It’d been eons since we visited the Flushing Dosa Hutt or whatever Indian restaurant existed in its place then. So during a recent visit to the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesh at the Flushing Hindu Temple on Bowne St in Queen’s the other day (we didn’t go inside but others in our group did), we took […]
Bollywood film No Problem, the recipient of scathing reviews from a chorus of critics, has fared miserably at the box office. The U.S. box office, that is. For the opening December 10-12, 2010, No Problem grossed a pitiful $242,116, according to boxofficemojo. The movie, which released on 84 screens in the U.S., had an average […]
Human venality is something I always expect and forgive. – Playwright Tennessee Williams on famed Hollywood director Elia Kazan’s decision to testify and disclose names of Communist party members in the movie/theater community before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Source – The New Yorker, December 13, 2010 P.90 Since most our readers are unschooled philistines […]
One of the unmistakable signs of a declining order is the preoccupation of its people with trivia. The fixation and endless gawking on the tawdry, on flashing lights, on the frivolous antics of a teen pop star, on the latest mobile phone, on the new Barbie doll or the Christmas Tree at the Rockefeller Center. […]
In the East none but Europeans and native princes seem well fed. – Irish writer Maud Power in Wayside Story (Maud’s 1905 travelogue based on her travels in India. Published by Downey and Co in 1907), P.56
Time the natives got another English lesson. Our focus today will be on different phrases with the word pass. * Make a pass – Ha ha, don’t we priapic desis know the meaning of this phrase! * Pretty pass – Difficult situation. * Pass the buck – Shift the blame to someone stupider than yourself. […]