We have an important announcement to make. Now don’t get your hopes too high now. We are not shutting down. It’s just that we are making changes to address the speed issues that some of you have mentioned over the last few days. Comments will remain disabled until the changes are completed. Hopefully it won’t […]
Let’s face it – New York City is expensive. Everything in the Big Apple is really expensive. Blame it on the swines on Wall Street. But you can still save a bunch when you visit NYC if only you know how-to. Here are some money-saving tips for our desi cheapo tourists visiting New York City: […]
In all the euphoria about the success of Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire (a fairytale rags-to-riches love story of a Mumbai slumdweller Jamal), we tend to forget the real ‘slumdogs’ of India. In the latest issue of the New Yorker (February 23, 2009, p.22-29), Katherine Boo has a must-read piece about 13-year-old Sunil, a real ‘slumdog’ […]
The magnificent success of Slumdog Millionaire, both at the box office and at the Oscars last night, has cast a dark shadow over Bollywood. What a humiliating insult to Bollywood, that an outsider like Danny Boyle comes to Mumbai, the movie capital of India, makes an amazingly entertaining movie like Slumdog Millionaire on a budget […]
Uncork the Champagne, folks. Right now. And that is an order. In the ultimate insult to the know-nothing cretins of Bollywood, the hugely entertaining movie Slumdog Millionaire won the Best Picture Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards this evening. Slumdog Millionaire beat out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk and The Reader to […]
Eat your hearts out, all ye mediocre curs of Bollywood. Slumdog Millionaire, a movie loaded with charm, has won the seventh Oscar of the evening at the 81st Annual Academy Awards function in Los Angeles. Danny Boyle won the Best Director Award. This time, Slumdog Millionaire’s rivals included: * David Fincher – The Curious Case […]