Yesterday’s Tamil hedge fund mapillai but today’s alleged Wall Street criminal and billionaire Raj Rajaratnam is winding down his Galleon hedge fund. In a letter to investors, Rajaratnam, who was arrested last Friday on insider trading charges and is now out on $100 million bail, wrote: I have decided that it is now in the […]
(Reviewed by SI reader you know who with editing by you know who while retaining the spirit of the original.) Pazhassi Raja or Keralavarma Pazhassiraja turned out to be a let down, albeit one with redeeming elements. And the letdown is not because the much hyped Malayalam historical film isn’t good in its own right […]
(via iPhone) Folks, it’s Deepavali day (in India but not yet in the U.S.) and here we are watching sori-padam Surya’s Aadhavan. 🙁 There are about 50 people in the theatre. Considering it’s a Surya-Nayantara film and a movie directed by K.S. Ravikumar we have little expectation. Movie is about to start. Our Tamil makkal […]
Wherever there are ten Hindus together there is India with her sects and schisms, her racial, lingual, religious, political antagonisms. In the person of Gandhi they are experiencing for a brief moment the miracle of unity, but when he goes there will be a crash, an utter relapse into that strife and chaos so characteristic […]
With a fresh wave of violent attacks in Pakistan that’s left dozens dead, this time in the border city of Lahore, the big question is when will the Army stage the next coup in the Islamic nation. The Lahore attacks on the buildings of security agencies (Federal Investigation Agency and two police training centers) is […]
Obama is a Shameless Hussy; Accepts Nobel U.S. President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize leaving us baffled and irritated. Barack Obama Announcing the decision earlier today, the Norwegian Nobel Committee highlighted Obama’s extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples and special importance to Obama’s vision of and […]