The Past Is Never Dead. It’s Not Even Past. – Midnight in Paris (2011) In a million years, the Indian mongrels can’t make a movie a millionth as pleasing as Midnight in Paris. And neither will the millions of EverReady-for-Ready rabid curs patronize this classy a movie. As the more discerning of SI readers will […]
Poor countries are poor not because they lack resources, but because they lack effective political institutions. – Francis Fukuyama in The Origins of Political Order p.14 It’s hard to dispute the above point, at least in the case of India. Despite the burgeoning population, India has plenty of resources. Certainly, enough to feed its 1.2 […]
Mein Kutta Hoon, Yeh Kutiya Hain (I am a dog and she is my bitch). – Salman Khan’s character Prem referring to his girlfriend Pooja (played by Asin) in the movie Ready Who says Salman Khan is a superstar? No way. The U.S. box office numbers for Salman’s latest crapshow Ready are out and they […]
By Golly, the Apple digital media juggernaut shows no signs of slowing down. Today, at the Apple Developer Conference in San Francisco the digital media hottie introduced its much ballyhooed iCloud service and disclosed a bunch of other digital media milestones as well. iCloud is a set of free cloud services that work seamlessly with […]
Mein Kutta Hoon, Yeh Kutiya Hain (I am a dog and she is my bitch). – Salman Khan’s character Prem referring to his girlfriend Pooja (played by Asin) in the movie Ready In the dismal annals of bad Indian movies, Ready (Salman Khan, Asin Thottumkal) occupies pride of place. The Bollywood movie, which released in […]
Ready Review – Pageant of Trash The first reviews of Salman Khan’s new film Ready are out. And they are not positive. Here’s a sample of critical reviews for Ready: Times of India The first half involves running around the trees (read beating around the bush) while the actual story starts only in the second […]