Will Slumdog Roar at Oscars Too? Gets 10 Nominations

No surprise here.  After sweeping the Golden Globes, Slumdog Millionaire has now received 10 Oscar nominations including three for music maestro A.R.Rahman. But we are mighty peeved that our other favorite – Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino – failed to receive even a single nomination. The 81st Annual Academy Awards (i.e. Oscars) will be awarded on February […]

13.7m iPhones Sold in ’08; 500m Apps Downloaded

iPhone is still on a roll. Apple said today it’d sold 13.7 million iPhone units in 2008 (including 4.36 million in Q4 alone), well ahead of its target of 10 million for the year. Apple customers are also downloading applications in a big, big way. Over half-a-billion apps (that is 500-million for the mathematically disadvantaged) […]

Confirmed – Chandni Chowk a Mega Box Office Disaster

Chandni Chowk Collapses – Down 80% Folks, now it’s confirmed. Chandni Chowk to China is a bada box office disaster in the U.S. (On Sunday, we gave you CC2C box office estimates but now we give you actual numbers from boxofficemojo). In its opening three-day weekend, this pathetic piece of shit Chandni Chowk to China […]

Incredible India – 2

Here’s Take 2 of Incredible India containing some of those only-in-India incredible stories: * Priests at an Orissa temple performed a special purificatory ceremony after the visit of a Dalit minister. There must be a special place reserved in hell for the Brahmin swines who still engage in obnoxious discriminatory practices in many parts of […]

Barack Obama – Inaugural Address

My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. Forty-four Americans have now […]

Barack Obama is Here; Bush Nightmare Ends

Folks, the long nightmare has ended.  Barack Obama is now our President. The 44th President of the United States of America (the country, we and over a million other Indians now call home). The First African American President of the United States of America (one cannot even imagine the pain that Blacks have endured for […]