It takes an Indian to nail an Indian. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara (a Punjabi of Indian origin) has gotten Tamil crook Anand Sekaran to plead guilty to a ponzi scheme that defrauded investors. Anand Sekaran, President and Director of Miami based Wasson Capital Ltd pled guilty Friday in […]
By Naveen English Vinglish (2012) Story, Screenplay, Direction: Gauri Shinde Cast: Sridevi, Mehdi Nebbou, Priya Anand, Adil Hussain From the Bollywood cesspool emerges another hideous junk called English Ving… What?? Oh No! Wait a second. That is how I habitually start the reviews of Indian films. But every once in a while there comes a […]
(For Zarboan) Five decades from now when SI is long under the ground and all you schmucks have turned into senile dotards donning adult diapers and living in seniors’ centers, the Spanish film The Motorcycle Diaries will continue to delight moviegoers. For dos reasons, sweeties. Che Mystique – Burns Bright First, the flame of the […]
by SI Blog Reader AC The wife and I just got back from an exhilarating 10 day trip to Ireland. Unlike our previous holidays together, we decided to not stay in any place for too long and to just drive around the island. Moving in a clockwise direction, we visited Dublin, Waterford, Dingle, Galway, Belfast […]
No marriage is happy after it happens. It’s only before, thinking of it, that it’s happy. – Manju’s drunkard father in Behind the Beautiful Forevers p.183 I can’t swear it’s all non-fiction. But Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo is a devastating indictment of what is […]
In India, teachers in medical colleges and high schools are using Apple iPad tablets to teach anatomy to students. In America, the Incredible SI watches Bollywood movies on the iPad and iPhone, reads the Times of India on the iPad and responds to comments in bed via the iPhone. All these are, of course, made […]