We love it. Just love it. One of our favorite Indian e-zines Tehelka has torn into Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK leader M.Karunanidhi and his family. That Tamil Nadu has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the extended Karunanidhi clan with its grasping finger thrusting into every pie – politics, business, newspapers, cable TV, newspapers, […]
IIT Delhi alumnus and Harvard MBA Rajat Kumar Gupta has been charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC today charged Rajat Gupta with illegally tipping Galleon Management founder and hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam with inside information about the quarterly earnings at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble as well […]
Among the many right-wing Republican whackos in the U.S., former Alaska Governor and John McCain’s VP running mate Sarah Palin is the dumbest, sickest and weirdest nut-case. Her ignorance is appalling, her pronouncements on most subjects disgusting and her attitude toward President Obama sickening. For all SI readers in India, Sarah Palin is a schmuck […]
Some nightmares, it seems, are never ending. The Gods must surely be angry at New York Indian restaurant chain Baluchi’s and its owner Rakesh Aggarwal. For Chapter 2 of Rakesh Aggarwal’s nightmare has just begun.
We’ve never understood the Oprah phenomenon (for all ye schmucks in boondocksville, the fat cow is the QUEEN of American talk show). But then we’ve never understood a lot of stupid things that the hoi polloi go gushing ooh and aah about. Sorry, understanding stupidity is just not our forte. The sight of Tom Cruise […]
By golly, SI well-wisher and Iselin, NJ travel agent Sonny Chatrath (Sonny is Americanese for Gurpreet Singh) is in the movies. A Bollywood film, guys. Not an ad film or documentary. A full-fledged Bollywood movie (according to an e-mail we got from a Yahoo Groups list). No less. The movie is 9 Eleven, where Sonny […]