The 2010 Japanese romance Ghost is one of those unusual films. It’s not often that the Japanese remake a two-decade-old Hollywood movie. But since the Hollywood film Ghost was one of the biggest hits of the 1990s and given the enduring resonance of young romance thwarted, perhaps the remake was justified. Except in one crucial […]
If most Indian movies are insufferable trash, American movies are increasingly soulless bilge these days. Hollywood’s reliance on the computer gimmickry of Ironman, Spiderman, Superman, Batman or a vampire has become tiresome, at least to yours truly. It seems European filmmakers are the only ones who still make movies centered around real-life people. And more […]
British writer John Lanchester puts forth a riveting indictment of present-day London in his new novel Capital. By London, we mean a city where clueless people in the financial sector make obscene sums through reckless bets, where greed runs rampant at all level of society, drunkenness is the norm, conspicuous consumption a ritual and high […]
Bollywood actor Salman Khan and his family are nice people and never murder anyone. They’re always doing good deeds and Salman Bhai even runs a charitable outfit called “Being Human.” So sweet! I once saw Salman bhai wearing a “Being Human” T-shirt on the Internut. So cool, no? Christines in Mumbai Only Salman Khan’s family […]
Frustrated with the intermittent WiFi connectivity issues plaguing my 27-inch iMac (despite a $1,700 price tag), I vamoosed over to Best Buy today and got the Actiontec Powerline Network Adapter Kit PWR 500 for $50. Actiontec’s PWR 500 provides Internet connectivity in the home through the existing electrical wiring circuits, promising speeds up to 500Mbps. […]
Tell me your longitude and I’ll know what latitude to allow you. – Sir Lulworth in The Blind Spot by Saki Source: The Complete Works of Saki, P.295 Here’s the context for the above brilliant quote. In The Blind Spot by Saki, Sir Lulworth is telling his nephew Egbert that people’s behavior can be explained […]