The other day SI readers boopalanj and guruprasad brought up the issue of different types of torture including the Chinese and Medieval flavors. We were reminded of it today as we were reading an article in the Sunday edition of our favorite newspaper, the New York Times. On P.12 of the print edition of the […]
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK leader M.Karunanidhi has lost his marbles and therefore gets a new name – Loose Paiya (crackpot). The decrepit dinosaur told Indian TV channel NDTV that Velupillai Prabhakaran (the notorious LTTE terrorist) is not a terrorist and is his good friend. No, we’re not making this one up, folks. This […]
What’s not to like about State of Play. All ye naysaying cretins, speak out now or forever hold your tongue. A fine thriller set at the intersection of Washington politics, investigative journalism, murder, extra-marital romance and an evil defense contractor, State of Play is the must watch movie of this season. Featuring a solid screenplay […]
Folks, here comes the 22nd instalment of Incredible India, with those only-in-India stories. * This one is straight out of the Ripley’s Believe it or Not book and we were tongue-tied when we first heard this. Mahesh, a follower of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, cut his tongue at a Hindu temple as a […]
Let’s acknowledge the ugly facts first – Microsoft’s Live search engine is a piece of shit. Utter garbage. So it hardly comes as a surprise that even Microsoft employees (a.k.a. Microserfs) don’t use this junk search engine. As Google gets better and extends its search hegemony, Microsoft’s trashy search engine continues to lose ground. Look […]
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a disgrace to the Indian-American community, has gotten himself a book deal, according to the Times Picayune. Due out in 2010, the book will be ghost written by Peter Schweizer and focus on Bobby’s ‘life and policy ideas,’ the paper reports. A Republican, Right-wing extremist and Christian fundamentalist, Jindal is an […]