Image Source: WHO, 2010 Mera Bharat Mahan. Incredible India. Shining India. Wow, nice sounding feel-good words, na? Folks, as we were desultorily roaming across the gullies and byways of the Internet a few hours back, we stumbled upon a Bloomberg story about a most disturbing crisis that’s very open but yet not acknowledged by most […]
Abhishek Bachchan’s latest shame Delhi 6 has crashed 75% in its second weekend at the U.S. box office. Whaddaya expect? The movie is junk, as we’ve said from the outset. Folks, Abhishek Bachchan and acting are like oil and water. They don’t mix well. In the second weekend at the U.S. box office, Delhi 6 […]
Folks, we have now restored the commenting process on the SI blog. We’d disabled it for a few hours last night as we made some changes to the backend of this blog to improve load-time. However, for the next 24-48 hours some users may continue to experience technical issues. Hopefully, things should settle down after […]
We have an important announcement to make. Now don’t get your hopes too high now. We are not shutting down. It’s just that we are making changes to address the speed issues that some of you have mentioned over the last few days. Comments will remain disabled until the changes are completed. Hopefully it won’t […]
Let’s face it – New York City is expensive. Everything in the Big Apple is really expensive. Blame it on the swines on Wall Street. But you can still save a bunch when you visit NYC if only you know how-to. Here are some money-saving tips for our desi cheapo tourists visiting New York City: […]
In all the euphoria about the success of Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire (a fairytale rags-to-riches love story of a Mumbai slumdweller Jamal), we tend to forget the real ‘slumdogs’ of India. In the latest issue of the New Yorker (February 23, 2009, p.22-29), Katherine Boo has a must-read piece about 13-year-old Sunil, a real ‘slumdog’ […]