God Exists. Ram, Christ, Allah, Chicken Little or wateva. Hindu bigot and BJP leader Varun Gandhi, the ugly spawn of the late ugly Sanjay Gandhi, is in jail for his hate-filled speeches against Muslims. Varun Gandhi surrendered before a local court in Pilibhit Saturday and was remanded to custody till Monday when his bail hearing comes up. The […]
This is not a ‘Hand [Congress symbol].’ It is the power of the ‘Lotus [BJP symbol].’ It will cut the head of Muslims…Jai Shri Ram. – Hindu bigot and BJP MP Varun Gandhi, in a campaign speech at Pilibhit. Sources: YouTube Link Times of India
As we were poring over reviews of Blake Bailey’s biography of novelist and short story writer John Cheever in today’s New York Times Book Review and in the last issue of the New Yorker, we couldn’t help but wonder at the strong connection between great writers and homsexuality. A genetic vulnerability, perhaps? Cheever apparently had […]
What an irony! That the sparse possessions of the lifelong teetotaller Mahatma Gandhi, the man who organized anti-liquor protests and fought for the imposition of prohibition, should now end up up in the hands of a liquor baron. Gandhi’s few possessions like his eyeglasses, pocket watch and a pair of sandals that had lately become […]
Folks, time to celebrate. Maneesh Dhir, the head of AOL International and the bloke responsible for aggressively pushing AOL’s expansion into India, has quit. We say Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish. God knows, how many jobs Maneesh killed in the U.S. in his missionary zeal to outsource AOL operations to India. A recent memo from AOL […]
Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit disclosed that his pay for 2008 was $1 million in testimony before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee this morning. Folks, remember Citigroup lost $18.72 billion in 2008 including $8.29 billion in the fourth quarter alone. And fired 73,000 employees. Vikram Pandit also got about $26.7 million in stock (1.094 million […]