People outside India are often dumbstruck to learn that millions of poor souls sleep on the pavement in India’s commercial capital Bombay (now renamed Mumbai) night after night after night. But things have been like that in Bombay for well over a 100 years. As darkness shrouds the city and the haves gather into their […]
After Google launched its new eBookstore yesterday, we signed up to find out what the noise was all about. Since Google touts its eBookstore as a device agnostic offering, we downloaded the free Google Books app to our iPhone and also played with it on our PC. We played with the Google eBookstore first on […]
Show me where your people gather and we’ll tell you where your country and planet is headed. – The Wise Souls of SearchIndia.com What is it about Times Square in New York City that has the tourists, both foreign and domestic, swarming the place in droves? Any time you go to the area, the place […]
All ye couch potatoes nibbling on Paneer Tikka Masala and digging into Chicken 65, get off your couches NOW. And start walking if you want to keep your brains working well. Walking Slows Cognitive Decline A new study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago says walking […]
You folks remember Tim Berners-Lee? Hey, the guy is the inventor of the World Wide Web, the greatest thing of the 20th century and it’s fair to presume he knows a thing or two about the Web. In a recent article in Scientific American, Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns of the threats to the Web from […]
Uthamaputhiran is not so much a movie as a total descent into depravity. A dystopian nightmare for those sitting through this infernal nonsense. Written by a jackass answering to the shout of Gopimohan, directed by a bozo named Mithran Jawahar and featuring Rajinikanth’s hideous cartoon of a son-in-law Dhanush in the lead role, Uthamaputhiran is […]