Sathum Podaathay leaves Tamil fans with some hope that all is not lost with Tamil cinema. Featuring youngsters Prithvi Raj, Padmapriya and Nitin Satya in strong roles, Sathum Podaathay dares to break new ground (for Tamil cinema, that is) with an offbeat story. Sathum Podaathay is a commendable effort by director S.M.Vasant in eschewing the […]
The North Indian state of Bihar is totally screwed up. In the latest horrifying incident to emerge out of Bihar, a few hundred residents of Dhelpurva village lynched 10 suspected thieves on Thursday morning. Using sticks, iron rods, bricks and stones, a mob of several hundred villagers beat the suspected thieves to death. One person managed to survive […]
Bowing to the demands of corporations, Governors of 13 U.S. states are demanding an increase in H1-B Work Visas, dealing another blow to the prospects of American programmers and engineers. On Tuesday, Governors of California, Washington, Texas, New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, Minnesota, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, Wyoming, Kansas and Indiana wrote to Senator Majority Leader Harry […]
Dhamaal has fared badly at the U.S. box office in its first weekend. Starring the Bollywood convict Sanjay Dutt and a bunch of C-grade actors like Riteish Deshmukh and Arshad Warsi, Dhamaal’s take at the box office for the September 7-9, 2007 weekend was a mere $166,339. Released in 39 theaters, Dhamaal came in at […]
Azim Premji is a name well known to a lot of Indians. After all, Premji is the shrewd entrepreneur who inherited a $2 million Vanaspati (hydrogenated cooking oil) company in Mumbai and turned it into a $3 billion IT, BPO and R&D Services organization called Wipro that is today listed on the New York Stock […]
Bollywood movies have never made it in any significant way with mainstream American audiences in the U.S. We have watched dozens of Hindi and Tamil movies in U.S. theaters but seldom see Americans – White, Black or Hispanics – in the movie hall. For the most part, it’s only desis who watch Indian movies in […]