Over the years, we’ve watched countless Bollywood, Tamil, Hollywood and other foreign language movies. Here are some of the movies we loved: Amirtham (Tamil) Anbe Sivam (Tamil) Anniyan (Tamil) Aradhana (Hindi) Bicycle Thief (Italian) Blame it on Fidel (French) Black (Hindi) Bobby (Hindi) Bourne Ultimatum Brokeback Mountain Casablanca – Oh, how we loved Ingrid & […]
A worthless piece of trash, Indiralogathil Na Azhagappan is sheer agony to endure. Since we’ve enjoyed Vadivelu’s comedy for several years, it was with a great deal of excitement and anticipation that we headed to the Newark Screens theater in Newark, NJ on Saturday to watch Indiralogathil Na Azhagappan. Oh, what a horrendous nightmare it turned […]
Can two Internet failures – Microsoft and Yahoo – become successful when they come together? We doubt it. After failing badly in its efforts to take on the Google juggernaut, Microsoft has made a desperate $44.6 billion offer to buy struggling Internet pioneer Yahoo. We think Microsoft’s proposal is heck of a bad idea. What does […]
(Update – Shivani Sud wins Intel Science Talent Search Competition.) Eight Desi students have made it to the finals of the Intel Science Talent contest. Of the eight students, five are girls and they submitted projects in diverse areas including Bioinformatics, Biochemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Zoology, Earth and Planetary Science and Chemistry. The students are […]
Last Pongal, Vijay’s Pokiri and Ajith’s Aalwar duked it out. Pokiri won a handsome victory while Aalwar failed miserably. This Pongal, will it be Vikram’s Bheema that’ll take home the laurels or is there a dark horse? After all, Kaalai (Simbhu), Vaazhthugal (Madhavan, Bhavana), Pazhani (Bharath), Pirivom Santhippom (Cheran, Sneha), Pidichirukku (Ashok), Indralogathil Na Azhagappan (Vadivelu) are […]
Struggling Citigroup’s new CEO Vikram Pandit has taken out his begging bowl to shore up the bank’s shaky financial foundation, going by today’s front page story in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required). The Journal piece suggests that Citi is looking to raise up to $10 billion and that Vikram Pandit is looking to the Middle […]