If JFK’s inaugural address were to happen today, the lecherous bastard would probably say, Ask not what you can eat at Bengali Sweet House, ask why you won’t. Bengali Sweet House is the hidden gem in that Indian cesspool known as Newark Ave in Jersey City, NJ. Given that Indians are weird specimens, be they […]
The wise souls at SI have long held that Tamil film director Gautam Menon puts out mostly trashy films. Menon’s Tamil film Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010) was a piece of junk. But trash too finds eager takers in some quarters (hint: it’s a two-word South Indian state starting with T) and was lapped up by a […]
If you love the heady thrill of good action films, if you relish the talent of Denzel Washington and if you enjoy an entertaining two-hours at the movies, then you definitely don’t want to miss Safe House. The midnight show of Safe House at a theatre on the U.S. East Coast evoked a good response […]
When our Brown selves want to swim in a sea of White we haul our sorry Brown ass to the specialty grocery store Trader Joe’s. Other than our face in Trader Joe’s toilet mirrors (there are two), we haven’t seen a colored mug in there during multiple visits. Apple of Grocery Stores With 365 stores […]
Some Indian startups get off on a wrong footing with customers even before their commercial launch. Take for example Mela. An online Indian movie and TV services provider to desis in the U.S., Mela is supposed to roll out its paid Indian movie service on February 1. But even before the launch the fledgling has […]
Thank God for Abhishek Bachchan. Just when life was getting so insufferably boring in Amreeka that we even entertained fantasies of ending it all with a Saturday night special to our head, comes Bollywood’s numero uno buffoon with his hallmark simian antics in the new film Players. Abhishek Bachchan – Antithesis of Acting They say […]