Traffic in India stressing you out? We don’t blame ya. After driving in the traffic hells of Los Angeles, New York City and elsewhere in the U.S. for so many years, we understand your situation too well. Help could be at hand with a new application called Traffic India for the iPhone that claims to provide […]
Here’s Bollywood starlet Dia Mirza explaining her failure to make it big: I started my career on a good note with big banners, good producers and good actors, but the films didn’t do too well. We live in an industry (Bollywood) that runs on a herd mentality. It functions only on the number of successful […]
Ever since the Sri Lankan armed forces achieved some success in their recent attacks against the LTTE, there has been a spate of protests across Tamil Nadu lately. Now even the Tamil film industry has joined the fray with plans to hold a protest meeting in Rameswaram Chennai on October 19. Hello, does anyone remember […]
As anyone even remotely familiar with India knows, most of the so-called ‘encounters’ in which the police kill their victims are fake. Encounters are a shame and a blot on the Indian justice system in which the policemen go scotfree because they falsely justify killings on the grounds of self-defense. But some Indian policemen seem […]
If you missed the Robert Downey superhero flick Iron Man at the theatres, now’s the time to make up for it. You can now watch the movie on DVD, which has been out for about a fortnight in the U.S. If you live in the U.S., you can rent the DVD from your neighborhood Blockbuster […]
So, you think U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is a smart fellow because he’s in the news all the time lately following the collapse of the U.S. financial system. As the heavens was falling over America, here’s what this dodo had to say over the last few months: It’s a safe banking system, a sound […]