Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was blowing the trumpet this morning that the social networking web site he founded has amassed 500 million users. Well, that’s quite a milestone. As Facebook has grown, we guess rivals like Google’s Orkut and Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace are becoming less relevant given that users want to gather at the social […]
Poor Rakesh Aggarwal could soon become Poorer Rakesh Aggarwal. Poorer? Yes, after all, the owner of the Baluchi’s Indian restaurant chain in New York City might now have to fork out close to a million dollars ($967,000 to be precise) in a proposed legal settlement with some of his current and former employees. Our heart […]
(Landed in our inbox courtesy Sonny Chatrath) Thoughts from a Man’s heart. Thought 1 When we are born, our mothers get the compliments and the flowers. When we are married, our brides get the presents and the publicity. When we die, our widows get the life insurance. What do women want to be liberated from? […]
Remind us never to be sober while watching a Bollywood film. One needs to be sufficiently fortified with Bacchus to be able to endure the ordeal of a Hindi film. Old or new movie, it matters little. The other day we watched Dharmatma (1975), the first of several instances of Bollywood purloining the Godfather for […]
As these tired hands pilot the leaking, creaking man-of-war to its final moorings amid the ceaseless din and drivel around us, music and Bacchus are among the few solaces left to us. Here are a few tracks (both Indian and foreign) we’ve acquired lately, mostly from iTunes. * Kandathai Sollugiren (Tamil) – A classic song […]
Are we so hard up for actors in Bollywood that we now have to import them from that hellhole Pakistan. Kabristan a.k.a Pakistan, a country that never ceases to do harm to India. Have we already forgotten the Pak-sponsored 11/26 attacks on Mumbai? Only those stupid, worthless Bollywood traitors are capable of this kinda nonsense. […]