Many summers ago, we read an article in Time about Herpes. The crux of the Time piece was – You can’t kill it. It can’t kill you. Not much has changed since. Herpes (including genital herpes) still doesn’t have a cure. According to Wiki: Herpes Simplex Virus is transmitted during close contact with an infected […]
Life’s so strange. Stranger than we all realize. Actions of insignificant people in the distant past sometimes have an extraordinary impact on the course of future events in a big way. Take the Taj Mahal for instance. Hailed as a great monument to both love and architecture, the Taj Mahal has impressed visitors from around […]
Here comes Incredible India – 21. Nearly 40 years after Indira Gandhi took on Morarji Desai, Sanjiva Reddy, Nijalingappa, Kamaraj and other members of the Congress old guard with Garibi Hatao, the Congress (R) slogan in the 1971 elections, India’s politicians have managed to accomplish that herculean feat, albeit only for themselves. So what if […]
Folks, time to wear your seat-belts. Here comes another instalment of Incredible India, with those Only in India stories. * A poor woman admitted to a government hospital in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh sold her new-born baby for $125. Cheap, na. In the last two years, we have seen about 28 or […]
Ayan at U.K. Box Office – Ayyo, Embarrassing Dai Machchi, Indha Surya Padam oru Sori Padam da. Sori Padam. (Hey buddy, this is a scabies-infested movie). An ugly movie beyond redemption, Ayan is the latest piece of shit to emerge from the Augean sewers of Kollywood. With not even a fig leaf of a story […]
We don’t know about you. But over the last 12 months we’ve slowly got addicted to our Wi-Fi mobile phone (in our case, the Apple iPhone). No, we are not embarrassed to admit that it even accompanies us to the bathroom. 😉 We use our Wi-Fi mobile phone for reading news, responding to comments on […]