Dostana, the perverse Bollywood abomination starring those three non-actors Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham and Priyanka Chopra, has not exactly taken the U.S. box office by storm. For its opening weekend (November 14-16, 2008), Dostana came in at No-16 with a total gross of $645,604. The movie had an average of $8,724, which is lower than […]
The new James Bond thriller Quantum of Solace (Daniel Craig) has had a decent opening at the U.S. box office. For its opening weekend (Nov 14-16, 2008), Quantum of Solace came in at No-1 at the U.S. box office with a total gross of $70.4 million, way ahead of the previous Bond flick, Casino Royale […]
Anita Chandra , a desi (?) researcher at RAND, has found that U.S. teens watching television programs with more sexual content are more likely to be involved in a pregnancy. According to the study, published in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics, adolescents who have high levels of exposure to television programs that contain […]
This is one of those Only in America stories. The American media is all atwitter about a Nebraska law that lets parents abandon their young children without facing serious repercussion. Nebraska’s Safe Haven Law allows parents to abandon a child at a hospital without fear of prosecution. According to Nebraska’s safe-haven law: No person shall […]
Not since Emperor Ashoka invaded Kalinga in 261 BC and left a battlefield overflowing with blood has any other desi inflicted so much destruction and misery as the desi butcher a.k.a Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit. Call it the Monday morning bloody massacre. Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, who’s in over his head at the financial supermarket, […]
For some time now, we have believed that desi butcher Vikram Pandit is the wrong man for the top job at Citigroup. Other than butchering tens of thousands of jobs at Citigroup and presiding over the departure of top executives like Sallie Krawcheck, Pandit has done little to boost morale or significantly improve the business […]