Vikram Pandit a.k.a. Desi Butcher is a man with absolutely no shame. The man is also a f****** idiot. The incompetent dodo who is clueless in dealing with the mega-crisis facing the beleaguered financial services company Citigroup (of which he is CEO), the desi butcher whose sole mantra to handle the crisis is to hack away […]
Tis a bad day today if you happen to be an American worker. Over 70,000 American jobs vanished today. A consequenceof the current economic crisis brought about by unalloyed greed (even as senior executives spent $1.2 million on renovating their offices, executives at loss making firms get hefty bonuses as in Merrill Lynch…beyond disgusting). Here’s […]
We love it. Just love it. Oh, we mean the awards for the non-Bollywood masterpiece from India – Slumdog Millionaire. This time, the fine movie picked up the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Motion Picture (akin to a Best Picture award). Anil Kapoor, who plays the quiz-show host in the […]
Folks, here comes the fourth instalment of Incredible India with those only-in-India stories. * Ram’s Monkeys Run Amok in Mangalore Pub. A bunch of thugs belonging to the Shri Ram Sena attacked some girls in the coastal city of Mangalore in the South Indian state of Karnataka. Why? Because the girls were having a good […]
Back in the ol’ days, they used to give Padma Shri and Tamrapatra awards for real achievements. Now, the Government of India has started bestowing awards merely for the accident of being born with the right sequence of DNA or right genes, which we presume ultimately decide how you look. How else can you explain […]
People often bitch and moan about how bad things are in India or that things are now deteriorating in the U.S. But few realize how much worse things are in so many other parts of the world like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Zimbabwe or in Western Africa. The New York Times has a P.1 story […]