Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeons – you know the kind who tinker around with nature’s creations to make them more bountiful and beautiful – are up in arms against their city ‘s move to collect higher taxes from them. Apparently, the Beverly Hills city authorities are coming down heavily on surgery centers after finding that the […]
Say what you will, we think the Singapore government’s policy of banning bubble-gum chewing in public was a sensible move. Alas, the Indians are not half as smart as the Singaporeans, who got their Independence 18 years after the Indians. As bubble-gum sales go flat in the U.S., the MNCs have turned their sights to […]
Arch-enemies India and Pakistan, two of the poorest and probably dumbest nations in the world, were the top arms buyers in the world in 2006, according to the a new report released Monday by the U.S. Congressional Research Service. That apostle of peace Gandhi – whose 138th birthday Indians celebrate tomorrow – would be turning […]
1. Blacks account for 13% of the U.S. population but about 50% of the two million prisoners. Writing in Sunday’s New York Times, Harvard professor Orlando Patterson attributes this “virtual gulag of racial incarceration” to unfair law enforcement, draconian mandatory sentencing, retreat from rehabilitation, far higher crimes committed by blacks and the catastrophic state of […]
Even in the land of Khushboo a.k.a the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, thin is apparently in these days. Besides the voluptuous yesteryear actress Khushboo (for whom devoted fans once built a temple), several prominent Tamil heroines like Jyothika, Ramya, Nagma, Sripriya  and Nayantara have been rather plump by Hollywood – and even Bollywood […]
Amazon.com’s new online music store Amazon MP3 offers songs in several Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi and Kannada. We checked the Amazon store for songs from old and new Hindi and Tamil movies including Aradhana, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Dhoom and Ilamai Oonjaladigirathu (Tamil). Guess what, we found ’em all there. A preview option […]