Dumb – Microsoft’s $200 iPad Tradein Deal

It’s no secret that Microsoft’s Surface tablets have few takers. To account for the huge inventory piling up in warehouses and on shelves of its stores, Microsoft took a charge of $900 million in its last quarter. Now Microsoft’s desperation to sell its Surface tablets has reached a new high that it’s plumbing new depths […]

Jail for Telugu Groper Srinivasa Erramilli

Telugu serial groper Srinivasa Erramilli’s desperate bid to avoid jail time has failed with a Chicago judge sentencing him today to nine months in jail for groping a female co-passenger on board a U.S. commercial flight on June 14, 2011. Erramilli was also fined $5,000, placed on court supervision for a year after he is […]

iPhone 5S – Apple Screws iSheep Again

Ever since Steve Jobs kicked the bucket, Apple has been lean on jazzy, must-have features in upgrades to its iPhones. In my not so humble opinion, iPhone buyers are no longer getting value for money. I skipped the last two versions because the enhancements were gimmickry. iPhone 4S came with a joke of a Siri […]

Zanjeer BO – Ram, Ram! Big Disaster

The whole world knows Indians have poor taste in movies. But when even Indians show the middle finger to a movie, you can imagine how terrible it must be! Telugu star Ram Charan Teja’s Bollywood debut film Zanjeer is turning out to be one of the biggest flops of 2013. Anybody surprised? Not us, surely. […]

Jhumpa Sneers at Notion of Immigrant Fiction

Americans abhor complexity. Simplicity is the lodestar of their lives. They like neat categories into which they can pigeonhole people, ideas, religion, food, sex and attitudes even if such categorizations make no sense. If you’re a Muslim, you’re either a terrorist or sleeper-cell terrorist. If you’re Black, you must be a criminal or surviving on […]

Zanjeer Review – Trash Begets Trash

Don’t believe the clowns who tell you the old Zanjeer (1973) is an iconic or classic film. I watched a matinee show of the old Zanjeer (Amitabh Bachchan, Pran, Jaya Bhaduri, Ajit) on a hot summer day in its 1978 re-run. And to the great anguish of my dear and near ones, my recovery was […]

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