(SI reader Coolfrog_20 made a reference to this movie recently) We borrowed Crash (2004, directed by Paul Haggis) from our local public library and watched it last night. Made on a lean budget, this fast-paced 2005 Oscar winner (Best Picture) is a nice movie that, at its core, touches upon racial tensions in Los Angeles (a city […]
For those of you sick of the interminable run of crappy Bollywood and nighmarishly ugly Kollywood movies, Tokyo Sonata will restore your faith in movies. At first, we were debating if it was worth making the trip to New York City to watch Tokyo Sonata. But after watching this lovely movie, we can happily say […]
Disgraced Indian IT services provider Satyam Computer has named A.S.Murty, a long-time insider, as its new CEO effective immediately. Murty has been with Satyam since January 1994. He was previously Chief Delivery Officer and also responsible for optimal utilization of Human Resources. Prior to this, Murty was Head of Human Resources and Head of Insurance vertical. An […]
India is truly fertile soil for a cornucopia of those weird only-in-India stories. Here’s instalment 7 of Incredible India. * A sick man in the South Indian state of Kerala died after the dilapidated stretcher on which he was placed broke into two and he fell to the ground. If the end result wasn’t so […]
* You failed to stem the tide of good American jobs being outsourced to the Indian coolies * You failed to protect us on 9/11 * You failed to capture Osama Bin Laden * You failed to understand how badly the Guantanamo prison and the rendition policy of transporting abductees to third countries for torture […]
The Government of India has named three directors to the board of disgraced IT services provider Satyam Computer. The new members are HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh, former NASSCOM president Kiran Karnik and former SEBI member C Achuthan. Following the recent disclosures of accounting irregularities, the government had disbanded the earlier Satyam board. The new members […]