Here comes yet another instalment of Incredible India featuring those only-in-India stories. * Checking adulterants for adulteration. Apparently, there is so much adulteration of gold in India that the prices of adulterants have shot up, leaving jewelers worried about adulteration of the adulterants. Read this excerpt: It is paradoxical, but both iridium and ruthenium have […]
Of the 40 finalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search 2009 competition, eight are desis (many seem to be South Indians). Often referred to as the Junior Nobel Prize, the Science Talent Search is America’s oldest and most prestigious science research competition for high school seniors. Seven former finalists have won the Nobel Prize. Numbering […]
Indian IT crook Satyam Computer Services is telling employees that they will receive their salaries for January. That means all ye Satyam employees can pay your mortgages, car loans and next month’s credit card bills. Hey guys, who knows what will happen with your February salary. So, go slow on splurging. At its meeting today, […]
We love it. Just love it. Oh, we mean the awards for the non-Bollywood masterpiece from India – Slumdog Millionaire. This time, the fine movie picked up the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Motion Picture (akin to a Best Picture award). Anil Kapoor, who plays the quiz-show host in the […]
People often bitch and moan about how bad things are in India or that things are now deteriorating in the U.S. But few realize how much worse things are in so many other parts of the world like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Zimbabwe or in Western Africa. The New York Times has a P.1 story […]
Danny saw a good dramatic story on Mumbai. He came and shot that story. As far as the filth goes, we’re a dead and dying society, and the sooner we face up to it the better our chances of redeeming ourselves. – Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan on Slumdog Millionaire (Source: IndiaFM)