Indian news media report that in their eagerness to get their kid into the Guiness Book, a doctor couple in the town of Manaparai in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu have allowed their 15-year-old son Dileepan Raj to perform a caesarean operation. The boy is studying in the 10th grade. Several doctors were […]
Like millions of others, we’ve been fascinated by the story of the Boy King Tutankhamun, the discovery of his tomb by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922 and, of course, the Curse of the Pharaoh. So it was with much anticipation we headed for Philadelphia the other day to catch the King Tut Exhibition before it left town. […]
Superstar Rajnikanth and director Shankar have both come up short in the new Tamil movie Sivaji The Boss. A flawed movie in many respects, Sivaji fails to scale the lofty heights that one expects when the two top-guns in the Tamil film industry come together. We loved Shankar’s last film Anniyan and enjoyed Rajnikanth’s 2005 […]
Ah, the reach of Bollywood. It never ceases to surprise us. Who’d have thought the burka-clad Afghani women are as entranced by Bollywood films as much as we are. Indeed they are. Roshana … makes a face at us, then folds her hands together under her chin and puts on a dazed-by-romance smile, looking kind […]
Some Shiv Sena activists irate about derogatory references to Maratha hero Shivaji and the Thackeray family on Google’s popular Orkut web site have been venting their fury on Cybercafes in Mumbai. Indian media reports say that the Shiv Sainiks have already vandalized some cybercafes  and warned web surfers to stay away from Orkut. Apparently, the […]
We love newspapers. We always have. For us, the joy of reading a newspaper in bed cuddling a loved one is a pleasure bar none. In our childhoold (the pre-TV days of the 60s and 70s), the sports pages of The Hindu were a big draw. As we grew older, we shifted our loyalties to the […]