Americans abhor complexity. Simplicity is the lodestar of their lives. They like neat categories into which they can pigeonhole people, ideas, religion, food, sex and attitudes even if such categorizations make no sense. If you’re a Muslim, you’re either a terrorist or sleeper-cell terrorist. If you’re Black, you must be a criminal or surviving on […]
Jail for Telugu Groper Srinivasa Erramilli Telugu serial groper and convicted felon Srinivasa Erramilli has made several interesting arguments in his bid to escape jail time and obtain probation (albeit with special conditions). Erramilli’s novel arguments were made in his Sentencing Memorandum submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on […]
Sometimes in life, we can’t understand why things are the way they are. – Elderly nun trying to explain the unjust circumstances of life to young Max in Neill Blomkamp’s new movie Elysium Tis’ one of the disappointments of movies that life seldom imitates art. Otherwise we could have eagerly looked forward to a reboot […]
All governments violate the basic rights of their citizens in the interests of the powerful and the wealthy. Nothing new about it. Right through history, it’s been that way whatever be the form of government in any country you look at. India, China, Nazi Germany, Vietnam, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, South Africa, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, the […]
UK Tamils have raised their middle finger to Bala’s latest movie Paradesi. Is this the beginning of the end for Bala whose reputation has rested on producing “realistic” films on the subalterns (people living on the margins of society)? Related Stories Paradesi Review – Bala Moons Yet Again
Amrit Singh, the U.S. based daughter of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has put out a damaging new report that says President Barack Obama is tacitly continuing the rendition programs of his predecessor George W.Bush. Singh wrote in the report that by relying on assurances from host nations that the prisoners would not be tortured, […]