What is Celebrity?

For a long time, we’d been scouring the net for a good, pithy definition for celebrity. Eureka, there it is buried in the New York Times, that vade mecum of the thinking classes. In a cover story on Megan Fox, the New York Times Magazine (p.58) has come up with a peerless definition: noise plus […]

Watching Ek Niranjan

(via iPhone) Devuda, Devuda. 😉 We are inside the movie hall waiting for Telugu movie Ek Niranjan (Prabhas, Kangana Ranaut) to start. Puri Jagannadh of Pokiri fame is the director. Already 55 minutes behind schedule. What the heck does Ek Niranjan mean? No matter. It probably wouldn’t make much difference anyway. There are about 100 […]

$25 Cheapo Fares from Southwest Airlines

All ye cheapo desis (sore over the $44 British Airways fiasco), here’s some good news for y’all. Southwest Airlines today announced a fare sale that lets customers purchase one-way travel for $25, $50, $75, or $100 depending on length of their trip. * Travel up to 375 miles for $25 one-way

So You Thought Only Indians were Stupid

Thank God for the Yellow Monkeys. Well, it certainly warms the cockles that there’s someone on the planet dumber than or at least as dumb as us Indians. In Huangping County of southern China, children have to salute cars on their way to and from school. No kidding. Think we’re making this up? Read this […]

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