Is this the Greatest Kannada Romantic Song?

Many summers back, we were on a visit to Bangalore from Tamil Nadu. The morning’s Deccan Herald brought forth the unwelcome and distressing news that Kannada actress Kalpana had crushed some diamonds into a glass of milk and consumed the contents. Kalpana’s death was a great loss not merely to Kannada films but the world […]

The Many Faces of (D)evil

Republican Presidential Hopefuls (L to R) Rick Santorum, Tim Pawlenty, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney (Image courtesy: WSJ) More harm has befallen the American people because of the Republican Party than from any other causes. Corporate bootlickers, crooks (remember I-am-not-a-crook Nixon?), idiots (George W.Bush) and adulterers (too many to count), Republican leaders have brought this […]

20 Million Minors Throng Facebook; Apocalypse Near?

They’re getting younger and younger. Oh, we mean the age of users on the Facebook social network. A new Consumer Reports survey found that 20 million minors had actively used Facebook in the last 12 months. As if that number were not worrisome enough, 7.5 million were younger than 13 (a violation of Facebook terms […]

100% Love – 200% Silly

To describe the new Telugu movie 100% Love (Naga Chaitanya, Tamannaah Bhatia) as a hopelessly silly piece of trash would be to bestow an extravagant compliment on the clumsy grotesquerie. That in this day and age, 100 plus years into the motion picture business, some Telugu people put out such rank amateur stuff and then […]

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