Spuul Wades into Crowded Bollywood Streaming Pool with Free & Paid Rentals

By on    Bollywood  

Uh oh, not one more. The Bollywood streaming business is looking increasingly crowded lately in the U.S. Besides the 800-pound Goliath Netflix (peddles Bollywood, Hollywood and other content), there’s BollyVerse, Databazaar, YuppTV, ChannelLive, Mela and a bunch of regional language offerings for desis in Amreeka. As if all that weren’t enough, now comes a new […]

Indian Food Has Been Bastardized – Rahul Akerkar

By on    Food  

There is no such thing as “Indian food.” It’s a fabrication of the West. Each state has its own regional cuisines: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Bengal. And then even the states have subcategories — there’s coastal Maharashtrian, inland Maharashtrian, Muslim-influenced. Sadly, what most of the world knows today as Indian food is bastardized, trivialized — tandoori chicken, […]

Have You Schmucks Heard of Nollywood?

By on    General  

No, the N in Nollywood has nothing to do with nudity or nude films. Get that dirty thought out of your minds, all ye concupiscent rats. After we twice came across references to the Nigerian film industry aka Nollywood in the last week or so, we felt compelled to bring it to your attention considering […]

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