Some Great Kannada Songs

Over the years, we’ve derived as much pleasure from Kannada songs as we have from Hindi and Tamil songs. P.B.Srinivas, S.P.Balasubramaniam, Rajkumar, Vani Jayaram, S.Janaki, P.Susheela et al have given so much pleasure to so many millions for so many years. Sadly, the Kannada movie industry is now overshadowed by Hindi, Tamil and Telugu movies. […]

Rats, Mice, Flying Insects Mar Dhaba Restaurant in NYC

Is it too much to ask Indian restaurants in New York City that they keep their premises and kitchens reasonably clean? Indian restaurants in New York City are notoriously dirty. Restrooms without toilet paper, spoiled food, dirty outer garments of staff, rats, mice, flying insects and other live animals are only some of the ugly […]

Apple App Store Hits 10,000 Apps, 300m Downloads

The Apple App Store juggernaut continues. Today, Apple took out a full page ad in the print edition of Wall Street Journal to blow its horn that its App Store now has 10,000 applications and that iPhone users have so far downloaded 300 million applications from the store. That’s an amazing record considering that the App […]

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Movie Showtimes in USA

Rab Ne Falters at Box Office; Just 52% of Om Shanti Om Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Review Yash Raj Films new movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi featuring Shahrukh Khan, Anushka Sharma and Vinay Pathak is releasing in the U.S. on December 12 2008. Here are the showtimes for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi […]

86,400 Preventable Deaths

We just read a few minutes back that every day in America 240 people die from healthcare acquired/associated infections (i.e. infections acquired in a hospital, long-term care facility, home care, nursing home). That’s 86,400 deaths a year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines healthcare-associated infections as infections that patients acquire during the […]

Dynasty Politics – Indian Style

With Ashok Chavan (son of S.B.Chavan) set to take over as the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra, it’s time to take a look at the dirty phenomenon of dynasty politics (family politics) in India. We define dynasty politics as the growing practice of close relatives or family members of established politicians stepping into the political […]