Do Doctors in India Still Make House Calls?

Forget house calls. In America, it’s hard to get doctors to even pay attention to you, whether you have insurance or lack it. The greedy swines are forever looking at the clock, hoping to  squeeze in as many people into their hectic schedules as inhumanly possible. (Indian doctors in America are among the worst. They […]

Quote of the Day – Anand Giridharadas

What New York is to America and London to England, Mumbai is to India. Only 100 times magnified. So many millions of words have been said on this teeming metropolis that it seems doubtful anything – forget interesting – could ever be left unsaid about Mumbai. Heck, no. Good writers have the ability to always […]

Will Blackberry Storm the iPhone Citadel?

Forget Google’s G1. The hot new smartphone to watch out for – and one that could threaten iPhone’s glorious run – is the soon-to-be-launched Blackberry Storm. Although much ink and web space has been devoted to Google’s Android operating system based cell phones like the G1 from T-Mobile, the more likely challenge to the iPhone […]

Vaaranam Aayiram Showtimes in USA

Vaaranam Aayiram – Box Office Disaster Here are the showtimes for Gautam Menon’s Vaaranam Aayiram (Surya, Sameera Reddy, Divya Spandana, Simran Bagga) which is scheduled to release on November 14 in the U.S. There has been talk that the movie is based on the Tom Hanks classic Forrest Gump. Vaaranam Aayiram Movie Showtimes in New Jersey […]

Sarah Palin – What a Schmuck!

So you thought George W.Bush was an idiot. Boy, you ain’t seen idiot until you see John McCain’s VP running mate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Fox News (a news channel friendly to Republicans) has been reporting that during debate preparations Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent. We swear we are not making this up. […]

U.S. Auto Industry Screwed – Hope, India is Next

Cars are a curse, the spawn of the Devil himself. Cars are not liberating but incredibly suffocating. After the stress of driving several lakh KM over many years, you have no idea of how much schadenfreude we derive from the current dismal state of the auto industry. To say that GM, Ford and Chrysler are […]