30,000 Americans Screwed Today

Consumer electronics chain Circuit City is pulling down the shutters and kicking out 30,000 employees on to the streets. The ailing consumer electronics giant is liquidating. Over the years, we’ve purchased many products from Circuit City including PCs, TVs, Cameras, software, CDs, DVDs, vacuum cleaners (they once sold that too), music systems and more. James A. […]

Bachchan Bitchin Bakwas, Again

This Amitabh ‘Big Mouth’ Bachchan fella is a strange creature. The guy just can’t stop bitchin bakwas (nonsense). This clown can’t act. His son wouldn’t recognize acting if it slapped him in the face. His daughter-in-law is clueless in the acting department. Bachchan Sr doesn’t know diddly about the movie business (or for that matter […]

Chandni Chowk to China is Garbage, Say Critics

Confirmed – Chandni Chowk a Mega Box Office Disaster Chandni Chowk Review – Slit Your Wrists, Akshay  A bevy of critics has hammered Akshay Kumar’s new movie Chandni Chowk to China, which released in theatres around the world today. Here’s a look at excerpts from some of the reviews: Hollywood Reporter: “Chandni Chowk to China’s” […]

Quote of the Day – Diana Athill

I can look back and see that although a human life is less than the blink of an eyelid in terms of the universe, within its own framework it is amazingly capacious so that it can contain many opposites. One life can contain serenity and tumult, heartbreak and happiness, coldness and warmth, grabbing and giving […]

And Now They are Six

We said six not sex. The Government of India has named three more directors to the board of disgraced IT services provider Satyam taking the total directors on the company’s board to six.   The new directors are: * Tarun Das (Chief Mentor of CII) * T. N. Manoharan (Former president of the Institute of Chartered […]

Indian IT Firms Still Hiring Coolies

The economic slowdown notwithstanding, Indian IT services providers are still hiring. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said today it added 11,773 employees (net 8,692 employees) in its fiscal third quarter to take its total employee headcount at the end of 2008 to 130,343. Last week, Infosys said it added 5,997 employees (net 2,772) in the third quarter. […]