Will Smith’s Seven Pounds – Do Good, Feel Good Nonsense

Hello, did we hear anyone say that only Bollywood movies are crappy and that all Hollywood movies are wonderful? Hey, we are talkin to you. Yes, you. Answer us, buddy. Cat got your tongue now? Well, in that case let’s tell you what we think – Seven Pounds is not a paisa vasool flick. WTF […]

Satya Review – Surely, Ram Gopal Varma is Dead

(Thanks to Guruprasad.S, Satya, Zaid, Viswajithkn & other readers of the SearchIndia.com blog for recommending Satya.) Even a hideous performance by the modern-day Lady Macbeth a.k.a. Urmila Matondkar can’t mar the beauty of this gangster flick Satya. And all physical evidence to the contrary, we refuse to believe Ram Gopal Varma is still alive (If […]

India’s Shame – 231 Million Hungry Souls

India has many things to be ashamed of – entrenched corruption, pathetic basic infrastructure, frequent communal violence, abject poverty and chronic hunger of its many poor millions, to name just a few. But nothing is more shameful than the growing number of chronically hungry or undernourished people in the country. According to the Food and […]

YouTube – Greatest Time Wasting Tool in History

Throughout history, smart people have devised so many clever and novel ways to waste time – wrestling, bull fighting, cock fighting, Tamil trash, Bollywood garbage, ogling, playing pocket billiards and that weird game cricket.   But surely nothing can beat Google’s YouTube video site as the best designed time-wasting service ever. The latest comScore report released […]

86,400 Preventable Deaths

We just read a few minutes back that every day in America 240 people die from healthcare acquired/associated infections (i.e. infections acquired in a hospital, long-term care facility, home care, nursing home). That’s 86,400 deaths a year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines healthcare-associated infections as infections that patients acquire during the […]