After the clowns in the Tamil film industry, the software coolies in Tamil Nadu have jumped on the support-the-poor-suffering-Sri Lankan Tamils bandwagon. The Hindu reports that hundreds of IT workers belonging to leading Indian software companies in Chennai have launched a campaign on Monday in support of Sri Lankan Tamils. We wonder why the f*** these […]
Ya Hoo…Yahoo (go ahead and click on the link, there’s a reason for our request). Well, that’s how we felt when we heard Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang was stepping down. For many years now, there’s been only yin in this Yang. No Yang at all. And that explains Yahoo’s downfall in recent years. Yahoo made too […]
Dostana, the perverse Bollywood abomination starring those three non-actors Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham and Priyanka Chopra, has not exactly taken the U.S. box office by storm. For its opening weekend (November 14-16, 2008), Dostana came in at No-16 with a total gross of $645,604. The movie had an average of $8,724, which is lower than […]
The new James Bond thriller Quantum of Solace (Daniel Craig) has had a decent opening at the U.S. box office. For its opening weekend (Nov 14-16, 2008), Quantum of Solace came in at No-1 at the U.S. box office with a total gross of $70.4 million, way ahead of the previous Bond flick, Casino Royale […]
Anita Chandra , a desi (?) researcher at RAND, has found that U.S. teens watching television programs with more sexual content are more likely to be involved in a pregnancy. According to the study, published in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics, adolescents who have high levels of exposure to television programs that contain […]
This is one of those Only in America stories. The American media is all atwitter about a Nebraska law that lets parents abandon their young children without facing serious repercussion. Nebraska’s Safe Haven Law allows parents to abandon a child at a hospital without fear of prosecution. According to Nebraska’s safe-haven law: No person shall […]