By Naveen The name Akshay Kumar is synonymous with mindless comedies and some of the most vile garbage from Bollywood. So, Special 26 was not even on the horizon for the choice of my weekend Bollywood fix. However my curiosity got the better of me after I learnt that Special 26 is made by the […]
By SI Blog Reader Vinith I watched Mani Ratnam’s Kadal yesterday in a nearly empty theater. I’d like to believe the empty hall is a favorable omen. Perhaps Tamil movie buffs are belatedly getting wiser to junk and no longer hesitant to to raise the middle finger to unrepentant directors. Awful Film Kadal is a […]
When I heard Trader Joe’s new Indian offering was Aloo Chaat Kati Pouches, I was more than eager to try ’em. Like most desis, I crave Chaat (Indian street food) and found it intriguing that it’s now available in frozen form. So I made the 80-mile round trip to Trader Joe’s on a cold, rainy […]
Like most things connected to media mogul Rupert Murdoch, his Fox News TV channel is a piece of crap with its unabashed, reckless love of the Republican agenda and relentless bashing of Democrats and their leader Barack Obama. But we live in a world where large numbers embrace garbage with open arms (just look at […]
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, […]
Did you smell that? The smugness, the false deference. She thinks I can be bought with a pair of tickets. What am I? A whore in post-war Berlin salivating over free stockings and chocolate. What she’s asking will cost far more than that! – Congressman and House Majority Whip Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) speaking of […]