The disgusting incident is alleged to have happened at the Chechat […]
We’ve long believed that human beings are the worst species on the planet in their cruelty to sentient and insentient beings. Yet, even we, the hardened, cynical folks at your favorite SI blog, never cease to be amazed at new disclosures of man’s hideous behavior to fellow humans. News report in the NYT and elsewhere […]
Guilty – Tamil Peeping Tom Dharun Ravi Rutgers university freshman student Dharun Ravi of Plainsboro, New Jersey, is up shit-creek after Tyler Clementi, a room-mate Ravi allegedly viewed on a webcam having sex with a guy and then disclosed it on Twitter, committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. Ravi’s classmate Molly Wei […]